Markwadsworth

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• The Facts Haven't Changed; the Logic Hasn't Changed.

  From the BBC: Ministers are considering a short extension to the five-month ban on landlords evicting tenants in England. From Monday, courts are due to resume... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2020 DEBATE

• Don't Blame the Algorithm, Blame the People Who Designed It.

  One idle thought I'd had was, if we are going to allow teachers to hand out GSCE and A-level grades, a good way to prevent grade inflation (or deflation) would... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2020 DEBATE

• "The Alternative to Dark Matter May Be General Relativity Itself"

  See article at Astrobites. As I was saying all along: 1. Gravity bends light, which is why we get gravitational lensing of light. 2. Gravity waves travel at... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2020 DEBATE

• What's the Point of Making a Computer with Only Two USB Ports?

  

  I had to upgrade my tech at the start of lockdown for Zoom meetings and so on. The online reviews said it only had three USB ports, it turns out it only has two. Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2020 DEBATE

• We Own Land, Give Us Money!

  Emailed in by Lola, from The Telegraph: Landlords, shops and restaurants have joined forces to ask the Government to step in and pay commercial rents to help... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2020 DEBATE

• Daily Energy Budget for 1 m2 Dry Land

  

  The IPCC 'global energy budget' is flawed at worst and misleading at best. This has taken me several months to understand and work out, but here it is. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2020 DEBATE

• Can You Spot Which Country Had a Lock Down and Which One Didn't?

  

  From Worldometers.info: To make a fair comparison, population of UK is about seven times as much as population of Sweden, so Sweden peak 100 daily deaths is... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2020 DEBATE

• Why I Love Skeptical Science

  

  Here's their supposed debunk: Climate Myth: CO2 lags temperature "An article in Science magazine illustrated that a rise in carbon dioxide did not precede a ris... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2020 DEBATE

• Ned and Karl on The Moon

  

  Figures and chart taken from the snappily titled On the average temperature of airless spherical bodies and the magnitude of Earth’s atmospheric thermal effect... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2020 DEBATE

• Pupil B Recants, Or Maybe Not.

  Pupil B's homework was ripped to shreds by a warmist and a lukewarmist. Highlight: "[Having calculated the effective temperature of the cloud-free hard surface... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2020 DEBATE

• Greenhouse Effect, What Greenhouse Effect?

  It's homework time at Science Academy. Teacher has explained to the class about solar radiation, albedo, Stefan-Boltzmann constant, all that stuff. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2020 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (481)

  I might have done this before, but it's worth repeating. The KLNs go something like this, "The future LVT would be capitalised into a massive one-off tax hit... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2020 DEBATE

• Joined up Government - a Waitress Speaks.

  Her Indoors and I ventured out for breakfast yesterday. The waitress asked us to download their chain's app so that we place our orders online, and returned a... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2020 DEBATE

• A Survivor from a Parallel Apocalyptic Universe Speaks...

  From the BBC: A new campaign called "Badvertising" is demanding an immediate end to adverts for large polluting cars... Andrew Simms, one author, said: "We ende... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2020 DEBATE

• More Climate-related Fun

  

  1. Those experiments with a container filled with CO2 These date back to Eunice Foote and later John Tyndall in the 19th century. There are plenty of videos on... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2020 DEBATE

• Once More Unto the Motherlode...

  From Skeptical Science, another failed debunking which is so piss-poor that it makes whatever it is they are trying to debunk seem more plausible: Over the... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2020 DEBATE

• Why a Bit More CO2 Won't Make Any Measurable* Difference to Anything

  

  From the motherlode: The greenhouse effect works like this: Energy arrives from the sun in the form of visible light and ultraviolet radiation. The Earth then... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2020 DEBATE

• "Couple Injured After Being Attacked by Cow in the Yorkshire Dales"

  Via @AmbushPredator, from The Yorkshire* Post: The man and woman, aged in their 50s, were walking near Starbotton in Upper Wharfedale when the incident... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2020 DEBATE

• Coronavirus - Daily New Cases v Daily New Deaths

  

  From worldometers.info: There are lots of ways you can interpret that. I'm quite sure that some countries under-report and others over-report, but let's assume... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2020 DEBATE

• Weekly Deaths - All Causes - E&W - up to Week 29

  

  Data from the ONS. I assume/hope that this will be pretty much the picture for the rest of the year i.e. a slight undershoot. Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2020 DEBATE