Tag: africa

February 29, 2016 0

Refugee Crisis: EU Cites Missing Libyan Navy It Destroyed in 2011

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The International Business Times in their report, " WikiLeaks leak ‘classified report’ indicating EU Operation could move into Libyan territory ," would report that: WikiLeaks has released a "classified report" about the first six months of Operation Sophia, the EU military intervention against refugee boats in Libya and Mediterranean.  The leaked report is dated 29 January 2016 and written by the operation commander, Rear Admiral Enrico Credendino of the Italian Navy. It allegedly provides statistics on refugee flows and outlines the phases of Operation Sophia, including future strategies of the operation. The report has been published for the European Union Military Committee and the Political and Security Committee of the EU

June 24, 2015 0

Divestment and Dilberto si

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Tweet The encyclical emphasizes a moral element to the climate debate that the drier analyses miss. I wrote previously that a bishop flubbed a response to a Foxquestion about whether we shouldn’t do other things to help the poor instead of reducing our precious carbon emissions

June 9, 2015 0

Maxim Lott must be a great uphill runner

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Tweet Maxim Lott sees the slope of the line for the last 17 years as being virtually flat. I imagine that if he went for a run and came to a hill, he wouldn’t even notice it. The NASA data he cites is here  (which doesn’t include any of the scorching 2015 data), and his article here

May 1, 2015 0

You Load 16 Tons

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Tweet Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, aka coal in WVa, has a Nixon problem.  Turns out the Don recorded his phone calls and now the prosecutors have them.  How they have them is one of those stories.

March 17, 2015 0

If Not the Fire Then the Freezer

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Tweet Some bunnies have noticed that Matt King Cole, Bjorn Lomborg and the ignorati from the Breakthrough Institute and yet others are crocadiling about how Africa needs coal to generate electricity, never mind that right now the majority of the countryside and small villages would do better with solar or wind.   As Eli has pointed out , this is mostly because the costs of building out the distribution network is not zero, far from it, and small village based solar powered grids are less expensive. Of course, none of these folks figure in the costs and difficulties of maintaining an electrical, gas or electric transmission network in these countries, where people have the habit of borrowing power, power lines and gas