SR-71 Blackbird | Cold War icon
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Canada’s 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere
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in economics of bureaucracy, international economic law, international economics, International law, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: Canada
The Sopranos – ”Next time you come in, you come heavy or not at all”
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Challenging Climate Podcast
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Roger Pielke Jr. is a political scientist who writes on a diverse range of policy and governance issues related to science, technology, environment, innovation and sports. He is most famous (or infamous?) for his work on climate change. We cover his Iron Law of climate policy, his views on the problems with business-as-usual climate scenarios, and the challenges of attributing extreme weather. We also touch on the extent of his relationships with climate change skeptics and the efforts to discredit him, including the congressional investigation into his funding.
Roger is a Professor at the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is the author ofThe Climate Fix: What Scientists…
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House Science Committee Testimony
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I testified before the House Science Committee on 29 March 2017. In my testimony I asked members of Congress to call a bipartisan truce in attacking scientists whose work they find inconvenient. I also emphasized the importance of scientific assessments such as the IPCC.
You can see the whole hearing above and read my testimony from the link below.
Statement by Roger Pielke Jr. before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology US House of Representatives, Hearing on Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications, and the Scientific Method, 29 March (PDF).
Part-Time Power: Subsidised Solar World’s Most Expensive Virtue Signalling Exercise
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There is a place for solar power, but it ain’t connected to a power grid. Delivering power for no more than seven hours a day (ordinarily between five and six hours, at best, and less in winter) means sticking solar panels on homes connected to conventional power grids makes no sense at all.
As the sun sets, each and every one of those homes draws the power its occupants need from the very same grid that their solar panels have been destabilising throughout the day.
On the other hand, for “off grid” households – remote from the grid – a system involving solar panels, feeding excess generation to lead acid batteries, with a diesel generator for backup, is both practical and economic. Where electricity independence is a necessity in the only option, solar make sense. Think sheep and cattle stations hundreds of kilometres from the nearest SWER line.
Portable solar…
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February 8, 1587: Execution of Mary I, Queen of Scots
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Mary I, Queen of Scots (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587), also known as Mary Stuart, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567.
The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, Mary was six days old when her father died and she acceded to the throne. During her childhood, Scotland was governed by regents, first by the heir to the throne, James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, and then by her mother, Mary of Guise.
In 1548, she was betrothed to François, the Dauphin of France, and was sent to be brought up in France, where she would be safe from invading English forces during the Rough Wooing. Mary married François in 1558, becoming queen consort of France from his accession as King François II of France in 1559 until his death in December 1560.
Widowed, Mary returned to Scotland in…
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Are electric cars the new ‘diesel scandal’ waiting to happen?- Bjorn Lomborg
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Why Nobody Wants This Part of Europe
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