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I exepct most of my readers are eagerly awaiting some alternative to accepting the conclusions of AS, so I thought I'd provide mine. Re-...

Spring is in the air and my irises are out, so you get to share the joy. But joy is not what you come here for so I rapidly continue onto.....

Gosh, it is nearly the end of April and I haven't written anything for the month yet. So as cheap post I'll throw in this from the ...

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...