TEDxBergen
I mentioned the other day that I acted as moderator for the recent TEDxBergen conference. Videos of the various talks have now been posted online, but here a...
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Joe Romm’s cognitive dissonance on renewables, nuclear and shale gas
I used to be an avid reader of Joe Romm’s “Climate Progress” blog. However, my enthusiasm has waned dramatically over the years due to his selective presenta...
Manufactured controversy and the “hockey stick”: A football analogy
Even if you’re only vaguely aware of the climate change debate, then you will probably have heard of the “hockey stick”. You know, this bad boy:<table ali...
Predictable Nobel Prizes in the Economic Sciences?
The subject line is taken from an email sent around my department by one of the finance profs. Here’s the email itself:<blockquote class="tr_bq">A curi...
Obligatory comment on the 2013 Nobelists
Seeing as it is very de jour to comment on this sort of thing in the econ blogosphere, here is a quick personal take:I know that this year’s laureates have r...