Steven Koonin, a top Obama scientist looks at the evidence on warming and CO2 emissions and rebuts much of the dominant political narrative. “The important questions are about the magnitude of civilization’s contribution and the speed of changes; and, derivatively, about the urgency and scale of governmental response.”
New at the Belmont Club. Are progressives planning a trip to a future that’s gone?
The full cost of the lockdown strategy is now coming in. From economic slowdowns, slower vaccination manufacturing, a spike in depression and drug use to a lost school year for millions of students.
It’s called “covid learning loss”. But it’s really political learning loss. The question that will be asked in coming years is whether it was worth it.
New at the Belmont Club. The subordination of rationality to ideology. When you’re so sure you’re right there’s no need to look out the windshield.
As Joe Biden plans to end the deployment to Afghanistan it needs to be remembered that it was once the Obama administration’s “war of necessity” as opposed to the deployment in Iraq, which they ended.
The Belmont Club piece “The Ten Ships” posted on May 14, 2010 critiquing the strategy of ‘ending the war on terror where it began’ has become a site classic, and gets better if anything, with age.
The Dems thought the public loved them. Now it can be revealed their own polls showed a deep disillusion with establishment institutions.
As the drafters of NEPA recognized, population growth has significant environmental impacts. In its complaint, the AGO argues that DHS and other federal officials did not provide environmental impact statements or environmental assessments when DHS abruptly halted ongoing border wall construction
New at the Belmont Club. No government plan survives contact with nature.
The progressive project to water down the Second Amendment, enact hate speech laws, change the voting rules, open the border and expand the Supreme Court are paradoxically a sign of weakness, not strength. It is frank admission that the old elites can no longer govern by the former rules and need new ones to maintain control.
Continue reading “The era of the executive order”I used to think there were subjects so important that public officials would never lie about them. Nuclear war for instance or an earth-wide pandemic. Then gradually it became clear that no one, not even politicians at the highest levels, consciously makes decisions about whether to tell the truth however important the matter.
Continue reading “Rule by virtuous lie”New at the Belmont Club. Seabed warfare vs the Great Underwater Wall of China. Robots beneath the waves.
When the large scale history of the 2020 pandemic is written the key factor for success will turn out to be how well individual societies mobilized their human capital, not how ruthlessly they shut it down.
New at the Belmont Club. The relationship between Washington’s desire for global leadership and the progressive project to reinterpret America.
A Harvard study shows that meeting the Covid-19 pandemic required more than following conventional wisdom.
The Russians are pushing Biden in Ukraine.
Continue reading “China’s anschluss”HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Chinese lawmakers plan to put fewer than 10 people – all chosen by national security officials – on a committee to vet any candidates for top elected positions in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post reported.
The report said vetting committee members would be chosen by Beijing’s National Security Office in Hong Kong as well as the Committee for Safeguarding National Security chaired by the territory’s chief executive – two bodies created under a sweeping national security law imposed last year.
Bloomberg
New at the Belmont Club. How does the progressive project advance against China?
Washington mandates and China supplies.
