by Tom Fuller, Let’s start with proper attribution of Wikipedia’s definition: ““Wicked problem” is a phrase originally used in social planning to describe a problem that is difficult or impossible to…
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Wasted food a huge energy gobbler
I’ll have to admit, Professor Webster has a point. Food is so abundant in the western world that household trashbins are routinely stuffed with uneaten food. Now If I can…
The Improving State of the World
With all the gloom and doom being pushed today, the title of this book is one of certain optimism. WUWT reader may recognize the author, Indur M. Goklany, a frequent…
New discovery may lead to a malaria vaccine
WUWT recently carried a guest post from Indur Goklany titled Smacking Down Malaria Misconceptions which generated a lot of contentious comments, inflammatory rebuttal posts, and even a permanent ban of Ed…
Bad news for green technology
From Slashdot: The NY Times reports that the Chinese government has placed a trade embargo on all exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in products like…
Smacking Down Malaria Misconceptions
Engineer Indur Goklany, a frequent contributor to WUWT and occasional commenter has more than a few things to say about commenter Ed Darrell’s views on Malaria posted on WUWT yesterday.…
An Open Letter to Mr. Bill Gates
The Quality of Life for the World’s Poorest Can Be Advanced Farther, Faster, Cheaper and More Surely Through Adaptation than Through Zero-Carbon Technologies Guest Post By Indur M. Goklany A…
Peer reviewed whack a mozzie
Via the SPPI Blog – Trying to Hit a Mosquito with a Sledgehammer Source: World Climate Report One of the standard tenets of the global warming bible is that malaria…
Does money grow in wind farms?
Wind turbines are a poor way to harness energy – but a very good way to generate public subsidies, says Andrew Gilligan. By Andrew Gilligan from The UK Telegraph Published:…
Mann's 1.8 million Malaria grant – "where do we ask for a refund'?
Thomas Fuller of the San Francisco Examiner has a great piece which summarizes the issue of climate and malaria and Mann. Like with the imagined increase in hurricane frequency due…
ACS: going veggie won't impact global warming
IPCC’s Dr. Pachauri must be having a conniption fit about now, since he’s been an advocate of meat free global warming salvation. From the American Chemical Society: Eating less meat…
McKitrick: Toronto smog models exaggerate health issues – where are the bodies?
Laws on pollution in Toronto – failing? Pollution levels haven’t changed despite efforts as indicated by this University of Toronto study. Looking over the last decade, there has been no…
The global economy carbon yin yang
Anybody who has watched the march of jobs overseas already knows this, but it is nice to see science has finally caught up with what we already knew years ago.…
Grasping at Straws
If you try really really hard to ask questions a certain way, then you’ll get the answers you want. ~ charles the moderator Scientists misread data on global warming controversy…
The IPCC: Hiding the Decline in the Future Global Population at Risk of Water Shortage
More Insidious than the Himalayan error Guest post by: Indur M. Goklany Jonathan Leake and Chris Hastings of the Times of London this weekend spotlighted an IPCC error of Himalayan…
Winter kills: Excess Deaths in the Winter Months
108,500 Deaths in the US in 2008; 36,700 in England and Wales Last Winter; 5,600 in Canada (2006); 7,000 in Australia (1997-2006 Average); Thousands in Other Developed Countries Indur M.…
Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated–Part II
Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated Part II: How Large Might be the Overestimation? Indur M. Goklany A major argument advanced for drastic GHG emission reductions is that,…
Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated
Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated Part I: Why are Impacts Overestimated? Indur M. Goklany [Note to the Reader: For the sake of argument, in this post I…
Shades of Fahrenheit 451 – British retirees burning books to stay warm
Remember these chaps? This time they’ll be putting out the book fires rather than starting them. From Benny Peiser’s daily newsletter, it appears to be time for a revolt in…
Climate change: proposed personal briefing
A letter sent from: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 1 January 2010 His Excellency Mr. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia. Prime Minister, Climate change: proposed personal briefing Your…
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