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The Four Pests Campaign
June 15, 2015 0

The Four Pests Campaign

By News Desk

Tweet Nononono, not Roger Pielke Jr, Bjorn Lomborg, Willard Anthony Watts, or Matt King Coal Ridley. Recently as steam has run out on "Coal for Africa" with the falling prices of renewables making them the power source of choice in the third world, especially the rural third world, we have, courtesy of the Breakthrough Institute, Ecomodernism , which, according to the manifestoso In this, we affirm one long-standing environmental ideal, that humanity must shrink its impacts on the environment to make more room for nature, while we reject another, that human societies must harmonize with nature to avoid economic and ecological collapse

Note to the Observent
June 12, 2015 0

Note to the Observent

By News Desk

Tweet Bunnies may notice that the tag line above has been changed and the give to save the Keeling curve link removed.  There are two reasons for this. First, thanks in part to you, maybe a little to Eli, funding for the Scripps program has been saved.

Maxim Lott must be a great uphill runner
June 9, 2015 0

Maxim Lott must be a great uphill runner

By News Desk

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

June 8, 2015 0

Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine

By News Desk

Tweet Haven’t done a foreign policy post in a while, so here’s three in one: 1. The list above shows messed-countries and messed-up outcomes, so that part’s consistent, but what’s inconsistent is the level of effort by the US to change the outcome.