Survey researcher and academic John Krosnick recently wrote an article for the New York Times called The Climate Majority, in which he describes a poll he conducted on community attitudes to climate change.
Contrary to other polls, he found massive support for climate mitigation policies in the US, even if other countries don’t follow suit.
Now, let’s [...]
The past couple of weeks have seen some shockingly bad ideas come out of the Federal Coalition. First there was the paid parental leave scheme; now there’s this soup of a policy, employee ownership. Marxism for the 21st century! Workers and bosses can all hold hands and chant “Workers united will never be defeated.”
Did these [...]
Two months ago, before climategate, nobody ever talked about a climate “conspiracy theory”. People who didn’t believe in man-made climate change were not accused of being conspiracy theorists, they were simply ‘deniers’, denialists, contrarians and naysayers.
Now, thanks to climategate, we learn that there was a conspiracy to thwart Freedom of Information requests, manipulate data, and [...]
Jason Soon asked for feedback and opinions on the Scientific Article, Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense.
Jason, since you asked, here’s my take on that article. I think it’s weak in many places, but particularly weak when it gets to climategate.
The Scientific American (SciAm) article by John Rennie looks at seven claims of so-called contrarians [...]
I have lots of real life things to do, which include earning money, childraising, other family stuff, and a book I’m working on.
I will return, at some as-yet-undetermined point in the future.
Lily Allen is contributing to a remake of Midnight Oil’s Beds are Burning to get the message of climate change across for the Copenhagen talks.
Guys, that’s not art, that’s propaganda set to music.
In the past two weeks there have been some remarkable developments in the climate change debate. First, a key dataset used to prove the case for global warming has disappeared and those involved aren’t talking about it. See this article for more: The dog ate global warming, although it’s all over the blogosphere.
Then Steve Macintyre [...]
Apparently there’s a limit to willpower. Force yourself to do enough things that you don’t find easy or enjoyable, and you run out of willpower to keep making yourself do new things.
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/006569.html
This is why it’s a good idea to make changes to your life one at a time. Routine is the solution here. Once something [...]
It is often said that nothing rhymes with orange. I guess it depends on what you count as a rhyme, and it depends on how you say “orange” and how you say the rhyming word, but take your pick from this list.
strange
mange
flange
melange
hinge
binge