Samizdata quote of the day – dissent will not be tolerated
We couldn’t find a single negative review of Unsettled that disputed its claims directly or even described them accurately. Many of the reviewers seem to have stopped reading after the first few pages....
View ArticleShould cycling be banned?
I have been a keen cyclist for most of my adult life. I know what you’re thinking, “Grow up get a car.” Ah, but I am ahead of you on that one; I have both. Anyway, the cycling did originally come about...
View ArticleA racist “race” any rational person wants to lose
As a “lukewarmer”, I am more of a believer in climate change than many here. One thing that pulls me towards scepticism is the habitually dishonest language used by advocates of measures against...
View ArticleA convergence we will see more often
“Man ends his life after an AI chatbot ‘encouraged’ him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change”, Euronews.com reports: A Belgian man reportedly ended his life following a six-week-long...
View ArticleAt our command the fires go out: who is entitled to change place names?
Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales will not be called that for much longer. The Wikipedia edit war has already begun. “Brecon Beacons: Park to use Welsh name Bannau Brycheiniog”, reports the BBC....
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Radioactive logic edition
Saturday, the German government closed its last four nuclear power plants, finally fulfilling Angela Merkel’s Fukushima-era promise to destroy her nation’s most abundant source of safe, clean, cheap...
View ArticleThe new not-so-hot thing
“Heat pumps: How do they work and how do I get one?” asks the BBC. Fun fact: heat pumps are born from magic cabbages that have been pollinated by combi boilers. Obviously you cannot buy a heat pump,...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – watermelon edition
Those who would change every aspect of our economic lives are using environmental collapse as the excuse. – Tim Worstall
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – heat pump edition
Oh, how we wish the laws of thermodynamics could be altered, in our favour. Air-source heat pumps, which included the “mini-splits” popular in warmer climates, will provide less and less heat, the...
View Article‘Government insulation scheme ruined my home’
‘Government insulation scheme ruined my home’ is the headline of this BBC piece about a man who says his flat has been ruined by black mould caused by a government “green” insulation scheme. The words...
View ArticleClimate change story told by ice cores…
A short but important presentation by Jørgen Peder Steffensen … What do ice cores tell us about the history of climate change and the present trend? This video explains one perspective – arguably the...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – the cult of net zero
But grinding poverty is, so far as ministers are concerned, a price worth paying for the cult of net zero. Few independent experts pretend that either solar power or wind power are remotely adequate...
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World ends today
Will someone please ask the Swedish Doom Goblin if I have time for another Armagnac?
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Heresy must be suppressed
The cancellation of eminent science writers and statisticians like Dr. Whitehouse and Professor Fenton for ‘wrongthink’ highlights the ever-shrinking boundaries of the discourse around science and...
View ArticleI want it on record that I deplored the theft of the banner. Thanks to me it...
Just Stop Oil march gets hijacked by stag-do leaving protesters furious Video courtesy of the Daily Mail via Instapundit. The Mail writer reveals an unexpected talent for understatement: The...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“Switching transport to electric in a short timescale will inevitably mean buying Chinese. Are we really about to force ourselves to become even more reliant on a totalitarian regime that stamps out...
View ArticleA Lamborghini tractor at the gates of Downing Street
“If we don’t learn from the Dutch eco quagmire we might end up with Farmer Clarkson as PM”, warns the Times. Jeremy Clarkson is a bit too much of a Remainer for my political tastes, but we could do a...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – a new rent-seeking class
“How many environmental justice majors does it take to calculate the CO2 emissions of a light bulb? This isn’t a joke. Businesses now employ scads of college grads to do this. For years America’s...
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The sheer dishonesty of it all
The Lancet published the chart on left with a different X-Axis to downplay fact that cold causes ten times more deaths than heat in Europe. Björn Lomborg corrected that with the chart on right.
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“One of the few sensible things Noam Chomsky ever said was that if you want to understand the world, read the New York Times backwards; that is, start at the end of the story and read up.” – Steven F...
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