tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post8923295664875158956..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: Science lurches backwardsEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-48637757924430495682009-06-26T11:09:20.969-04:002009-06-26T11:09:20.969-04:00Betcha, Steve.
"Max Boykoff will be joining ...Betcha, Steve.<br /><br />"Max Boykoff will be joining our Center as a faculty member in August 2009. ... " sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/<br /><br />This Max Boycoff, serious, heavyweight.<br /><br />http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0803/full/climate.2008.14.html<br /><br />"When journalists and editors do not effectively place the issues in the context of such views, public understanding suffers. As New York Times journalist Andy Revkin writes, "The media seem either to overplay a sense of imminent calamity or to ignore the issue altogether because it is not black and white or on a time scale that feels like news. This approach leaves society like a ship at anchor swinging cyclically with the tide and not going anywhere. What is lost in the swings of media coverage is a century of study and evidence…."Hank Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07521410755553979665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-22129516494975464712009-06-20T18:34:58.970-04:002009-06-20T18:34:58.970-04:00Isn't the problem here that their conclusions ...Isn't the problem here that their conclusions come from logical reasoning rather than from collecting relevant data?<br /><br />They got a different result, using a different method and different materials. Well, okay.<br /><br />So wouldn't they also run the experiment without using the concentrating lens, just to reduce that difference? <br /><br />They used different source chemicals. I don't know if that's something their setup allows them to experiment with or not.<br /><br />-- hank robertsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-46084731881350331132009-06-20T11:23:57.698-04:002009-06-20T11:23:57.698-04:00Sinha Heard a Who?Sinha Heard a Who?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-88203727037251070852009-06-19T21:41:16.954-04:002009-06-19T21:41:16.954-04:00I'm looking forward to your post about recent ...I'm looking forward to your post about recent events in Boulder, Eli. Is there a connection between the coming of Max Boykoff and the termination of Prometheus, or is it just that years of exposure to RP Jr.'s stuff has made me prone to paranoid delusion?Steve Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943109973917998380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-61809532632603135912009-06-18T09:23:47.139-04:002009-06-18T09:23:47.139-04:00Is zero zero, or is zero their detection limit, af...Is zero zero, or is zero their detection limit, after background subtraction?C W Mageehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-78440242518864174422009-06-18T06:19:48.564-04:002009-06-18T06:19:48.564-04:00Li et al. immediatly replied: http://www.sciencema...Li et al. immediatly replied: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5925/336c<br />Though I am not competent about this, they seem to have answered well. It remains controversial.<br /><br />Anyway, when I remember the time I was doing modelling of OH-chemistry, the fit between models and measurements of OH would not improve with another OH-source. Production of a lot of OH in polluted areas is rather not, what was called for. Though I am rather sceptic about Li et al. I would need convincing measurements in polluted area showing high OH concentrations.J. Zimmermannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16880423024219145955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-19870574673141058882009-06-17T16:09:18.346-04:002009-06-17T16:09:18.346-04:00Is OH formation a rate limiting step in real world...Is OH formation a rate limiting step in real world pathways to all bad stuff? Or, are there other reactions that can supply OH? For example, can the combustion processes that produce the NOx, also produce significant OH? <br /><br />What happens when the plume from a modern coal burning power plant is injected in to an air mass contaminated with PIC (products of incomplete combustion) and VOC (volatile organic compounds) from cooking & heating fires and older industrial processes? Do the power plant plumes also contain metal vapors? Are such organics and metals vapors allowed for in your lab data?Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150805906414546377noreply@blogger.com