I’ve largely been out of the climate wars fray for years, but yesterday’s Hansen v. Pielke thread leads to a couple of observations: New business model: mention Hansen and Pielke a lot. The quality and usefulness of commenter contributions scales as the inverse square of their relative anonymity. (This blog in recent years has largely …
Here’s the ticket to big time business success on the Internet. Find some way to put your ads next to content created by someone else. Keep all of the money. Profit! The beauty of the model of Google is the way they’ve they leveraged their investment in engineering talent to, at relatively small marginal cost, …
Roger Pielke Jr. has a bit of an odd post up today taking James Hansen to task for predicting a “super El Niño” in 2006, which did not come to pass. Here’s Roger: I’ve always thought that predictions made should not be forgotten, but evaluated and learned from. The “prediction” in question, which I wrote …
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In today’s edition of Ask Inskstain, reader Scot wonders: Have we got updated U.S. gasoline figures to see if the $4.00/gallon dropoff, uh…thingie, continues to have legs? Great question, Scot! Gasoline consumption in the United States continues to lag. As for the other gas thingie, the post-July decline in gas prices is finally over:
Kelsey Atherton pokes at the newspaper elephant from the vantage point of the comics page: Then, in 2007, webcomic Diesel Sweeties actually made the jump. The creator opted to create a separate print version, so as to keep his main comic and main revenue stream separate from the confines of print. Read that sentence again. …
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Via Michael Campana, a remarkable graph:
On my way home from a bike ride just now, I heard the ice cream truck, one of those indicators of our human phenology. Seems awfully early. Global warming? One more sign of our imminent economic collapse?
It’s not just us: Japan, the world’s third-largest oil user, said gasoline sales in the country fell the most in more than half a century as record prices prompted motorists to drive less. Sales fell 4.2 percent in 2008 to 57.3 million kiloliters (15.1 billion gallons), the biggest drop since the trade ministry started collecting …
David Zetland, the bad boy of water economics, offered up a fascinating argument the other day regarding the traditional argument that agriculture used three quarters of the water in the West. When a farmer irrigates her field, who is it who’s really the “user”? When I use water to flush the toilet, that water only …
I would like to thank Nora for bringing this to my attention.