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Mark Wadsworth
http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/
Politics, economics, humour, cow-attacks and Land Value Tax.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )
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Water, Water Everywhere
From the Arizona Daily Independent: Water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas, but its net effect in the atmosphere is to lower temperatures party because of... Read more
Posted on 27 May 2020 DEBATE -
Climate Science - as Easy as A, B, C.
I have spent another few days trying to reconcile all the logical and mathematical contradictions in Alarmist climate science, and it is impossible. Read more
Posted on 25 May 2020 DEBATE -
Weekly Deaths - All Causes - E&W - 2020 - up to Week 19
Data from the ONS. My assumption is that at some stage later in the year, the red line will be undershooting the other two. But we shall see. Read more
Posted on 24 May 2020 DEBATE -
Hydroxychloroquine
This whole topic is fascinating. Donald Trump just plucked it out of nowhere. Outlets like The Guardian poured scorn on the idea (this article is a joy to read). Read more
Posted on 23 May 2020 DEBATE -
Missing Figures - How to Make the IPCC's Figures Add up
Their 'energy budget' was the topic of my two previous posts. If you summarise it, you get the following table: That is the average for any 24-hour period in... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2020 DEBATE -
Missing Figures Round - How Do You Make the IPCC's Figures Add Up?
Here's our baseline energy budget, averaged over 24 hours. I have been battling with this for the past 48 hours (hence no post yesterday) and have pinned down... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2020 DEBATE -
Sunny Side Up!
From researchgate.net, a diagram showing how the total amount of radiation received at the Earth's surface is more than incoming solar radiation: Fair enough,... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2020 DEBATE -
"Lecture 6: Stability [in the Atmosphere]"
After much Googling, I have finally found somebody who looks at the bigger picture. From The University of California, Irvine (pdf), slide #5: What Happens to... Read more
Posted on 17 May 2020 DEBATE -
Council Tax Non-logic
Home-Owner-Ist logic says that "council tax pays for local services", which is why there is a single person's discount and many councils offer discounts for... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2020 DEBATE -
Cars and Garages
Thank you to everyone who took part in the Fun Online Poll, good turnout. Which of the following apply to you (multiple answers allowed)? Read more
Posted on 14 May 2020 DEBATE -
Call for Council Tax Relief on Empty Landlord Properties
https://www.property118.com/call-for-council-tax-relief-on-empty-landlord-properties Predictable that the NRLA would ask for this. All sorts of things wrong of... Read more
Posted on 14 May 2020 DEBATE -
Yup, as I Already Said.
For example here. From the BBC: People working in social care in England and Wales have been twice as likely to die with coronavirus as the general working-age... Read more
Posted on 11 May 2020 DEBATE -
Weekly Deaths, England & Wales, All Causes, Week 1 to 17
Duly updated. It does look as if the headline 30,000 coronavirus-related deaths are all incremental additional deaths, not (as I was expecting) overlapping... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2020 DEBATE -
Random Conversation with a Care Home Worker
I got chatting to the lady shuffling along 2m behind me in the supermarket queue. The conversation turned to the coronavirus, as you might expect, and she told... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2020 DEBATE -
How to Work out the 'adiabatic Lapse Rate' Using Logic and Maths (instead of...
Some of my posts drag on a bit before the conclusion, so this time I will do bullet points first (with links to skip down to the fuller explanation). Read more
Posted on 09 May 2020 DEBATE -
Is There Life on Mars?
I doubt it, but what I do know is that it has an atmosphere: Despite the high concentration of CO2 in the Martian atmosphere [95%], the greenhouse effect is... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2020 DEBATE -
Somebody Please Make It Stop!!
Exhibit A, from the BBC: There are natural fluctuations in the climate but scientists say temperatures are now rising faster than at many other times. Read more
Posted on 06 May 2020 DEBATE -
More Climate Change Fun with the BBC
From the BBC: More than three billion people will be living in places with "near un-liveable" temperatures by 2070, according to a new study. Read more
Posted on 05 May 2020 DEBATE -
They Own Land! Give Them Money!
Apropos my comment on the last post "They own land! Give them money!", from The Guardian: London NHS Nightingale hospital will shut next week No 10 says decisio... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2020 DEBATE -
Give That Man Some Medals!
From The Daily Mail: A son has managed to nurse his coronavirus-stricken father back to health at home despite the 81-year-old being released from hospital to... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2020 DEBATE
