…is rebounding.
Which is profoundly disappointing to people who want us to freeze and starve in the dark with windmills and solar panels.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Pasta
No, “journalists,” it’s not not fattening.
Rationalia
More thoughts from Kevin Williamson.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Another piece at New Scientist. It’s a terrible idea.
[Bumped]
Climate Research
I’d say it’s worse than useless; it’s actively societally harmful.
Life Extension
It might be possible to live thirty years longer. I wonder to what degree treating diabetes with metformin will also extend life? I also think that people confuse cause and effect between aging and many of the “diseases of aging.”
I think there’s potential for much more than that. I don’t buy the notion that the body can’t be repaired indefinitely. It violates no laws of physics.
[Afternoon update]
The mystery of the Missing Link has been solved once again!
The Food Tribes In LA
How they ruined my barbecue (he means grilling).
Neil Tyson’s “Rationalia”
…would be a terrible place to live.
I agree with the piece, though I don’t like the phrase “credentialed scientist.”
[Saturday-morning update]
I’ve discovered the Missing Link.
Peer Review
A spot-on rant.
It is highly highly overrated.
Zika Vaccines
Two of them gearing up for use after success in mice.
Well, that seems like a bit of good news.
A Grand Solar Minimum
It may be happening:
The policy significance of this issue is clear: if we are headed to a mid-20th century solar minimum, or a Grand Solar Minimum for the next two centuries, this will offset greenhouse warming to some extent. The extent of the offset depends on whether climate sensitivity to CO2 is on the larger or smaller end of the range of estimates, and the magnitude of the solar impact. But the sign of the solar offset is becoming increasingly clear: towards cooling.
One of the reasons I’ve been skeptical about claims that carbon will be catastrophic is the willful insistence on ignoring the sun, and I can’t think of any reason to do it than because we don’t understand it, and therefore it can’t be included in the hysterical modeling, and it can’t fit the narrative. I continue to believe that what we don’t understand about climate is much greater than what we do.
[Update a few minutes later]
Is the dam bursting? Climate researchers who have previously denigrated solar activity as being insignificant are now warning of a new mini ice age.
I really have trouble taking any of this seriously.