Weather prediction was a primitive, subjective affair at that time. There were no numerical weather prediction models, little understanding of jet streams and upper-level weather features, and an acute lack of observations, particularly over the ocean. The post The Real Story of the D-Day Weather Forecast appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
The Real Story of the D-Day Weather Forecast
The Real Story of the D-Day Weather Forecast
10 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, movies, war and peace Tags: D-Day, World War
The population bust is with us
10 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: ageing society, population bust
Superannuation affordability options
09 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in economic growth, fiscal policy, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: ageing society, economics of immigration, population bust
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith at The Spinoff asked me what I thought the options might be for dealing with rising superannuation costs. Her story’s here, along with comment from Max Rashbrooke and Shamubeel Eaqub. My most-preferred option is ongoing increases in immigration rates, coupled with shifting to CPI-indexation of super benefits and indexing the age of eligibility to healthy…
Superannuation affordability options
Hayekian Literary Criticism
09 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of education, Marxist economics, movies, television
In economics, Marx is relegated to the history of thought as his ideas were an economic dead end and a political disaster. Yet Marx-influenced literary criticism is a dominant mode of analysis in nearly every English department in the country. It’s not that the English professors are all Marxists, it’s that even the non-Marxists reach…
Hayekian Literary Criticism
Nazi camp administration-Documenting the Holocaust.
09 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
The one thing that always puzzled me is why did the Nazi’s insist in having such a thorough administration? If you are planning to eradicate millions, why document it? I just don’t understand the psyche of it. Of course the Nazi’s didn’t see “the final solution” as a crime but only a method of getting […]
Nazi camp administration-Documenting the Holocaust.
A superb piece: Sam Harris explains why, though he has criticisms of Israel, he won’t debate Israel’s critics
08 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
I always find Sam Harris’s writings absorbing, but in today’s piece he’s really hit his stride, telling us why, despite his own criticisms of Israel, he won’t debate those people—he calls them “scholars, grifters, and moral lunatics”—who demonize Israel as not only morally worse than its enemies, but the worst country in the world. In…
A superb piece: Sam Harris explains why, though he has criticisms of Israel, he won’t debate Israel’s critics
Who gets in on Labour’s List?
08 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: 2026 general election
Labour have released their party list. People want to know who is likely to get in as a List MP. First how many overall seats will they get? On the average of the public polls it is 39. Then it is how many electorates will they win? Well purely on applying the current party vote…
Who gets in on Labour’s List?
U.S. colonies on the Moon and Mars are a waste of money: a guest post
08 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics Tags: Mars, moon, space
From PCC(E): After watching the explosion of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket last week, a rocket that is designed to help create the first human colony on the Moon, I thought to myself, “What is all this mishigass? Why do we need a human colony on the Moon? What will it tell us that unmanned…
U.S. colonies on the Moon and Mars are a waste of money: a guest post
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Ignorance
07 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, market efficiency, politics - USA, regulation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Everyone in Washington seems to agree that artificial intelligence must be governed. The only real dispute is who gets the steering wheel. Congress? Federal agencies? State legislatures? Some newly minted task force with a long acronym and a taste for reporting requirements? That debate is already too narrow. President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on…
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Ignorance
SpaceX and the New Geography of Corporate Governance
07 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, property rights
SpaceX may soon ask public investors to buy a piece of the future. The fine print may ask them to buy something else, too: a theory of corporate governance. The company’s reported initial public offering (IPO) has already drawn significant concern from institutional investors and corporate-governance observers. That concern is understandable. SpaceX reportedly seeks to…
SpaceX and the New Geography of Corporate Governance
Battle of Santiago
07 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
No this is not a piece on World War 2 or any other war for that matter,although it is often said that football is war. The Battle of Santiago is the name given to a particularly infamous football match during the 1962 FIFA World Cup. It was a game played between host Chile and Italy […]
Battle of Santiago
Blair Destroys Net Zero Policy
07 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth miracles Tags: British politics, China, climate activists
By Paul Homewood Well worth a watch, as Tony Blair destroys Mad Miliband’s obsession with Net Zero: https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/2059927624537743869
Blair Destroys Net Zero Policy
Turning point in identity politics
06 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: British politics, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
The Australian Editorial, 6 June 2026 The death of British university student Henry Nowak, 18, on a Southampton street as police were handcuffing him after he was stabbed by a cold-blooded murderer – who had falsely accused Nowak of racism – should be a turning point in the destructive ideologies of Critical Race Theory and identity […]
Turning point in identity politics
Let’s not celebrate copyright law extension
06 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in law and economics, Music, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: patents and copyrights
The Herald reports: The Government is introducing sweeping changes to copyright law, which will see songs like I See Red by Split Enz, Dragon’s April Sun in Cuba and Hello Sailor’s Gutter Black enjoy extended copyright protection. Copyright protection for these songs would expire in the next two years without the law change. As they should. It was released 48 years…
Let’s not celebrate copyright law extension
Fourth Shale Revolution = Hydrocarbon Abundance
06 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship
Peter Zeihan is a global energy, demographic, and security expert breaking the news about a new tech revolution enhancing extraction of hydrocarbon fuels. For those preferring to read, below is a lightly edited transcript from the video with my bolds and added images. Hey all, Peter Zeihan here coming to you from Los Angeles on […]
Fourth Shale Revolution = Hydrocarbon Abundance
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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