Author: Jim

economics

Animal spirits

Everyone knew that things were going to collapse, but wanted to stay in till the last minute because there was money to be made, so it was not animal spirits, but people trying to rationally judge when to run to the exits.

global warming

“One bad apple”

Greenpeace is calling for the head of Pachauri, the IPCC chairman. As Mencius Moldbug says, this will not make the patient healthy, it will make the cancer healthy. The call is not for a replacement who can more impartially discover the truth about anthropogenic global warming, but for a replacement who can more convincingly persuade …

global warming

More climate shenanigans

Cheifio has found all sorts of oddities in the surface temperature data. His latest target is Madagascar But I’m sure it’s just an accident of history, or something, that an entire country with no visible warming in the basic data and a recent cooling was dropped in 2005…. Maybe the monkeys hid the data … …

global warming

No twentieth century warming

The global warming blogs have done an analysis of the surface temperature readings, from which noconsensus quotes: leading meteorological institutions in the USA and around the world have so systematically tampered with instrumental temperature data that it cannot be safely said that there has been any significant net “global warming” in the 20th century. Temperature …

global warming

The science is scuttled

Nasa, as evidence that we are doomed unless we make sufficient sacrifice to Gaia and tithe to Gaia’s high priesthood, has long had on its web page Mountain Glaciers and snow cover have declined on average in both hemispheres and may disappear altogether in certain regions of the planet, such as the Himalayas, by 2030 …

party politics

How left is Obama?

Obama was surrounded by the lunatic death-to-Americans left, his friends and social circle all come from those crazies, which led to widespread suspicion he was and is one of them – that he is a crazed commie nazi muslim who seeks to destroy America and reduce Americans to poverty and slavery.  Birds of a feather …

global warming

Global warming science in action

The “Air Vent” follows the money: The IPCC makes a hyperbolic claim about retreating glaciers, which claim originates from a for profit company owned by the chairman of the IPCC.  Millions of dollars are then granted to this company to investigate this purported disaster, to the personal profit of the chairman of the IPCC.

economics

What the election of Scott Brown means

Notice Scott Brown’s old pick up truck. Partly, of course, it is simply a massive swing against the Democrats.  The economy is collapsing, people blame the party in power. But it also means more important and more interesting things:  Scott Brown was campaigning as the anti elitist candidate, brandishing a working class and underclass identity, …