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August 27, 2015 0

Brother Tap

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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.

August 26, 2015 0

What Climate Change Adaptation Looks Like

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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.

August 23, 2015 0

Open Thread – Meta Climate Division

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Tweet Some things which caught Eli’s Eye, but, it being summer, only a few comments from the meadow are likely. – Andy Revkin don’t take criticism lightly and is not above manipulating a few words to benefit his self image

August 23, 2015 0

Open Thread – Science Division

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Tweet Some things which caught Eli’s Eye, but, it being summer, only a few comments from the meadow are likely. – A really interesting paper in Climate of the Past Discussions, a collaboration between the PAGES2K (turbo proxy reconstructions) and PIMP3 (modeling of the past) groups " Continental-scale temperature variability in PMIP3 simulations and PAGES 2k regional temperature reconstructions over the past millennium " which will not bring smiles in certain quarters.  Warning, it is another Hansen, et al seventy pager

August 6, 2015 0

"You can see it and you can feel it"

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Tweet Starts about 15 seconds in: "We can see it and we can feel it – hotter summers, rising sea levels, extreme weather events like stronger storms, deeper droughts, and longer wildfire seasons, all disasters that are becoming more frequent, more expensive, and more dangerous." More backing for my argument that climate communication to the public should use the " can feel it in your bones " approach. Obama is talking about things people can experience directly and compare to their past.

August 4, 2015 0

ISIS in Afghanistan: Proxy War against Iran and China

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Links ISIS in Afghanistan: Proxy War against Iran and China August 5, 2015 ( Eric Draitser – NEO ) – The nature of the war in Afghanistan has shifted dramatically in recent months. While the US and NATO continue to be actively involved in the country – their strategic objectives having changed very little since the Bush administration launched the war nearly a decade and a half ago – the complexion of the battlefield, and the parties actively engaged in the war, has changed significantly