Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
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.
Caution Thomas Midgley Jr. is well known for having "more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history". Midgley’s team was responsible for CFC refrigerants, and the introduction of tetraethyl lead as an antiknock agent in gasoline. The CFCs have had both good and bad effects, the identification of the bad ones, ozone depletion, and the calculus is irrelevant at this point with the Montreal Protocols and the availability of adequate substitutes. Tetraethyl lead is another story and a report in Mother Jones today provides a useful platform from which to view the introduction of GMO technology. The Weasel has posed seven questions, but even he admits that there are two core ones 4: Can we really be sure that GM crops are safe — for our fellow creatures in the environment at large; or for consumers – whether livestock or people
Read More: Four out of five dentists say it’s the scientific consensus, stupid
See more here: There Are Times That Try Bunny’s Brains
Sandy Whether Sandy was caused by, made worse by, had nothing to do with climate change is one of those questions that can sell a lot of beer and be the subject of seminars, posters and blogs without end. Eli is actually not going to take a position on that, or rather reserves the right to be all over the place on the issue. However, it is one of the choices in the Bunny Poll and a few words are in order, so let the first few come from Greg Laden , the keeper of the list who put it at Number 1: Note that the first few of the links below are to blog posts written by concerned climate scientists, whom the climate change denialists call “alarmists.†You will note that these scientists and writers were saying alarming things as the storm approached. You will also note that what actually happened when Sandy struck was much worse than any of these “alarmists†predicted in one way or another, in some cases, in several ways.
Polar Bear Frolics So OK, Eli is one of those strange Rabett’s who look at the Arctic Ice images from Cryosphere and Uni Bremen at Christmas. Why Christmas the bunnies ask, well Santa is on his way. Among the things that you can see at Chrismas, which are interesting, are the edges of the ic pack outside of the Arctic circle, and something amazing is happening, the coasts of Svalbard and Nova Zemelya are ice free! by a lot. The last picture is 2012. The Cryosphere Archive changes format a bit over the years, and is missing the years between 2009 and 2011, so we can insert pictures from Bremen to show this developing trend. Yes indeedy there is stuff going on.
See more here: Eli Goes Photoshopping for the New Year