Tag: global-warming

May 29, 2014 0

Globul Warmins Not a Scam, It’s Social Signaling!

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Dano has a question for the late Lee Atwater ———————————— Recent breathless articles about the consensus being false (remember back in the day when they spelled it ‘concencus’?), arrogant certainty about models being unable to tell us the climate in 2035, endless parroting the received wisdom of “no warming for 17 years (or 15, or 18…)…sigh…bunnies have heard these recycled talking points a billlll-yunnnnnn times, right? Well, we’re going to hear them a lot more often in the run-up to the American mid-term elections

The WAIS and Resilience
May 26, 2014 0

The WAIS and Resilience

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Tweet Eli has pointed out that something like the WAIS collapse, once it enters the final stage, which only takes decades, cannot be adapted to, and, given that the long slide towards an inevitable collapse has begun, mitigation is a train that has long left the station.  A word from Dano, more of a world view about what to do ——————————– By now, bunnies surely have shared carrots at the bar discussing the two new papers about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) passing a ‘tipping point’ to an inevitable collapse .

Cooking Tol
May 23, 2014 0

Cooking Tol

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May 22, 2014 at 5:10 am Bob Ward ( http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/archives/41855 ) wrote: “Despite numerous requests, Professor Tol has so far failed to make available the details of these aggregations so that I might check them for further errors.†Please note that the 2009 paper (Tol, Richard S J. 2009. “The Economic Effects of Climate Change.†Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23(2): 29-51) lists Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands as one of the affiliated institutes

May 19, 2014 0

Interesting Readings

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Tweet For the bunnies pleasure: The Christian Science Monitor on Farmer’s Insurance suing a number of midwestern towns for not preparing for climate change leading to insurance losses from flooding. Paul Krugman Friday on the Point of No Return , which, with respect to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet many have already been passed. The comments at the Times and elsewhere, have already moved to the fifth stage of denial, there is nothing we can do, so why bother doing anything.  Big error, there may be little or nothing that can be done about that particular ice sheet collapsing, but there is more out there, and continuing on today’s course will lead to us passing more and more nasty points of no return.Â