Daily Archives: February 18, 2011

http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/8718-eco-socialism-a-green-socialism.html h/t to hyperzombie

One summer during the early 1980s I worked as a wilderness ranger in the Pecos Wilderness of New Mexico. I spent half the summer camped at 12,000 feet – at Truchas Lake in the red circle below. North Truchas Peak … Continue reading →

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ Obama promised 6.5% unemployment in 2011, and delivered over 9%. I would say that he exceeded all expectations of how to waste a trillion dollars.

Energy flow is driven by differences in energy, not absolute energy. If you have two objects at 100C, no energy flows between them. If you have two locations with equal pressure, no wind flows between them. A rock will not … Continue reading →

http://arstechnica.com/ If you run broken code on a million machines, does that make it any less broken? Logically, a warming climate would be expected to increase the rate of extreme weather events. Ahh. That explains why the climate is so … Continue reading →

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist18512009.txt The graph above plots number of hurricanes per decade (since 1851) vs. CO2 levels at the end of the decade. Like with tornadoes, as CO2 has increased hurricane activity has decreased.

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/tornado/tornadotrend.jpg

The worst years for tornadoes in the US were those where the GISS anomaly was between -0.3 and +0.2. http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/tornado/tornadotrend.jpg

How much does the use of markets as a decentralized social planning mechanism for economic life matter? How much richer are we because we live in a market economy rather than in a command-and-control bureaucratic economy? We are fortunate–if that … Continue reading →