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Eli meant to behave but there were way too many options.

Friday, June 26, 2015

Brave New World: Aldous Huxley and Eco Modernism

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When Eli was a young bunny being civilized by his teachers, there were two dystopian models of instruction used to warn against the future, ...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Divestment and Dilberto si

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The encyclical emphasizes a moral element to the climate debate that the drier analyses miss. I wrote previously that a bishop flubbe...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Someone should collect these climate conversion stories

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There may be some useful common thread to how educated people resist climate science for a while, maybe years, and then come around. And it...
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Friday, June 19, 2015

Papal Encyclical Bingo

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Eli, of course, remembers the old days of global climate denialist bingo , and with the coming of the Laudato Si, driving the crazy to in...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

What Catholic opinion on the death penalty tells you about the encyclical's future effect

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It tells you first that Catholics are about 10% less supportive of the death penalty  than the general population. One would have to adjust ...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Bringing Catholic science to the climate change fight

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Don't know how I missed this video, but definitely worth watching. I planned to write something the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, ...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The Lomborg Convergence

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The "Coal for Africa" aka Ecomodernism campaign has run head on into its internal contradictions with the emergence of Pope Franc...
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Monday, June 15, 2015

Who Is Afraid of Pope Francis?

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Gary Wills at the New York Review of Books, asks who is afraid of Pope Francis .  His answer is . . .as the pope prepares a major encyclic...
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Sunday, June 14, 2015

The Four Pests Campaign

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Nononono, not Roger Pielke Jr, Bjorn Lomborg, Willard Anthony Watts, or Matt King Coal Ridley. Recently as steam has run out on "Coa...
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Note to the Observant

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The coming June 18th publication of Laudato Si will reaffirm our moral responsibility for the Earth.  Whether that responsibility comes from...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

GORESat @ L1

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DSCVR has made it out to L1 and is parked.  Long lost in George Bush's back pocket out of envy, the satellite was unpacked and launched...
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Friday, June 12, 2015

No Child Left Inside Legal Defense Fund

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An idea I had years ago got called out recently by Richard Louv, author of Last Child In the Woods. Louv was mad about a little girl being f...
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Note to the Observent

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Bunnies may notice that the tag line above has been changed and the give to save the Keeling curve link removed.  There are two reasons for...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Nick Stokes Goes There

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A while ago the GWPF (yes, just as dumb as trying to pronounce Joe Btfspik) tried one on, claiming that they were going to conduct a "...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

GCMs: Explicative value is strong, predictive only in the long run

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Twitter, can be succinct @E__Strobel @CColose @ClimateOfGavin @AdamFrank4 Explicative value is strong, predictive only in the long ru...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015

On the Margins

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Recently, there has been considerable interest in a paper showing that rainfall in the Sahel has increased likely due to sea surface temper...
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Maxim Lott must be a great uphill runner

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Maxim Lott sees the slope of the line for the last 17 years as being virtually flat. I imagine that if he went for a run and came to a hi...
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Monday, June 08, 2015

Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine

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Haven't done a foreign policy post in a while, so here's three in one: 1. The list above shows messed-countries and messed-up outc...
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Friday, June 05, 2015

Where Did That Come From

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In the discussion about Fred Seitz that John threw the burning tree onto Willard pointed to an answer that Eli had not known.  Maybe John ...
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Thursday, June 04, 2015

Problems with Wood for Trees data

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UPDATE:  problem seems fixed, for now anyway. See comments. David Appel says Wood for Trees , a fun site for us amateurs to play with clim...
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