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Another in the Gunz Warz . From the sainted Obama , no less: "We are failing our children. Guns are now the leading cause of death fo...

The just released IPCC AR6 synthesis report seems a bit woo to me; the woke folk have got carried away. I don't think that's a good...

Shell rules out more ambitious goal for end-user emissions reports Reuters ( arch ), and this is sensible on Shell's part. These are n...

Another in the Red Team series , although I seem to have skipped 2020 and 2022; 2021 was Covid. You can have 2022's Mays . This year th...

In which I whinge at Google for getting their core business of search badly wrong. I am (as so often) looking for my post " I dislike ...

More wank - but I shouldn't spoil the plot - by Lawrence Torcello , who has form . Naively, he wonders  whether people are ethically ac...

Roger Pielke has a Twit complaining bitterly about Advancing the estimation of future climate impacts within the United States . He appear...

Via RS , some considerations of language from UnSciAm . I'm doubtful that twatting around with language is going to help at all; substa...

There's yet another shot fired in the #exxonknew  culture wars, with  Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections by the usual s...

Or so proposes Bryan Caplan 1 . Happily, Waterstones has a copy of Fossil Future , and I browsed far enough to get past the vague wurble in...

I wasn't too keen on Rawls , but on New Year's Eve I happened to sit by a copy of AToJ so opened it in the middle, to Liberty, and...

It's time for the annual pick-of-the-year, as I record my slow slide into obsolescence. Jan:  Two views of democracy (20). Feb:  Meeti...

The traditional - or is it? - Christmas post. To begin: Happy Christmas to the World in general, and to any remaining readers in particula...

As some of you may have noticed, I rather like the Libertarian worldview, despite generally disagreeing with them about GW; see-also  Talki...

In desperation, and on a recommendation from a colleague, I asked ChatGPT to write me some code to reset an USB device from within C. It did...

From the Economist . Probably paywalled, not up to TE's usual standards of thinking; more on the lines of wishful handwaving. Samples: ...

I'm afraid some more comments have got lost in moderation. I blame Blogger, which doesn't mail me about comments in the queue. Sadl...

I hoped in  The Evil Empire strikes that the plucky Ukrainians remain plucky, and stall the Russkies for long enough for the assault to fa...

Analysis of the effects of extreme heat shows that low-income, tropical countries have suffered the greatest financial losses , but is it tr...

[This post I found among my drafts, from some time in 2005. It isn't, now, especially interesting, though Hobbes is always worth a read...