December 2009
35 posts
Don't confuse environmentalism with science →
As Somerset Maugham once put it, “If 40 million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.”
Sweden: Court Upholds State-Sponsored “Kidnapping”... →
This makes me ashamed to be Swedish :(
Privatizing Climate Policy →
Climate-change policy ought to be privatized. All government policy instruments, including taxes, subsidies, regulation and emissions trading to mitigate climate change ought to be abolished.
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Gun Sales Up, Murder Rates Down →
Firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens are no threat to anyone.
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One possible solution to the alleged global... →
Nathan Myhrvold’s anti global warming scheme could be a solution, provided global warming becomes a problem.
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How Programming Language Fanboys See Each Others’... →
Hehe
Funny chat conversation →
LOL :)
How an economy grows →
A good, simplified comic about how an economy works.
Via A för Anka
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Climategate is blowing up in the IPCC's face →
Why IPCC won’t survive much longer. Great news! :)
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Wikipedia's climate doctor →
How a small band of climatologists tried to delete the Medieval Warm Period, among other things.
Compassion and Responsibility →
A positive message, in yule-tide and everything :)
Losers Of World Unite — In Denmark
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Chavez wasn’t the only murderous dictator that was hailed as a hero in Copenhagen.
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Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm... →
Climategate just got much, much bigger.
Copenhagen Summit: Thunderous Applause For... →
Depressing :(
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The inconvenient truth about malaria →
A good example of how facts are ignored by global warming alarmists.
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The nanny state turns nasty →
Introducing: The Bully State
"If men are good, you don't need government; if... →
- Robert LeFevre
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The past decade was ‘by far’ the warmest since... →
One thing is clear from this. People who say that ‘Climategate was only about scientists behaving badly, but the data is OK’ are wrong. At least one part of the data is bad, too. The Smoking Gun for that statement is at Darwin Zero.
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Global warming - No conspiracy →
However, as Tom Fuller puts it:
I think that they had an informal conspiracy going to pump each others’ careers up, peer review each others’ papers, and slam any skeptics or lukewarmers who wandered within punching range - and later, after they realised how badly they had acted, they conspired to evade the Freedom of Information Act.
North Korea issues new currency: citizens burn... →
Pyongyang announced Nov. 30 its decision to issue new currency and limit the amount of old currency that could be exchanged to the equivalent of about $40, based on unofficial exchange rates, a step that essentially scrapped all other private money.
Via Mises
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Guns and Schools, A Good Mix →
Via LewRockwell.com
Man arrested for drinking coffee naked in his... →
*sigh*
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Climategate goes uber-viral, Gore flees leaving... →
Mainstream media seems to finally start talking about climategate
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Climategate emails force Al Gore to cancel talk at... →
Plus a great general update on the current status of what’s happening climate-wise.
Via lewrockwell.com
New Polish law outlaws Communist and Nazi symbols →
As nice as it would be to not have to see ignorant youngsters with T-shirts depicting mass murderers, I don’t like this for 2 reasons.
1. If something is taboo, the general public is deprived of the possibility to see how idiotic it is.
2. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” is a great principle and applies to this subject as...
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Stockholm initiative →
A good site, mainly in Swedish, with the purpose of pursuing a sane climate debate with realistic goals.
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Three Myths about Trash - Floy Lilley
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An eye opener for some, I’m sure
New Prostitution Ban Hurts Those It Claims To... →
Another case of a small group of people that enjoy telling other people how to live their lives more than they enjoy a correct view of reality.