global warming

Anthropogenic CO2

A replication of part of Clive Best’s analysis. The theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming assumes a number of points without evidence, assumptions that might well be true, but which they have made no attempt to test. One is that warming would be a bad thing, another is that the world is very sensitive to quite small CO2 greenhouse effect, supposedly because the CO2 greenhouse effect will be enormously amplified …

economics

The curious solvency of Japan

By any objective measure, Japan is more broke than Italy.  Indeed, nearly all the advanced countries are as broke as each other, but some of them are in trouble, and some of them are not.  Japan can borrow money at low interest.  Italy cannot. Looking at past financial crises, there is no objective level of solvency at which a country goes down the tubes.  They get along fine until they …

economics

Retrodicting climate

Warmist climate models do a fine job of retrodicting the climate, yet a woefully bad job at predicting the climate. Their prediction tends to be doom in the next few years, while their modeling of the past is perfectly spot on.  Thus their predictions grow old fast.

economics

Solving the immigration problem

Roissy complains that Libertarians are in favor of open borders and that open borders are having disastrous consequences. But what is having disastrous consequences is not open borders by themselves, but open borders combined with democracy and the welfare state. Even if the government had the will to stop the flood of low IQ migrants, the effect would be limited.  Does not stop drugs.

party politics

Defund the left

The reason the battle in Wisconsin is so bitter is that the Wisconsin Republicans are doing what Reagan attempted to do and failed to do: Defund the left. Previously schools were required to buy health insurance through the teachers union. Being free to shop around for health insurance appears to save over half a million dollars per school The dissenting opinion, The Stratasphere, Public School Spending That is over a …