Dangerous(ly seductive) curves ahead – of life cycles and hype

or "smacking your (rule of) thumb with the hammer marked 'brain'". Narratives are great. They help you arrange (or even create) facts that fit in a nice orderly view of the world. If there is a graph to go along with the narrative, they're even more comforting. I mean, it's science, right? Sadly, no. So,... Continue Reading →

June 14, 2016 2

The Joy of … Big Numbers; the Simpsons, Hype Cycles and George Monbiot

Here's 3 quotations about energy provision. They're from 1973, 2001 and 2010. Skim, don't ponder. I've put the relevant bits in bold. The tl;dr is that politicians like Big Numbers (duh). “Project Independence was an initiative announced by U.S. President Richard Nixon on November 7, 1973, in reaction to the OPEC oil embargo and the... Continue Reading →

January 1, 2015 0