Gordon's Notes

It is my privilege to announce that I will running for the Presidency of the United States of America. I understand that, as a foreign born...

To widespread surprise, the US and China reached an agreement on carbon emissions: U.S. and China Reach Climate Accord After Months of Tal...

The Philippines has been hit by a very powerful storm. Thousands are dead and more will die, suffering will be extensive and long lasting. (...

Krugman is famously dismissive about claims of structural aspects to underemployment (though years ago he wasn't as sure). DeLong, I thi...

This Telegraph article is primarily about a Hansen lecture on humanity's failure to think rationally about climate change, but I found t...

"With great power comes great responsibility." Gingrich's inner geek smiled at that one. Certainly they had the power. The Dem...

The Keystone Pipeline XL (Keystone Expansion) is a part of  a multi-billion dollar project to "transport synthetic crude oil and dilut...

In my early years white male heterosexual superiority was pretty much hardwired into my culture. I grew up in Quebec, so in my earliest pre-...

I was a persistent skeptic . I didn't believe that exercise slowed the inevitable [1] onset of age related cognitive decline. The ani...

To speculate is to "form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence" [1]. My speculation tagged posts are thing...

It was always a long shot, but 2010 was when we knew that plan A for greenhouse gas management had failed. Plan A was Europe, China and the ...

We've got 3 Kids around 11, 1 dog, an old van and a newish Subaru wagon. A new van is the default purchase, but most of the time I jus...

I wasn’t smart enough for my undergrad , but the financial support was so good I couldn’t quit. Poverty is the mother of persistence. So I w...

Who knew? France now has a carbon tax: The year it didn't happen - Winnipeg Free Press - Gwynne Dyer ... France became the largest econo...

Scott (Dilbert) Adams can’t imagine any way American will survive its 21st century budget crisis .   This betrays a certain lack of hist...

I don’t fly that much these days – maybe 10 flights a year. Yesterday I took one of my longer flights – from Minneapolis to San Francisco. O...

Wow. I didn’t see this one coming…. Saudis Seek Compensation if Oil Exports Fall - NYTimes.com Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist ot...

The infamous green shoots of economic recovery are dust now, but I feel twinges of optimism about climate change. A few weeks ago I wrote ...

We are not what we were 20,000 years ago . We are not the people of 2,000 years past. Hell, we’re not even the people I was born to . We...

It's been noted before that an African Plains Ape is going to worry more about global cooling than global warming. That's particular...