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It has been a long dry summer in Europe. This is obvious enough from the news for anyone paying attention; this post merely collects some ob...

I'm back; I trust you missed me. Below, Le Grand Combin, very nice. No I didn't climb it.   Switzerland again; some climbing, som...

Or,  Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’ . The latest fad is to argue about the tone of reporting, and co...

Having had fun with the Dork Side , I suppose I really ought to dunk on everyone's favourite uncle, James "Gaia" Lovelock. Wh...

Tasteless but I couldn't resist. See-also  Joseph D'Aleo suffers soft delete or  Science advances one funeral at a time . Or perhap...

Reference  Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph D'Aleo . Humiliatingly for Smokey Joe, the final delete reason is "The result w...

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is a book by Joseph " Creative Destruction " Schumpeter : "one of the most famous, cont...

Kavanaugh’s views on EPA’s climate authority and  Kavanaugh's other dangerous assault - on the environment? refer. Spoiler: I have li...

I've said this before 1 , alas in the middle of posts that no-one read, so I'm going to say it again to make it more explicit: I di...

SCOTUS strikes again:  Court strikes down Maine’s ban on using public funds at religious schools . And, as far as I can tell, they were cor...

Another year over and deeper in debt ... this is Caius M2, though it was hard to distinguish them from M1 1 . The separation at the catch is...

In the face of momentous events people who really ought to know better are saying silly things like "Shocking: So far, governments ha...

Via Bryan Caplan  but more specifically https://philpapers.org/rec/BREWPM . Generally I hate stuff with wanky philosophic words in it, but ...

A Peruvian farmer takes on Germany’s largest electricity firm , says El Econo. Peruvians doing wacky things is not necessarily news, but si...

Another post for my record, and perhaps your interest. Note to self: please make up new frames for the Autumn so I can take out the crystall...

Mann is sad  about Gates' disappointing and somewhat defensive answer to the question I posed to him via the Graun .;  Hossenfelder sa...

Misinformation is in the news, with the demise of the regrettable Disinformation Governance Board . Bryan Caplan correctly points out  that...

To Swinbrook, near my mother's house. First a bluebell wood, which is lovely, though there isn't much to say about it. Not strictly ...

The recent events require no introduction. I maintain what I said before , though  I think it likely they will uphold the precedent  now lo...

Another day, another swarm o' bees. Although perhaps I should not be too casual: they are welcome, and my last was in 2020  (the 2021 o...