Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
After reading recently that pits in the Mars polar CO2 ice caps were determined to be cyclical and not evidence of Martian climate change , I thought I’d do a cleanup post. Time was that denialists relied on rather thinly-sourced evidence of potential warming on Mars to say it’s proved, proved I tell you, that the warming that Earth has not even experienced came from the Sun.
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Tweet Eli is famous for finding simple solutions to complex problems, although also aware that while every complex problem has a simple solution it is often wrong. Â Be that as it may, the recent post about indoor air pollution pointed out that the problem, and it is a big one, is not the cooking stove, but the exhaust, better put the lack of it, because it is real hard to ween anyone away from their accustomed way of fooding and because of that, introduction of fancy dancy cooking stoves has not worked.
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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.
Tweet Some bunnies have noticed that Matt King Cole, Bjorn Lomborg and the ignorati from the Breakthrough Institute and yet others are crocadiling about how Africa needs coal to generate electricity, never mind that right now the majority of the countryside and small villages would do better with solar or wind. Â As Eli has pointed out , this is mostly because the costs of building out the distribution network is not zero, far from it, and small village based solar powered grids are less expensive. Of course, none of these folks figure in the costs and difficulties of maintaining an electrical, gas or electric transmission network in these countries, where people have the habit of borrowing power, power lines and gas
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Details at the Klimaat Blog A member of the US Congress,  Rep. Raul Grijalva sent letters to a number of universities asking for information on Prof Utonium Prof