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… I wished that people could stop for a moment to celebrate the life and contributions of people like Norman Borlaug. He is probably the greatest “farmer” of all-time, and arguably has done more good for humanity than the entire combination of leaders and rulers who have ever walked the face of this Earth. If […]

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Two completely underappreciated developments. As optimistic as I am about the world, EVEN I was taken aback by the rapidity and breadth of these developments: malaria and species extinction. Species Extinction You may by now know that a horrible blight wiped out up to 3 billion American chestnut trees last century. It was one of the most common trees in […]

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Solar tower technology: This would seem to me to overcome some of the difficulties with traditional solar or wind, most important it seems to reduce the intermittency problem with these sources. Of course, that tower is larger than the Empire State Building, and we still need thousands of miles of wires to connect these things […]

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Please allow me to get this straight. The average daily tidal height around New York City is about 6 feet per day. Around the world this tidal range is as little as a few inches, to a couple feet in the middle of the ocean and as high as 30+ feet in the Bay of […]

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Happy News

Unless you want to find a justification for ending global capitalism of course. A few weeks ago I reported on how malaria deaths, the single greatest threat that we think will meet us from a warmer planet, are already on a rapid retreat – with a decrease by one-third in Africa over the last decade. […]

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Who’s the Denier?

Here are some facts are about the climate that are part of the consensus: The planet has warmed about at about 0.7 degrees centigrade over the past century. Who is denying that? It ain’t me. Carbon dioxide has been demonstrated to be a greenhouse gas. Who is denying that? It ain’t me. Our basic climate […]

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This has been a miserable winter as far as I am concerned, but for those of you wondering, for as warm as it has been here, it has been equally cold in Europe. Neither really says a thing about global warming. On a related note, I am sure you have seen by now that scientists […]

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I was walking around a local market not too long ago and overheard someone speaking about he virtues of “fresh food” and in particular the food that goes “from farm to table” – you know, the stuff grown locally and then eaten in season. I hate that I have to preface everything I say with […]

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Alvin Hansen (Harvard economist) writing in the American Economic Review in 1939: reduced population growth in the 1930s (half of 1920s rates) was a large reason for the Great Depression. Modern Population alarmists such as Paul Ehrlich argue that continued population growth will descend the planet into Depression. Question: what level or growth rate of […]

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Eet Mor’ Chikin’

In Progress and Poverty, Henry George wrote: Here is a difference between the animal and the man. Both the jay-hawk and the man eat chickens, but the more jay-hawks the fewer chickens, while the more men the more chickens. Both the seal and the man eat salmon, but when a seal takes a salmon there […]

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