Cultural Marxism explained
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, liberalism, Rawls and Nozick Tags: political correctness, regressive left
The Problem With #MeToo’s Agenda
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - USA
Fourteenth Annual Hayek Lecture – Deirdre McCloskey: Hayekian liberalism enriches us all
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment
Matt Ridley: The mysterious cycles of ice ages
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
US winter storm 2018 [image credit: NASA]
A sort of review of leading ice age theories. A paper by Ralph Ellis that was featured at the Talkshop gets a mention. A point not mentioned: the carbon cycle dictates that cooling leads to the oceans absorbing more CO2, while warming leads to more outgassing of it to the atmosphere.
Record cold in America has brought temperatures as low as minus 44C in North Dakota, frozen sharks in Massachusetts and iguanas falling from trees in Florida, writes Matt Ridley.
Al Gore blames global warming, citing one scientist to the effect that this is “exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis”. Others beg to differ: Kevin Trenberth, of America’s National Centre for Atmospheric Research, insists that “winter storms are a manifestation of winter, not climate change”.
Forty-five years ago a run of cold winters caused a “global cooling” scare.
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Why the Little Ice Age ended in the middle of the 19th century
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
Grand Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland [Image credit: Wikipedia]
It’s not the conclusion some might be expecting…
Analysis of ice cores delivers continuous data for the first time on industrial soot from 1740 to today, reports HeritageDaily.
In the first half of the 19th century, a series of large volcanic eruptions in the tropics led to a temporary global cooling of Earth’s climate.
It was a natural process that caused Alpine glaciers to grow and subsequently recede again during the final phase of the so-called Little Ice Age.
This has now been proven by PSI researchers, on the basis of ice cores.
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Why The Polls Keep Getting It Wrong – Cheddar Explains
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: voter demographics
The Battle of the Selle – Ludendorff Resigns I THE GREAT WAR Week 221
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Choosing a voting method for British Columbia: the case for a Mixed Member Proportional system
19 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
In the second of two posts on the voting reform referendum in British Columbia, Jameson Quinn argues that the province’s electorate should support a move to some form of proportional representation. Specifically, he argues that the version known as Mixed Member Proportional is best for both the province itself and representative democracy as a whole.
This is the second of two posts on the upcoming British Columbia (BC) referendum on proportional representation (which I’ll call ‘pro-rep’, because ‘PR’ has too many other meanings). In the first post, I discussed the context and rules of the referendum itself. In this one, I’m going to discuss the options available, in the context of theories of voting and democracy. I’ll also look at some of the arguments being used in this campaign.
Before I start, I should lay my cards on the table. I am unabashedly in favour of voting reform. For…
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Supremes Look at Kids Lawsuit
19 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
An Oregon liberal judge is determined to put climate change on trial in Juliana vs US, scheduled to start on October 29, 2018. But now another pitfall stands in the way. The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to review the legitimacy of the scope of the kids’ claims they have a right to an unchanging favorable climate provided to them by the federal government. Here is the update from Scotusblog by Amy Howe Government returns in climate change lawsuit Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
In July, the Supreme Court declined to intervene in a lawsuit filed by a group of 21 children and teenagers who allege that they have a constitutional right to a “climate system capable of sustaining human life.”The justices rejected the federal government’s request to block discovery and a trial until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit could rule on…
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