Are Face Masks Effective? Government’s ‘should not assume or suggest that cloth face masks will reduce the rate or risk of infection’
https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/ Updated: November 18, 2020; Published: July 30, 2020 Share on: Twitter / Facebook Select LanguageEnglishDutchFrenchGermanGreekHebrewHungarianItalianJapanesePolishPortugueseRussianSpanishSwedishTurkish Powered by An overview of the current evidence regarding the effectiveness of face masks. 1. Studies on the effectiveness of face masks So far, most studies found little to no evidence for the effectiveness of cloth face masks in the general population, neither […]
UN Sec Gen’s ‘advice to India amounts to asking for its virtual de-industrialisation and stagnation’
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/reject-this-inequitable-climate-proposal/article32634171.ece Reject this inequitable climate proposal By T. Jayaraman and Tejal Kanitkar The UN Secretary General’s recent advice to India amounts to asking for its virtual de-industrialisation and stagnation The UN Secretary General António Guterres’s call for India to give up coal immediately and reduce emissions by 45% by 2030 is a call to de-industrialise the country […]
‘Sidelined’: Young climate activists ‘concerned’ that ‘climate change is being neglected during COVID-19’
"We're still hurtling towards climate catastrophe" Young campaigners are making an urgent plea for action on climate change, fearing the issue has been sidelined in the time of coronavirushttps://t.co/FHADGeNzhT pic.twitter.com/i3KoP1YSpk — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 17, 2020 # https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-54572398 Some of the UK’s most prominent young environmental campaigners are making an urgent plea for […]
Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Little Ice Age
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/arctic-sea-ice-linked-to-little-ice-age/ by Ron Clutz Elise Kjørstad writes at Science Norway What actually started the Little Ice Age? Excerpts in italics with my bolds. It all may have started with sea ice, and the changes may have happened all by themselves without the influence of volcanoes or the Sun, researchers behind a new study say. The ninth century seems […]
Physicist: How Clouds Hold the Key to Global Warming
https://www.scienceunderattack.com/blog/2020/11/2/how-clouds-hold-the-key-to-global-warming-64 By Physicist Dr. Ralph Alexander One of the biggest weaknesses in computer climate models – the very models whose predictions underlie proposed political action on human CO2 emissions – is the representation of clouds and their response to global warming. The deficiencies in computer simulations of clouds are acknowledged even by climate modelers. Yet cloud […]
Flashback 1923: Experts predicted that Glacier National Park would be ice-free by 1948
https://twitter.com/Tony__Heller/status/1329477933405093893
State AGs, DC Swamp Preparing Biggest End-Run in History — ‘Green New Deal’ with No Legislation, No Rulemaking Process, Just a Sweetheart Consent Decree
https://govoversight.org/exposed-return-of-sue-and-settle-state-ags-dc-swamp-preparing-biggest-end-run-in-history-green-new-deal-with-no-legislation-no-rulemaking-process-just-a-sweetheart-con/ By CHRIS HORNER Activists who came up with plan now on Biden EPA transition team As reported in the Wall Street Journal, a trail of emails between progressive state attorneys generals (AG) offices and former Obama-Biden and career Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials – obtained over nine months by Energy Policy Advocates’ dogged public record requests – […]
Get ready: In a declared ‘climate emergency,’ you can’t fly commercial unless it is ‘morally justifiable’ – Activist Holthaus sets rules for the ‘use for luxury aviation emissions in a climate emergency’
1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions. and, as it turns out, nearly all of those business trips weren't necessary. seeing loved ones is pretty much the only morally justifiable use for luxury aviation emissions in a climate emergency.https://t.co/0V5jaNLqSp — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) November 18, 2020 More than half of Americans never […]
If the ‘Great Reset’ really is so good for us, let’s hold a referendum on it, so it can have a democratic mandate (or not)
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/507336-great-reset-world-economic-forum/ If the ‘Great Reset’ really is so good for us, let’s hold a referendum on it, so it can have a democratic mandate (or not) By Neil Clark The World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ and associated Fourth Industrial Revolution would, if implemented, mean far deeper changes to our everyday lives than Brexit, yet is […]
Flashback 2014: ‘Why Secretary of State John Kerry Is Flat Wrong on Climate Change’
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/20/a-must-read-why-secretary-of-state-john-kerry-is-flat-wrong-on-climate-change/ By Dr. Richard McNider and Dr. John Christy In a Feb. 16 speech in Indonesia, Secretary of State John Kerry assailed climate-change skeptics as members of the “Flat Earth Society” for doubting the reality of catastrophic climate change. He said, “We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists” and “extreme ideologues to […]