Mar 02
1998 was a warm year. No year has matched it since, at least according to satellite data sets. Now, after January’s data have been calculated, it appears that the 18-year,-8-month pause in global warming may have ended. The satellite data sets appear to be consistent. January 2016 may be warmer than January 1998. See here.
Mar 02
Here is a great column by the gifted libertarian writer Jacob Sullum. Sullum nails the hypocritical approach of so-called conservatives regarding abortion. People who call themselves conservatives are generally knowledgeable about the true effects of regulation. Regulation almost never accomplishes its stated goals; rather, it makes things more expensive and of lower quality. Regulations supposedly …
Mar 02
Good essay by former congressman and former Libertarian Party candidate for president Bob Barr, regarding the current fight between Apple and the U.S. government: the government is for the first time demanding that a company actually invent a way to defeat the very encryption safeguards it builds into the devices it sells.
Mar 02
During the 1960s, American-Nazi-Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell often spoke at colleges and universities. Rockwell was hated and despised, and the college audiences occasionally erupted in loud booing; but college administrators reluctantly allowed the spectacles. They submitted to an understanding that public colleges were subject to the First Amendment and could not discriminate or engage …
Mar 01
Even more from the ‘false, but peer-reviewed’ category. The journal Nature recently published a study purporting to show that humans may have unleashed the sixth known mass extinction in Earth’s history. The study lays the blame for this alleged mass extinction on a variety of manmade causes: habitation loss, over-hunting, over-fishing, the spread of germs …
