So, for about the next three weeks I'll be very busy finishing up a compressed Biology class, so the posts are going to be few and far between. But I do intend to add some more functionality to the site (which requires much less time than fact checking my posts). So for the most part I'm just going to post some links to news I'm following.

For instance...

China could be facing their own economic beast from the post peak oil world, but their government price controls hide but do not solve the higher energy prices. This is similar to what I explained earlier how the “Gas Tax Holiday” is form of corporate welfare that hides actual market prices. In China this is a similar reaction that keeps pump prices low with money taken from the governments tax budget. This leads to monetary devaluation and market inflation.

also...

So the report on climate change that the Bush administration delayed for 4 years came out and concluded that current climate change is “very likely” caused by humans. This interests me for the correct language use rather than the conclusions it makes (which have been well known for several decades). You see climatology, like all other sciences, is incomplete and will most likely remain that way unless we find a way to travel back in time and study the history of climate change directly. And grand predictions like linking global climate change to specific causes are never 100% certain as long as the science is incomplete. But, that doesn't mean that the conclusions are too flimsy to be acted upon. In that sense using the term, “very likely”, is a very, very strong statement, one that should be acted upon by all reasonable means.