Sanjeev Sabhlok's Blog, page 82
July 29, 2019
Transcript of William Nordhaus’s Nobel lecture
The slides he uses – here. TRANSCRIPTION William Nordhaus. He was born in 1941 in Albuquerque in New Mexico and in 1967 he received his PhD from MIT Cambridge Massachusetts USA. And at that point he moved to Yale University as an assistant professor and then you climbed in the ranks and you’ve been at Yale […]
July 28, 2019
My next TOI blog post: Why should we subsidise tomorrow’s rich in the name of the climate?
I this I investigate the IPCC’s economic analysis that confirms we should not curtail the current generation’s consumption.
July 23, 2019
Cost-benefit analysis of CO2 and climate change
In 2011 I had asked for a cost benefit analysis of CO2. As far as I can gather no such official CBA has been conducted so far. I have therefore asked IPCC today for a global CO2 CBA @IPCC_CH Where is IPCC's cost benefit analysis? I believe no action should be taken on climate change till […]
My next TOI blog post: Why the precautionary principle is bad policy
For those who may have been surprised to see my strong attack on the precautionary principle in my previous article, I’ve provided more details here since this principle is very pernicious and impacts many other policy areas: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/b... KEYWORDS Precautionary principle bad idea policy wrong excessive harmful socialist imposition
July 20, 2019
The irrational “precautionary principle” marks the end of The Enlightenment
I’ve been meaning to write against this deadly irrational principle but never had time to do so. Will write for TOI blogs in the coming weeks. In the meantime some research notes: Impact of the Precautionary Principle on Feeding Current and Future Generations The Problems with Precaution: A Principle without Principle The precautionary principle should […]
The history of regulation of GMOs
Extract from Robert Falkner’s “The Global Biotech Food Fight: Why the United States Got It So Wrong”, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 1 (FALL / WINTER 2007), pp. 99-110. Let me note at the outset that I comprehensively disagree with the thesis of the writer of this article. I’m only noting […]
Israel Folau is an HONEST religious man, like the “Islamists” and practitioners of untouchability
Christian “leaders” (what is that??) have apparently said that Folau is not representative of Christianity. My comment: The general rule seems to be that anyone who directly quotes from the religious scripture is an “extremist”/ Islamist/ terrorist. Pretty malleable, these “religions”. In my view those who reject ANY verse in their religious scripture are imposters. […]
July 16, 2019
Climate “extreme events” fraud
I’m sick of the fraudulent data “analysis” being purveyed by some climate “scientists” – and so in this I will keep track of some of their frauds. Let me only say that if you’re not very very careful, you’re going be mega-swindled by these crooks. Starting with this one today.
Farmer Chandrashekhar H. Bhadsavle’s letter to NON-FARMER Ashwani Mahajan on glyphosate, which DOES NOT cause cancer
Continuing from my notes on Glyphosate. ===LETTER=== Chandrashekhar H. Bhadsavle, Krishi Ratna, Krishi Bhushan. Founder and Managing Trustee – Saguna Rural Foundation. JULY 16, 2019 Mr. Ashwani Mahajan, Member, change.org. Dear Mr. Ashwani, Greetings. I am a farmer by profession. I have been working in the agriculture and allied sectors for more than 45 years now. For […]
July 14, 2019
The key lesson from ice-core climate data is that CO2 DOES NOT HEAT THE EARTH
The biggest finding from the data (see video) is that Earth’s rotation (wobble) around the sun is extraordinarily powerful. Like any other thermal body, the Earth is PERPETUALLY cooling down. Its wobble around the sun causes it to heat up with regularity CO2 increases in proportion to the increase in temperature (the correlation is almost […]
