Stoat

Aka "the year in Stoats, 2018". This year, in honour of DA's comment about comments , I present my "top" posts of ...

The Second Coming , of course: A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun; as noted recently by CIP . But I wanted to consider my title phrase. I...

By a fairly tortuous route Denis MacShane 's old book on Brexit , which I'll come back to [ I didn't ], to the UK govt's da...

Andrew Dessler tweets : Economists love a carbon tax because it is transparent. But it turns out that people don’t actually want transpar...

Bob Ward is back, and he's not happy  ( h/t ATTP ): economists and finance ministries must stop relying on models that are simply no...

Earthrise is a photograph of Earth and some of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut Bill Anders on December ...

It's stupid. Hopefully it will die in a ditch, and take the proponents down with it. That's my view, which I write in response to...

InsideClimateNews is sad because Reuters reports that " Exxon Mobil secured U.S. hardship waiver from biofuels laws ". ICN are, ...

I largely ignored The Pause (aka a somewhat shameful episode in the history of climatology, distinguished by short-termism, panic, and grub...

So Twits Jerry Taylor . He is channelling Bloomberg : France will save 39 billion euros ($44.5 billion) if it refrains from building 15 n...

We start off in the usual home of bad ideas these days, Twatter. Wherein we find promulgated the thought that  Nordhaus may be revered amon...

By David Coady, Ian Parry, Louis Sears and Baoping Shang; World Development, 2017, vol. 91, issue C, 11-27 . To anyone thinking "lumme...

Following my acclaimed defence of Cory Gardner , and my detailed investigation into  Peter Ridd  and Katherine Hayhoe , it would appear tha...

As we get closer to the endgame, Brexit looks more and more like a disaster area. I voted Remain , and would again, but think that the best...

It is remarkably hard to paraphrase someone else's statement whilst preserving the sense. In this case, the Graun has failed, because i...

This is the claim made by SciAm , via Twatter . Actually it's more of a hook, for yet more science communication wittering, because the...

The story so far: AGU reception to honor Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Gary Peters (D-MI) , to award them the Presidential Citation for ...

Or so says Dieter Helm in the FT  ( arch ).Someone called Simon Evans doesn't like it , and although he says it is packed full of wrong...

Part two of a series; part one was on Extreme Temperature Mortality . Labour is - IMO somewhat implausibly - the largest economic cost iden...

It turns out that there's a collection of review comments on, I presume, an early draft of the recent  4th National Climate Assessment...