Would You, For $3 Trillion?
My back of the envelope guess of what the market value of the top 10 oil companies in the world, and all of the coal producers in the world, is about $3 trillion. If climate change is the worst thing...
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Climate Change Eats Everything, Jakarta Edition
The city of Jakarta is sinking quite rapidly because of land subsidence (they are removing tons of groundwater). It is reported that the Northern part of the city has sunk … eight feet … in just the...
View ArticleThe Thanksgiving Gift
Today I reprint a slightly edited piece I put together several years ago. I’d change a lot of it, from the content to the tone, if I were to do it over – but one must live with one’s younger self....
View ArticlePut Coal in Everyone’s Christmas Stocking. Seriously.
Simply buying all of the coal that is in the ground would be fantastically less expensive than almost any climate solution, and respect the property rights of companies and sectors that have invested...
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Pair of Male Wood Ducks
Taken in the gloaming at Montezuma Wildlife Refuge on May 16, 2020. First time I’ve seen them in my life.
View ArticleTo Watch: ^^Meeting Gorbachev^^
If you don’t have time to read Taubman’s excellent biography, this fantastic interview/documentary from Werner Herzog is a must watch. Gorbachev’s sincerity was clear in Taubman’s book and this...
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Giovinazzo, Bari, Italy
My family came to the United States starting 100 years ago from this tiny Adriatic seaside town in southeastern Italy. This photo of Giovinazzo is courtesy of Tripadvisor
View ArticleStatement from the Adirondack Mountain Club on High Peaks Crowding
Posted below without comment: Adirondack Mountain Club, Inc.Conservation Committee Resolution •WHEREAS, the State has regularly acknowledged that the Adirondacks receive 10 to 12 million visitors a...
View ArticleA Question of Privilege
OK, if the scientific method is a tool of western cis-white-privilege, how will the case to fight global warming be made? And wouldn’t proposed solutions therefore be thinly veiled ways to further...
View ArticleAI, Supercomputers and Computational Socialism
There is a presumption in the planning vs. markets discussion that has gone back at least to the debates with Abba Lerner and Oscar Lange that it was simply a matter of computing power before we would...
View ArticleDesacrilize Woke Fundamentalism
Read the entire thing: The way forward must therefore involve bolstering an emotionally compelling narrative of freedom which foregrounds the threats emanating from a politics of psychic...
View ArticleSo, We Should Have Over 6,000 Representatives in Congress
I’ve always believed there should be a much larger congress, with the end of gerrymandering districts as well. I never realized that the proposed first amendment to the constitution actually would have...
View Article“I Have Never Been Part of Any Movement, I Just Do My Own Thing”
I’d add, “just leave people the hell alone” and our world would be immeasurably better. Here is a bit from Alex Tabarrok’s tribute to Walter Williams: Our colleague, the great Walter Williams, died on...
View ArticleThey Believe Their Own Malarkey
I am just finishing up the absolutely gut-wrenching book from Frank Dikotter, Mao’s Great Famine. Words cannot do it justice. Just as the Hiroshima story and the Auschwitz story and the slavery story...
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The Challenge of Adapting to Climate Change
The “experts” tell us we have only a few decades. Many of the climate models, for what it’s worth (such as RCP8.5) do not assume much adaptation. Here is a glimpse of the challenge: Seoul, South Korea...
View ArticleGerentocracy
Our gerentocracy doesn’t suck because they are old. No, it sucks because their ideas have been terrible for 50 years, and they continue jamming them down our throats to this day. Have a nice day.
View ArticleWe Wish You An Unexamined Christmas and a Science Free New Year
Here is some of the advice on how we can spread Christmas Cheer in a sustainable way: (their suggestions indented). Give creatively, thinking beyond material things (e.g. dance lessons, concert...
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