Tag: june

February 1, 2016 0

We made it to 3000

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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. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

January 19, 2016 0

Mind Bending

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Tweet Eli and Tamino have posted about the obvious long time deviation of the lower troposphere satellite temperature records often called TLT.  Eli and Steve Mosher, with friends and cynics have been doing a dosy do at ATTP and Rank Exploits .

January 13, 2016 0

Peter Ward Is Very Confused

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Tweet An old volcanologist by the name of Peter Ward is holding forth at various places on his theory of everything.  Now Eli’s considered judgement is that, as Walter Hannah puts it "His Theory Is Garbage".  But as Ray Pierrehumbert said some garbage is more amusing than others, mostly because it exposes things that have to be explained to the naive, and occasionally because the mistake is subtle enough to deepen Eli’s own thoughts about this and that. Hannah (and Eli) spot the G&T, a common mistake amongst phenominologists  Greenhouse warming theory also assumes that the heated air radiates energy back to Earth’s surface, and that this return flow of heat energy warms Earth.