December 10, 2012
Ray Pierrehumbert’s Tynall Lecture AGU 2012
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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves
See more here: Pay attention you there in the front row entwined in your (temporarily) significant other on date night
( Nov. 27, 2012 Board Meeting , Item 4.1) Later on I suggested that we have a "Climate Impact" discussion included in every agenda item just like we currently have a "Financial Impact" discussion with every agenda item
Signifiers Going to the AGU Fall Meeting clarified many issues for Eli First, there is a clear and strong consensus supporting the main pillars of the IPCC AR4, and the USGCRP. Â Climate change is occurring, driven by human influences and dangerous. Â Action to stop carbon emissions is needed immediately.
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves
A modest carbon tax has modest carbon reduction results Been meaning to highlight Brad Plumer’s post on a paper about the effect of a carbon tax on emissions (full paper here ). Â A tax of $20/ton, with an inflation-adjusted 4% annual increase, knocks emissions down 14% by 2020, and a larger number in 2050 if you believe economic projections that far in the future
The fully expected consequence is Student-Loan Delinquencies Now Surpass Credit Cards .