What can we learn from a car designed for Madagascar?

Design is political. As Caroline Criado Perez has described in her book Invisible Women, most design work is carried out by men, who use themselves as the basis for what they create. The result is mobile phones optimised for larger hands, for example. Crash test dummies are based on male bodies, leading to cars that […]

Ukrainian diplomat fears ‘terrible summer’ ahead

The country’s troops may have to pay a “terrible price” in a planned counteroffensive, envoy Vadim Pristaiko said Ukraine could suffer heavy losses during its much-anticipated counteroffensive against Russia, Vadim Pristaiko, Kiev’s ambassador to the UK, warned on Thursday. In an interview with British broadcaster ITV, the diplomat said: “I know that it can be […] Ukrainian

annual-climate disaster-story-surfaces-yet-again

This story about 1.5°C threshold has no basis in science and is just a political invention designed to hasten the implementation of Net Zero. Suggestions that the planet will encounter ‘tipping points’ are pseudoscientific fear-mongering produced by climate models fed with improbable climate data. Read it all here:  ‘1.5°C Temperature Disaster’ Story Makes its Annual Media Appearance […]

Misery Guaranteed: Net Zero CO2 Emissions Targets Mean Taxing Prosperity Out of Existence — Iowa Climate Science Education

As the wind and solar ‘transition’ implodes, the response is to tax the life out of anything still moving, crushing power consumers and taxpayers in the bargain. Ronald Reagan’s quip about how governments treat their economies: “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it” is […]

Takeaways from the U.N.’s Climate Change Conference — Climate- Science.press

The United Nations’ COP27 climate change summit has concluded, bringing another year of doomsday predictions, destructive policy promises, and a sharp uptick in private jet use. As the 27th summit, one may expect that delegates would stop sounding the alarm as predictions prove false again and again. Instead, we’re left with promises of climate reparations… Takeaways

Green Energy Cabal Blind to Africa’s Medical Horror Show — Iowa Climate Science Education

By Vijay Jayaraj When the political elite call for Africa and other developing nations to adopt absurd green energy objectives, consider that they already have blood on their hands. Those discouraging the use of fossil fuels in Africa in favor of wind and solar have played a direct role in high morbidity and mortality rates […]

Sea Level Is Rising – But So What? — Iowa Climate Science Education

By Julius Sanks A good way to distinguish between a reasonable climate discussion and fear-mongering is to examine the data. Fear-mongering will contain incomplete data, or none at all. The person mongering fear expects us to take the claim on faith. But we don’t have to. Sometimes it is ridiculously easy to check the claim. […]

India is Buying Up Cheap Sanctioned Russian Oil and Selling it to the U.S. and E.U. at Huge Profits — Climate- Science.press

By Paul Homewood That worked well then!! India is buying up cheap sanctioned Russian oil, refining it, then selling it to the US and EU for huge profits, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The US has reluctantly given India permission to buy Russian oil because India has threatened to ditch their… India

Spatial variation in soil respiration is determined by forest canopy structure through soil water content in a mature beech forest —

Spatial variation in soil respiration is determined by forest canopy structure through soil water content in a mature beech forest https://ift.tt/3AdQfEs Spatial variation in soil respiration is determined by forest canopy structure through soil water content in a mature beech forest Highlights • Soil respiration (SR) showed spatial variation with a coefficient of variation (CV) […]

Scientists Trained Cows Where To Pee. It Could Help The Environment —

Scientists Trained Cows Where To Pee. It Could Help The Environment https://ift.tt/3AgbIfY Turns out cows can be potty trained as easily as toddlers. Researchers in Germany put the task to the test and 11 out of 16 cows learned to use the “MooLoo” when they had to go. (Image credit: Thomas Häntzschel/FBN via AP) Superforest […]