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Dear Bishop Hill: read your links. Also, take a look at this graph.
August 29, 2015 0

Dear Bishop Hill: read your links. Also, take a look at this graph.

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And Stern 2015 : …Professor Stern, the chair of the Grantham research institute on climate change and the environment, said that it was a false dichotomy to posit growth against climate action. “To portray them as in conflict is to misunderstand economic development and the opportunities that we now have to move to the low-carbon economy,†he said. “To pretend otherwise is diversionary and indeed creates an ‘artificial horse race’ which can cause real damage to the prospects for agreement.†Green parties in Europe have often argued that decarbonisation requires an end to the model of economic growth “at all costsâ€

Brother Tap
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.

What Climate Change Adaptation Looks Like
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.

1 Samuel 17:46, Two Miracles and a Trampoline
August 4, 2015 0

1 Samuel 17:46, Two Miracles and a Trampoline

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— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) July 31, 2015 Istvan’s comment at ACPD denigrates both the Hansen et al paper and David Archer’s requested review on the grounds of there being no evidence for abrupt sea level rise in the Eemian, but rather than a dry recitation of the gist, allow Eli to simply quote Istvan Archer’s comment shows how lax the climate science community has become about it’s ’Facts’. Archer, a Hansen paper reviewer, says the Eemian showed abrupt SLR the way Hansen models for the Holocene with CAGW, which gives the paper strong support. And then goes on about further support from WAIS observations such as Hansen co-author Rignot’s recent findings.

It’s the Dragons, No It’s the Trolls, NO It’s the Sun
April 1, 2015 0

It’s the Dragons, No It’s the Trolls, NO It’s the Sun

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Well, it’s silly season again, and Nature has a good one  and it is open Emerging evidence indicates that dragons can no longer be dismissed as creatures of legend and fantasy, and that anthropogenic effects on the world’s climate may inadvertently be paving the way for the resurgence of these beasts.

Home Prices Decline in 64 of 70 Tracked Chinese Cities; Asymmetric Central Bank
February 17, 2015 0

Home Prices Decline in 64 of 70 Tracked Chinese Cities; Asymmetric Central Bank

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Bloomberg reports China Property Recovery Fails to Gain Traction With Prices Dropping . Prices fell in 64 cities from the previous month, compared with 65 in December, and were unchanged in four, according to data from the bureau of statistics on Tuesday. Average prices fell 5.1 percent from a year earlier, the biggest drop on record, according to Tom Orlik, chief Asia economist at Bloomberg Intelligence.