Very interesting link, especially this argument by a Chinese blogger: “…Chinese people themselves are ultimately responsible for allowing their fellow countrymen to be censored, and that the ultimate solution is going to have to be initiated by the Chinese themselves.”

There is great truth in the above words.

I’m still a bit cross with Google for removing Uruknet from the news: http://arbuthnot4iraq.blogspot.....aths.html. But they seem to be coming up with interesting stuff now and then. I didn’t know you could live up to eighty in Iceland…perhaps as a snowman.

Aside regarding:

Both seem to support the hypothesis that access to energy has driven improvements in public health which have, as the graphs show, resulted in longer life expectancies and lower rates of infant mortality.

Child mortality / carbon emissions for Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, and the UK would seem to suggest no clear negative relationship between them, which would falsify the hypothesis when expressed as a general claim.

So what happened in 1981 to cause income per capita to slide back so severely? This was a period in which oil prices doubled because OPEC were cutting production (with KSA cutting more production than any other member). Saudi Arabia restored supply in 1987 and one can see on the chart that the income per capita started to increase (slightly) thereafter.

That’s interesting but this one is pretty depressing.  Look what happened to life expectancy when Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe.