Odyssey

There is an even more fundamental faith-based question underlying the whole climate issue. That is – “is it OK for the human race to exist on earth at all?” The science of ecology tells us that every one of the millions of living species on earth, change the earth in some way. The way all […]

Several papers report four decades of Southern Ocean cooling from the early 1980’s till 2020, as posted by NoTricksZone (Pierre Gosselin). This reinforces a general picture of ongoing cooling – not warming – in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. Here’s the link to this NTZ article: https://notrickszone.com/2022/06/27/a-significant-and-robust-cooling-trend-in-the-southern-ocean-from-1982-2020-defies-climate-models/ This robust Southern Ocean cooling was reported by […]

The universe is big – mind-bogglingly so. On its largest scales of billions of lightyears, it has a filamentous, labyrinthine structure that many have noticed bears a resemblance to biological structures, such as the network of neurons in an animal brain – see figure 1 below. This is more than idle speculation, peer reviewed scientific […]

Phil Salmon With COP26 in Glasgow concluding as I write, the global movement of CO2 climate warming alarm is at its zenith of political and popular influence. This ironclad edifice of dystopia however has feet of clay – it is based on a colossal scientific failure (1) – that goes beyond climate, encompassing the whole […]

There are “no substantial differences” in the protection offered by the UK’s two main COVID-19 vaccines, a new study suggests. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-no-substantial-difference-in-protection-offered-by-pfizer-and-astrazeneca-vaccines-study-suggests-12439339 Many previous studies have been done across a range of population groups showing that the AstraZeneca vaccine was less effective than the jab made by Pfizer. However, the authors of the new study have […]

The East Pacific has been cooling for a couple of decades, it turns out. A “warming hole”, we have to call it. Persistent strong trade winds are part of the reason. Chinese researchers have also found that, in their words: “a persistent cooling in the eastern Pacific is directly linked to an eastward displacement of […]

Australia’s Aborigines or First People (that first we know about) have a rich mythology that includes the “Dreamtime”. It is their creation myth where spiritual beings shaped the world that we now know and inhabit, their wondrous deeds leaving in their wake the mountains and rivers, land and seas, forests, fish, animals and birds that […]

“Better a little with tranquility, than an abundance with chasing after the wind” Thus wrote the ancient scriptural author, whose wisdom encapsulates the answer to the question in the title. An organism or an organisation needs resources. But securing the resource is just the start – it must then be processed and “harvested”. And if […]

And just like that, life was discovered on another planet. No fanfare, no warning, there it was. Actually a moon, of Saturn, not far away at all. Enceladus is of course way too cold for life. On its surface. It has a lot of water, not uncommon (Pluto has water mountains), but at such freezing […]

Models of global climate warming from CO2 often frame the earth’s temperature as the consequence of a single simple physical system. Radiative balance determines temperature and CO2 perturbs that balance in the direction of warming. End of story. With, of course, an important caveat of “everything else being equal”. The radiative physics behind this and […]