If you have not yet seen the BBC’s Decade of Discovery then you should see it on iPlayer before it expires. If you miss it you can read about it and watch clips here. It is a wonderful show because it helps to explain how science works and shows observable evidence for evolution. It is top stuff! In …
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Category:Climate Change
It’s All Natural…
I am grateful to Greenman3610, who regularly posts videos about the science of Global Warming on his YouTube channel. He listens to the arguments made on both sides and balances the evidence. There is still a great deal of public denial that a problem is developing but the overwhelming weight of the evidence suggests that …
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Urban Heat Islands
I have heard it said as one of the reasons that people dismiss Global Warming as a serious threat, that the temperature measurements are made on the outskirts of expanding towns and cities. These Urban Heat Islands (or UHIs) have grown over time and so the temperature readings have increased as a result. The picture …
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It’s Not Cool…
The Daily Mail yesterday repeated the myth that the planet has been cooling since 1998. The trouble with ‘man-made climate change’ is that it isn’t based on settled science, despite what the alarmists and their allies at the BBC would have us believe. There is a welter of countervailing evidence that, far from warming up …
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Copenhagen…
Sorry, but this is a long and wordy one. Carbon dioxide makes up about 0.038% of dry air. When I left Marlborough in 1987 it was 0.035% of the atmosphere; when my father left the same establishment in 1958 the value was 0.031%. These changes might seem very small but CO2 has a remarkable ability …
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35 Inconvenient Truths…
In October 2007, Lord Monckton of Brenchley published a response to Al Gore’s book and movie “An Inconvenient Truth”. In it Lord Monckton cites 35 errors in the movie. This came on top of a British judge decreeing that the film contained nine errors that needed to be clearly explained if it was to be used as a teaching aid …
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Is Climate Change Our Fault…
I have had recent correspondence asking me my view on Climate Change. I wouldn’t give my opinion but asked the commenter to say what they thought or had heard. They replied in some detail – although I am assured that there is more to come. I have asked if I could address a couple of the points …
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U.S. President…
I was somewhat alarmed to read this morning the news that Donald Trump is the front-runner in the race for nomination to lead the Republican Party in the next US presidential election. As things stand he has about twice the number of votes of his nearest rival. He is not enjoying the kind of dominance that …
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Sulphur Dioxide…
When sulphur burns, or when compounds that contain sulphur burn such as coal and oil, sulphur dioxide gas is released. SO2 is a choking, foul smelling and acidic gas which contributes to acid rain. It is released naturally as a decay product of dead plants and animals and, more significantly, when volcanoes erupt. The sulphur …
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Condensation…
When water vapour meets the glass of a beaker containing cold water or ice it condenses into a liquid, forming droplets of water on the outside of the glass. If you heat a beaker of water with a Bunsen flame, water vapour produced by the flame initially condenses on the cold surface of the beaker. …
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