May 2012
1 post
“Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman...”
– Joe Theismann -ex NFL quarterback and recipient of the Lawrence Taylor tough breaks award
March 2012
6 posts
“Conquer first, plunder later.”
– Genghis Khan
The four energy imperatives
power density
energy density
cost
scale
Shit happens, meanwhile try not to look too stupid...
How stupid are we going to look in the eye’s of our grand children when after squandering $850,000,000,000 Googillion on C02 reduction, the Earth slips into another ice-age due to comet impact or volcanic eruption?
“The hardest thing about the internet is that it’s difficult to validate...”
– Abraham Lincoln
“What is the battery range of a Volt carrying 5 adults and luggage — in San...”
– MarkW commenting on an article about electric scooters on wattsupwiththat.com
February 2012
5 posts
Trængsel?? →
This is seriously the funniest comment I’ve read concerning traffic congestion (trængsel) in Copenhagen. Trust me, there have been quite a few suggestions for curing congestion, but this one is by far the most imaginative ever!!
“Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you...”
– Bertrand Russell A Liberal Decalogue (1951)
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant....”
– Albert Einstein
December 2011
2 posts
“Whether or not you believe that CO2 is the secular apocalypse, one thing is...”
– Dennis Ray Wing in an article “The True Failure of Durban” on www.wattsupwiththat.com
November 2011
6 posts
“The kindest thing that can be said is that they have so little moral and...”
– Jim Tynen commenting on the morals of Climategaters in his column Outside Observer
Absolute must read for those of you interested in... →
Climategate 2.0 has been brewing for about a week now. The cat is out of the bag again and climate alarmists are finally getting called out, with their own words none the less.
With the relentless effort of people like Willis Eschenbach, who armed with the Freedom of Information ACT (FOI) and an amazing amount of patience are holding leading alarmist scientists accountable to the taxpayers who...
“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize...”
– Betrand Russell
“And what you do is when you bring in the world’s most sophisticated...”
– Kate Ascher, author of ”The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper” commenting on why sewage is transported by tank trucks from the Burj Khalifa,the world’s tallest building.
“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
“Expertise gives you the tools to seek out the confirmations you need to buttress...”
– Matt Ridley, author of “The Rational Optimist” explaining why knowledge makes us even more susceptible to confirmation bias.
October 2011
2 posts
“It was just a big fun thing and it happened to turn out pretty good.”
– Ed Sabol, creator of NFL films
“I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my...”
– Rodney Dangerfield
September 2011
1 post
WatchThe 6 killer apps of prosperity
August 2011
4 posts
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs
“Just like a football match, I’m there to win. That’s our focus, we...”
– Reply by Helle Thorning-Schmidt, candidate for Prime Minister for the Danish Social Democratic party when asked about her political future if she leads her party to their fourth election defeat in a row.
“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you...”
– H L Mencken
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually...”
– Eric Hoffer “Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”
July 2011
3 posts
“Perhaps if “climate scientists” were held responsible for their work and a few...”
– comment regarding Climategate by Aussie2011 on the sceptic blog Wattsupwiththat.com
“Intelligence is not the measure of how much we know how to do, but of how we...”
– John Holt
“The real problem with the Precautionary Principle in its strongest forms is that...”
– Cass R. Sunstein “The Laws fo Fear” 2005
June 2011
5 posts
“What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.”
– Henny Youngman
“He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the present,...”
– George Orwell, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”
“The time has come to abandon the Kyoto-style folly that reached its apotheosis...”
– former chancellor Lord Nigel Lawsen commenting in the “Wall Street Journal” in late 2009
“It is indeed true that future climate change is an important subject that needs...”
– Professor Robert M. Carter author of “Climate: The Counter Consensus” 2010
“It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world...”
– Ed Ring, 2008 (Eco World, Climate Science)
May 2011
3 posts
“Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get.”
– Mark Twain
“The intuitive human mind is not a lonely Stone Age hunter wandering a city it...”
– Daniel Gardner author of ” The Science of Fear”
send a framed picture
Text message from older brother Troels: Could you send us a framed picture of yourself so the new baby can see what her uncle Axel looks like?
Younger brother Axel (8 years old) with confused look and cell phone in hand: Dad, I know how to send text messages and pictures from my mobile but I have no idea how to send a framed picture.
April 2011
1 post
“In the past, when societies gorged on innovation they soon allowed their babies...”
– Matt Ridley, author of ”The Rational Optimist”
March 2011
7 posts
“To argue that human nature has not changed, but human culture has, does not mean...”
– Matt Ridley “The Rational Optimist”
“Many people don’t realize that over geological time, we’re really in...”
– Professor William Happer, a physicist at Princeton, testifying in 2009 at the US Senate EPW Commitee Hearings
“We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data...”
– Response from professor Phil Jones (member of the Hockey Stick team and notorious Climategate participant from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit) when asked to provide the data necessary for independent scientific confirmation of the Hockey Stick graph
“Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything.”
– Gregg Easterbrook
February 2011
8 posts
WatchThe Value of Failing Small according to Seth Godin
“Technology teaches us how to make innovative kinds of mistakes we could not make...”
– Kevin Kelley author of “What Technology Wants”
