2020-04-30

What Do Donors Want? Heterogeneity by Party and Policy Domain

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Via TF ; see-also Twatter . It is fashionable, especially amongst the Left, to decry the influence of money in politics. This note, by Davi...
2020-04-28

I used to think that climate change denial was built on some logical argument...

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[Note: published at end of year during review.] I'm not sure I ever did; but my headline comes from AD . He continues  But COVID reveal...
2020-04-17

Coronavirus days: the IHME model is worthless

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James half said this a bit ago in  Dumb and dumber but on reflection he only half said it. But people keep on saying, effectively, "...
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Coronavirus days: Bluetooth based contact tracing

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Contact tracing is going to save us all 5 , and, as my cartoon suggests, involves Bluetooth. VV reckons that a privacy respecting track and ...
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2020-04-12

Coronavirus days: endless summer

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A wasps nest. Not new; I suspect from last summer; in which case it's odd I haven't noticed it before. In other news, I've lea...
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2020-04-07

Another one bites the dust

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Well, there are only so many headlines in the world, ol' Folksy Fred will have to make do with a retread  now he's pushing up the d...
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2020-04-03

Coronavirus days: masks

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As I said about a week ago , wearing masks seems like a good idea. It doesn't have to be a real one, just anything that stops your brea...
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2020-03-31

WATN: John Brignell

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Alas, poor John Brignell , he has suffered the sad fate of being declared NN . Cue paroxysms of faux outrage about censorship from the Dork...
2020-03-26

Coronavirus days: and global warming?

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ES  makes two predictions : 1) Things are going to be okay if we follow the advice of actual experts and stay home for several weeks or m...
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2020-03-24

Coronavirus days: policy?

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Before you read on, consider Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology by  Noah Haber: Vet your sources or more people will be deluded . ...
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2020-03-21

Coronavirus Days: nice pix

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As I said , we visited the National Gallery . There's some nice stuff there. Here's some of it. These are in some kind of order... t...
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2020-03-18

Coronavirus Days, part two: drivel

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The opening shot in today's drivel wars is fired by doughty campaigner John Vidal in the Graun, with ' Tip of the iceberg': is ...
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2020-03-17

Coronavirus Days

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In these days of people at home dying of boredom my contribution should be blog posts; so here's one. Life is steadily moving from di...
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2020-03-09

Red team goes up

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A follow-up to  Red team goes down ; but this is Lents, not Mays. In an inversion of last year, Maggie were now about 30 seconds faster tha...
2020-03-07

The Trials of the State

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A slim volume by Sumpers , who I've disagreed with, though only mildly, before. I picked it up on New Year's Eve fully expecting to...
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2020-03-05

Zharkova is a tosser

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At last, a female winner of the prestigious Tosser award for behaviour above and beyond the call of stupidity. Z gets it not for writing cr...
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2020-02-29

Why Should the U.S. Be the Leader in Numerical Weather Prediction?

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A question asked by Cliff Mass ( arch ); you may recall him from my acclaimed  L'affaire Cliff Mass post. All his answers are wrong; ...
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2020-02-18

Tasting the whole worm

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Or; "Pielke shumps the jark?". Stoat is the blog of record , so I feel obliged to record the strange disappearance of Roger Pielke...
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