Lies, damn lies, and the cult of global warming.
Prevalence of “skeptics†among blog visitors All of the blogs that carried the link to the survey broadly endorsed the scienti fic consensus on climate change (see Table S1). As evidenced by the comme…
Lewandowsky and Cook lie through their teeth.
Last fall, Geoff Chambers and Barry Woods established beyond a shadow of a doubt that no blog post linking to the Lewandowsky survey had ever been published at the Skeptical Science (SKS) blog. Cha……
It's amazing how much things have changed within my lifetime.
And it looks like it might happen again.
Ah, economics is a harsh mistress too :)
(AP)—German engineering company Bosch said Friday that it is abandoning its solar energy business, because there is no way to make it economically viable amid overcapacity and huge price pressure in t…
So if they're going to do universal background checks on gun purchasers, how about using the same system to do universal background checks on voters? Â Or employees? Â Or people applying for government benefits?
<crickets/>
Gun control advocates are pressing Democrats to broaden background checks for firearms purchases in the gun bill the Senate debates next month, saying it is the strongest step lawmakers can take to pr…
Ah, nature is a fickle mistress :)
What a difference a year makes.Last March, the media welcomed spring in a panic over global warming,
Yes, the American administration is incompetent.  Arguably it's been that way since Clinton.
“In Russia, most analysts, politicians and ordinary citizens believe in the unlimited might of America, and thus reject the notion that the US has made, and continues to make, mistakes in the [Middle …
Ah, unreliable and expensive energy, coming to a China near you.
The world’s top-selling producer of solar panels has defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. The Chinese firm Suntech hasn’t posted a profit since the first quarter of 2011 and has been relying on t…
tl;dr – natural petroleum has an energy density (watt hours per kg) 30x greater than even the best batteries we have. Â Even accounting for waste energy in internal combustion engines, natural petroleum still wins by 6.67x.
Electric only is simply not ready for primetime.
A tech company called Envia Systems has announced that it is able to produce rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (Li-ion, i.e., the standard kind of rechargeable batteries that go in everything from ph…
Ah, nothing like Jimmy Carter 2.0 :)
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach President Obama continues his Global War on Cheap Energyâ„¢, this time under the guise of avoiding “spikes” in gasoline (petrol) prices. He wants to pass gas without ……
CO2 is plant food.
Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist and other books, dropped by Reas
"Another set of tests revealed that five of the 10 rock samples analyzed contained genetic material from methane-producing microbes, bolstering the notion that such organisms were living deep beneath the sea floor."
Natural petroleum source.  Not exactly abiogenic, but not dead surface life either.
Microbes Likely Abundant Hundreds of Meters Below Sea Floor – ScienceNOW
The Climategate of the sugar industry.
While the libertarian in me is all for free markets and in general limited regulation, free markets cannot exist when information is being hidden from the participants in that market.
Three years ago, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. collected $54 million from Deutsche Bank in a settlement over unsound loans that contributed to a spectacular California bank failure.
Seriously, the amazing Kevin Fisher rocks.
