Cabin fever is bringing out the best in the believalists. As you know, John Ridgway and I reveled, in a recent thread, in the unraveling of a ranting and raving Steven Mosher. (Good reveries, good reveries.) No précis could begin to do justice to the informatically dense skirmish between the Self and the Mosh. So, … Continue reading
[This is a lazy, boilerplate response to the even lazier notion that Big Oil is behind climate skepticism. I’m sick of copying and pasting it for their edification. It’s a work in progress and some links are missing. —BK] Dear Oil Linkers, Your Logical Fallacy is: Boring Me. I know you think you’re smearing skeptics, … Continue reading
or The Second Day of Thunberg Four nights ago, their time, Americans sat enthralled by a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing that’s just about to start (my time). The daily virus conference is the highlight of my existence of late; it’s one tradition I hope carries on long after COVID-19 is eradicated. Like … Continue reading
Oh, clap clap, reader. Yeah, you caught me: that’s a thinly-rephrased headline from The Onion.* Enjoy your victory (to quote the citizens of Asculum, to Pyrrhus). You probably think you’ve outsmarted me, but you’ve merely revealed what you were doing at your cubicle all day in the early noughties, at that web-streaming startup, instead of … Continue reading
Fortune tapped me on the shoulder today and pulled me aside for a cavity audit. That’s right: Anthony and Charles at WUWT have been kind enough to host an article by your servant Brad. So what’s it about? I’ve only had time to skim it, but here’s my imprécis. They say we were all homo … Continue reading
UPDATE: My interlocutor’s ingenuousness has taken a turn for the questionable again, with a sudden return to It-Might-Be-Parody Land: Where in all of the facts out there, does it say that we’ll be fine? Trust me, I WANT to see the facts and information that tells me that we’re fine. nothing is going to change, … Continue reading
What have I become, my Swedish friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end. —Johnny Cash and Trent Reznor, ‘Hurt’ You can probably decompress the thesis of this post almost losslessly from a Tweet I twote a month ago, when the current geological epoch was but a few days old. How DARE you … Continue reading
Are you an adolescent? Then this post is about the Power of You. One almost-person can make a difference. And you’re never too young to follow these tips. You don’t need an SAT score to change the climate from an intrinsically-changing entity to a less-changing one for the first time in 4.5bn years. Update … Continue reading
WHICH, like everything else, brings us ineluctably back to climate change. We’d decided early on to raise the baby in our beliefs. Later, if Hunter chose to abandon the science as an informed adult, we’d respect that mistake. We might not love him or her quite as much—can anything really restore the filial bond after … Continue reading
I know, I know, I promised to write you a lengthy epistle days ago. And it’s not as if I’m unaware, or anything like that, of my duty to blog. Rest assured: yes, with such a powerful voice comes a keen knowledge of the debt I owe your children, and your children’s children, to use … Continue reading
