Showing posts with label Matt Ridley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matt Ridley. Show all posts
Friday, October 16, 2015

Volkswagen scandal: Unintended Consequence from Climate Change Politics

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Prolific science author Matt Ridley explains why the Volkswagen scandal represents the unintended consequence from the politicization of Eu...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Quote of the Day: Gene Selection: Society is built on mutually beneficial co-operation

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At his blog , businessman, science journalist and author Matt Ridley discusses the political implication of Gene Selection versus Group Sel...
Saturday, September 06, 2014

Matt Ridley: Whatever Happened to Global Warming?

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Writing at the Wall Street Journal , the prolific writer Matt Ridley asks “whatever happened to global warming?” (ht+ chart from AEI’s Ma...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

How Western Environmentalism Shaped China’s One Child Policy

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Ideas have consequences.  China’s one child policy hasn’t been a communist idea, writes author Matthew Ridley. Instead this has emanate...
Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Matthew Ridley on IPCC’s Global Lukewarming

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The prolific scientist and author Matthew Ridley writes about the IPCC’s backsliding from alarmist anthropogenic global warming . (bold mi...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Matthew Ridley on the Myths of Fracking and Wind Power’s Environmental Harm

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Prolific author Matthew Ridley rebuts the 5 myths (lies) of fracking. Here is a snippet : Here are five things that they keep sayin...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Matthew Ridley: Bitcoin as Synthetic Money

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The impressive and articulate Matthew Ridley on his blog explains that Bitcoin is a form of synthetic money:  Bitcoins resemble “commod...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Welcoming the Gas Age

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The future of the world’s energy will likely be dominated by natural gas, as Methane hydrate joins shale gas and deep sea gas. Writes M...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Video: Matt Ridley: Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet

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In a talk hosted by reasonTV.com , prolific author Matt Ridley talks about how fossil fuels, contra popular wisdom, have been contributing...
Friday, November 30, 2012

Discovery Process as Antidote to Chaos and Volatility

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The prolific author Matthew Ridley at the Wall Street Journal reviews my favorite iconoclast Nassim Nicolas Taleb’s new book Antifragile ...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Libertarians are Thinkers, Not Feelers

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Our adapted political ideology have not only been shaped by our life’s circumstances, orientation and other influences but importantly from...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Why Not to Pay Heed to the Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse

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Emotions based issues sell because people are emotional animals. Yet among all the emotions it is fear which is most powerful . That’s why h...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Why We Should Be Wary of the Confirmation Bias

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From the prodigious Matt Ridley writing at the Wall Street Journal , One of the alarming things about confirmation bias is that it seem...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Who will be in Charge of the Martians?

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What happens if NASA’s exploration—via the Curiosity—in Mars finds life (microbes) in the Gale Crater ? How will politics on earth deal with...
Friday, May 18, 2012

First Shale Gas Output from China, India to Follow

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I previously pointed out that, the Southeast Asian territorial dispute has NOT been about oil as popularly thought. And since China has t...
Saturday, April 07, 2012

Video: "Ideas Having Sex" A Conversation with Matt Ridley and John Tierney

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(hat tip Greg Ransom)
Thursday, March 22, 2012

17 Reasons to be a Rational Optimist

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My favorite science and environmental columnist and author of the must read Rational Optimist , the eminent Matthew Ridley propounds 17 rea...
Monday, March 05, 2012

Quote of the Day: Wind Power Scam

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To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world’s energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero. Despite the regressive su...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Online Honesty

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It is interesting to know that people seem to be more honest in an impersonal setting like the online environment Explains another favorit...
Tuesday, November 01, 2011

7 Billion People: Boon or Bane?

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The United Nations says that world population have reached 7 billion. In attempting to visualize the impact of 7 billion people The Econom...