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Tweet In searching for habitable exoplanets, knowing where to look is an important issue. Â At least for humans there is a continuously habitable zone (CHZ), a region where life as we know it could appear and persist. This is also important for our understanding the young Earth
Continue reading here: Biodiversity loss is an order of magnitude worse than other climate impacts….
Links UN Peacekeepers: Enemies of International Law May 6, 2015 ( Valery Kulikov – NEO ) – The recent scandal involving the sexual abuse of African children carried out by members of a UN peacekeeping mission, despite numerous efforts of this international organization to play it down, will not be ignored.
Tweet Back in 1988, in the original GCM, Hansen summarized the situation going forward. Â The most important part of this figure is that grey band, and the implication that the world would soon enter that region, as indeed it has. Â The top end of the gray Eemian is well below 2 C Â pre-industrial, something that scared Hansen thirty years ago, because he knew what that meant for the world
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
Tweet Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, aka coal in WVa, has a Nixon problem. Â Turns out the Don recorded his phone calls and now the prosecutors have them. Â How they have them is one of those stories.
See the article here: Scheduled for publication in Energy and Environment
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