I saw a reference to Seneca while reading Let It Shine, a history of solar energy (more on the book later). The reference was intriguing, and here's the full quote:24. Reason did indeed devise all these things, but it was…
Lately Eli has been playing Clarissa, explaining all the thermochaff thrown up against the wall by his friends the confused. First it was the Green Plate Effect showing how the presence of a colder third body decreases the cooling rate…
Longtime readers may remember that I (Brian speaking here), realizing what great reputations politicians had, decided to become one myself, and was elected to the board running the water agency for Silicon Valley for four years. I wasn't re-elected, moved…
Much craziness over Kavanaugh. Separate from the recent controversy is his opinion on upholding settled precedent, wherein he pretends that Roe v. Wade and abortion rights are not under threat if he's seated. For those who don't know all the…
Hi Gang,Eli is out on the flatlands and yes he has been neglecting his duties, but there are a couple of interesting things this year in the Arctic. For one thing although the melt is not as large as in…
The headline is the answer to where we spent our summer vacation: two weeks in Mongolia, finishing with a week in South Korea.Lots that could be said. Maybe the most blog-relevant though was the astounding number of Priuses (my favored…
James Delingpole is out there shaking the cup for himself, setting up a gofundme to pay for treatment for chronic lyme disease and a bad overbite.Here is my Lyme disease GoFundMe https://t.co/iBZly4pYMT Back story is on pt III of this…
Among physicists and chemists, well at least the theoretical side of the latter it is well known that electrons have no hair by which is meant that a bunny can't tell one electron from another. This has serious consequences in…
Sometime ago Eli created a simple example of how the presence of a colder body can limit the rate at which a warmer one emits energy. If the warmer body is receiving energy at a constant rate, then the steady…
What makes global temperature anomalies plots and maps go is the correlation of temperatures over a large area. This also is key to homogenization of individual station data when something like position or time of day when measurements are made…
Yes, Rabett Run has a full time administrator, but he sleeps a lot being very old. Thus Eli has removed the comment notification gadget because the spam is getting fierce and it was exceedingly annoying. Read the damn topnotch posts and…
Reto Knutti wrote his experiences of Fake News and how to deal with it for the Schweiz am Wochenende. It also appeared on the ETH Zurich website. Since it is in German, Eli thought a translation would be useful. As…
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…
