Steven Pinker on Gender Pronouns
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Are road accidents racist? What else explains the over-representation of maori?
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Why Should We Abolish Criminal Law | David Friedman
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Innovation and Growth Cycles David Levine
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Camille Paglia is asked about Jordan Peterson & the gender pronoun controversy
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Market crashes are efficient – Boldrin and Levine
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A World Energy Revolution: the first phase 1820-1913
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By Paolo Malanima (University «Magna Graecia» in Catanzaro)
The full article from this blog post is scheduled to be published by the Economic History Review
Thomas Hair, “Percy Main Colliery”, Newcastle University Library. Available on Archives Portal Europe
In 2016 any human being consumed every day 57,000 kilocalories (kcal) on the average; but in western Europe he/she consumed more than 100,000 kcal, in USA and Canada 200,000 and in Africa 22-23,000 (Figure 1). The remarkable increase in the capacity to do work, due to the rise in the energy consumption, marked a discontinuity in the course of the World economy and was a decisive support of Modern Growth.
Figure 1. Per capita energy consumption per macroarea in 1820 and 2016 (kcal). Note: WE is Western Europe, EE is Eastern Europe, NA is North America, LA is Latin America, O is Oceania, As is Asia, ME is Middle East, and Af…
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Economic Freedom and Spontaneous Orders | Lynne Kiesling
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Climate Models vs Observations: 2019 Update – by Ross McKitrick
14 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
Earth and climate – an ongoing controversy
Below are a few quotes from the GWPF article. More discussion with graphics via the link. Is the handbrake about to be re-applied to so-called human-caused warming of the planet, in contradiction of alarmist ‘projections’?
Back around 2014 many people, me included, were commenting on the discrepancy between climate models and observations [writes Ross McKitrick].
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The IPCC itself in the 5th Assessment Report (2013) noted that out of 114 model runs, 111 had overstated observed warming since the late 1990s.
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John Cleese Talks Religion and the ‘Life of Brian’ | The Dick Cavett Show
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Delingpole: Greta Thunberg Could Not Be More Wrong About the Australian Bush Fires
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Legacy of Climategate – 10 years later
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by Judith Curry
My reflections on Climategate 10 years later, and also reflections on my reflections of 5 years ago.
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A Little Useful Basic Information from Real Scientists
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This is an older video, but a very good one. Dr. Richard Lindzen is one of our most respected scientists, and this simple video does a good job of clarifying the situation.
Here’s another (also older) from”Conversations that Matter” with Dr. William Happer, from Princeton University.
Most of the warming, rise of the oceans, all the stuff you hear so much panic about is measured in millimeters. If you don’t have a ruler that includes millimeters look it up. And as to warming:
The world’s 76 best Tide gauges show a mean 0.34 mm per year rise. “negligible acceleration”. There is no sign of climate models predicting sharply warming acceleration or sea level rise.
There are now around 31 different climate computer programs (the serious ones). They put in what we know, and what we think maybe we know, and a bunch of intelligent guesses. And they especially don’t know…
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