Shakespeare Probably Wasn’t Called Shakespeare
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Pielke on Climate #7
24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
The above images on hurricanes come via hurricane researcher @philklotzbach. The top graph shows US hurricane landfalls from 1878 to 2017 (through today). Within that data the trend is down and if you’d like to consider the data as a sample from a larger population, there is no trend. Either way you slice it, US hurricanes have not increased.
The bottom table shows summary statistics for the entire Northern Hemisphere for 2017. Even with the massive damage in Texas, Florida and the Caribbean, by the numbers 2017 is an average year. Lesson: Don’t confuse impact with climate. More on that below.
Welcome to issue #7 of my occasional newsletter on climate and energy issues. As a reminder, my day-to-day research or writing is focused on sports governance and various issues of science policy. But I’ve written a fair bit on the topics of climate and energy over the past…
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Same applies to those who say they predicted the #GFC
24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, law and economics Tags: securities fraud
Hijabs and religious head coverings okay in Congress, secular hats not? Religion once again gets a pass
24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
As you’ve surely heard, Ilhan Omar was elected to the House of Representatives this year. She’ll be representing a district in Minnesota, and is one of the first two Muslim-American women to be elected to Congress. She’s also the first hijabi elected to Congress (the other woman, Rashida Tlaib, isn’t a hijabi). Omar always wears a fancy, high-rise hijab:
And she’s vowed that she won’t take it off, even though there’s been a ban on head coverings in the House since 1837. Here’s a recent tweet from her:
Note that she invokes the First Amendment—presumably freedom of religion—to justify wearing her hijab. And now, according to NBC News and many other…
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Economics of climate change
24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
I’ve written a few posts here about the economics of climate change, and of the sorts of goals the government proposes to adopt in response. On the one hand, OECD and IPCC work has suggested that, if anything, the New Zealand economy in aggregate is likely to benefit a bit from warming (albeit with sectoral and regional ups and downs – the sort of thing that is a normal part of economic life). And, on the other hand, the government’s own modelling, undertaken by NZIER, suggests a very high real economic costs to New Zealanders from pursuing a net-zero target.
And so I was interested to see a headline on the Wall St Journal website this morning
U.S. Government Report Warns of Economic Losses From Climate Change
The story noted
Its conclusions are at odds with statements by President Trump, who has been skeptical of global-warming trends, questioned the validity…
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A Kilogram Is Now a Kilogram—Forever | SciShow News
24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
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Fair comparison
24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
Wearing the hijab is like wearing the Confederate flag: they stand for something
24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Massive Crater Discovered Under Greenland Ice
24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
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Chess Opening: Urusov Gambit
24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: chess
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