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December 2, 2013 0

Whitehouse Monday – The Deniers Playbook

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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.

December 1, 2013 0

Salby and the Bunny

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Tweet In the latest rendition of Salby Tunes Eli wandered over to the Scottish Sceptic’s summary of Murry Salby’s talk in Edinburgh.  The Scep did a reasonable job of summarizing the talk, which appears of a piece with Salby’s Hamburg seminar .  That was well shredded by the Weasel in penance for his sins.  Still, there does appear to be something new, Salby is now claiming that the increase in CO 2 mixing ratio is due to thermal decomposition of soils. Eli was feeling obscure at the time so the Bunny inquired Now Eli is but an ‘umble Rabett, innocent as the bunnies of the field, a little bunny foo foo as it were, (fair warning) and it occurs to him that there is a significant indicator of CO2 emission by combustion and not warming, contained in the Keeling curve but not much remarked upon and certainly not mentioned by the Good Dr.

November 26, 2013 0

Dueling policy tips: selected tips for policy-makers dealing with science

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Tweet Interesting article in Nature on 20 weird tips "to improve policy-makers’ understanding of the imperfect nature of science" and reduce belly fat. It’s good although even better IMNSHO would be directions on how to choose between dueling experts. I’d guess they’d say just discount the experts that run afoul of the most tips.

November 25, 2013 0

Whitehouse Monday

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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.