Well, after what has been a boring melt season, maybe even Neven thinks so, the Northern Hemisphere heat wave appears to have created some interesting times (in the sense of the Chinese curse, may you live in interesting times) at…
I share the same appalled reaction as the rest of the planet to Trump's dimunitive behavior when standing next to Putin. That isn't really what this post is about, but I can't entirely ignore it. I disagree with the claim…
At least for the physical sciences public access policies are fairly recent and not at all clear. This became obvious to Eli in a recent Twitter exchange and indeed, shows that many have not read the FAQ.Note, that these are…
Science is maybe only three times as old as Eli (Eli is very old, has he mentioned that recently) maybe 5 if you count back to Newton. About a month and a half ago, the Bunny pointed out that physics…
A distinguishing mark of a new record in a time series is that it exceeds all previous values another is that the first value in a time series is always a record. Given a stationary situation with nothing except chance,…
Having engaged himself in a worthy round of hole digging while trying to explain why he never used what he himself acknowledged as the excellent Skeptical Science’s explanations about climate issues, Richard Betts fell back on defending Ethon’s favorite, Roger…
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the 1988 publication of Global climate changes as forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies three-dimensional model Hansen, J., I. Fung, A. Lacis, D. Rind, S. Lebedeff, R. Ruedy, G. Russell, and P. Stone Eli…
Some good news for a change:The Democratic National Committee voted over the weekend to ban donations from fossil fuel companies, HuffPost has learned.The resolution....bars the organization from accepting contributions from corporate political action committees tied to the oil, gas and…
Physics is the simplest science, a hard won truth that Eli has reached after many years in many fields. A bunny can do a lot of physics with pencil and paper, maybe even without those if enough homework has been…
MT has come up with an interesting observation, which Eli has dubbed Tobis' Rule If a large data set speaks convincingly against you find a smaller and noisier one that you can huffily cite.There are any number of wonderful examples of…
Page 581:With relentless propaganda, the Nationalists played on the electorate's racial anxieties at every opportunity. They paid particular attention to working-class Afrikaners facing competition from cheap black labour. By 1948 about half of the white Afrikaans-speaking population lived in urban…
Of the two Freds, S. Fred Singer is still with us and selling flim flam. His latest appears in the May 16 Wall Street Journal. It's right out of the Encyclopedia of Scams.Figuring out what the boys from SEPP are…
Eli has been reading a number of vituperations on the involvement of NASA with climate science and renewable energy. Sadly to say some of them have come true including cancellation of the greenhouse gas monitoring program following the current administration's line…
There is a sort of simmering discussion on Twitter and Facebook whether Edith Foote found the basis of the greenhouse effect before John Tyndall. Eli is here to tell you what was done. The TL:DR is no, she did not.Her…
In the aftermath of Judge Alsup's dog and pony show, Eli thought it would be well to search out the best answers.What caused the various ice ages (including the “little ice age” and prolonged cool periods) and what caused the…
Been meaning to blog about this for a while, so I'll just get it out here, a piece of good news that we're slowly creeping towards recognition of a carbon tax:Among the energy credits tucked inside the budget deal eked…
Having retired Eli is reduced to blegging. He seeks but a cup of coffee and some help with the expenses, admission fees to exotic stuffy rooms with science talks and carfare there unto. Maybe also a beer now and again. …
The first multiproxy global temperature reconstruction was published twenty years ago, almost to the date, April 23, 1998. Michael Mann has an article in Scientific American about having fame thrust upon him. Whether it was high sticking or spearing, Eli…
Some recent things have shown Eli how nothing changes. Stuff that was a farce back then remains a farce today, It's not that history occurs first as tragedy then as comedy, it always was comedy. Now and again, Eli points…
Recently the how to say it wars have picked up again and Eli thought he would have one. Now some, not Eli to be sure, might think that there is neither rhyme nor reason over here, but a couple of…
Seems like a minor point, but it's artificially lowering the level of sleaze to say Pruitt was only getting a sweet deal from the energy lobbyist's wife, and not from him.Steve Hart's name was originally on the lease, presumably because…
A rather scathing editorial comment on pal review has appeared in Global and Planetary Change sadly behind a paywall, but Eli suspects soon to be featured, if not already on a number of blogs. It concerns a paper published earlier…
Borrowing in a way from William's prior comment that didn't like my idea of guns that didn't last forever:I think this kind of thinking is just the wrong way to go. Overly complex, hard to sell. I'd go the other…
Kevin Drum lists the demands of the March For Our Lives:Fund more gun violence research. We actually made a step in this direction when President Trump signed the 2018 budget, which clarifies that the 1996 Dickey Amendment doesn’t prohibit the…
Gingerbaker asked for the TL:DR for the good Judge Alsup. Eli had already written it over at Real Climate, but deep in the comments so here it isEli Rabett explains it all about question 2, whether N2 and O2 play…
Some may recall that at the end of the first episode, the Spectroscopic Basis, Eli asked why the CO2 IR absorption spectrum at atmospheric pressureWas different from that at 1/1000 th of an atmosphereThe answer lies in the second letter…
(Source)Interesting article in Nature speculating that certain possibly feasible, artificial interventions in major ice flows from Antarctica and Greenland could slow the pace of sea level rise. The ideas are artifical barriers that slow the flow of "warm" ocean waters…
While working on the answers to Judge Alsop's second question a very simple model that explains what is happening occurred to Eli about the third, 3. What is the mechanism by which infrared radiation trapped by CO2 in the atmosphere is…
In Part I, the Spectroscopic Basis, Eli looked at measurements of the O2, N2 and CO2 spectra and found that the CO2 is absorption is many times stronger than the O2, and N2 absorption even taking into acount the much higher density of…
