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The new WGII report is out, and reading the SPM it doesn't take long before I find something to disagree with: Meeting the objectives ...

Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice , of course. And  The flower of propriety is beauty in thought and action . After that it goes a bit wacky bu...

Is a report from McKinsey, according to the Graun . Normally I think McK would be evil multi-national consultants, but here they're say...

A thesis, by Georgios Zoukas. Even though it has my name in it, I didn't read it all I'm afraid. Still, it is close to  The dim and...

It's a Timmy-vs-Georgie fight; I know who my money is on. Monbiot's starter is here  (or was; the clowns have moved it to here 5 ) ...

So says Aunty . Or  Wikipedia has for so long been plagued by climate change denial. But a group of dedicated volunteers around the world i...

Taken from Joseph " Creative Destruction " Schumpeter 's classic " Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy ", about whi...

It's that time again; the calendar rolls around and I look back over the year and feel old. My major life-event for the year was switchi...

Did you know that Omicron means little-o, just as Omega means big-o? Obvious really. Anyway, with Covid surging and Christmas nearly upon u...

From chapter 30 : And because, if the essentiall Rights of Soveraignty (specified before in the eighteenth Chapter) be taken away, the Comm...

Or so assert Sabine Hossenfelder and Tim Palmer . TP at least has some form in this stuff; SH rather less so; perhaps she is going for Publ...

A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration is a report from the USAnian National Academies of Sciences, ...

AKA " Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them " 1 . Although in this case I mean philosophers, not intellec...

That nice SR is lusting after a bit more suing . Because the existing suing has gone so well , presumbably. The source of this optimism is ...

When I wrote  Who knew what when? I lightly skipped over the 1992 supplement . Because, it didn't really say much. I can prove that, c...

This is Monbiot, in the Graun  via Timmy . M is riffing off the Oxfam report which I don't really believe, since I think they essentai...

Something I missed from the AR6 - because, of course, I didn't read it - was The equilibrium climate sensitivity... Based on multiple ...

A quote from Lord Acton. It is a good quote, found via CH , but what does it mean? If you rewrite it for individuals, "there should be...

Some kind of hearings off in the colonies . Mostly I think grandstanding by pols, but did anything come out of it? 1 There's the usual...

Found via an IET press release . They're trying to convince you that the CO2 costs of storing pix online are substantial, and larger th...