November 29, 2013
Updating your priors after the Iran deal – no one’s doing it
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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.
                                                 LEGAL ATTORNEY & SOLICITOR I am Barrister DC Ugoh, a solicitor. Am the personal attorney to late Mr.JB Rabett,A national of your country,who used to Work with Shell Petroleum Company [West Africa] Togo and Rep of Benin Branch here in after shall be referred to as my client. In 2003, my client, his wife and their two children were involved in a plane crash in a village called Adjarra near Porto Novou after take off from Cotonou in Benin Republic
Tweet Well, perhaps off topic, but in the US approval of positions for science and science policy agencies often get tied up in the Senate so Eli is not exactly crying about Lucy getting kicked in the head yesterday. Still, as many have pointed out that while the Republicans were filibustering an awful lot of people, there is some value to it, and sometimes (see Bork, Robert who, btw was not filibustered but rather defeated in a straight vote, or, perhaps more recently Miguel Estrada who was) there is a value to it. So Eli has a modest proposal, which, as all of Eli’s simple and modest proposals, will be ignored. OTOH, what are blogs for. Give the minority leader a small number of cards to play, say four or five per year. When the minority leader decides it is important enough, why yes, that appointment does not come to a vote if there are forty supporters or more. Since such things are more often tactical than strategic, if say within a month the situation is resolved, the card is returned ADDITIONAL THUMB SUCKING: Curious bunnies inquire why a few Republican Senators on the business side of the party did not break away, eliminating the log jam, as happened in 2005 with the business side of the Democratic Party joining with Republicans to make filibusters much harder to do for the Dems. The answer is simple. The business wing Senators WANTED Reid and the Democrats to eliminate the filibuster. The radicals on the right WANT government to fail (what that means perhaps tonight). The left wing of the Democratic Party (which actually is not so radical) and even the far out left do not. That means that any Republican business wing Senators who break filibusters would be attacked and primaried from the right. Eliminating that issue eliminates or limits the treat. Every damn judge or third level bureaucrat approved does not become a club to be used against them
Tweet Delayed blogging here, but thought I’d call out an initiative to fund $20 million annually for a decade to create hydrogen fueling stations in California. This should create 100 new fueling stations – currently the state has nine that are open to the public. Maybe I’m being too skeptical, but electric vehicles have a huge leg up on hydrogen and still confront an enormous challenge getting an adequate infrastructure in place, so I have strong doubts about whether this will work
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The cop outs are accumulating Japan could set a new 2020 emissions reductions target of 3.8% on 2005 levels, the Nikkei newspaper reports. It says Minister of the Environment Nobuteru Ishihara will announce the new goal at UN talks in Warsaw next month
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.