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Something that isn't getting mentioned but should about Hurricane Harvey - gradient determines drainage speed, and higher sea level mean...

Slate: Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio Is an Impeachable Offense ....Trump’s defenders will ask how a president can be impeached merely fo...

From the Miami Herald: Carlos Curbelo touts himself as a rare Republican in Washington willing to criticize Donald Trump and conservative ...

Among the things that bother Eli, and there are myriad, is not understanding that because proxy reconstructions are calibrated by using ins...

The Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry was the first African American regiment formed in the US Civil War.  Lead by Robert Gould Shaw...

As John von Neuman put it With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. and, as fate would...

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Tyler Cowen has an interesting point about "defensive innovation" meant to prevent future problems, wherein he describes climate ...

Sometimes Eli gets the feeling he was created for Twitter.  In answer to the old question of how a cooler atmosphere with greenhouse gases ...

Andy Dessler set off a bit of a tweetstorm asking where the definition of climate sensitivity as 2xCO2 came from. Does anyone know why th...

(Maybe worth emphasizing this is Brian writing, not Eli or John.) A new study gives some reason to believe that wind turbines have second...

As part of another post not finished, Ethon took a look over at the nameless one's twitter feed where he has posted a talk.  Now, not t...

I've been following but not talking about the runup to California's recently re-enacted climate legislation , authorizing more actio...

So some pro-tohedgehog (hate to meet the amateur type) has a post on why people don't trust science, with a nice little Socratic dialo...

So Eli returns from vacation with a report from Ethon who has taken up Twitter on the economics of energy sources.  To put it simply, nucle...

Last fall I suggested both Trump and his campaign could and should be sued by the women he called "liars" when they accused him o...

This picture of nothing is what used to be my favorite and most-convenient gas station, just a week or so ago. I doubt it'll be replac...

The Trump administration has been pushing the idea of a "Red Team" to re-examine the EPAs endangerment finding.  As Eli has point...

I've been dumbfounded by the willingness/denialism of Republicans and of parties in other democracies to be the manipulated tools of the...

An evergreen across science communication is that scientists don't know how to communicate science.  Eli has confronted this issue befor...