Was July 2019 the Hottest Month ever recorded?
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirms: July 2019 temperatures on par with warmest month on record. More data yet to come.
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Do Violent Video Games cause Gun Violence?
In has become tiresomely predictable that instead of actually addressing the issue of gun control, yet another incident results is the easy targets being attacked. “He was disturbed” and so mental illness gets the blame. “Violent video games instil a bloodlust within our society” is yet another familiar trope. One thing is more or less … Read more
Pew Poll: Do we really trust Scientific Experts?
A couple of days ago (2nd Aug 2019) Pew released their latest data from a public poll of how much we trust scientific experts. Titled “Trust and Mistrust in Americans’ Views of Scientific Experts” it is actually rather encouraging. What exactly did they find? From a survey that they conducted in January 2019, they have … Read more
Greenland Melt event in July 2019
The rather “shocking” fact is that in summer ice in Greenland is melting. OK, I put air quotes around the word “shocking” to suggest that this is what happens in summer and to hint that we should not be shocked. However, what is currently happening is actually truly shocking the subject matter experts, and so … Read more
“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.
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