GISS calendar year average above 1951-1980 'baseline':2014: .73C2015: .872016: .992017: .902018: .822019 is coming on strong, possibly a new record. No chance it will be cooler than 2014, and 2014 was above the next warmest year, 2010's .70C.It's hard to…
There is a fair amount of discussion about a blog post by Prof. Mike Hulme in which he starts by poisoning the well, askingA denier is a person who denies something, “… who refuses to admit the truth of a concept…
So here's the post in a single paragraph: dispatchable hydropower is a massive and mostly unused power storage solution available today to solve the problem of power variability from wind and solar. The claim that power storage is technically infeasible…
Those who deny climate change are very sensitive little snowflakes who dislike being reminded that they are deniers. MT has a nice thread about denial being a denial of service attack, but, reacting with hurt when denial has been pointed…
Well, what the hell, the US is headed there are the House Democratic leadership (e.g. Nancy Pelosi) doesn't want to impeach Donald TrumpThe House speaker also suggested Trump was disappointed that she has resisted calls from some members of her…
Republishing the post below from December 2016. TLDR version - old political warhorses like Biden do well in party primaries and less well in general elections. Doesn't mean he can't win though, just that it's harder. (And note the wrong…
Short version of my review of Let It Shine: go read it, even if like me you're not interested in passive solar architecture. It's ironic that passive solar isn't that interesting to me, because it's about half of the book…
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Is there a bunny so sheltered that he or she has not seen myriad repetitions of denial starting with CO2 is plant food?Eli is a patient bunny, but has decided to take up arms against this nonsense.CO2 is garbage. It…
Yes, Eli has been on sabbatical, but he really has been thinking of the bunnies, especially with Easter coming up. Well, sometimes it just gets hard to think of something new and interesting and life, or at least Twitter, has…
Unfortunately I don't see an embed option, but if he's nominated, then a shortened clip of this CNN video will get rotated heavily next year, starting about 55 seconds in, where Biden says his response to question of whether to…
Sabrine Hossenfelder's new book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray is stirring up quite a stir with multiple reviews. Hossenfelder has recently stuck her oar into the question about whether a new supercollider should be built as a…
He sez:....This whole sordid mess is a product of, among other things, the insidious idea that it’s undesirable for people to have “dual loyalties” in the context of their relationships to nation-states. This idea is obviously absurd if stated as…
So I liked the hype, but after five or six attempts, I'm just not sold on the Impossible Burger. Maybe I need to try it well done, but every patty I've had ends up a thin gooey red mess in…
There are ten thousand horrifying gifts regarding Trump's manifest unfitness for office. High up in the ranks of unfitness, because it's objective, is his age as the oldest president ever to assume office tied with his concealment of his health…
On his last visit, but before leaving Ethon described a wonderful piece of misdirection from our friend in Colorado, who asks for advice on improving this:No emissions reduction policy currently under discussion – from changes in personal behavior to those…
So just as high speed rail gets a political lift via the Green New Deal, the one active effort bites the dust in California. Read the link though, it's not entirely dead - Newsom committed to a strange little stretch…
Eli has an idea. Usual disclaimers.Let's have a dividend and fee carbon tax. Let's pay the first year dividend and only start to collect the fee in the second, and let's even give bonus' for good deeds, like riding public…
So with the Green New Deal on the street there is considerable talk about improving railroad travel. Eli has a couple of perhaps odd points to make.First high density is NOT something that is needed for fast trains, as a…
I have climate-related tabs piling up on my browser that I wanted to blog about, but felt I had to start with the important and pressing issue in the headline, first.Mainly, the time spent in an elevator is brief and…
I probably should prove something beyond just my sense that it's happening, but I feel that the left side of the political spectrum, a little or a lot closer to where I belong than the other side, is becoming more…
In today's San Jose Mercury News (moderately climate-related):Opinion: Follow the will of voters and protect San Jose’s Coyote ValleyThe 7,400-acre valley stretching from San Jose to Morgan Hill feeds our foothills and provides crucial drinking waterBy BRIAN SCHMIDT As the…
Well, Eli is retired so he is outsourcing to Gavin Schmidt who,explained it all in a series of tweets with the BlackPhysicists Tweeter. They actually, between them had a real conversation of value, which Eli here unrolls. Below the BlackPhysicists…
Everybunny who has been hanging about the Climateball Court for the Christmas Dinner Playoffs has heard the bit about how heat transfer from the surface to the atmosphere by radiation is small compared to that by convection.Eli posted an elegant…
James Annan is low-key:The bet - final outcomeYou may be wondering what had happened with this. As you will recall, some time ago I arranged a bet with two Russian solar scientists who had predicted that the world was going…
While I'm inventing traditions, how about a new one that a blog post riffing off another blog post should directly steal the headline?So I'm riffing off of William's post regarding the lab experiment in Washington State, with a revenue-neutral carbon…
One of the evergreens, besides the one that more CO2 is needed to grow more lettuce, is that the effect of CO2 in the atmosphere is saturated. Part of the TL:DR to this is actually interesting and in the optional reading below, but…
I'd like to suggest a new tradition in the period immediately following an election - to choose this time to go after the ugly flaws on one's own side of the political house.I've written in the past that - during…
I wasn't thrilled reading the title and intro to Yglesias' article, "House Democrats must resist Trump’s infrastructure trap":President Donald Trump’s infrastructure trap is back, and for the new House Democratic majority to succeed, they need to escape it.It’s forgotten now,…
There appears to be a limited but vital audience for this newish series, Eli Explains It All, so once more the Bunny Brings Enlightenment. An everygreen amongst the ignorati is that backradiation can't heat the ocean because it is all…
