Samizdata quote of the day
A new update issued by watchdog groups on climate change indicated this afternoon that we only have 12 seconds left until climate change destroys the planet. We previously thought we had just 12 years,...
View ArticleA little phrase to look out for
The Times Saturday magazine features the latest of its series of quick interviews in which a famous person tells the readers “What I’ve learnt”. This one is with that fine actor, Jared Harris. Among...
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If private companies sold people water, they would regard high levels of demand as a market opportunity. When the government runs water systems, high levels of demand mean shortages. It’s insane....
View ArticleWater shortages solved
Today’s quote of the day was from a longer conversation about water, starting with the conventional wisdom that climate change will inevitably lead to global water shortages. It is not immediately...
View ArticleDon’t think of it as a “power cut”, think of it as an “electricity holiday”
The BBC reports that the National Grid will “learn the lessons” after nearly one million people across England and Wales lost power on Friday. But what lessons will those be? The power outage happened...
View ArticleClimate change scientists starved of media coverage
According to the Independent they are, anyway. The study showed climate change deniers were featured in nearly 50 per cent more media articles than expert scientists. Naturally, the Indy cements its...
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You don’t have to be a fan of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, and spiked certainly isn’t, to feel deeply uncomfortable with the Western outrage over his policy on the rainforest. Observers claim...
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It is untrue that the fires are historically huge or unprecedented. NASA says the Amazon fires are ‘slightly below average this year’. Many are pointing out that we are witnessing the highest number of...
View ArticleAnn and the Giant Credit Card
“The beauty of a Green New Deal is that it would pay for itself”, writes Ann Pettifor. To raise the money for a green deal, governments would have to draw on their equivalent of a giant credit card,...
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“The veneration of St Greta is an extraordinary, yet unsurprising, phenomenon. Our comfortable lifestyles, and the decline of religion in the West, have created a spiritual void. But this new...
View Article“Does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born?”
“Does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born?” asks Astra Taylor in the Guardian. She seems to think the answer is “yes”, but fails to make much of a case. The article is full of...
View Article“People do not walk there if they can avoid it”
Emma Duncan has written a piece for the Times with which I ought to agree. It has the title “The city of billionaires is a vision of hell” and has the strapline “San Francisco shows what happens when...
View ArticleMatt Ridley speaks with authority to Julia Hartley-Brewer
Yes, I’ve been watching and listening to this conversation, between climate anti-alarmist and all-round rational optimist Matt Ridley and broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer. If you like hearing things...
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Emotion-based appeals not only allow politicians to avoid the far more difficult business of rationally and politically justifying themselves and their policies to the electorate — they also help to...
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Regardless of the opinions of Boris, if fusion comes on line in the middle of the attempts by the likes of the Rebellion to turn the western world into a weakened communist hive that the East will...
View ArticleReaders of the Times try to help Greta out
The problem: Greta Thunberg stranded as climate summit moves from Chile to Spain In the centuries before powered flight, getting from California to Madrid was an arduous business, necessitating a long...
View ArticleClimategate ten years on.
Remember “Climategate”? There has been a TV show made about it. Lucy Mangan of the Guardian gives it four stars: Climategate: Science of a Scandal review – the hack that cursed our planet In 2009, a...
View ArticleIt’s a circle of life thing
Activists campaign to have a law passed to protect the environment: “Plastic bag backlash gains momentum” – 14 September 2013 Victory! The law is passed: Plastic bag law comes into force on 5th October...
View ArticleBarking Parking Teslas
Long ago, Milton Friedman suggested the US might be better off without the Food and Drug Administration. People wrote to him saying the FDA should not be abolished but reformed so it would act...
View ArticleEat, drink and be merry. Tomorrow comes the Ice.
Hat tip to Ed Driscoll of Instapundit for at least giving Britain a few hours’ notice of its icy doom. The news was first reported by Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in the Guardian‘s Sunday sister the...
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