…is making an alliance with the Tories. This is good news for Brexit supporters.
Category Archives: Economics
Climate Models Versus Observations
A 2019 update.
TL;DR: They continue to run hot.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Climate utopias and engineering reality.
[Update a few minutes later]
How to trigger a global recession overnight? Ban fracking.
[Late-morning update]
Judith Curry reflects on “Climategate,” a decade later. Hard to believe it’s really been that long.
The Limits Of Bandwidth
An interesting Twitter thread by Phil Metzger.
The Coming 1984 Election
It does feel like a huge clash of visions coming. And one of them is an Orwellian nightmare.
Unsustainable California
What can’t go on, will eventually come to a stop.
I think the only question is how it will play out.
[Update at noon]
Mark Pulliam is voting (again) with his feet.
[Update a few minutes later]
Boise residents: “Go back to California.”
Pricing Health-Care Services
Any elective procedure should be transparently priced. That’s it’s not is one of the disasters of the current health-insurance situation.
Launch Costs
In light of the latest admissions, some thoughts from Wayne Hale.
Just Fly Already
NASA is planning to reduce crew size on ISS because of uncertainty in Commercial Crew. This probably means no research during that period.
SLS Costs
For years, NASA has been providing a BS number of a billion dollars a flight (with no basis). Now, at least the White House is admitting that it’s at least two billion.
And here’s an update this morning. Yes, five billion a flight is a low estimate.
A Million People On Mars
It could (maybe) be done in a century.
But no, I don’t think they’d have to learn to eat crickets. The paucity of imagination in studies like this is always amazing.