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Tweet In searching for habitable exoplanets, knowing where to look is an important issue. Â At least for humans there is a continuously habitable zone (CHZ), a region where life as we know it could appear and persist. This is also important for our understanding the young Earth
Continue reading here: Biodiversity loss is an order of magnitude worse than other climate impacts….
Tweet Back in 1988, in the original GCM, Hansen summarized the situation going forward. Â The most important part of this figure is that grey band, and the implication that the world would soon enter that region, as indeed it has. Â The top end of the gray Eemian is well below 2 C Â pre-industrial, something that scared Hansen thirty years ago, because he knew what that meant for the world
Tweet The APS is soliciting comments by its members on a draft statement on climate change, following up their 2007 statement.
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
Tweet Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, aka coal in WVa, has a Nixon problem. Â Turns out the Don recorded his phone calls and now the prosecutors have them. Â How they have them is one of those stories.
See the article here: Scheduled for publication in Energy and Environment
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
Andy Lacis comments on Judith Curry’s visit to the hall of mirrors at And Then There is Physics , but in the spirit of the think, allow Eli to repost. —————————– Let me toss on here what I posted on ClimateEtc in regard to the recent (April 15, 2015) Science, Space, and Technology Committee Congressional Hearing: As was to be expected, Congressional hearings are more about political posturing rather than being a directed effort of objective information gathering