Guest essay by Eric Worrall When record breaking cold occurs it is just weather, but according to Slate, climate attribution, the science of retrofitting explanations to unusual weather events after…
Day: July 25, 2020
Does Universal Mask Wearing Decrease or Increase the Spread of COVID-19?
A survey of peer-reviewed studies shows that universal mask wearing (as opposed to wearing masks in specific settings) does not decrease the transmission of respiratory viruses from people wearing masks…
UNSW Report Mixes Climate Change with Chinese Legal Reform
A report prepared by the University of New South Wales for UNICEF China is one of the strangest documents I’ve ever read. Much of the document makes sense, it discusses…
Humans inhabited North America in the depths of the last Ice Age, but didn’t thrive until the climate warmed
Humans lived in what is now Mexico up to 33,000 years ago and may have settled the Americas by travelling along the Pacific coast, according to two studies by myself…
Chaos and Weather
The pioneering study of Lorenz in 1963 and a follow-up presentation in 1972 changed our view on the predictability of weather by revealing the so-called butterfly effect, also known as…
Citizen science at heart of new study showing COVID-19 seismic noise reduction
Research published in the journal Science, using a mix of professional and Raspberry Shake citizen seismic data, finds that lockdown measures to slow the spread of the virus COVID-19 reduced…
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