Category Archives: WSJ

WSJ Over the Top Again

The Wall Street Journal has never been a reliable source on climate news, but usually they are among the Polyannas and not the Chicken Littles; the latter group being the ones who make things appear even worse than they actually are. Here is the WSJ saying: Images from NASA satellites, stitched together by scientists at…

Why Criticize Economics

Suppose you believe the things that most people who understand the science believe: that the changes we are imposing on the world are huge and dangerous that the impacts follow the causes by some decades that we have a moral obligation not to trash the whole planet in the future Then suppose you grant that,…

Latest delusionism from the WSJ

Because we have been successfully Godwinned out of calling the self-proclaimed “skeptics” “denialists”, I join the new trend in calling them “delusionists”. Here’s a slightly edited instant messaging transcript you may find interesting. “mt” below is me. The other two people speaking are not climatologists. One (here called ‘Fred’) is well-known as an author of…