by Henry Oliner | Jan 3, 2023 | Economics, Environmental, Global Warming
A Review of the book , “Escape from Model Land” in The WSJ explains the limits of models in determining policy. My Life as a Quant was written decades ago about an academic with a Phd in math and physics hired by a hedge fund to construct risk models. He...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 2, 2021 | Global Warming, Science
From The Wall Street Journal, How Science Lost the Public’s Trust, by Tunku Varadarajan: He asks: “If you think biological complexity can come about through unplanned emergence and not need an intelligent designer, then why would you think human society needs an...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 8, 2017 | Global Warming
from National Review and Ian Tuttle, The 97% Solution Surely the most suspicious “97 percent” study was conducted in 2013 by Australian scientist John Cook — author of the 2011 book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand and creator of the blog Skeptical Science...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 4, 2017 | Global Warming
from The Wall Street Journal, A Deceptive New Report on Climate by Steven Koonin This isn’t the only example of highlighting a recent trend but failing to place it in complete historical context. The report’s executive summary declares that U.S. heat waves have become...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 26, 2017 | Global Warming
Rupert Darwall in the Wall Street Journal, Climate Alarmists Use the Acid-Rain Playbook A majority of scientists might say a scientific theory is true, but that doesn’t mean the consensus is reliable. The science underpinning environmental claims can be fundamentally...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 28, 2017 | Global Warming
from National Review, Matt Ridley: Climate Change’s Rational Optimist “This is a huge global phenomenon, which is bringing enormous financial benefits to agriculture,” Ridley told me. “That means we have a genuine benefit to carbon dioxide that surely must be taken...
