Micah Tillman

Saw this on Drudge.
I, personally, like the idea.
More time to figure out how to do life right.

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I’m glad people keep making films about global warming.  At least, I’m glad they keep making films of this type.
Haven’t seen it, of course.  But it’s good to combat the illusion that climate science is a unanimous democracy (when it’s really run by a fallible priesthood).

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run by an infallible priesthood.
(h/t Drudge)

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Stories like this make my little heart go pitter-pat:
“Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak“
When I’m with my grandparents (any of the 5 of them) I often find myself thinking about the technological/medicinal advancements made since they were young.
Then I start to wonder how barbaric the technology and medicine of today will look when I get [...]

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. . . [D]espite accelerating emission rates and concentrations, there’s been no net warming in the 21st century. It don’t add up!
-Marlo Lewis

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The National Climactic Data Center’s preliminary report:
For the contiguous United States, the average temperature for April was 51.0°F (10.6°C), which was 1.0°F (0.6°C) below the 20th century mean and ranked as the 29th coolest April on record, based on preliminary data.
Unfortunately, I don’t know how useful these data are, given the disclaimer:
All temperature and precipitation [...]

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(Speaking of religion and the environment . . . .)
Iain Murray writes, tongue-in-cheek:
Even the American homeless emit twice as much carbon dioxide as the world average, the wastrels.
He cites a new MIT study, reported by EPOnline:
“Regardless of income, there is a certain floor below which the individual carbon footprint of a person in the U.S. [...]

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Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Allow me to remind you that there are never two sides to any story.
Never.
No matter what I tell my students.

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Gaus is the first to respond to de Jasay’s article (which I summarized here). His primary claim seems to be that de Jasay’s talk of “standards” (or concerns which seem to involve no “interest”) should be expanded to include our “evolved” human “moral sense.”
Government can only grow so far as people feel is morally acceptable. [...]

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From a person in an advertisement for a show on truTV:
People lie. Science doesn’t.
Do I have to say what’s wrong with that attitude? Try this one instead:
People lie. God doesn’t.
No, no. Wait. This one is a classic (I saw it on a bumper sticker so long ago):
God said it. I believe it. That settles [...]

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