Tag: global-warming

June 11, 2014 0

On the Rat Race

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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.

June 10, 2014 0

Bleg: foreigners, especially Indians or Chinese, arguing their countries should do nothing on climate because of American emissions

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Tweet Bit of an experiment. I’m interested in internal climate policy debates in other countries where someone prominent takes the same position the Republican leadership is taking today, that we should do nothing because foreign bogeyman is worse, except that the bogeyman is the US. It’s Indians and Chinese that the Republicans usually identify as the bogeymen, so they’d be the ideal examples

June 8, 2014 0

A Paper Named Sue

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Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes PNAS 2014 : 1402786111v1-201402786. Eli’s POV is that this was pitched to the freakonomics crowd masquerading as journalists who were happy to roll with it.  There are, as they say, issues, and Eli will simply outsource those to Jeremy Freese , Andrew   Gelman , Harold Brooks and Bob   O’Hara . Bottom line, as Brooks points out is that these clowns are building a model for a fictitious, but churn baiting effect.  Why churn

June 4, 2014 0

In the Spirit of Deep Climate

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Tweet In the spirit of Deep Climate , Anonymous, as he wrote to Eli , has penned an analysis of how Richard Tol cooked and indeed, it is McIntyre class, although from the nature of the mistake, it may very well have been hubris and not malice.  Dickie’s misbegotten analysis starts from Cook et al’s description of their procedure, and just to show that Eli is an honest card shark, why not start with Tol’s description first of what he did, and then of what Cook et al did.  At the end of this it should become clear that, well, Eli will leave that to the bunnies.  From Tol’s blog According to Cook et al. , each abstract was assessed by at least 2 and at most 3 raters

June 3, 2014 0

My reaction to Gov. Tomblin on coal not quite what he would want

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The governor of West Virginia : These proposals appear to realize some of our worst fears….based on our initial review of these rules, not a single West Virginia power plant will be in compliance if the rules were in effect today despite the billions of dollars companies have already spent to modernize their facilities.