A week in the lakes

Once again I'm briefly back. This time my excuse was a week - or thereabouts - canoeing around Stora La, a large lake in Sweden; bookended by stays in Oslo, Goteborg and Stockholm. All very pleasant and civilised, there were even composting toilets. 428 photos are available.

Refs

* Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane.

* Retail goods prices were on a stable trend until Liberation Day. Tariffs upended that.

* Contra the UK government, please don't delete your old photos and emails to save water (see-also Study shows shocking impact of 'photo-hoarding' on carbon footprint?).

* A rare eruption of  scientific commonsense in the  WSJ's news pages has interrupted the Ed Board's long campaign to obscure the ongoing climatic consequences of the Industrial Revolution (RS).

* Terence Tao, signing an open letter in 2020: "We are enraged at the everyday operations of a white supremacist society... apparently The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics.

* A disappointing article from Veronique de Rugy in Reason on the new DOE report.

* The Ideology Is Not The Movement (SSC).

* Convenience vs. Social Desirability Bias.

* The decarbonization of the U.S. economy from 1992 to 2025 (RP Jr).

* Tropical Cyclones - "Doing the Lord's Work" v Reality (SoD).