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…
In a suit brought by cities in California against Exxon, Judge Alsup has asked of the parties a set of questions which some parties on the INTERNET are busy crowd sourcing the answers to. Now Eli has never been one…
The Interchange is an interesting renewable energy/renewables business podcast by GreenTech Media, and the most controversial podcast I've heard so far is an interview with Breakthrough Institute's Alex Trembath.Some thoughts:Alex says they've consciously decided to be less critical of mainstream…
Late to the party but that's not new. The issue is Trump's attorney Michael Cohen claiming he paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket without being reimbursed by the Trump Organization or the Trump campaign. Kevin…
An idle thought that probably has occurred to a lot of people. There is a lot of talk about clean coal with carbon (dioxide) capture. There is a lot of discussion about a hydrogen economy driven by catalytic electrolysis of…
The latest massacre of innocents has stirred up a hitherto unseen anger. Thoughts and prayers were never enough, but Emma Gonzales put it in wordsNothing could have ever been done to prevent this We call BSTougher gun laws do not…
Well Gavin, Climate of, has had it with a certain political scientist, We should dedicate February as #findaclimatescapegoat month as yet again some political scientists try to find ways to blame climate scientists for the lack of progress in CO2 emission…
(Source) (Someday maybe I can sell out for money, but right now I'm forced to endorse products based on quality alone....)I have both (slightly unusual) ethical and (the usual) environmental reasons for thinking I should avoid meat, especially red meat.…
In Rant I.2018 Eli explained that the root cause of unaffordable textbooks is that they are ordered by faculty and paid for by students. Teh textbook publishers know this and focus their attention on providing services for faculty not serving…
