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…
I have climate-related tabs piling up on my browser that I wanted to blog about, but felt I had to start with the important and pressing issue in the headline, first.Mainly, the time spent in an elevator is brief and…
I probably should prove something beyond just my sense that it's happening, but I feel that the left side of the political spectrum, a little or a lot closer to where I belong than the other side, is becoming more…
In today's San Jose Mercury News (moderately climate-related):Opinion: Follow the will of voters and protect San Jose’s Coyote ValleyThe 7,400-acre valley stretching from San Jose to Morgan Hill feeds our foothills and provides crucial drinking waterBy BRIAN SCHMIDT As the…
Well, Eli is retired so he is outsourcing to Gavin Schmidt who,explained it all in a series of tweets with the BlackPhysicists Tweeter. They actually, between them had a real conversation of value, which Eli here unrolls. Below the BlackPhysicists…
Everybunny who has been hanging about the Climateball Court for the Christmas Dinner Playoffs has heard the bit about how heat transfer from the surface to the atmosphere by radiation is small compared to that by convection.Eli posted an elegant…
James Annan is low-key:The bet - final outcomeYou may be wondering what had happened with this. As you will recall, some time ago I arranged a bet with two Russian solar scientists who had predicted that the world was going…
While I'm inventing traditions, how about a new one that a blog post riffing off another blog post should directly steal the headline?So I'm riffing off of William's post regarding the lab experiment in Washington State, with a revenue-neutral carbon…
One of the evergreens, besides the one that more CO2 is needed to grow more lettuce, is that the effect of CO2 in the atmosphere is saturated. Part of the TL:DR to this is actually interesting and in the optional reading below, but…
I'd like to suggest a new tradition in the period immediately following an election - to choose this time to go after the ugly flaws on one's own side of the political house.I've written in the past that - during…
I wasn't thrilled reading the title and intro to Yglesias' article, "House Democrats must resist Trump’s infrastructure trap":President Donald Trump’s infrastructure trap is back, and for the new House Democratic majority to succeed, they need to escape it.It’s forgotten now,…
There appears to be a limited but vital audience for this newish series, Eli Explains It All, so once more the Bunny Brings Enlightenment. An everygreen amongst the ignorati is that backradiation can't heat the ocean because it is all…
Eli sat in on an interesting conversation last week at the Brookings Institution involving Chris Crane the Exelon CEO. Exelon is a large electricity generator and supplier in the US with over $30 billion in revenue and a large fleet…
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…
