Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Freeman Dyson, Global Warming, and the Lost Debates | Jerry Pournelle
Kenneth Brower, son of Sierra Club transformer David Brower, and onetime friend of Freeman Dyson, has been writing about Dyson and climate change. As is usual with books by writers who are not scientists, the scientific issues are not addressed. Those are settled. Instead the purpose of the article is to find out why Dyson, so brilliant, has gone so wrong.
ESR | November 15, 2010 | Real crimes against humanity
The real crime against humanity is elitist professors, politicians, pressure groups, UN panels and policies guarding against speculative and fabricated risks – and preventing the world's poor from gaining access to modern technologies that could improve and save their lives, and enable them to adapt to climate change, whether regional or global, natural or manmade.
EU Referendum: The end of popular science
This is the end of popular science as we know it. You might as well buy comics (or nothing at all). The newspapers have written themselves out of the script.

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