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Continue Reading: Climate divestment applies the smack-down theory of political change
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.
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Tweet Bit of an experiment. I’m interested in internal climate policy debates in other countries where someone prominent takes the same position the Republican leadership is taking today, that we should do nothing because foreign bogeyman is worse, except that the bogeyman is the US. It’s Indians and Chinese that the Republicans usually identify as the bogeymen, so they’d be the ideal examples
Tweet While fairly distrustful and always on the lookout for inside knife work, Eli has come to recognize that sometime you have to wait to the end to understand what has happened. This was the case, with the Monnett issue . There, even after it was explained to him, Michael Tobis was simply too full of good will to accept Eli’s explanation.
Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes PNAS 2014 : 1402786111v1-201402786. Eli’s POV is that this was pitched to the freakonomics crowd masquerading as journalists who were happy to roll with it. There are, as they say, issues, and Eli will simply outsource those to Jeremy Freese , Andrew  Gelman , Harold Brooks and Bob  O’Hara . Bottom line, as Brooks points out is that these clowns are building a model for a fictitious, but churn baiting effect. Why churn
Link: Paul Krugman Adopts Eli Rabett’s Simple Plan to Save the World
See the article here: Random impressions following the Obama’s move on climate