Monthly Archives: April 2008

From the poorest to the slightly better-off. Via.

Quite apart from the fact that it appears to falsify a major component of recent climate alarmism, this is yet another example of the BBC’s climate bias. It was spotted a few days ago by Jennifer Marohasy. The past year … Continue reading →

In perspective: But what about the IRA? Ah, says Commissioner Blair, they didn’t have mobile phones or the Internet back then, did they? And they usually phoned in warnings. And they weren’t into suicide bombing. Altogether a better class of … Continue reading →

The Competition Commission: The commission said that splitting up ownership of the three main London airports would result in greater efforts to create extra capacity and relieve overcrowding. “Separate ownership would itself create a greater incentive to expand capacity.” Good. … Continue reading →

Filming real ice shelves, for example. That’s why Al Gore used CGI footage from the movie The Day After Tomorrow in his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. As it happens, this doesn’t affect the validity of his argument either way, but … Continue reading →

What could go wrong? £50 billion would buy a £200,000 property for a quarter of a million families. It’s very appealing on the face of it. What would be the catch in the government doing that and being a low … Continue reading →

In daylight: Infra red: And that’s after a light rain, and overcast sky (just starting to clear when the images were taken). 13% of stations so far surveyed (540 ish, with 600 to go) are like this, sited directly over … Continue reading →

A palpable hit.

From the poorest to the richest: But what we do know is the market value of Britain’s five biggest banks shot up by around £10bn last week (see this blog). Even RBS, with its announcement of a vast multi-billion new … Continue reading →

Don’t be disheartened to read that in America: After adjusting for multiple sources of bias and differences in sample construction, we establish that (1) the U.S. high school graduation rate peaked at around 80 percent in the late 1960s and … Continue reading →