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…
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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…
To attend the State of the Union speech as a guest of the climate-denying Trump nominee to lead NASA, Jim Bridenstine. Obviously, it's controversial:A science guy is heading to Capitol Hill to watch an anti-science president address the nation on…
At the beginning of time or this blog whichever came first, of which there is some discussion, Eli would, on occasion point to the textbook market as an example of what was killing students, faculty and education in the US. …
The 2017 GISS data for global temps came in at .90 above baseline, second highest ever and only beat by 2016. As I've occasionally mentioned, David Evans and I bet each other back in 2007 over warming, and we're inching…
