One of the meme’s going around is that if Obama didn’t waste time on health care reform and instead spent that time doing something else, that seat in Massachusetts wouldn’t have been lost. Absent from this theory is any list of things that Obama might have worked on that the GOP wouldn’t have tried to… Continue reading Lessons not learned in the health care debate
Dinosaur Piggyback ride
Dinosaur Piggyback ride, originally uploaded by karmakazesal. In our home, dinosaurs ride trains, cars and airplanes. They eat pocky. And they give each other piggyback rides. It is a magical place.
Op-Ed Columnist – The Big Zero – NYTimes.com
Id suggest that we call the decade past the Big Zero. It was a decade in which nothing good happened, and none of the optimistic things we were supposed to believe turned out to be true. From Op-Ed Columnist – The Big Zero – NYTimes.com
Tie CO2 Tax to Temperature
John Tierney relays today what seems like a very sensible idea from economist Ross McKitrick, tie a carbon tax to the temperature. If the temperature rises the tax goes up, if the temperature does not rise (as McKitrick, a climate change skeptic thinks) the tax will stay at a low level. Temperature of the troposphere… Continue reading Tie CO2 Tax to Temperature
ClimateGate debunked
E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data but the messages don’t support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press. The 1,073 e-mails examined by the AP show that scientists harbored private doubts, however slight and fleeting, even… Continue reading ClimateGate debunked
Henry Blodget explains how to make a billion dollars
So here’s how to make the world’s easiest $1 billion: STEP 1: Form a bank. STEP 2: Round up a bunch of unemployed friends to be “bankers.” STEP 3: Raise $1 billion of equity. (This is the only tricky step. And it’s not that tricky. See below.*) STEP 4: Borrow $9 billion from the Fed… Continue reading Henry Blodget explains how to make a billion dollars
No evidence of illegal actions by ACORN
After media outlets and figures have repeatedly claimed that videos released by conservative activists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles revealed a pattern of ACORN aiding efforts to evade taxes on a fictitious child-prostitution ring, an investigation by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger (D) found that “there is no evidence that action, illegal or otherwise,… Continue reading No evidence of illegal actions by ACORN
What Have They Wrought?
A new Rasmussen poll suggests that the Tea Party movement – funded and embraced by the Republican Party – is now more popular than the GOP itself. Tea Party movement is the new GOP? Are they now the party of Beck and Palin?
An Affordable Truth
Why should you believe that cutting emissions is affordable? First, because financial incentives work. Action on climate, if it happens, will take the form of cap and trade: businesses wont be told what to produce or how, but they will have to buy permits to cover their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.… Continue reading An Affordable Truth
British Researcher Steps Down During E-Mail-Leak Inquiry
The head of the British research unit at the center of a controversy over the disclosure of thousands of e-mail messages among climate-change scientists has stepped down pending the outcome of an investigation. From British Researcher Steps Down During E-Mail-Leak Inquiry – NYTimes.com While embarrassing, this incident does nothing to change the physics of carbon… Continue reading British Researcher Steps Down During E-Mail-Leak Inquiry