Archive for the ‘Climate Change’ Category

The Ice Age Cometh – climate change explained in three graphs

The Ice Age Cometh – climate change explained in three graphs

The Ice Age Cometh – climate change explained in three graphs [1] So, geologists observe, a cycle Hath smaller cycles that on them prey And these have yet smaller ones to bite ‘em And so proceed ad infinitem Thus, every Era in its kind Repeats all those that […]

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The ninety seven percent solution

The ninety seven percent solution

The Problem Climate Change (CC) dominates today’s environmental concerns. We are daily bombarded with the message that it will lead to future catastrophe for humanity, if not for the planet. Human emissions of greenhouse gasses are the primary cause and only drastic societal change will enable us […]

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The fashion for fact checking

The fashion for fact checking

The fashion for fact checking “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods”. – Albert Einstein, 1953 “If we are not able to ask sceptical questions, to interrogate those who tell […]

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The Unravelling of Science

The Unravelling of Science

THE  UNRAVELLING OF SCIENCE “Facts no longer made contact with the theory, which had risen above the facts on clouds of nonsense, rather like in a theological system. The point was not to believe the theory but to repeat it ritualistically and in such a way that […]

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Climate change: naming of parts (re-post)

Climate change: naming of parts Reed, Henry. “Naming of Parts.” New Statesman and Nation 24, no. 598 (8 August 1942): 92. NAMING OF PARTS To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, […]

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