Scientists unlock findings about the past and the future using frozen soil extracted during the Cold War from beneath a nearly mile-thick section of the Greenland ice sheet.
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
When Greenland Was Green: Ancient Soil From Beneath a Mile of Ice Offers Warnings for the Future
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 9:35 am | 16 Comments »
Links 7/21/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 152 Comments »
Latin America Again Refuses to Fall In Line With the Collective West on Ukraine, This Time from Brussels
Another attempt by the Collective West to isolate Russia from the rest of the world — or the “Jungle,” as the EU’s chief “diplomat” Josep Borrell calls it — fails spectacularly.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 30 Comments »
“Bidenomics” Has No Answer for Eviction Crisis – Or Much Else
Most recent announcement has rental platforms promising to increase transparency of how much you’re being gouged but do nothing to lower costs.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Market inefficiencies, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 56 Comments »
Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group
Gas-linked companies’ attack on electric heating confuses consumers and leaves UK trailing behind Europe.
Topics: Environment, Europe, Media watch, UK
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 3:00 am | 9 Comments »
If MRSA Is Airborne, then CDC Guidance on “Enhanced Barrier Precautions” in Nursing Homes Is Wrong (and Lethal)
More massive resistance to airborne transmission from CDC and the Infection Control community.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 14 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/20/2023
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Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 63 Comments »
Why Psalm 23 Gives Me the Creeps
Happyville? Or Pain City?
Topics: Curiousities, Guest Post, Politics, Social values
Posted by Lambert Strether at 10:25 am | 149 Comments »
Links 7/20/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 226 Comments »
‘Baked tnto the Frameworks’: Archeologist Reveals ‘3 Pervasive Myths’ That Blind Us to the Past
Long-term perspectives on cities, states, and empires are now much fuller and more regionally diverse than was known decades ago. Synthetic, comparative analyses have been undertaken. We now know what worked and what did not.
Topics: Social policy, Social values
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 26 Comments »
John Helmer: The Mosquito Swarm and the Violent Pinprick Are Zelensky PR To Beat NATO’s Christmas Deadline
Warmaking as public relations.
Topics: Europe, Garrulous insolence, Guest Post, Russia
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 17 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/19/2023
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 112 Comments »
Energy Destinies – Part 6 Energy Policy And Emissions – Hot and Hotter
Based on the current state of science, technology, policy development and implementation, the probability of meeting emissions targets is doubtful. This means that global temperature rises will, in all probability, exceed the recommended levels, most likely substantially and earlier than projected. The consequent changes in planetary geo-physics and meteorology will be substantial.
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Infrastructure, Market inefficiencies, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Lambert Strether at 9:55 am | 21 Comments »
Links 7/19/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 191 Comments »
KLG: Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines – A Review-Essay
Unless we figure out a way to spend our wealth on what gives life instead of what takes life, the oncoming crisis that has been called the “Jackpot” here will most certainly be a crisis without a solution.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Health care, Pandemic, Social policy, Social values, Technology and innovation
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 10 Comments »