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Lord Adonis has resigned, almost  quoting Burke : people will not look forwards to posterity who do not look backwards to their ancestors...

Why I Am So Wise is but one chapter of Ecce Homo  by Friedrich Nietzsche ; but in this debased age it is extracted as the title of a short...

[This is a direct copy of my Book review: Atlas shrugged from 2013 over at LiveJournal (I blame Paul). I'm copying it here because I w...

From the NYT: B.H.P. Billiton, Acknowledging Climate Change, to Quit Coal Group :  B.H.P. Billiton, the British-Australian mining company, ...

I think it is obvious we should care , in the sense of being benignly interested; but should we care in the sense of changing our actions i...

I'm feeling quite techno-optimistic at the moment. Don't worry, I'll fall back into cynical despair before too much longer. Just...

George Monbiot, in the Graun , with a lead pipe . By which I mean it is the usual bludgeoning. He has various points, many of them semi-val...

A fascinating picture, and blog post , comes my way, ht CR . There are various ways of looking at the same numbers; I've picked solar...

The Gods Themselves is a novel by Asimov . One of the few - perhaps the only one of his - to feature aliens; and quite decent aliens too. W...

Well maybe. But I'm not sure I agree with the logic. Tis  Dana Nuccitelli, in the Graun . Specificailly, DN is comparing the scientific...

So says the Graun . Indeed it claims an Exclusive: Pure electric cars cost less over four years than petrol or diesel cars in the UK, US an...

Or, ZOMG! We're all doomed, part N . Via fb (but not so far Twitter), phys.org tells me " Global warming is likely to speed up as...

Via Twatter comes this interesting graph. We're back to pre-1900. At first I was deeply suspicious, but I think it holds up. The claim...

There's a report on a survey in the NYT  just recently ("The More Education Republicans Have, the Less They Tend to Believe in Cli...

One for RS (via a tweet that Mann liked ). The Smithsonian  tells us about When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter . And the ...

Not much going on is there? ATTP is talking about Mertonian Norms but really, I cannot raise the energy to care so he's welcome to it,...

Via ATTP on Twatter comes  Conservatives probably can’t be persuaded on climate change. So now what?  ( arch ). Since it's by David Ro...

Anyone who has read my previous comments on Hansen will know that I find him somewhat over-excitable , and this one - Global Climate Just...

I am the eye in the sky, Looking at you-o-oooh I can read your mind. I am the maker of rules, Dealing with foo-o-oools, I can cheat you bl...