Rabett Run

There is a self defeating gene in scientists that makes them insist on absolute accuracy, even when they are parsing ~97% correct (hmm, Eli...

I first saw Clare Malone at 538 suggest it , then somewhere else - Kasich is in the race to be Vice President. It makes sense of course that...

Everett Sargent points out that Hansen & Co have revised their paper for Atmospheric Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evide...

Originally introduced in WW I as surveillance platforms, lighter than air vehicles are making a comeback even in competition with drones.  ...

I posed the question earlier about why reality wins at wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, when it's a closer call for ...

Eli may have been the first to gaze out the Overton Window to a fine game of Climate Ball, and indeed he formulated the problem in terms o...

( Source ) Nuclear power proponents keep saying that environmentalists should sing a nuclear tune, and a few enviros agree. Personally ...

(apologies for the bad language) I was looking for an image version of the above dialog, minus bad language of course. Didn't fin...

A long time ago as some of the young bunnies reckon, Eli pointed out that the Obama administration was pursuing health insurance globalizat...

Usually the NH winter is a time when the bets are laid for the summer minimum.  Friend Weasel was not too excited last year although things...

Elementary quantum mechanics quickly shows that harmonic oscillators (shown by the dotted line in the figure to the right) can only absorb ...

Ray Pierrehumbert does a guest turn at Dot.Earth. Judging from the picture this is from his Chicago days.  Given that he is now at Oxford, p...

The detection of gravity waves by LIGO is the big science news this week.  Eli is old enough to remember the long series of explorations th...

Scalia's death might change everything for the Clean Power Plan. Before there appeared to be a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court that wa...

To keep up with the trade, Eli offers an app for the bunnies to play with From Bernd Herd, in honor of Nicola Scafetta, a gadget to show ...

It is established science, policy and politics that coal is the black devil for climate change forcing in the wrong direction.  It is also c...

Maybe not One of the largest earth and space science meetings in the world is moving to New Orleans in 2017, drawing more than 25,0...

Some time ago Nigel Persaud took up the trade of auditor and inquired about this and that.  Somebunny known here and abouts took up the c...

This afternoon the US Supreme Court on a 5-4 vote issued a stay of the application of the Clean Power Plan to emitters (one example of the s...

The key to understanding the greenhouse effect is that it is a problem of energy flows, not of energy per se. a zeroth order thermodynami...