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A recent slightly dodgy RC post from Stephan triggered my knee-jerk. It is about knocking back, yet again, the stupid denialist idea that t...

I was turning over certain rowing-related matters in my mind today, and chanced upon a memory: “What are your fees?" inquired Guyal ...

In Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight / Where ignorant armies clash by night I made some brilliantly prescient prediction...

Inspired by CIP's ventures into philosophy (see also my insightful comment ) I thought I would share my little project to improve the ...

Proof - in the unlikely event that proof were needed - of the Ultimate Evil that is the Kochs (Koch-Up / Cock-Up. Geddit? Oh of course you ...

One of the things that made global cooling plausible was the observed temperature record  although you have to be a bit wary, when talking...

Or so sez the Graun . The substance of this comes from some long-lost words from  Energy and Man: A Symposium , held in 1959, apparently pu...

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...