Tag: energy

December 19, 2012 0

Should there be any mistakes the Bunny will disavow all knowledge of your actions

By News Desk

Should there be any mistakes the Bunny will disavow all knowledge of your actions Eli has found a new toy, a simple energy balance global climate model, which fulfills Box’s dictum that all models are wrong, but some are useful.  Brought to you by the folks at Monash University the Monash Simple Climate Model is based on the Globally Resolved Energy Balance (GREB) model, which is a climate model published by Dommenget and Floeter [2011] in the international peer review science journal Climate Dynamics. The model simulates most of the main physical processes in the climate system in a very simplistic way and therefore allows very fast and simple climate model simulations on a normal PC computer. Despite its simplicity the model simulates the climate response to external forcings, such as doubling of the CO2 concentrations very realistically (similar to state of the art climate models)

December 8, 2012 0

Signifiers

By News Desk

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.  Climate change is occurring, driven by human influences and dangerous.  Action to stop carbon emissions is needed immediately.

September 9, 2012 0

Romney, Obama fiddle while the planet burns

By News Desk

Romney, Obama fiddle while the planet burns The Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) posted a depressing piece on Friday Sept. 7, about Obama and Romney. While the airwaves are full of advertisements about the differences between them, they have one thing in common: Both are "playing games with environmental disaster." Daphne Wysham, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, says that Obama," — like his Republican opponent — seems to place a higher value on achieving ‘energy independence’ via expanded oil and gas drilling than on action on climate change