2015 April

Archive for April, 2015

Is There Anybody Out There?

Sorry for the sporadic blogging; I’ve been traveling a lot. I missed Sunday’s post, but this one–though related to current events science news–will have obvious religious overtones. On Facebook Daniel Kuehn shared this HuffPo article about a recent NASA panel telling the general public about the search for extraterrestrial life. Here is the opening of […]

Two More on Climate Change Policy

==> At IER I have a response to Jerry Taylor. An excerpt: Again, I realize some readers may tire of reading two narcissists trading jabs on the Internet, but I walked through this particular aspect of the dispute in great detail because it’s crucial: Jerry Taylor has been assuring conservatives to trust him, that he […]

U.S. Oil Output Approaching Record Levels

In an article at IER, I discuss the once-fashionable “peak oil” theory, which treated a country or the world’s oil production as if it were just a giant well. The economics went out the window, and instead the analysis relied merely on the natural sciences. Peak oil theory was popular for decades because it seemed […]

On the California Water Restrictions

Here I went off on a “US Uncut” poster about it, and below is my video.

Bob Murphy on the Tatiana (Moroz) Show

I always blast these things out on Twitter and Facebook, but I can’t forget you guys! Starting at 9pm Eastern (Monday night)… Link here.

Potpourri

==> This John Oliver interview with Snowden is pretty good (though naughty words of course). But if you’re pressed for time, just watch starting at 12:15 to see how the U.S. media ranks priorities. Sounds like a parody. ==> All it took was a simple ballistics test to get this guy off death row. So […]

“Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?”

Here’s one way of resolving the age-old question…

Understanding God

By His very nature, God is utterly beyond our comprehension. It is very dangerous to try to evaluate God’s actions from a human perspective. For example, recently on Facebook someone commented on my Wall (or whatever we call it nowadays) that the God of the Bible is a genocidal maniac who slaughters children. Now I […]