Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Accounting for Temperatures

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I’ve had a good deal of experience with accounting systems, and it has just struck me that the whole global temperature database should be c...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Harry Read Me - ClimateGate

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An entertaining read. Harry has grave qualms about the data, the methods, and his own abilities, all written up in the ReadMe text file in ...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Climategate - a few links

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The 'Hardly Screwed' epithet which envious types used to throw at the University of east Anglia's Climate Research Unit is spook...
Monday, June 08, 2009

VDH - the Reckoning

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Another classic article from the classicist and agricultural toiler, Victor Davis Hanson.
Thursday, June 04, 2009

Government Motors

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Hat tip to MaxedOutMama. Health warning: please DO NOT read this with a cup of hot liquid near your mouth or over the keyboard. You have...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Lights just went out in....

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This Spengler piece neatly sums up the feeling I've had all year: that parts of the world are simply going to 'go dark' - laps...
Monday, December 01, 2008

Power, power everywhere

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This little gem from the ever-watchful Torygraph, shows just how much power is literally under our noses. I've always known that, give...
Sunday, July 06, 2008

AGW as Mass Delusion

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Heh. Couldn't have put this better meself. There are two mass delusion abroad IMHO: AGW being one (natch) and the notion that financ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

More books

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Thanks to the wunners of globbelisation, I have three hot new books to devour. That's right: ordered 11 June on Amazon, delivered 25 J...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Tribalism and Treaty

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Bruce Sheppard, the quinessential provocateur, has wondered publicly about the relevance of Te Tiriti in 2008. I've added a little co...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Tibet - the ultimate theme park

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Spengler has, as always, a pithy comment - turn the whole show into a Theme Park. The money quote (soon, to be tariff-free, even, thanks t...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Heat pumps (Shock, Horror) use Electricity!

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This just has to be a No Shit, Sherlock moment for the hapless central planners of our funny little economy. For the otherwise unenlightene...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Earth Hour = Soft fascism

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Couldn't agree more with This (ht Tim Blair ). While I'm wholly in favour of reducing consumption (and am well ahead of the curve,...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Little Boxes

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The proposal to streamline the building industry consents etc process is gathering steam. Not PC has easily the best summary of my views -...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Bearing up

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Great thread here , where the comments throw up all the usual suspects. And the lead paragraph is just it: what Were they thinking? Scape...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Really Bad Rhymes

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I seem to have been infected by a Rhyming Bug, and to exorcise it, have commented all over a bunch of otherwise blameless victims. To hell ...

Another climactic known is revealed to be unknown

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This leetle bombshell affects, oh, around half the marine organisms in the world. In essence, by omitting the 'assumed in the current ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Overwhelmed by a Gust from Gaia

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ht: smalldeadanimals
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Black-Scholes = Black Hole

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My math is far too weak to follow Black-Scholes, but it's been the standard paradigm for pricing of exotic financial instruments for a q...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Pre-emption: that's the ticket!

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The always indispensable Spengler has done it again, with a piece about the wisdom of getting in your retaliation early. And of course the...