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Climategate 3.0—Update: Hacker A Coder?
Whoever it was that snatched the cache of emails from prominent climatologists and created Climategate 1.0, then 2.0 has come forward, in a sort of way, to begin Climategate 3.0.…
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Doomed Planet: Changing Sun, Changing Climate
Today's post is at Quadrant. Have you been there before? If not, you have a treat in store. The editors supplied this quotation: "Today's debate about global warming is essentially…
What Day Most Changed History?
Such was the title of The Atlantic's "The Big Question" column of March, 2013. This is the sort of piece one finds uppermost in the toilet's magazine rack. So now…
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Global warming causes prostitution!
Update Moved up to allow comments. Originally posted November 2009. The Beaujolais nouveau (just got in my case for this year) shot out my nose when I saw this, the…
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Historic Storm Nemo And The Feminization Of America. Crucial Photographic Updates
Post's original title: Feminization continues apace: Wall Street Journal edition The old joke has been modified: A sweater is a garment a citizen puts on when the government gets cold.…
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Selective Abortion To Create Master Race: Progressive Academic Pushes For Moral Enhancement
Today's discovery is yet another academic with the map to Utopia glistening in his mind's eye. David DeGrazia of George Washington University, author of the peer-reviewed paper "Moral enhancement, freedom,…
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Firearm Homicide Rates Around The World: Comparing With USA
Here's an around the world tour of homicide rates by firearm, brought to you by our friends at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Rates are per 100,000…
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Use And Abuses Of Decision Analysis: Global Warming Example
Suppose we have a simple decision to make1: implement a government-takeover of all energy companies, so as to regulate with thoroughness their carbon budgets, or leave these entities as they…