Tag: february

November 26, 2013 0

Dueling policy tips: selected tips for policy-makers dealing with science

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Tweet Interesting article in Nature on 20 weird tips "to improve policy-makers’ understanding of the imperfect nature of science" and reduce belly fat. It’s good although even better IMNSHO would be directions on how to choose between dueling experts. I’d guess they’d say just discount the experts that run afoul of the most tips.

November 25, 2013 0

Whitehouse Monday

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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.

November 17, 2013 0

Pics and video from last week

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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.

November 15, 2013 0

Miscellaneous Debris, or the AR5 Estimates of SLR

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The ice sheet experts estimates come from Bamber and Aspinall (2013).  A major gap in predictive capability concerning the future evolution of the ice sheets was identified in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As a consequence, it has been suggested that the AR4 estimates of future sea-level rise from this source may have been underestimated.

November 13, 2013 0

Roger Pielke Sr. Was Right

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Tweet if you want to see where the energy is look in the oceans.  Albatross in the comments points to an analysis by the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab of the engine room for Super Typhoon Haiyan below the surface of the ocean.

November 11, 2013 0

Three words missing from the Caldeira/Emanuel/Hansen/Wigley letter supporting safer nuclear power

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Tweet The letter’s here , with the operative sentence "As climate and energy scientists concerned with global climate change, we are writing to urge you to advocate the development and deployment of safer nuclear energy systems." I would change the ending of that sentence to safer nuclear energy systems if fiscally prudent . I personally couldn’t support the letter as written just as I couldn’t support the reverse, a letter urging unqualified opposition to nuclear energy.