THE BLOB! – Google’s new threat to Internet privacy and security

“Google is proposing a new standard called WebBundles,” according to Brave’s senior privacy researcher. Brave is an alternate web browser, competition to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. From the Brave website: WebBundles…

An estimate of Climate Sensitivity

This arithmetic shows that Man-made additions of CO2 to the atmosphere can only have very marginal further temperature effect into next century and beyond.

STUNNING: @CDCgov update on #COVID19 – US Deaths overestimated by 17 times

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has just released a tranche of new data about the coronavirus. Far and away the most interesting statement is this one: For 6% of…

UN Advisor: Divert National Military Budgets to Climate Change and UN Sustainability Programmes

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The United Nations appears to think nations should stop wasting money on guns and soldiers and instead embrace funding UN climate change, economic decarbonisation and…

Monday Mirthiness: a ‘mostly peaceful’ #Election2020 choice

By now, I’m sure almost everyone who reads WUWT has seen the ridiculous CNN screencap with the FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTEST title while flames and burnt out cars inhabit…

Potentially powerful pipeline precedents

Fracking (horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing) has unleashed bounties of US oil and natural gas, dramatically reduced energy prices from their historic 2008 peak, saved families and industries billions of…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #422

“In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.” –…