This reminds me of my piece on climate and the Precautionary Principle.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
No, Vox
Not “all diet books lie.”
It’s amazing how many people, including journalists, cling to discredited nutrition “science.”
The Obama Economy
He’ll be the first president ever to never see a year of 3% growth.
Despite all the Democrat hype about “X months of job creation,” the jobs don’t pay that well, and there haven’t been enough of them to keep up with population growth. This nonsense about “saving the world from a depression” is just that — no one knows what would have happened without the Democrats bailing out the public-employee and auto unions. It’s a counterfactual. But one can trace the nation’s economic problems to 2006, when the party that hates economic growth took over Congress.
[Update a while later]
As GDP flat lines, Obama brags about his economic record.
As noted there, both he and his supporters are delusional.
Expert Judgment And Uncertainty Qualification
An interesting post from Judith Curry on the gross deficiencies of the IPCC approach.
The Latest From The Lexington Institute
“Why is the USAF trying to destroy the launch industry?”
I may fisk this later, if I get time, but what a load of bull.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
Daniel Gouré’s op-ed “Why Does The Air Force Want To Destroy The Struggling U.S. Space Launch Business?” is inaccurate and misleading.
You don’t say.
[Bumped]
Trump University
The con man is about to go on trial.
So which happens first, the “Republican” front runner is ruled to be a fraud, or the Democrat front runner is indicted (or suffers massive leaks showing why she should be)?
What an election.
The Latest In The Reusable Trend
I always take news stories about space (or anything, really) in China with more than one grain of salt, but if this turns out to be true, I’ll start to take them more seriously. No serious space power is going to do much in space as long as they continue to throw all the hardware away.
Obama’s Lasting Domestic Legacy
…will be the ObamaCare disaster.
Not really news, though.
Atmospheric Plant Food
Shockingly, when you increase the levels, the plants like it.
Who could have predicted such a thing?
[Update a few minutes later]
Mark Steyn versus the Big Climate enforcers.