New Catallaxy

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #84

    Opening Credits. Something a little different this week. There are many things I dislike about movies today and one of my pet hates is the incessant production credits at the beginning of a movie which can take around 5 minutes to unfurl. So five minutes into a movie the audience is already bored whilst they…

  • SA wind-loser

    Wind fails, and fails again Who would have thought that the wind-leading state would have such expensive power, driving the business community to call for nuclear power so they don’t go broke or move offshore? MEMO   Dont blow up your coal stations until nuclear power is on tap! This comes on top of the recent study of long-term trends…

  • More Tangling of the Web

    Softly, as in an morning sunrise, General Mark Milley let it be known that the infamous Chinese spy balloon, whilst it definitely was a spy ballon, definitely did not phone home with any intelligence information, and definitely had blown off course. See, for example, the RT story. If you’re concerned about Russian propaganda, try these…

  • Open Thread – Wed 20 Sept 2023

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  • “Vote No” Says Mrs Hanson’s Fish & Chip Shop – Peter Smith

    In September 2017, during the time of the postal plebiscite on same-sex marriage (SSM), I wrote a blog for Quadrant on corporate support for the proposal. Unsurprisingly, Alan Joyce figured prominently. My theme: Corporate entities are artifacts. They have no mind of their own. Yet Joyce reportedly said, “I think it is very important for…

  • Latest evidence, windpower won’t work – Rafe

    Long-term trend of wind production Paul McArdle is a long-term wind-watcher and net-zero supporter. He puts on the best spin that he can manage but the data are devastating. THIS IS THE PICTURE THAT TELLS THE STORY Look at the blue bars at the bottom of the chart. That is the wind supply during wind…

  • A surprising number of votes? Or not.

    When in 2016 the United Kingdom voted in record numbers – 17.4 million people to be exact – to leave the European Union (EU) many head explosions on the left ensured. Everything from racism and the pejorative “little englander” to the level of education, or lack thereof, were cited subsequently as reasons why the British…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 16 Sept 2023

  • Rafe Champion:Reviving critical thinking

    John Droz is a prolific commentator on matters of education, science and policy issues like the quest for net zero that has been given legs by bad science and scientifically illiterate politicians, university administrators and journalists. This is a particulalry telling piece that he published this morning and it prompted me to suggest that a…

  1. Making a threat and carrying it out are two differing things. Trump may see it worth the risk as there…

  2. Many epidemiologists were critical of lockdowns and some of the very suspicious figures on which they were based, Figures. Talk…

  4. Very good, Kneel. And this is why years ago with four young children I struggled mightily every Monday morning at…

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