The latter is an obsolete unit for energy anyway. The SI unit is Joules. 1 J = 1 N * 1 m = 1 kg * 1 m²/s² = etc etc – see that’s the whole idea of the SI system – you don’t have any coefficients.
Yet using Calories further makes it easier to construct [...]
Archive for the ‘idiocracy’ Category
Energy and Calories
Posted in Humor, idiocracy, tagged Energy, Hydrive, SI on Sunday 2009.11.15 | Leave a Comment »
The Lives of Others
Posted in Motivation, idiocracy, tagged Das Leben den Anderen, The Lives of Others on Saturday 2009.11.07 | Leave a Comment »
Man, East Germany was a horrible horrible place. I recommend this movie. Das Leben den Anderen, 2006. The repressivity and hopelesness of a totalitarian state is shown.
Lies, lies, lies
Posted in Climate, idiocracy, tagged global warming, Latif on Wednesday 2009.10.14 | 1 Comment »
Economics and the Price of Nature
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Journalism, Models, Nature, Science, idiocracy, tagged climate change, Valuation, Nature, Economics, Sagoff, Costanza, Cost on Thursday 2009.09.10 | Leave a Comment »
Assume a glacier that provides summer water for a billion people. What is its value, if it is destroyed by global warming? Since it currently provides services for free, it could be calculated as zero, according to some. Hence, a hypothetical economic activity by those people that gave them one dollar in total while destroying the glacier [...]
Law, Politics, Advertising
Posted in Humor, idiocracy on Monday 2009.09.07 | Leave a Comment »
The chief disciplines of bullshit, i.e., law, politics and advertising, have developed a culture that is very good at misdirection, to the point where the best information not only doesn’t win out, arguably truth is at a disadvantage.
Michael Tobis on In It For The Gold (on the blogroll to the right). Some day there will [...]
National Review Online
Posted in Climate, Science, idiocracy, tagged CO2 lag, global warming, National Review, Rand Simberg, Strawman on Thursday 2009.09.03 | Leave a Comment »
Jonah Goldberg posts a tired strawman argument in NRO:
Last month, in another study, also released in Science, Oregon State University researchers claimed to settle the debate over what caused and ended the last Ice Age. Increased solar radiation coming from slight changes in the Earth’s rotation, not greenhouse-gas levels, were to blame.
It’s total BS of [...]
Denialists
Posted in Demotivation, Motivation, Science, idiocracy on Tuesday 2009.09.01 | Leave a Comment »
are not interested in honest debate, handled at the Denialism blog, link via Frank Bi’s comment at Only In It For The Gold.
Tragedy of the Commons, part N
Posted in Demotivation, idiocracy, tagged Lapland, Reindeers, Lichen, Dwarf Birch, overgrazing on Wednesday 2009.08.26 | Leave a Comment »
Acted out in Lapland. Too much reindeers eating up the lichen. Local warming enabling new pests that are killing the dwarf birch trees and even the undergrowth. And the reindeers eat the recovering birch. Everything is turning into a tundra.
Classical, really. We have both the local and global scale here.
I wouldn’t have trouble with people [...]
Engineers Seen as Uncreative
Posted in Demotivation, Motivation, idiocracy on Saturday 2009.08.22 | Leave a Comment »
Chicago Boyz comments another casual revealing statement. Link via Transterrestrial.
A friend of mine who is both an architect and an engineer complains about the astounding lack of understanding of, for example mathematics or structures by architects. It is willfull and people are proud of it. That’s probably why the Helsinki school of architecture will make [...]
Kinds of Denialism
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Journalism, idiocracy, industry, tagged co2, coal, nuclear, Germany, France, WWF, Scorecard on Tuesday 2009.08.11 | Leave a Comment »
The Green Nuclear kind, be sure to read the comments in German.
To summarize, in WWF:s climate score cards, France is scoring pretty badly. Everybody knows that France has about 80% nuclear power in electricity production, much more than the neighbouring Britain and Germany which use mostly coal. So, since WWF and Allianz don’t like it, [...]
