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Robert Scribbler
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Robert Scribbler's personal blog at robertscribbler.com covers science and politics. Since 2015, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Robert Scribbler's posts as sources on climate news, such as Arctic ice, Antarctic ice sheet melt, heat waves, and carbon monoxide readings. Commenters cite them as support rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-12-20
- Gigantic Gravity Waves to Mix Summer with Winter?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-29
What Hacker News says?
> Climate science is nowhere near that accurate The range is accurate enough to know the problems. We even know that the effects will have a very long time span, certainly longer than a few hundred years during which we've released so much CO2. Those that demand "accuracy" expect to receive one line and not the range. Which less changes how much our children will suffer, and even less for children of our children, o…
Comment linking /2014/04/11/world-co2-averages-touch-402-2-ppm-daily-values-in-early-april-102-ppm-higher-than-at-any-time-in-last-800000-years/
on “Climate Model Predicts West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Rapidly”Submitted Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil as a story · 447 points
HN discussionComplex problems are not always simple to explain. I sell data about complex social systems and I've found that when my customers are finally deciding whether to buy or not, only very rarely do they want to look at numbers. They want the story and solutions. They want the product. A marketing team that tries to get Americans to remember specific figures about climate change is not going to be effective. There are wa…
Comment linking /2016/12/19/solar-now-produces-a-better-energy-return-on-investment-than-oil/
on “Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause”Submitted Signs of Gulf Stream Slowdown: Sea Level More Than 1' Higher Off US East Coast as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThe effects we're feeling in the South US are mostly from the La Nina[1], but there is actually something interesting happening with the Arctic ice this winter. It's still below zero up there, but we might end up with a northern channel in about 4 years if it stays this warm. It isn't just about the ice that has formed, but the speed that it's forming. It's significantly slower than recent years[2]. This was caused…
Comment linking /2016/11/18/arctic-storms-sparked-severe-polar-warming-sea-ice-melt-for-november-2016/
on “A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert”Submitted Fossil Fuel Industry to Experience crash in 10 years as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"I think our only hope is for solar/wind/nuclear to get so good nobody wants fossil fuels any more." We are at this stage now or approaching it: https://robertscribbler.com/2016/12/19/solar-now-produces-a-...
Comment linking /2016/12/19/solar-now-produces-a-better-energy-return-on-investment-than-oil/
on “Shell's 1991 warning: climate changing ‘faster than at any time since ice age’”Submitted Smashing Through 490 – Fragmenting Prospects for Avoiding 2 C Warming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAre you trolling us? 97% of climate scientists agree that the global is warming and that humans are the cause of this warming. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-... Before it was the warmest March on record it was the warmest February: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/february-smashe... Oh, and it was the warmest January: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/02/17/janua…
Comment linking /2016/04/11/hothouse-gas-spikes-to-extreme-409-3-parts-per-million-on-april-10-record-rate-of-atmospheric-co2-increase-likely-for-2016/
on “Warmest March in Global Recordkeeping”Submitted Scores of City-Sized Siberian Wildfires as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is a point where the combination of heat and humidity means that humans can’t cool themselves adequately and die, even in the shade. This is happening more and more, and seems likely to start happening in places like eastern China and the US sooner than people think. https://robertscribbler.com/tag/wet-bulb-temperatures-35-c/
Comment linking /tag/wet-bulb-temperatures-35-c/
on “A Ferocious Heat in Delhi”Submitted Gigantic Gravity Waves to Mix Summer with Winter? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI go with limits of growth, as it has been shown to fit the last 30 years. http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/M... I also think Guy McPhearson is right in many aspects: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=guy+mcpherson The IPCC thinks its mostly linear, does not look linear (follow the links): http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35975-arctic-sea-ice-coul... https://robertscribbler.com…
Comment linking /2016/05/02/arctic-sea-ice-is-falling-off-a-cliff-and-it-may-not-survive-the-summer/
on “We’re Losing the Climate-Change Battle”Submitted Human Warming Pushing Seas Toward Exponential Rise of 7M This Century as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSource for article: https://robertscribbler.com/2016/06/28/gigantic-gravity-wave...
Comment linking /2016/06/28/gigantic-gravity-waves-to-mix-winter-with-summer-wrecked-jet-stream-now-runs-from-pole-to-pole/
on “Scientists declare ‘emergency’ after jet stream crosses equator”Submitted Approaching the first climate tipping point – 1.5C by 2035 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://robertscribbler.com/2016/02/29/carbon-monoxide-spikes... Article discussing the data with this tl;dr quote: "Earth Nullschool — the site that produces the above satellite data has listed a final confirmation. The measure used to interpret atmospheric data was in the process of being re-calibrated and produced a stronger than typical signal. In other words, high CO readings for this region were a glitch"
Comment linking /2016/02/29/carbon-monoxide-spikes-to-34000-parts-per-billion-over-california-on-february-26-what-the-heck-is-going-on/
on “Carbon monoxide spike over the US West Coast”
