He probably saved more lives than anyone in history. And he understood how anti-human and anti-poor modern environmentalism is.
The Democrats’ War On Black People
…and how to fight it.
That war goes all the way back to slavery.
Michael Totten
He wants to go to Vietnam. If you like his work, you might consider donating to his new Kickstarter.
Microlaunchers
Charle Pooley and Ed LeBoutillier have a new book
The American Physical Society
Just as the AAAS seems to be going all ass hat, the APS is rethinking its position on the “consensus.” Mann’s, Romm’s et al heads must have exploded when they saw that Curry, Lindzen and Christie are half of the working committee.
The War On The Koch Brothers
…isn’t going very well. Sort of like the war on Fox News.
Of course hardly anyone ever sees the Kochs or knows who they are, whereas Harry Reid’s disgusting mug and outrageous lies are on television almost every day.
I wonder if they have an exit strategy for this failed war?
Extreme Weather Censors
Thoughts on Nate Silver’s recent hire:
Last July, when he testified before a Senate Committee examining climate change, Pielke even raised the hackles of President Obama’s science adviser, John Holdren. Perhaps that’s because Obama himself resorts when convenient to claiming that extreme weather has become more frequent and intense.
In any case, Holdren recently took the stunning step of telling Congress that Pielke was outside “mainstream scientific opinion” — although the evidence Holdren provided pertained only to droughts and didn’t actually refute Pielke at all.
As the CU professor points out, imagine the outcry if George W. Bush’s science adviser had used his prestige in an attempt to smear an academic.
Yes, imagine.
Reusable Falcons
Jeff Foust mined Gwynne Shotwell’s Space Show interview for some interesting nuggets. Here’s what I found interesting:
Despite concerns about US access to the ISS given current tensions with Russia and NASA’s current reliance on Soyuz, Shotwell said she didn’t think it was feasible to greatly accelerate the development of a crewed Dragon. “We proposed a pretty forward-leaning program” for commercial crew, she said. “I don’t want to say that we couldn’t speed things up: we probably could, but it would have to be in lockstep with NASA.” She added that SpaceX current believes it can have a crewed Dragon ready “a little bit faster” than current NASA plans for flights in late 2016 or early 2017. [Emphasis added]
I’m pretty sure that if NASA went to her and Elon and said, “we want to fly this year, and we’re willing to do it without the abort system,” they’d be able to do it.
The Climate Debate
…is about to change to one of resilience and mitigation.
It badly needs to. We can afford a lot of resilience and mitigation if we stop impeding economic growth with insane anti-carbon policies.
A New Japanese Launcher
A “flagship” LOX/Hydrogen system with solids (sounds like cross between an Atlas V and Delta IV), to be operational in 2020. This seems more like a national pride thing than a practical launcher, unless they can resolve their site and calendar restrictions out of Tanegashima.