Markwadsworth

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• Ventilator Blues*

  

  From The Daily Mirror: Under-funding over a decade means NHS is lacking equipment and intensive care doctors - the government now wants factories to switch up... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2020 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (25)

  The tired old arguments are being trotted out again: From City AM: DEBATE: Is now [i.e. during coronavirus pan{dem)ic] the time for the UK to trial a temporary... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2020 DEBATE

• The Gospel According to St Greta?

  In a comment on a previous post, Lola opined "The whole thing has more in common with the selling of Indulgences and the Mediaeval Catholic church than... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2020 DEBATE

• Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside.

  From Cleantechnica: Americans are obsessed with living by the ocean, just as are people in most other countries around the world. Followers of Darwin believe... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2020 DEBATE

• Is There a Pattern Here? (Clue: No, Not Really)

  The Centre for Disease Control lists the main influenza pandemics since 1918. They happened in: 1918 1957-58 1968 2009 to which we can now add: 2019-20 I... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2020 DEBATE

• A Headline Worthy of The Daily Mash

  From The Times: Isis issues coronavirus travel advice: terrorists should avoid Europe The Isis terrorist group is steering clear of Europe because of the... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2020 DEBATE

• The Barometric Formula

  There is a good explanation of how this can be derived on Math24.net. it boils down to: P at height h = Pressure at sea level x e^-(mgh/RT) This looks slightly... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2020 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers: Gravity, Altitude, Pressure and Temperature.

  I hope we've all learned something new this week, it has been a slog! If you don't understand why this relationship holds on the basis of... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2020 DEBATE

• Vertical Pressure Variation - In the Context of Earth's Atmosphere

  WikipediaMain article: Barometric formulaIf one is to analyze the vertical pressure variation of the atmosphere of Earth, the length scale is very significant... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2020 DEBATE

• "What Is The Temperature in a Vacuum Chamber?"

  

  The rule of thumb that a thermometer measures the 'number of times molecules bump into it (per unit of time)' is borne out in practice (or the number of times... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2020 DEBATE

• OK, One Last Attempt at Summarising the Gravity Thermal Effect...

  ... this topic has been bugging me all weekend. The source of my ire is statements like this: "Certain gases in the atmosphere are transparent to the incoming... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2020 DEBATE

• Celebrity Chuggers

  From the Guardian Caitlyn Jenner and Harry Redknapp have both accepted thousands of pounds in return for backing a fake charity set up by Channel 4 in a sting... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2020 DEBATE

• The Gravito-Thermal Greenhouse Effect...

  ... explained over here. Do I claim to truly 'understand' it? No of course not, but it seems highly plausible and accords with everything else we know, such as... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2020 DEBATE

• Calm, Dispassionate Scientific Language...

  From Science Alert: The paper, titled "Oscillations of the baseline of solar magnetic field and solar irradiance on a millennial timescale," led by mathematicia... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2020 DEBATE

• Who Are the Actual Science Deniers?

  The 'consensus' narrative starts off with statements like this by the BBC: Solar energy radiating back to space from the Earth's surface is absorbed by... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2020 DEBATE

• That's the Second Time This Week...

  .. that City AM publishes an article which mentions LVT in a positive light: First Homes is a flawed solution to three very different problems Stamp duty land... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2020 DEBATE

• Homeys and Faux Libs Talking Crap, as Per Usual.

  From City AM: To combat the problem of housing affordability, the mayor will advocate creating a private rental commission to implement and oversee rent control... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2020 DEBATE

• How to Undermine Your Own Argument.

  From City AM: Plans have been drawn up by the Treasury to hit businesses with a £2.7bn tax rise in this month's budget. Nope. Businesses don't and won't pa... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2020 DEBATE

• "The Science Is Settled"

  No it's not. They can't address the most simple and obvious contradictions and omissions. It is often repeated by sources such as the BBC that Solar energy... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2020 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter of The Day

  From The Metro: I may be in a minority here but I don't understand the panic about coronavirus. We are told flu kills around 20,000 a year in the UK alone. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2020 DEBATE