…and good riddance. He should never have been confirmed.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Recovery
…that left out almost everybody.
It’s the worst since the Depression. For the same reasons. Because the same economic ignorami are in charge.
Climate Sensitivity
A new paper that indicates it’s probably much lower than the models think.
Jerry Pournelle
He’s posted a brief but complimentary review of the book (it’s buried deep in the post, after his lengthy discussion of his computer tech upgrades):
Safe Is Not An Option, by Rand Simberg is a reliability expert’s look at the space program. The book is discussed at length on its own web site. Those interested in the space program should read it: the book is quite critical of current space policies. It has endorsements from both astronauts and space policy analysts.
His general thesis is that NASA’s obsession, born of the days when “ours always blow up” and brought back with a vengeance by the Challenger disaster, is eliminating all human risk from spaceflight. That doesn’t work and the obsession is a huge obstacle to progress. There will always be risks, and we will always have heroes.
Simberg is an aerospace engineer with considerable experience and his analyses of various space incidents such as the Challenger Disaster are spot on, which is to say, I agree with them. Recommended.
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The Mann Lawsuit
We filed our response in the appeal. I have some excerpts over at Ricochet.
[Afternoon update]
[Update a couple minutes later]
He doesn’t link it, but I think that this is the Bishop Hill post being referred to.
[Late afternoon update]
Here‘s the formal statement from Sam Kazman, lead counsel for CEI.
Journalistic Amnesia
Over at Ricochet, I have some thoughts on the media’s devotion to the false narrative.
The Science Is Not Settled
Physics Today uncritically reports on Koonin’s WSJ piece.
This really should be a strike below the waterline of the “consensus.” It’s nice to see that APS has come to its senses.
Meanwhile, there was an extraordinary meeting in Bath. I’d have liked to have been there.
#GamerGate
Not being a gamer (and/or part of that community) I haven’t really been paying attention to this, but it appears to be pretty ugly. Unsurprisingly, it’s driven by leftist “journalists.”
Letters To Saul
A moving reading, from Dana Loesch.
Dissing The Moon
The sad thing about this article at The Onion is that it could almost be true.