Solar and wind are very expensive
Danish cheaper energy activist Bjørn Lomborg posted this on X: The obvious problem here is that maybe electricity prices just reflect prices overall (presumably because electricity generation in part costs…
Mount Everest is not cold (controlling for altitude and latitude)
Most researchers don't seem to think carefully about what they put in their regression models as statistical controls. By controlling for a variable, you attempt to hold that variable at…
Book review: Why Trust Science? (Naomi Oreskes)
So why trust science? I would say I am a proud supporter of scientism, crude versions aside. Naomi Oreskes is a prominent science historian who mostly writes history books attacking…
Review: Climatology Versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global Warming Skeptics
This book is written by one of the persons behind Skeptical Science, a website debunking pseudoscience in the area of climatology and global warning, very much like Talk Origins debunks…