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Aka the year in Stoats, 2019. Following last year's acclaimed tradition, I present posts by month selected by most comments; after all,...

A bit more Thucydides. This time from the "Mytilenian Debate". A quick precis of the background for those who have forgotten: wa...

mt Twote : Close elections are bad elections. What we need is social consensus. Anything important decided by a narrow fraction of the mo...

A fragment from The Peloponesian War . The Athenians are talking to the Spartans, trying to persuade them not to join the Corinthians; and ...

Ah, beautiful. The full - though alas modernised version - is available from e.g. here . I've used this before , though only incidentall...

A re-tread from 2012 . Doesn't time fly?   A summer picture for the winter solstice. Which I'd forgotten until Amy reminded me ...

More broken logic. Well, not really even an attempt at logic. The story from The Hill  via Twatter : In its latest move to roll back ener...

I haven't written about Urgenda before. As they say themselves   On 24 June 2015 the Urgenda Foundation, together with 900 citizens, wo...

By Lee M. Miller and David W. Keith in Joule . In 2018, so I'm well behind the times; but so is RS . This is fundamentally the same id...

More anguished twatting about oil companies : ExxonMobil’s 2019 Outlook for Energy predicts “no reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from...

This was the case that I commented on in  L'affaire Schneiderman  and noted briefly in refs a month ago . Broadly speaking though I tho...

If you’re a climate or energy researcher, chances are the fossil fuel industry owns you was a cheery Twit by Benjamin Franta. A variety ...

In Craig Loehle speaks I noted CL editing his wiki article. But now - see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Craig Loehle - he is no more ( ...

It's the smoggies again . What they've done is looked at the donations, seen who they are from, and done their best to give you the...

Wiki seems to be having one of it's bouts of madness; see [[WP:FRAM]] for part of it. The bozos decided to rename "Climate change...

Oh noes, not again . Still it's an entertaining distraction from the faithful war reenactors . My headline is from Brideshead of course...

Is the "climate emergency" fluff worth worrying about? I've been fairly dismissive in the past . But ATTP worries   Another e...

Sigh. One of my predictions from the far past (but alas if I wrote it down I failed to do so clearly) was that when people started to take ...

Via ZH , the Lazard levelized cost of generation report is out . You can pick your own favourite figure; this is mine, renewables new-b...

Via The Economist : Be Cautious with the Precautionary   Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident by Matthew Neidell , S...