Tag: physics

September 6, 2015 0

Richard Betts Puts the Frighteners on Eli

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— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) September 4, 2015 and Eli had a few things to say along that line.  Eli and Gavin were not pleased by Richard Betts’ tweeting, and perhaps in response, he posted some remarks on Facebook September 4: If global greenhouse gas emissions do not begin to decline in the next few years, the chances are that global warming will exceed the 2°C “guardrail†that the EU and UN aim to stay below. HELIX is researching the impacts of higher warming levels, specifically 4°C and 6°C

September 3, 2015 0

If the Foo Shits

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Tweet Stefan Rahmstorf has been having fun analyzing Bjorn Lomborg’s scientific publication record.  Stefan has not been impressed, 20 publications, 54 total citations and an h index of 3 using the Thompson Reuters Web of Science

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.

August 23, 2015 0

Open Thread – Science Division

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Tweet Some things which caught Eli’s Eye, but, it being summer, only a few comments from the meadow are likely. – A really interesting paper in Climate of the Past Discussions, a collaboration between the PAGES2K (turbo proxy reconstructions) and PIMP3 (modeling of the past) groups " Continental-scale temperature variability in PMIP3 simulations and PAGES 2k regional temperature reconstructions over the past millennium " which will not bring smiles in certain quarters.  Warning, it is another Hansen, et al seventy pager

August 18, 2015 0

Time Series Homeopathy

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Tweet Recently Doug Keenan has again taken up the cudgels against the Met Office with backing from the usual suspects and indeed, the Met Office has taken a decision not to engage further.   While the Met Office thinks  that some things Keenan says are interesting and very brave, with the greatest respect and they will hear what he says and bear it in mind, well, they choose not to devote further time to dealing with him.  A feature of these attacks are Keenan’s claims that the best time series analysts tend to be in finance ( see comment ).

August 16, 2015 0

The End of This Road

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Many have remarked about how hot the world is this year.  Not too surprising given the shift to a strong El Nino, with the global temperature anomaly moving up.

August 11, 2015 0

Irrelevance

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Tweet RWE (Rheinisch-Westfälischen Elektrizitätswerk) is one of the largest electrical power companies in biggest soft coal (aka dirt or lignite) mining operations in the world.  It is also home base for Fritz Varenholt , one of Germany’s most active solar fans (nonono, not wind energy, he don’t like that or solar power either, but the sun, the sun, not greenhouse gases are the thing for Fritz).  Anyhow RWE is in big trouble because of the Energiewende, folks are not paying as much for what they make because they are using less of it and RWE is deep into coal and gas power generators. Germany and operators of one of the largest lignite (brown coal, aka dirt) mines in the world The Sueddeutsche brings news of a major reorganization typical of a failing concern that had overexpanded in the fat times.  Many of the 100 formerly more or less independently operating subsidiaries, with their own boards, are being hovered up into 32 and what is left will be directly controlled by the mothership. The command module will, of course, expand.  The large pink elephant of a headquarters building has been sold off, from which bunnies gather that they are turning stuff into cash as fast as they can.

August 6, 2015 0

"You can see it and you can feel it"

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Tweet Starts about 15 seconds in: "We can see it and we can feel it – hotter summers, rising sea levels, extreme weather events like stronger storms, deeper droughts, and longer wildfire seasons, all disasters that are becoming more frequent, more expensive, and more dangerous." More backing for my argument that climate communication to the public should use the " can feel it in your bones " approach. Obama is talking about things people can experience directly and compare to their past.