Tag Archives: climate change

Spare a thought for conspiracists

I saw this on social media the other day: It took a few moments to get my head around the idea, but it’s an image of the Sun by ‘neutrino light’. Neutrinos do not interact with ordinary matter, so these neutrinos have passed through the Earth unhindered. Unfortunately, this also means most of them passContinue reading “Spare a thought for conspiracists”

Anthropogenic Global Warming… or not?

The Elfstedentocht is the biggest ice-skating tour in the world. It’s held in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands, and it’s a circular route 200 km long, passing through all eleven historical cities of the province. It used to be held every whenever the ice was more than 15 cm thick, on average every 2 –Continue reading “Anthropogenic Global Warming… or not?”

What’s wrong with America?

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” – John F. Kennedy “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries, whenContinue reading “What’s wrong with America?”

My Quora answers

Well some of them at least… If the Earth has been proven to be a flat spinning disc, why don’t we fly off the edge due to centrifugal force? Proof is the preserve of mathematicians and the manufacturers of hard liquor. So no scientist would ever claim that the Earth was ‘proven’ to be anything.Continue reading “My Quora answers”

Against Conspiracy Theories

When it comes to embracing new information, there are three types of people… the majority fall into the category where they acknowledge that the new information may be important, but they don’t understand the subject (medicine, politics, finance, physics, etc.) well enough to make a judgement, so they rely on the opinions of experts. ThenContinue reading “Against Conspiracy Theories”