Sunday, February 24, 2013

The Skeptic's Case - Dr. David M.W. Evans

"We check the main predictions of the climate models against the best and latest data. Fortunately the climate models got all their major predictions wrong. Why? Every serious skeptical scientist has been consistently saying essentially the same thing for over 20 years, yet most people have never heard the message. Here it is, put simply enough for any lay reader willing to pay attention."

H/T William Teach at the Pirates Cove



Global warmists always want to argue about CO2 contributing to rising temperatures  but skeptics don't argue that point. The argue about the feedback assumptions in the models that are not panning out as the extremists would prefer.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

QOTD - Steven Landsburg

The minimum wage is nothing but a huge off-the-books tax paid by a small group of people, with all the proceeds paid out as the equivalent of welfare to a different small group of people. If a tax-and-spend program that arbitrary were spelled out explicitly, voters would recoil. How unfortunate that when it is disguised as a minimum wage, not even our Republican president can manage to muster a principled objection.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2004/07/the_sin_of_wages.2.html

see also:
http://www.thebigquestions.com/2013/02/18/thoughts-on-the-minimum-wage/#more-8310

Friday, February 15, 2013

QOTD - Mark Perry

I’ve found that somebody’s position on the minimum wage is a pretty good “litmus test” of a person’s ability to understand basic economic principles and think logically.  Those who support increases in the minimum wage demonstrate their inability to think clearly, logically and rationally, and their inability to understand basic economic theory.  Supporters of the minimum wage embrace emotional “thinking” over truly rational thinking, and generally therefore really can’t be taken seriously.