“State of the UK Climate” published
@metoffice State of the UK Climate Report for 2018 is out. It provides latest assessment of UK #climate trends, variations and extremes.
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Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy rule ‘worse than doing nothing’
The phrase “Affordable Clean Energy” crafts an illusion of progress and also an air of respectability. Numbers have been crunched, and it turns out to be a truly bad rule. Given the observation that the Trump administration has their fingerprints all over this, then that’s more or less guaranteed. Incompetent and utterly inept is not … Read more
Current Climate warming ‘unparalleled’ in 2,000 years
When casually discussing climate change, a rather popular rebuttal often offered by some is the idea that the climate always changes over time and that in the recent past there have been warmer periods. Examples often cited include the Roman warm period (250-400 AD), and also the better known Medieval Warm Period (700-1400 AD). Have … Read more
New Guidance: Don’t take daily Aspirin
A prevailing and rather popular practise has been the consumption of a daily low dose of Aspirin to help prevent cardiovascular disease. Literally millions of people are currently doing this. The current medical consensus is that this does more harm than good. There is a new report via a team of Harvard researchers that conforms … Read more
Did we really go to the Moon?
The “Moon Landing was a Hoax” claim is a very old trope these days, so much so, that it is a popular bit of cultural mythology. Are there really people who seriously embrace such conspiracy thinking? Very much indeed yes. To grasp that you need to remember that we live in a world where some … Read more
New paper claims clouds cause climate change
Seriously flawed paper claims that clouds are responsible for climate change. What exactly are the probelms witrhin this paper?