In my latest National Post column I criticize the notion that we can find the answers to moral questions in a math textbook.
My take on the latest definitive ending of the debate on man-made global warming, on the IRPP Policy Options blog.
Read my latest column in the National Post rejecting the concept of "net neutrality".
With the temperature a balmy -8 outside here in Ottawa, shortly to ease down to -19, I’m catching up on my NBC news feeds. It’s not pleasant. I’m encountering subject lines (story headlines don’t always match the email teaser) like “15 Dead, Records Obliterated as Brutal Cold Hits U.S.” (with Chicago having its coldest morning in 79 years) and “So Cold You Can Hear Ice Crack, Hammer Nail with a Banana?”. People are doing their best to cope, hence “’Frozen’ Queen Elsa Is a Wanted Woman in Kentucky” (the police in Harlan, Kentucky haven’t lost their sense of humour) and “#ItsSoCold: Your Best Posts About the Deep Freeze”. But it’s a serious business. People have died. “U.S. Economy Could Take $5 Billion Hit From Brutal Winter Weather”. And it’s not over yet. “Record-Shattering Cold Tightens Grip Across U.S.” and “More Brrr! 'Siberian Express' Drags On Into Next Week” with another winter storm coming.
So of course NBC also ran a piece on how cold weather reduces crime, naturally saying that researchers are “driven by a desire to understand what the world will look like as global temperatures rise. They've all found good reason to believe crime, and social disorder, could increase.”
No matter how obvious it is that it’s incredibly cold, the story is that it’s incredibly warm. This, I gather, is called evidence-based decision making.
Meanwhile my Sun Media colleague Lorne Gunter offers the absurd notion that what warms the earth is indeed Mr. Sun and not the local factory or SUV. I mean seriously, what’s the sun, other than a gigantic blazing hot nuclear reaction that showers earth with energy, and whose quiet spells reliably correspond with unpleasantly cold spells?
No no no. If parts of Niagara Falls are frozen, they’re probably just oil-company funded “deniers” who go on about the Maunder Minimum and other things journalists who say the science is a lock don’t know about. It’s hot out there.
I mean, who are you going to believe, alarmists or your own fingers and toes? Come off it.
Sun News Network has set. It is a bittersweet feeling. Click here to read the rest.
So I was checking out caveman sex in Israel and I had a sudden insight about global warming. Click here to read the rest.
Another year we couldn’t believe was already here has now vanished over the horizon with a jaunty wave of its December. We pause, examine our lives, and mutter “So soon old, so late smart.” Or maybe just the first bit. Click here to read the rest.
When life sends lemons you make lemonade. It’s not so obvious what you do with mouldy asbestos, though. Maybe a big touchscreen. Click here to read the rest.