Day: August 7, 2008

Monthly weather update. It was a cold August.

The ascending green line represents carbon dioxide levels. It is closely measured, but is obviously meaningless in its effect on global temperatures. The dotted line represents the smoothing of dropping temperatures that reflect lower global temperatures. The jagged line shows the actual temperatures, indicating that August was the fifth or sixth coldest month since 2002. […]

What’s really wrong with the housing market?

Back in the 1930s and 40s, Stalinists took control of the teachers’ unions in the United States. They knew that tenured teachers, under their control, would provide a near-eternal funding mechanism for their endless depredations on every host culture into which they could insert themselves. At the same time, those unions would be able to […]

Power to the people. Hah.

England has long been an example of leftist failure. Nothing its government does works, and it continues working hard to fail at more things. Recently, angry leftists there demonized a couple of new coal-fired generators. They have also stopped the building of new nuclear generators. At the same time, they say they believe in “empowering […]