How Much Taller Humans Have Grown Over 100 Years
03 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, health economics
Thomas Sowell – Inside American Education: The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas
03 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, politics - USA, Thomas Sowell Tags: political correctness, racial, regressive left
How The Ancient Greeks Proved Earth Wasn’t Flat 2,200 Years Ago
03 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture
Deirdre McCloskey on Adam Smith
03 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, history of economic thought, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Deidre McCloskey
Intersectional Feminism: What is it? | FACTUAL FEMINIST
03 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, political correctness, regressive left
Run Aground: Intermittent Offshore Wind Power Costs 25 Times More Than Ever-Reliable Coal, Gas & Nuclear
03 Jan 2019 2 Comments
Wind power is a pointless nonsense: 100% of its capacity must be backed up 100% of the time with a meaningful, conventional generation source: coal, gas, hydro or nuclear. That grouping never needs ‘backup’, ‘firming’, batteries or prayers to the Wind Gods and such like; they just work, whatever the weather, 24 x 365. Whereas, wind power….
The other reason that wind power makes no sense, is that its ultimate cost is utterly staggering.
Without massive and endless subsidies, there would not be a wind turbine operating anywhere on Earth, full stop.
And, when the scam is taken out to sea, as point out, the cost of the – chaotically intermittent – electricity generated by offshore wind turbines is out of this world.
Offshore wind power, a fraudulent fiasco
The Washington Times
2 December 2018
If you like power when…
View original post 898 more words
Cognitive bias – how petroleum scientists deal with it
03 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
by Peter Rose
Everyone complains about the Weather but nobody does anything about it!
View original post 1,476 more words
National Climate Assessment: A crisis of epistemic overconfidence
03 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
by Judith Curry
“You can say I don’t believe in gravity. But if you step off the cliff you are going down. So we can say I don’t believe climate is changing, but it is based on science.” – Katherine Hayhoe, co-author of the 4th National Climate Assessment Report.
View original post 3,685 more words
MAINE COON – Characteristics, Character and Care (should play with them 20-40 minutes per day; a lot of work)
03 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in cats
Why It’s Illegal to Resign from the British House of Commons
03 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics, Public Choice Tags: British politics
Recent Comments