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…
Those who deny climate change are very sensitive little snowflakes who dislike being reminded that they are deniers. MT has a nice thread about denial being a denial of service attack, but, reacting with hurt when denial has been pointed…
Well, what the hell, the US is headed there are the House Democratic leadership (e.g. Nancy Pelosi) doesn't want to impeach Donald TrumpThe House speaker also suggested Trump was disappointed that she has resisted calls from some members of her…
Republishing the post below from December 2016. TLDR version - old political warhorses like Biden do well in party primaries and less well in general elections. Doesn't mean he can't win though, just that it's harder. (And note the wrong…
Short version of my review of Let It Shine: go read it, even if like me you're not interested in passive solar architecture. It's ironic that passive solar isn't that interesting to me, because it's about half of the book…
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Is there a bunny so sheltered that he or she has not seen myriad repetitions of denial starting with CO2 is plant food?Eli is a patient bunny, but has decided to take up arms against this nonsense.CO2 is garbage. It…
Yes, Eli has been on sabbatical, but he really has been thinking of the bunnies, especially with Easter coming up. Well, sometimes it just gets hard to think of something new and interesting and life, or at least Twitter, has…
Unfortunately I don't see an embed option, but if he's nominated, then a shortened clip of this CNN video will get rotated heavily next year, starting about 55 seconds in, where Biden says his response to question of whether to…
Sabrine Hossenfelder's new book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray is stirring up quite a stir with multiple reviews. Hossenfelder has recently stuck her oar into the question about whether a new supercollider should be built as a…
He sez:....This whole sordid mess is a product of, among other things, the insidious idea that it’s undesirable for people to have “dual loyalties” in the context of their relationships to nation-states. This idea is obviously absurd if stated as…
So I liked the hype, but after five or six attempts, I'm just not sold on the Impossible Burger. Maybe I need to try it well done, but every patty I've had ends up a thin gooey red mess in…
There are ten thousand horrifying gifts regarding Trump's manifest unfitness for office. High up in the ranks of unfitness, because it's objective, is his age as the oldest president ever to assume office tied with his concealment of his health…
On his last visit, but before leaving Ethon described a wonderful piece of misdirection from our friend in Colorado, who asks for advice on improving this:No emissions reduction policy currently under discussion – from changes in personal behavior to those…
So just as high speed rail gets a political lift via the Green New Deal, the one active effort bites the dust in California. Read the link though, it's not entirely dead - Newsom committed to a strange little stretch…
Eli has an idea. Usual disclaimers.Let's have a dividend and fee carbon tax. Let's pay the first year dividend and only start to collect the fee in the second, and let's even give bonus' for good deeds, like riding public…
So with the Green New Deal on the street there is considerable talk about improving railroad travel. Eli has a couple of perhaps odd points to make.First high density is NOT something that is needed for fast trains, as a…
