Hard hitting global and local news
Tweet Coby Beck reports that Harold Elmer Taylor has died at the age of 68. het compiled a graceful and humorous weekly summary of climate news and blog posts at A Few Things Ill Considered.  It was, however, not short of concern for what we are doing to the Earth. "Harvey E. Taylor, aka het, died Monday, July 14, 2014 at his home in Portage la Prairie, a small town in Manitoba, Canada
Tweet Judith Curry has wandered into ethics, without much of an understanding about such things. She enjoys going on about how she is the protector of research integrity, without really understanding scientific ethics, perhaps first investigated by Max Weber , although Eli is sure that Willard may know of earlier sources. There are many interesting things about this, first, that scientific ethics as distinct from ethics could not have been a subject much earlier, because science as a stand along thing really only blossomed at about the same time as global instrumental temperature measurements started in the late 1900s. Second, that separating ethical behavior as a scientist from ethical behavior in general is not something that your average bunny in the street holds in high regard and is one reason that many people distrust science and scientists, as in Godless Scientists, etc
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.
Follow this link: Stigma for fossil fuel companies, the reverse for the churches that dump them
Tweet Splendid food fights have broken out at the Weasel’s , Willard Tony’s and Jo Nova’s about Junior Rocket Scientist David Evans New Notch Delay Solar Theory. Eli will let David summarize this We assume the system from solar radiation (TSI) to surface temperature is linear and invariant, so we use sinusoids and frequencies to do the analysis.
