Only In It For The Gold

I'll be speaking at the Ethical Society of Austin this Sunday, November 2, on "The Ethics of Carbon". The Ethical Society is ...

It used to be said that what's good for General Motors is good for America, but in those days nobody expected it would come to this : Ge...

This article, "The Failure of Networked Systems" , on The Oil Drum explains matters very well. It is sort of an engineer's tw...

Just before we realized just how gobsmackingly stupid the people who manage contemporary financial institutions managed to be, I pointed out...

Aww. It's just a little boo-boo. We still love you Alan. Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, told a House panel that he...

Election and economic madness hasn't really subsided, but some interesting stuff is coming out on the sustainability front. I just picke...

Thanks to a timely tip from Quark Soup , I caught the PBS Frontline broadcast "Heat" at broadcast time. I must say it was excellen...

Regarding the overwrought claims of the climateprediction.net crowd that I discussed recently, my friend Ursa pointed out in conversation t...

I am totally conventional on the climate sensitivity number and yet I am totally disgruntled about climate modeling. Climateprediction.net i...

Just like everyone else... Trying to keep my mind on my work, but just wondering what the world will look like in six months. Everything rid...