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All the press coverage over Rick Santorum’s idiotic suggestions that mainline Protestants aren’t Christians, or that President Obama isn’t a Christian, or that prenatal care increases abortion rates, or that people who favor prenatal care favor eugenics, have obscured his equally idiotic attacks on environmentalism: Santorum said that he was referring not to the president’s [...]
Archive for the ‘Climate change’ Category
February 20th, 2012
Category: Campaign 2012, Climate change, Energy and Environment, Religion and Politics, Spirituality and Religion, Watching Conservatives
January 22nd, 2012
The political implications of maps of US renewable energy resources.
November 29th, 2011
ARM´s 25 billion general-purpose computer cores are like mitochondria in cells.
November 21st, 2011
A rejoinder to Megan McArdle´s rejection of the prospects for solar PV.
November 15th, 2011
A rant against Tyler Cowen and for economic fundamentalism on the future of solar PV.
October 29th, 2011
Category: Climate change
What will it cost us both individually and collectively to adapt to climate change? Barry wants to know and so do I! The vague answer is that this cost will differ across individuals and that it will fall over time. Consider two people who just graduated from Tulane. Assume that one loves New [...]
September 21st, 2011
Category: Climate change, Energy and Environment
A shoddy chart by the EIA spreads unwarranted gloom.
September 20th, 2011
Nuclear power is doomed by its negative learning curve.