Archive for the ‘environment’ Category
LEDs Too Cold To Melt Snow
Posted on: December 20, 2009
Hurr hurr.
They didn’t think this one through did they.
All across the US, traffic lights have been upgraded to use LEDs. These bulbs save energy and last longer, and presumably count towards some carbon trading quotas.
However, when it snows, they don’t work!
Britain, under encouragement from ‘environmental’ groups seems to be following suit.
Around 57,000 tonnes of carbon [...]
Tagged as: law of unintended consequence, winter
Number Crunchers
Posted on: December 3, 2009
Steve Levitt asks:
Is it surprising that scientists would try to keep work that disagrees with their findings out of journals?
Yes. Yes it is.
It’s also deeply depressing.
Luckily, the fuckers that work for the CRU don’t appear to be scientists. Rather, they deal in statistics and prediction (much the same as economists like Steve Levitt). So I [...]
Tagged as: bullshit statistics, ethics, making things up
Climate Change Flowcharts
Posted on: November 28, 2009
Flowcharts generally suck bollocks. But I quite like this one from the pedant general over at The Devils Kitchen (tl;dr).
A fairly concise summary I thinks. He also neatly encapsulates the typical AGW response.
Tagged as: agw, environment, flowchart
Madness
Posted on: November 7, 2009
UK court has ruled that environmentalism is a religion.
In March, employment judge David Heath gave Mr Nicholson permission to take the firm to tribunal over his treatment.
But Grainger [the employer] challenged the ruling on the grounds that green views were political and based on science, as opposed to religious or philosophical in nature.
That argument has [...]
Tagged as: environ, environmentalist, law, sky falling
A Righteous Fisking
Posted on: October 21, 2009
Leg Iron does a rather good job of ripping apart a comment from some AGW cultist on his blog. He concludes:
You are being used to justify increased taxes on power supplies. That is the only thing your actions achieve. You work for ‘The Man’.
But as entertaining as it is, is there any chance that it [...]
Tagged as: agw, bogeyman, fear and control, fisking