You may have heard that a hacker broke into an email server at the Hadley Climate Research Unit in England and distributed 62 MB of emails and attachments. These emails purport to prove that anthropomorphic global warming (AGW) is a hoax.

To say that The Usual Suspects have gone hog-wild screaming "I told you so" and "file criminal charges" is ( Read more... )

I've written from time to time of Fermi's Paradox. One of the concepts used to "answer" the paradox is the Great Filter, which is the idea that there is some event that allows few if any civilizations to arise. I'd said before that I don't think peak oil is such an event. But now I'd like to add an event to the possible list of Great Filters. ( Read more... )