The Green Plate Effect (GPE) post is a gedanken experiment posed by your friendly bunny, which uses simplifications to think through the consequences of a proposition. The proposition is that as several have claimed, that the Greenhouse Effect (GHE) violates…
In Eli's dotage the need to crouch under a young bunny's desk waiting for the nuclear end has returned. While this never was much more than a hope, waking up every morning wondering whether one has indeed done so is…
The NY Times ran a piece on Saturday Oct 7 by reporter Stanley Reed, headlined Germany’s Shift to Green Power Stalls, Despite Huge Investments The reporter is puzzled about the failure of Germany to reduce carbon dioxide emissions below the…
Eli's friend, the Killer Rabett of Caerbannog noticed Eli's comment on Steve Tony Goddard's sense of misdirection, and had a few words on the Twitter. There were more that a few clues to Steve Tony's methods and materials which, both…
An evergreen of denial is that a colder object can never make a warmer object hotter. That's the Second Law of Thermodynamics, so according to the Agendaists, the Greenhouse Effect, with greenhouse gases playing the role of the colder object,…
The unwary amongst the bunnies might, given provocation, search Beltsville Laurel USHCN. Were a bunny so foolish the bunny would quickly run into some spit flecked harumphing from Steve Goddard, aka Tony Heller, or visa versa. Unlike Eli Steve Tony…
By way of Marc Moranothis buffer zone has also magically appeared around Australia recently. I will update our landfalls paper thru 2016 ;-)— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) January 5, 2017On a more serious note the discussion about sea level rise making…
Andy Skuce is dead. An important and appreciated member of the Skeptical Science team. A gentleman none would speak ill of ever. Honored by even those who he argued against. Born in England Andy was Canadian, in his words, "a recovering…
From Think Progress (originally from paywalled Moodys):Sadly the graph isn't global, it's for the 15 US states with the best wind resources. But for those states it's saying that the cost of just operating and fueling coal plants exceeds the…
Several folk - half the world to be precise- have been going too and fro about the role that climate change has played in the latest weather catastrophes. Eli had a say yesterday, and some of the Friends of the…
By scientific observation the denialati are trying to shift the question to whether climate change CAUSED these storms. Eli's response which has been somewhat successful is to say that climate change increased the DAMAGE from these storms and that their…
Well, the Fall Meeting has been moved to New Orleans, and RayP tweetsSubmit comments on AGU Position Statement on Geoengineering, by 25 Sept. : https://t.co/aDZqnM9qZG . Too weak on need for governance!— R. Pierrehumbert (@ClimateBook) September 2, 2017Having said that,…
Something that isn't getting mentioned but should about Hurricane Harvey - gradient determines drainage speed, and higher sea level means less gradient and slower drainage. And of course you have zero gradient and zero drainage when you hit sea level,…
Slate:Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio Is an Impeachable Offense ....Trump’s defenders will ask how a president can be impeached merely for exercising a power he undeniably possesses. But this question turns the constitutional function of impeachment on its head. The…
From the Miami Herald:Carlos Curbelo touts himself as a rare Republican in Washington willing to criticize Donald Trump and conservative members of his own party.And after months of talk and lots of tweeting, Curbelo’s effort to build a bloc of…
Among the things that bother Eli, and there are myriad, is not understanding that because proxy reconstructions are calibrated by using instrumental records they by necessity ASSUME Mike's trick, extending the proxy by use of instrumental data. In fact, the…
The Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry was the first African American regiment formed in the US Civil War. Lead by Robert Gould Shaw the regiment endured heavy casualties and fought with valor. Shaw was killed in the attack on Fort Wagner…
As John von Neuman put itWith four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.and, as fate would happen, along comes Ned Nikolov and Karl Zellner with "New Insights on the Physical…
Tyler Cowen has an interesting point about "defensive innovation" meant to prevent future problems, wherein he describes climate change as a future problem and Tesla as a defensive innovator that solves the future problem without necessarily improving human lives over…
Sometimes Eli gets the feeling he was created for Twitter. In answer to the old question of how a cooler atmosphere with greenhouse gases can warm the surface For the Earth the sun provides the energy the ghgs limit the…
Andy Dessler set off a bit of a tweetstorm asking where the definition of climate sensitivity as 2xCO2 came from. Does anyone know why the standard unit of climate sensitivity is doubled CO2?— Andrew Dessler (@AndrewDessler) July 28, 2017 Turns…
(Maybe worth emphasizing this is Brian writing, not Eli or John.)A new study gives some reason to believe that wind turbines have secondary effects on bat mortality compared to other anthropogenic factors like intentional killing, accidents, and the imported fungal…
As part of another post not finished, Ethon took a look over at the nameless one's twitter feed where he has posted a talk. Now, not to be snarky, but it appears that the nameless one has really put his…
I've been following but not talking about the runup to California's recently re-enacted climate legislation, authorizing more action from now to 2030 and removing the legal uncertainty that existed in the previous law over cap-and-trade.I didn't know what to say…
So some pro-tohedgehog (hate to meet the amateur type) has a post on why people don't trust science, with a nice little Socratic dialog. Only problem is that pro has not yet emerged from hibernation and things have changed or…
So Eli returns from vacation with a report from Ethon who has taken up Twitter on the economics of energy sources. To put it simply, nuclear and hydro are very long term investments, efficiency, wind and solar are investments and…
Last fall I suggested both Trump and his campaign could and should be sued by the women he called "liars" when they accused him of assault. Trump also claimed he'd sue for defamation, that was just another lie of his.So…
This picture of nothing is what used to be my favorite and most-convenient gas station, just a week or so ago. I doubt it'll be replaced by a gas station.I stand by an argument I made four years ago that…
The Trump administration has been pushing the idea of a "Red Team" to re-examine the EPAs endangerment finding. As Eli has pointed out, this is not a Red Team effort but a Team B attempt. Red teams bring in experts…
