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Category Archives: Global
Mathematically Wrong
Tamino examines a certain paper: It’s certainly not true that their analysis shows “natural climate forcing associated with ENSO is a major contributor to variability and perhaps recent trends in global temperature.” It shows no such thing; their analysis removes … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, idiocracy, industry, Motivation
Tagged Carter, co2, De Freitas, McLean, Statistics, Tamino, Trends
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Kirk Sorensen's LFTR Talk at Google
Here.
Posted in Climate, Energy, Global, industry, Motivation, Science Links, Thorium
Tagged Energy, google, lftr, nuclear, sorensen, Thorium
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Serious Solutions, No Feelgood
Finland is enacting laws that lead to building some more wind power. Like some professionals in the Finnish wind power association, Suomen tuulivoimayhdistys, have told me, perhaps the most important thing about wind power is that you have to be … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Climate, Energy, Global, idiocracy, industry
Tagged Climate, co2, Finland, nuclear, Pekkarinen, wind power
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Local Cooling
This leads to this.
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Global, idiocracy, Journalism
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Anarchy In The High Seas
Testing Quickpress (EDIT: it didn’t really work.) Stuff like this happens when using a common resource not owned by anyone. In this case, fisheries. Via Michael Tobis. Go read the post.
Posted in Colonization, Demotivation, Global, Motivation, Uncategorized
Tagged Anarchy, Environment, fisheries, Fishing, Regulation
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Living on a Finite Size Planet
FAO published some numbers on fishing today: Global marine catches have been stagnant for over a decade, hovering at around 85 million tons per year. Meanwhile fisheries productivity — measured in terms of catch per fisher, or per fishing vessel … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Climate, Colonization, Demotivation, Global, industry, Models, Motivation
Tagged FAO, fisheries, global decision making, libertarianism, optimization
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