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Britain seeks global empire to meet needs of electric cars (Because Greta said so). Leading scientists set out resource challenge of meeting net zero emissions in the UK by 2050. A letter authored by Natural History Museum Head of Earth Sciences Prof Richard Herrington and fellow experts has today been delivered to the Committee on […]

The hypothesis of global warming from man made CO2 depends on a much-repeated narrative about CO2 trapping infrared (IR) photons leaving the earth. Although a beguilingly simple idea, a host of assumptions underlie it. One of these is that the radiative photonic absorption – emission interactions of the trace gas CO2 dominate heat movement in […]

Could Fermat’s theorem and the principle of least action apply to the atmosphere’s response to increasing CO2? And show that a vast energy expenditure to heat atmosphere and ocean, is contrary to these laws? In other words, call into question whether increasing the trace gas CO2 really does heat the ocean and atmosphere. The principle […]

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop:
There goes the notion of a zero-emission vehicle. The chief suspect is vanadium, which ‘was the only metal that interacted with the macrophages and was also present in both brake dust and diesel exhaust particles’. The harmful impact of air pollution caused by diesel exhaust fumes on our health…

Greta Thunberg was recently overheard arranging a berth for herself on a ship heading to Antarctica, on a great berg hunt, it was claimed. All her belongings she packed in a single rucksack – she called it her “green truth bag”. At the media send-off she trotted out robotically the urgent brag about impending climate […]

For me and no doubt many of you, Sci-Fi is a favourite film genre. For that reason I find it deeply annoying that such a large majority of SciFi movies, when special effects veneer is peeled away, are little more than anti-technology Luddite tracts. Can’t we celebrate science anymore? Has SciFi become LuddFi? The blasted […]

“Mother!” – film review About a quarter of the way through Mother! you realise that it is a burlesque, a very dark one. The promised descent into chaos comes sooner and more suddenly than you expect and you realise something quite unexpected is on the way. What is it going to say? Suddenly it’s not […]

Posted by “it doesn’t add up” on WattsUpWithThat, 10 Aug, 10:22am, 2019   I’ve done a lot of research on this, looking at the data from National Grid at BM Reports, Gridwatch, and a very helpful frequency chart at 1 second resolution from Upside Energy, a small company providing experimental token grid stabilisation services using […]

There was quite some controversy about the final series 8 of Game of Thrones. Some fans of Danaerys Targaryen were upset that their hero turned villain her story arc ended in a startlingly unexpected way. Even a petition was launched by thousands of wanabee GRR Martins who thought they could write a better script. However […]

Researchers have always been curious as to past climates where the earth was sometimes much colder and mostly ice covered, or much warmer with forests up to the poles. Or somewhere in between. In more rational times, it was recognised that tectonic shifts and rearrangement of continents, causing changed ocean circulation patterns, was the main […]