Reblogged from Clive Best http://clivebest.com/blog/?p=1169 I have been struggling to understand exactly how increasing CO2 levels leads to global warming … Continue reading Clive Best: it’s a circular argument – if we assume CO2 warms the earth, we find that CO2 warms the earth

There have been three major glaciations over the last half billion years (the Phanerozoic) during which multicellular life has existed. … Continue reading The Ordovician glaciation – glaciers spread while CO2 increased in the atmosphere: a problem for carbon alarmism

Yawn – we’ve all read too much about the coronavirus. But this new research from Cambridge University UK sheds light … Continue reading The genetic web of coronavirus origin in Yunnan (not Wuhan)

“RaTG13 is the name, rank and serial number of an individual horseshoe bat of the species Rhinolophus affinis, or rather … Continue reading Coronavirus: the batty back story

Star Wars episode 9, the Rise of Skywalker, brings the series to a brilliant conclusion that feels right in several … Continue reading The Rise of Skywalker – movie review

Weather is of the atmosphere, climate is of the ocean. It’s hard to tell intuitively if weather changes in the … Continue reading Something’s stirring in a deep Atlantic trench

Heisenberg’s work in particle and quantum physics highlights two alternative approaches to science: observation based, or theory based. This has … Continue reading Climate change: Heisenberg’s uncertainty of the “settled science”

Britain seeks global empire to meet needs of electric cars (Because Greta said so). Leading scientists set out resource challenge … Continue reading To meet crazy electric car target Britain will need to rule the world

The hypothesis of global warming from man made CO2 depends on a much-repeated narrative about CO2 trapping infrared (IR) photons … Continue reading Albert Einstein said no to CO2 radiative warming of the atmosphere