December 2019 GISS data came out recently, and hot: 1.1C over baseline. 2019 is the second hottest year on record after 2016, and if temps from 2019's final quarter carry over in 2020, then this year will once again be…
Obi-Wan described the Mos Eisley Spaceport as a place to be cautious, that a Bunny could never find a more wretched den of scum and villainy. In Eli's humble opinion and that of many others, Obi-Wan never visited USENET. But…
Fresh and early in January, I received a very sportsmanlike and courteous email from climate skeptic David Evans, congratulating me for winning the ten-year climate bet we have and asking for arrangements to pay the $1500. Quite a contrast to…
Some of the Lawyers Guns and Money blog authors are very good,* and all of them AFAICT range from very liberal to socialist. It says something that Robert Farley, LGM's national security expert, isn't quite ready to call taking out…
Somc bunny not to be named later sucked Eli into Twittering with another RWNJ TV meteorologist type but something interesting came out of it. While berating China and India for not being the biggest polluters on the planet, this map…
Just a quick note here - I attended the Association of California Water Agencies' fall conference a few weeks back and the topic of "virtual batteries" in the water industry came up.Water agencies use a lot of power in California…
First was Masahiko Amakasu bio in wikipedia:In 1940, Amakasu produced Shina no yoru ("China Nights")....the film told the story of a Chinese woman Kei Ran whose parents had been killed in the war by a Japanese bombing raid and was…
I'm partly inclined to a chaos theory of history where lots of outcomes are contingent. Alternative history (wiki pedantically insists on "counterfactual history") can explore what could have been.So, could solar PV have gone through development boost during World War…
Not really about climate change denial, which is a second-degree problem in California, but the Op-Ed opposes dispersed sprawl development in the countryside. And that has a terrible carbon footprint.Link here, and the original text below:Opinion: Primary factor creating wildfire…
Republicans claim that Trump's aim of using governmental funding to obtain a fraudulent investigation by a foreign power as a way to skew the 2020 election doesn't matter because the withholding "didn't happen" and the money was released.It did happen.The…
I attended this a few weeks ago (below is the opening, click here for the whole thing):My impressions:Mary Nichols, Cal. Air Resources Board – Seemed to somewhat deemphasize regulatory approach as opposed to cap and tradeCARB future efforts: *Technology to facilitate…
Murray Energy filed for bankruptcy yesterday, and Robert Murray is out of a job. Couldn't happen to a nicer fellow or company. I do regret what will happen to retiree pensions and to employees, although Democrats want to help them…
Over the summer, there was a smattering of concern over white nationalists who depart from the usual right-wing, conspiratorial denial of climate change. Instead they incorporate the threat of climate immigration as part of their "Great Replacement" theory of white…
This was cute:THE GRETA THUNBERG HELPLINE:For adults angry at a child. pic.twitter.com/JAtIKyG4Va— Mark Humphries (@markhumphries) September 26, 2019The point I just want to add is that I don't recall anything like the same vitriol, and none of the expressed desire…
Eli, as readers of this blog know, often explains it all, often belatedly, but allow the Bunny to put to rest your fears that burning in the Amazon will deplete oxygen in the atmosphere.The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is…
Washington Post:An exchange about a climate change seminar for judges set off the controversy, after a two-sentence heads-up message about the session — co-sponsored by the research and education agency of the judiciary, the Federal Judicial Center — was sent.One…
Some time ago, being defined as about nine years, in his sorely missed Climate Abyss, John Niesen Gammon advocated doing away with the term greenhouse effect, or greenhouse gas, perhaps tongue in cheek, perhaps notOkay, I’m finally convinced.I hereby declare…
A week or so ago, Eli noticed that for a mere $28,824 per person the Hurtigruten were organizing a cruise through the Northwest Passage (details at the link) the question being whether they would be able to make it, and in…
Timely as ever, I thought I'd immediately jump on to the news that a month ago the first big American insurance company, Chubb, announced it's no longer insuring coal company operations. The big European insurers have already dropped out, and…
Rabett Run has always been a quiet and peaceful place where old bunnies can munch their carrots, but perhaps, just perhaps it is time to stir things up again so here are a couple of thoughts for the careless. In…
Kevin Drum has created his quick list of Trump's new lows. I thought I'd try to add value by gradually replacing Kevin's text with links and otherwise improving it. I would love any help people can provide in putting in…
Point: From Paul Price on Twitter, about a recent polemic from Mike Hulme that ATTP is going on aboutMike Hulme's parting words to me (after a talk in which he failed to acknowledge climate risk and I asked why): "the…
Eli notes there is still time to drop $28,824 per person to cruise the Northwest Passage in August on the Roald Amundsen, the new flagship of the Hurtigruten. Since the ship has a hybrid propulsion system even the CO2 emissions…
My wife and I spent 10 days in Norway, so now I'm clearly an expert and have things to say.Mainly, travel in rural Norway so far does not yet support my theory that internal combustion engine cars will start being…
One of Eli's favorite figures comes from the Australian Academy of Sciences and neatly captures the way in which greenhouse gases can be both an initiator and a feedback to global climatePart of the problem many scientists have explaining such…
The Presidents of the National Academies (Science, Engineering and Medicine) have issued a statement on climate science. In general this may be regarded as a message to Donald Trump and Wil Happer to screw off,Scientists have known for some time,…
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…
