My friend Jim Belshaw, who writes a newspaper column and has long had a love-hate relationship with blogging, sent along an Atlantic essay by Andrew Sullivan about blogging. Sullivan was one of the first bloggers I read who deserved the label, as it has now come to be known. But before blogging was the thing …
On the cost of nuclear power.
I still do write about science now and then: In an unused alcove at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Stanford physicist Giorgio Gratta and his colleagues have built a high-tech lab to try to measure the weight of what scientists call “the little neutral one,” one of the most mysterious of the tiny subatomic particles …
A reader familiar with my longstanding interest in how one defines “drought” sent along this interesting story from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Federal Government-selected experts want people to start using the word “dryness” to describe Australia’s worst drought in a century. The word “drought” makes farmers feel bad, says the Government’s hand-picked Drought Policy Review …
I don’t know about you, but my right to enjoy bottled water is up there with freedom from search and seizure for me!
I was annoyed at the McCain campaign for not answering my energy policy questions. Turns out I am not alone.
David Glenn had a fascinating piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education last week about the struggle by academic economists to be relevant in the current fiscal crisis: [N]ow that the dust is beginning to settle in Washington, many academic economists have the gnawing feeling that during moments of crisis, they don’t have much ability …
I totally made Env-Econ today! So I quote Whitehead, he links to me, then I link back to him. Will the totally bogus circular linkage chain be broken? Your move, John….
Remember when the commodity price explosion was causing food riots, and people were starving? Yesterday’s Economist food price index was 1.9 percent below a year ago. * The title is one of the few literary references at my disposal.
An AP story a couple of days ago is a reminder of why I’m so pessimistic about the possibility of effective climate change mitigation. People want energy, and they want it cheap. The story opens with a young Welsh man, whose father and grandfather worked the mines: “I couldn’t believe it when I heard there …