Johnson does have a point though, albeit overegged. Plastic recycling doesn't work very well, and it would be much better to avoid using plastics as much as possible as well as reusing them a lot mor… (View Post)

No, it clearly isn't world-beating by any measure. It may be world-beating by some measures, but those measures don't include development time (Pfizer was out first) or, it seems, efficacy (Pfizer se… (View Post)

The problem is that the intersection of the Venn diagram of those who wear masks and those who haven't been vaccinated is likely to be very small. (View Post)

Yes, that was Richard Muller and the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project. He was a sceptic who believed that there were problems with the reconstruction of global temperature from station read… (View Post)

The main positive feedback effect from melting ice caps is the consequent reduction in the Earth's albedo (ice reflects solar radiation); they contain only a very small amount of CO2. However melting… (View Post)