…but you can’t make him play with it.
And yet they continue to try to force him to. These people are nuts.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Monckton
Speaks truth to idiocy in Doha:
As I delivered the last of my three points, there were keening shrieks of rage from the delegates. They had not heard any of this before. They could not believe it. Outrage! Silence him! Free speech? No! This is the U.N.! Gettimoff! Eeeeeeeeeagh!
One of the hundreds of beefy, truncheon-toting U.N. police at the conference approached me as I left the hall and I was soon surrounded by him and a colleague. They took my conference pass, peered at it and murmured into cellphones.
Trouble was, they were having great difficulty keeping a straight face.
Put yourself in their sensible shoes. They have to stand around listening to the tedious, flatulent mendacities of pompous, overpaid, under-educated diplomats day after week after year. Suddenly, at last, someone says “Boo!” and tells the truth.
Frankly, they loved it. They didn’t say so, of course, or they’d have burst out laughing and their stony-faced U.N. superiors would not have been pleased.
I was amiably accompanied out into the balmy night, where an impressive indaba of stony-faced U.N. officials were alternately murmuring into cellphones and murmuring into cellphones. Murmuring into cellphones is what they do best.
Sounds like a good time was had by all, at least all of any intelligence.
Climate Models
I will be entirely unsurprised if climate turns out to ultimately be unmodelable. It’s a very complex phenomenon, and anyone who claims to have confidence in current models is just fooling themselves.
Ignorant “Denier” Bashing
…over at Popular (Non)Science.
No, Rebecca, it is not a “known fact” that storms are getting more severe. But I guess that’s what you get from a “science” writer with a BA in history/journalism.
Fermi’s Anniversary
Thoughts on leadership in America, seventy years ago and today.
The Higher-Education Bubble
Is it an opportunity to take back the culture from the Left? If so, it’s one we shouldn’t miss.
Change
But no hope:
I think that if “wilderness advocates” quoted in the story valued empty ocean more than an oyster farm, they should have paid him to stop, instead of getting the government to make him stop. But hey, that’s just me. The new way to get what you want is to have the state take it for you. It’s different from theft because there are uniforms and everything involved.
Tar and feathers.
Palau
May be about to be wiped off the map. I doubt if the construction there is up to handling a monster storm like this (its closeness to the equator generally keeps storms like this away from it). I wouldn’t be surprised if thousands die.
Coffee
The case for drinking as much as you like.
I’ve been thinking about starting to drink it for health reasons, but “as much as I like” is currently none at all — I’ve just never developed a taste for it, and I’ve never envied people who seem (or claim to be) unable to function in the morning without it. I don’t want to get dependent on it in that way. From the article, the most obvious benefit is to reduce triglycerides, but mine are already very low from my paleo diet.
It wouldn’t be hard for me to take it up, because I make a pot for Patricia every morning. I’d just have to make more.
So I still don’t know what to do about it.
No, Mr. Secretary General
Current science does not substantiate your claims on climate and weather.