Archive for November 14th, 2008
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What I’ve been reading about:
Nearly all buildings to be covered by Euro energy standards - Building - The EPBD has been ‘recast’ rather than ‘amended’ for the sake of clarity, the EC said. The revised legislation must be transposed by 31 December 2010 and implemented by January 2012.
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CO2 output from shipping twice as much as airlines | Environment | The Guardian - "Shipping is responsible for transporting 90% of world trade which has doubled in 25 years." "Although the industry maintains that ships are more efficient at transferring freight than air, it admits improvements can be made."
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions: 13 Nov 2008: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com) - Ed Milliband answers questions on carbon including some on nuclear, runways and coal power stations. From tthe ever useful TheyWorkForYou.
The confirmation bias
I am fascinated with cognitive biases. I’ve mentioned the confirmation bias before and whilst reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicolas Taleb (who is a big fan, as am I, of Kahneman & Tversky), I was reminded of the following statistic which I found in Mintzberg’s Strategy Bites Back by Spyros G. Makridakis (pg. 168): [...]
