Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
Tweet Not Toast Of The Not Knowing A little more on the lawsuit flop against John Mashey – Stoat has posts (one of them with a brilliant headline), and John M links to his lawyers’ brief arguing for dismissal . If you thought the summary of the flaws in the case looked bad, read the full brief. The jaw drops.
Tweet ScienceDaily says a paper found that climate change has less impacts on biodiversity than land use has. My first thoughts were that it’s plausible, that the negative effects are combined, and that the priority might depend on the assumptions. I tried to RTFA , but it was paywalled other than a long abstract
See more here: California Democratic Party convention becomes first to call for climate divestment
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional
Visit site: Heartland Institute – Convenient Cognitive Dissonance
Here’s the exchange in Danish newspapers (emphasis added, some typos corrected): Kare Fog, a critic of Lomborg: …. Lomborg will presumably refer to his Copenhagen Consensus conference, where it is shown with – seemingly – matter-of-fact cost/benefit calculations that it pays better to solve other problems than global warming ….. [The audience members] do not know that t he figures have arisen by discounting calculations and that Lomborg has cheated in these calculations. He has used one discount rate for climate projects, and another discount rate for the remaining projects
I attended the San Francisco Commonwealth Club’s Climate One meeting yesterday, on "Climate Cognition" with George Lakoff, Kari Norgaard, and Per Espen Stoknes . Lakoff did his usual thing on framing, YMMV. I think the idea of framing is correct although I’m less sure that the frames he says categorize the political spectrum are accurate