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Gaining traction, losing tread. Pollution from tire wear now 1,850 times worse than exhaust emissions. All of the following information comes from a s...
December 24, 2024 at 02:43
Global warming is usually measured by calculating the global average temperature anomaly of the Earth's surface. But people do not die just because th...
December 12, 2024 at 13:49
I am not sure what you mean by that Frank. Does that mean we can trust the information in the lecture, or that we should distrust it. In the summary t...
December 09, 2024 at 21:26
The climate change gravy train is rolling along. All aboard !!!
December 09, 2024 at 13:19
The climate of the Holocene Here is some information about the climate of the Holocene which climate change fanatics will refuse to believe. The infor...
December 09, 2024 at 12:57
I watched this video and saw the following text in the subtitles: And telling Bob who works over 40 hour weeks in an office job in a cold and gray Cit...
December 09, 2024 at 04:00
In 2022, 87% of New Zealand's electricity came from renewable sources. This is compared to around 25% renewable generation in neighboring Australia. T...
November 28, 2024 at 13:27
According to Google's AI overview: New Zealand doesn't currently offer government subsidies for solar panels, but there are other ways to support sola...
November 27, 2024 at 10:23
Is solar energy a good investment? SolarZero Limited, New Zealand’s biggest solar energy company, has announced its liquidation, citing unsustainable ...
November 27, 2024 at 04:20
Many people live in a fantasy world where they think that they can get energy for free. - solar power is not free - wind power is not free - getting e...
November 22, 2024 at 08:24
How long until it is used as a weapon?
November 20, 2024 at 09:04
Which forms of life should we respect? mammals - (eukaryotes - animals) birds - (eukaryotes - animals) fish - (eukaryotes - animals) reptiles - (eukar...
November 20, 2024 at 08:36
Alfred Lord Tennyson's phrase "red in tooth and claw" refers to the savage and merciless conflict in nature, or the struggle to survive in the wild. D...
November 18, 2024 at 12:57
Humanity is not a single entity. It is made up of many individuals who each have their own ideas about how to act. What is considered "ethical" is hig...
November 15, 2024 at 12:35
It is difficult to get a "scientist" to question something when their salary depends on believing it.
November 10, 2024 at 11:26
Those Who Do Not Learn History Will Think That Today's Climate Is Different To The Past New insights from Shakespeare’s England reveal striking parall...
November 09, 2024 at 10:41
Could you please explain what this statement means. In general the rain that falls causing a flood evaporated from the sea in the first place. So the ...
November 05, 2024 at 04:38
I fully accept that climate-change/global-warming (CC/GW) is happening. I don't accept that you can blame everything on CC/GW. When "scientists" blame...
November 05, 2024 at 04:31
I told you that I couldn't find flood frequency data for Valencia, but I did find flood frequency data for Catalonia Both Valencia and Catalonia are o...
November 05, 2024 at 04:09
Perhaps you avoided my evidence because it disagrees with your narrow-minded prejudice. I will repeat my evidence here for you to read. Compare the st...
November 04, 2024 at 11:49
You posted the following quote from the report: And you said that Valencia has a red dot on the map of "Projected changes in the frequency of coastal ...
November 04, 2024 at 11:28
Just because they could be right doesn't mean they are right. I have been in the IT industry for the last 40 years. I have been a programmer, a senior...
November 04, 2024 at 03:44
Frank, I think that you have too much faith in "super computers". "Super computers" run programs that are designed and written by people, possibly sci...
November 04, 2024 at 00:51
Have I touched a sore point? I gave plenty of evidence to support my view. Why don't you try to refute my evidence? The answer is obvious, you can't r...
November 04, 2024 at 00:39
My point is that "scientists" are not justified in saying that climate change made the 2024 Spanish floods worse. There have been floods as bad as, an...
November 01, 2024 at 12:28
It is a pity that "scientists" (including climate scientists) don't do a little bit of research about the history of floods in Spain before they make ...
November 01, 2024 at 09:44
When are "scientists" going to start reducing the rate at which they are increasing CO2 levels? COP29, the taxpayer funded annual holiday for climate ...
November 01, 2024 at 02:54
I think that most people suffer from the Dunning Kruger Effect to some degree. Most people overestimate their own expertise. This even applies to "int...
October 30, 2024 at 23:32
How long are you willing to wait to have a shower?
October 29, 2024 at 04:35
How can they get such good results when they are being destroyed by climate-change/global-warming? It appears that the threat from climate-change/glob...
October 28, 2024 at 10:20
So should we assume that everything that you say is sarcastic?
October 15, 2024 at 10:42
Please list the things that you think are "lies and propaganda". The YouTube video that you link to is a New Scientist weekly podcast (Oct 12, 2024). ...
October 15, 2024 at 06:55
Exactly !!! There is an enormous lack of critical thinking when it comes to global warming. Many people are gullible enough to accept what they are to...
October 11, 2024 at 19:59
The following information describes how the temperature at night can be higher than the temperature during the day. In certain circumstances it is pos...
October 11, 2024 at 03:44
Where is your evidence to support these statements?
October 09, 2024 at 05:54
You have given me the perfect opportunity to show how leaving out relevant details can create an incorrect picture or impression about what the truth ...
October 08, 2024 at 11:24
Kuwait has been in the news recently because of the record temperature recorded from Kuwait's Mitribah weather station. A "staggering" 54°C. Global-wa...
October 07, 2024 at 20:40
A picture is worth a thousand words. Are you claiming that the photo is not genuine? And questioning things is better than accepting them with your ey...
October 07, 2024 at 20:29
So you want to be surrounded by "yes men". Perhaps you should change your name to Donald Trump.
October 07, 2024 at 20:19
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth The absolute truth about something, without omission, embellishment, or alteration. One of the t...
October 07, 2024 at 04:42
@"unenlightened" I thought that you would be able to connect the dots. But apparently I was wrong. People like you try to create the impression that K...
October 06, 2024 at 11:11
Air conditioning demand in Kuwait 2011-2021 Published by Statista Research Department, Mar 22, 2024 In 2021, the demand for air conditioning devices i...
October 04, 2024 at 15:24
For a country that is supposedly "already more or less human uninhabitable in summer" the population growth is very high. In the year 2000 the populat...
October 04, 2024 at 09:26
I like to work in degrees Celsius. Your temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit is the same as 30 degrees Celsius. Here are the average summer temperatur...
October 03, 2024 at 11:12
You seem to waste a lot of time Mikie. :grin: Question: What do you call somebody who calls people "deniers" even though they don't deny climate chang...
September 21, 2024 at 05:33
There are only 2 sane people in the world, you and me. And I am beginning to have my doubts about you. :grin: There are many crazy people around. Prob...
September 20, 2024 at 12:57
Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years These are selected quotes from an article in The Washington Post. https://www...
September 20, 2024 at 11:43
The most uninteresting philosopher/philosophy is interesting because they are (or it is) the most uninteresting philosopher/philosophy. :chin:
September 15, 2024 at 10:43
Intelligent Beings Without Brains Are Abundant In Nature–A Growing Scientific Consensus
September 13, 2024 at 10:18
The new analysis predicts that the world population will likely peak in 2064 at around 9.7 billion, and then decline to about 8.8 billion by 2100--abo...
September 05, 2024 at 12:09