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Continue Reading: Good chance we’ll be the first water district in the country to divest from fossil fuels, starting August…
Tweet Ugo Bardi from the Frog That Jumped Out draws Eli’s attention (very short span) to an astounding editorial comment in Climate by the publishers. Climate is a new MDPI open access journal whose Editor in Chief, Nicole Moelders is a professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks. Of perhaps more relevance she is closely associated with Syun-Ichi Akasofu, perhaps the best known faculty member there for his work on the upper atmosphere, the Aurora and the Magnetosphere. Moelders, of perhaps equal relevance to this post is married to Gerhard Kramm, a close friend of both Eli and the cyanobacteria’s press agent . Anyhoo, Moelders is the chief editor, big into the u ncertainty and natural variation club, and right out of the box, she published a rant by SI Akasofu, On the Present Halting of Global Warming The rise in global average temperature over the last century has halted since roughly the year 2000, despite the fact that the release of CO 2 into the atmosphere is still increasing. It is suggested here that this interruption has been caused by the suspension of the near linear (+0.5 °C/100 years or 0.05 °C/10 years) temperature increase over the last two centuries, due to recovery from the Little Ice Age, by a superposed multi-decadal oscillation of a 0.2 °C amplitude and a 50~60 year period, which reached its positive peak in about the year 2000—a halting similar to those that occurred around 1880 and 1940.
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The AGU has issued its revised statement on climate change , approved by the fifteen member committee chaired by Gerald North with one (predictable) dissent. Human induced climate change requires urgent action. Humanity is the major influence on the global climate change observed over the past 50 years.
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.
Will Rouhani bring a tectonic shift to Iran’s political landscape? Nile Bowie discusses the challenges and controversies of recent Iranian political developments with award-winning journalist Kourosh Ziabari: NB: Hassan Rouhani, a reform-minded moderate cleric and former nuclear negotiator under President Khatami, will be Iran’s new president.