Rabett Run

So various bunnies have been wondering why the areas burnt in US forest fires decreased sharply starting in the 1930s There have bee...

That's my interpretation of Clinton's carefully  limited support for the death penalty . She gave a few things to the left before th...

Habit forming

Science is understanding data, not data. Science requires data, and it requires models to understand the data. The best models will be bas...

Eli, and the bunnies, have been following the on line review of Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate dat...

comes the surge Was updating a figure of observed global temperature changes since 1850. 2015 (so far) has broken the graph. pic.twitt...

UPDATE:   this also about online harassment and the failure to address it . One of my fan-boy science interests is anything to do with pe...

What is now many years ago, Eli pointed out the intellectual inconsistencies of science deniers, climate science division.  Denialism in a...

(Nitrogen-fertlized grass on left, native habitat protected by carefully-managed grazing on right.) This is more of a marker/prediction...

And it is getting warm out there.  Today, Kevin Drum turns his graphical skills to global temperature using Texas sharpshooter rules and co...

Somebunny known to Eli has imposed on Dana Nuccetelli and the Guardian to publish a short piece on Ecomodernism which he recommends to all...

Yesterday I listed to both  KCRW and KQED podcasts about whether recycling is worth it, occasioned by John Tierney's decision to recyc...

ATTP has been beating a bit on the carbon cycle , something Eli has talked about before.  (Go ahead, Google is your friend bunnies)  Some o...

Stoat draws Eli's attention to ACPD's review of the Hansen et al. paper Although the timing is, not clear, the handling editor...

UPDATE:  Thanks to Lawrence Hamilton for posting a link to their analysis of multiple polls on this and related issues in PLOS ONE . Via ...

By way of Boing-Boing today, an explanation which passes the six sigma test from Scott Westerfeld Plot idea: 97% of the world's sci...

Environmental Defense Fund had one of their sporadic podcasts recently, this one on the planned China cap-and-trade program  (EDF has been h...

Eli took a peek at the interactive review for the Hansen, et al paper on sea level rise , remember, the one that found that if global t...