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Dissecting Subprime – A lesson learned

The Economist Interesting article about the roots of the problem. What I found fascinating was this root cause. the historical accident of a very low loss rate during the early history of subprime mortgage foreclosures in 2001-2002. This is the … Continue reading

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Earth’s Evolution

Do you ever find yourself holding views that are mutually exclusive?  If so, do not despair.  My experience is that virtually all of us do this, even if very rarely.  With the thousands of issues and millions of details pertaining … Continue reading

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An Inconvenient Truth for Al Gore and Friends

I know that many of you think that global warming, at least anthropogenic global warming, is a fraud. I am not so sure. Either way though, I think Peter Huber has the broad contours of any attempt to address it … Continue reading

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Less Pollution Leads to Global Warming???

Yep, there sure is consensus about global warming…

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Backdoor Kyoto — The Next Chapter

The march of the watermelons towards control of US policy continues apace: Polar bears will now be listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But in announcing the listing, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said the decision should … Continue reading

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A Cubic Mile of Oil

Over at Green Tech we get some figures that should be rather sobering for those who wish for alternative energy to be a significant source of energy in the near future: Put another way, we’d need to equip 250,000 roofs … Continue reading

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The Air Car

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More Correlation Between Pirates and Global Warming

Pirates Take French Cruise Ship and Gobal Temperatures to ‘Decrease’ It seems we have more correlation between pirates and global warming now. It may be time to update this graph with a downward and backward turn.

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The Coming Ice Age

Brrrr… it sure is cold out there. And now the data is in to prove it. Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first … Continue reading

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“If We Had Some Global Warming”

Please, if you have any humanity in you – do your part to add just a bit to global warming today. It’s important. [youtube qJUFTm6cJXM&feature=related]

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McCain Speaks to Europe

photo: Chris Dunn Spiegel has a typically aggressive (and aggressively European) interview with John McCain today. In many ways it’s an interesting yet disappointing exercise, due to its focus on the perceived past sins of the Bush administration. While much … Continue reading

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Global warming or not, Antarctic ice and snow is not shrinking

Some highlights: We have covered Antarctica many times in past essays, and despite literally thousands of websites claiming that some calamity is occurring in Antarctica related to global warming, we side with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change … Continue reading

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When Alligators Thrived in the Arctic

One has to wonder if these newly discovered facts will be made part of the equations and modeling used to study global warming… “Giant glaciers formed about 90 million years ago during a warm period when alligators thrived in the … Continue reading

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