Tag: france

May 15, 2015 0

Bjorn Lomborg demonstrates why universities should steer clear of him

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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

May 14, 2015 0

French Surveillance Law Amid Terror of Own Creation

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CNN would report in an article titled, " France tells U.S. Paris suspect trained with al Qaeda in Yemen ," that: Western intelligence officials are scrambling to learn more about possible travel of the two Paris terror attack suspects, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, with new information suggesting one of the brothers recently spent time in Yemen associating with al Qaeda in that country, U.S. officials briefed on the matter told CNN.

May 13, 2015 0

Climate Cognition notes

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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

May 12, 2015 0

Turn Out the Lights

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Tweet While the proposed $300 million budget cuts to NASA Earth Science emerging from the House Science Committee have been receiving a lot of press , the knives of science denial are out for other agencies that study climate issues. DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research program gets a cut of 42 million from its current $592 million, and the proposed $612 million.  The BER program support climate research at such places as Lawrence Livermore and other DOE labs