Tag: green

September 6, 2015 0

Richard Betts Puts the Frighteners on Eli

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— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) September 4, 2015 and Eli had a few things to say along that line.  Eli and Gavin were not pleased by Richard Betts’ tweeting, and perhaps in response, he posted some remarks on Facebook September 4: If global greenhouse gas emissions do not begin to decline in the next few years, the chances are that global warming will exceed the 2°C “guardrail†that the EU and UN aim to stay below. HELIX is researching the impacts of higher warming levels, specifically 4°C and 6°C

March 26, 2015 0

No SUVs on Mars, and no warming either

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After reading recently that pits in the Mars polar CO2 ice caps were determined to be cyclical and not evidence of Martian climate change , I thought I’d do a cleanup post. Time was that denialists relied on rather thinly-sourced evidence of potential warming on Mars to say it’s proved, proved I tell you, that the warming that Earth has not even experienced came from the Sun.

December 31, 2014 0

Vermont Throws in the Towel on Inane Single-Payer "Medicare for All" Proposal; Live and Let Die; Why Does Single-Payer "Work" in…

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MainWire explains in Lessons for Maine in Vermont’s Failure . Last Wednesday, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin announced that he was abandoning his plan for a single-payer health care system for the state, finally admitting in an unexpected news conference that it is “not the right time.†As one most liberal states in the nation, Vermont has faced years of internal pressure to adopt government-run health care.

November 16, 2014 0

The Sausage Grinders Tale

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This really rocked Tony Abbott’s boat, as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald Mr Abbott gave an impassioned defence of coal and, reportedly, argued against inserting a line in the communique recommending the abolition of fossil fuel subsidies, an objective of the G20 for many years.