Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
While most people do accept the reality that we live in a warming world, some still do not. That is inevitable because the oil and gas industry has an ever abiding motivation to keep their lights on by persuading us to keep our lights on exclusively via their product. If indeed you have doubts about … Read more
If we abandon the burning of fossil fuels and instead lean heavily into alternative energy sources such as wind and solar, then there exists a need to be able to store vast amounts of energy to keep the lights on … literally. The term is “Grid Storage” Obviously solar only works during the day so … Read more
A popular Science Fiction theme often involves humans going out there, finding a suitable world and then proceeding to terraform it so that it becomes ideal for human habitation. That was literally the background plot for the 1986 Aliens, a sequel to the 1979 Alien movie. For those not familiar with it, the plot revolves … Read more
There is a rather alarming new paper that has been published within the peer reviewed journal Science on Sep 9, 2022. Since it is titled “Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points”, I guess you can perhaps say that there is a clue there within the name regarding the content. This is … Read more
Back in June last year, I was answering this question, “How Hot is too Hot for you to survive?“. The answer then was that the upper limit for human survivability was 35 C. That sounds weirdly low. Stick with me, we will come to that shortly. Where I’m going with this is that there has … Read more
Health Care does not come for free, it carries with it a considerable cost. Our use of Fossil Fuel is impacting our long term health. As we consume fossil fuel we are also pumping rather a lot of stuff into the air we breath, namely sulphur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides. There is also of course … Read more