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[Note: written rather a long time ago and finally published when I reviewed 2020.] An interesting post from  Glen Peters at Cicero.  Keepin...

Ignore the Fake Climate Debate says [Ted] Nordhaus. And he's right 1 . The second half of the sub-head of  The deniers and alarmists m...

Appeals Court Dismisses Landmark Youth Climate Lawsuit Vs. U.S. Government says ClimateLiabilityNews, or if you prefer the Dork Side,  Cli...

Says the NYer  ( arch ). But screw that - which wasn't what BR said, anyway - instead of their interpretation let's just read the s...

Germany Goes Greener With $95 Billion Push for Train Over Plane proudly says Bloomberg. Germany launched an 86 billion euro ($95 billion...

Greta Thunberg and others , in the Graun - where else? Time to update  Skolstrejk för klimatet and see what the "No plan, let alone a...

Plastic packaging ban 'could harm environment' says Aunty: Consumer pressure to end plastic packaging in shops could actually be...

From Tamino , some nice graphs about the current situation in Australia. With all the wild excitement, it can be hard to see what's actu...

CIP read Homo Deus but didn't really review it . I however am fearless. I was glad to get a chance to read this (it came as a Christma...

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...