UN and EU government agencies – and tax-exempt NGOs – have brought a plague of locusts Paul Driessen Billions of desert locusts have descended again on East Africa. Crawling first,…
Month: February 2020
Cut thru myths to see facts about COVID-19
Reposted from the Fabius Maximus website By Larry Kummer, Editor / 22 February 2020 Summary: I talk to people who worry about the coronavirus epidemic and so read much about…
Do We Really Have Only 12 Years to Live?
By Andy May Why have uninformed celebrities and politicians been telling everyone, who will listen, we are all going to die in a climate catastrophe in 10 to 30 years?…
No raw data, no science: another possible source of the reproducibility crisis
From Molecular Brain, Biomedical Central Molecular Brain volume 13, Article number: 24 (2020) Cite this article Abstract A reproducibility crisis is a situation where many scientific studies cannot be reproduced.…
Flashback: The Politics of Polar Bears CBC documentary from 2014
From Polar Bear Science Worth watching if you haven’t seen it – and a second look if you have – a rare balanced documentary produced by the CBC in 2014…
18-hour year planet on edge of destruction
Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest orbital period ever observed for a planet of its type.…
Supernova event called off- Betelgeuse won’t explode – at least not right away
Call off the supernova watch. The red supergiant star known as Betelgeuse isn’t going to explode in a supernova after all. (Though it will at sometime in the future up to…
Climate Claim: Buying Electric Vehicles “can spread through populations like infectious diseases”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Robert H. Frank, a professor of management and economics at Cornell University, thinks economists who dismiss the idea of a surge in electric vehicles are…
Liz Warren Explains Why She Believes Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Chris White Tech Reporter February 21, 2020 10:32 AM ET Democratic 2020 candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren said at a CNN town hall Thursday that the so-called Green New Deal is…
Study: A Quarter of Climate Denier Tweets are Bots
Guest essay by Eric Worrall John Cook and Lewandowsky appear to have moved on from claiming climate skeptics are mentally defective to a new position, a claim that climate skeptics…
NASA Wants Your Help Designing a Venus Rover Concept
From NASA NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, under a grant from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, is running a public challenge to develop an obstacle avoidance sensor…
The mad rush to electric vehicles
Will this be another disaster for consumers? Duggan Flanakin Tesla’s stock market value is already bigger than Ford and General Motors combined, says a report in Forbes magazine. Elon Musk’s…
Climate Crusader UK PM Boris Johnson to Ban Household Coal
Guest essay by Eric Worrall In a move which will have dire consequences for poor people, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Government has announced a ban in household coal supplies.…
Police Federation: British Police Fear Arresting Climate Protestors
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Police Federation chairman John Apter, a recent court ruling has placed police who arrest climate protestors at potential risk of legal repercussions. Officers…
Brooklyn Fractivists for Freezing in the Dark
Guest “I couldn’t make this schist up, if I was trying” by David Middleton Activists Demand National Grid Halt Project To Extend A Fracked Gas Pipeline Through North BrooklynBY SYDNEY…
Quantifying Futility: an estimate of future Global CO2 emissions
Reposted from edmhdotme Following the thinking of the late Prof David Mackay using “back of the envelope calculations”, this post makes estimates of the likely future growth in global CO2…
Iowa Agriculture in consideration of climate change
By Kevin Kilty A recent article in Physics Today[1] presents use of regional climate modeling in forecasting how climate change might impact agriculture in the U.S. Midwest. This guest blog…
Start of “Dog-ocene” dated to at least 28,500 years ago
Guest post by David Middleton Two of my favorite things are dogs and the Pleistocene… New Study Results Consistent With Dog Domestication During Ice Ageby Matt McGowan | Feb 19,…
China and India rejecting renewables for coal-fired futures
By Ronald Stein Founder and Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure of PTS Advance, headquartered in Irvine, California China and India are NOT buying into the global alarm movement. Never in…
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