Markwadsworth

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• "Climate Crisis Splits Alaskan Town in Half"

  

  From The Guardian: Two years ago, Lisa Charles and her family moved from their lifelong home in the town of Newtok, Alaska, to Mertarvik, a 30-minute trip by... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2021 DEBATE

• Land Banking Logic

  Further to my post of two days ago... Let's assume in their neo-lib fantasy world, we abandon planning restrictions and everything in a radius or two or three... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2021 DEBATE

• Apologists for Land Bankers at Work.

  More nonsense from Centre for Cities, the first sentence contradicts the headline just to warn you that you are about to ride the rollercoaster of flawed... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2021 DEBATE

• This Hardly Makes Sense

  From the BBC: Thousands of current and former Tesco workers have won a legal argument in their fight for equal pay. The European Court of Justice has ruled... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2021 DEBATE

• "House Prices Will Boom Before Crashing in 2026"

  Spotted by TBH in The Daily Mail (of all places): Anybody predicting the average house price would rise 10 per cent during the lockdowns would probably have bee... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2021 DEBATE

• Short List

  Totay's list: "Leaders of political parties with names that sound like 'Natalie Bennett'" 1. With an early lead, it's Natalie Bennett herself* of course, settin... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2021 DEBATE

• They Seek It Here, They Seek It There...

  The examination boards purport to offer a service, in setting and marking exams and awarding grades, however, in reality, all they are doing is rent-seeking,... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2021 DEBATE

• Temperature Vs Stratospheric Ozone Levels

  

  Is there a correlation between ozone levels and surface temperature? I downloaded the stratospheric ozone level figures from here (for Southern Hemisphere, but... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2021 DEBATE

• A Painted Clock is Right Twice a Day

  I've just stumbled across this classic in The Guardian from 2018: Thirty years ago, James Hansen* testified to Congress about the dangers of human-caused climat... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2021 DEBATE

• Checking Whether a Number is Prime.

  You can't really check whether a number is prime, you can only check whether it divides by a prime number smaller than the square root of the original number an... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2021 DEBATE

• "pV = nRT"

  Alarmists and Physics Deniers don't actually know what this equation signifies and make themselves look silly by trotting it out as if it somehow supports... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2021 DEBATE

• The Guardian Trolls Its Own Readers.

  From The Guardian: Scientific research findings that are probably wrong gain far more attention than robust results, according to academics who suspect that... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2021 DEBATE

• Let's See If Harry Dale Huffman's Approach Works with Titan

  Titan is my new favourite moon/planet (it orbits Saturn and is a bit bigger than our Moon). It has an atmosphere that is strikingly similar to Earth's - it's... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2021 DEBATE

• "Study Suggests 'Zoom Fatigue' is a Real Psychological Phenomenon"

  From PsyPost: New research provides evidence that videoconferences can be mentally exhausting, especially when participants don’t feel some sense of group... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2021 DEBATE

• Who Benefits from the Pensions Tax Breaks?

  Somehow, we drifted off KLNs and started discussing the taxation of/subsidies to pension savings. Me: "The bulk of the [tax breaks] superficially goes to... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2021 DEBATE

• They Own Land! Give Them Money!

  From The Sunday Telegraph: Farmers could be paid to rewild river banks for beavers LANDOWNERS could be paid to stop tending riverbanks on their property under... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2021 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (488)

  @benjit14 (aka BenJamin') replied on Twitter: Of course we can internalise the cost/benefit of NIMBYism by taxing location rents at 100%. That would solve... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2021 DEBATE

• You Win Some, You Lose Some.

  From The Barents Observer: Russia’s Arctic and Far North regions could become arable in as soon as 20 to 30 years as climate change accelerates permafrost... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2021 DEBATE

• Very Feeble Attempt at a KCN from the Tories

  The Welsh have decided to trial a UBI scheme. Bravo Wales, but, predictably the Tories are against it: But the Welsh Conservatives said: "The Joseph Rowntree... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2021 DEBATE

• He Needs It as Down-payment on His Yacht.

  From The Independent: In the latest setback to European Union efforts to tackle corporate tax avoidance, a court on Wednesday annulled a ruling by the European... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2021 DEBATE