Climate change & the balance of probabilities
Freeman leaves a comment under an older post, regarding my statement that “[…]there are uncertainties in climate science - as any climate scientist worth his...
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Putting a price on nature (II)
Yesterday, I wrote a post in response to George Monbiot's recent column, "The true value of nature is not a number with a pound sign in front", which laments...
Putting a price on nature (I)
George Monbiot has produced another thought-provoking column this week. However, rather than take his fellow greens to task for their irrational and self-def...
Should pregnant women be banned from smoking?
In several recent posts, Dan Kuehn advanced the notion that “the future” is, in some sense, an autarkic regime… Basically, that people in the future simply...
A riddle: Hats and signalling
Some of you may know this one already, but a here’s a favourite riddle of mine.Four prisoners are blindfolded and arranged as follows: Three of them are line...