Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Dead Tree Edition
Western warming killing trees.
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Water In the Desert: Surrealism Edition
Around the corner from my house, something truly strange is under construction. It looks kinda like the Alamo, albeit with tilt-up concrete sides and weird tubes coming out the sides. It’s our new “water park,” which has been haltingly under construction for ages. It’s part of a hotel up the street from my house, an …
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Education Spending
Win Quigley, from the front page of yesterday’s Journal, on the way New Mexico chooses to implement the Hartwick rule: New Mexico has amassed billions of dollars over the almost 100 years that we’ve been a state, mostly from oil and natural gas extraction, that is hoarded in rainy-day funds. The idea is that when …
Elephant Diaries: Economies of the Times
Brad Delong on the news of the New York Times’ financing deal, which sounds a bit like the Gray Lady went to one of those brightly painted car title loan places you see in former gas stations: Good God almighty! 14% interest with short-term inflation at zero plus a share of the upside if the …
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Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere, Pat Mulroy Edition
Trouble’s brewin’ in the Wild West, on account of that climate changin’ thing, says Pat Mulroy.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Arizonans take their search for water seriously.
Because You Can Never Have Enough Pink Iguanas
I totally forgot last week to link to Troy’s great pink iguana video:
On the Possibility of Climate Change Action
Ryan Avent: I have become increasingly pessimistic about our ability to address the climate change crisis. The dynamics are simply deadly — the most dangerous effects begin arriving after it’s too late to do anything about them — which leaves as our great hope the chance that a strong enough intellectual argument can be made …
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Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Dinosaur Edition
Talking dinosaurs and the false balance problem.
Quantifying and Thinking About Climate Risk
My friend Mark Boslough presented a fascinating analysis last month at AGU comparing the risks of climate change to big rocks from space hitting Earth: One objective way to compare the relative magnitude of the impact threat to that of anthropogenic climate change is to estimate the long-term worldwide fatality rate. For asteroids, the average …
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