Tag: september

November 18, 2013 0

Don’t trust civil war predictions. Including mine.

By News Desk

Tweet Last week I listened to a Commonwealth Club podcast about Syria from early September, where I heard their invited speakers make retrospective fools of themselves as they poked fun at how the Obama Administration "boxed itself in" on chemical weapons in Syria. Hearing their predictions of a fiasco on that issue prompted me to write about my own predictions on the outcome of civil wars, which don’t seem that great.

November 17, 2013 0

Pics and video from last week

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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.

November 17, 2013 0

Saturday Night Is For Snuggling

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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.

November 15, 2013 0

Miscellaneous Debris, or the AR5 Estimates of SLR

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The ice sheet experts estimates come from Bamber and Aspinall (2013).  A major gap in predictive capability concerning the future evolution of the ice sheets was identified in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As a consequence, it has been suggested that the AR4 estimates of future sea-level rise from this source may have been underestimated.

November 13, 2013 0

Roger Pielke Sr. Was Right

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Tweet if you want to see where the energy is look in the oceans.  Albatross in the comments points to an analysis by the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab of the engine room for Super Typhoon Haiyan below the surface of the ocean.

November 10, 2013 0

Your friendly water district lobbyist, reporting out

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Tweet Our water district goes to Washington DC twice annually to either look for help or avoid regulatory problems with our environmental restoration, flood control, and water supply projects, and my turn was this last week. The team had 21 meetings in 2.5 business days, occasionally splitting up.