Even if we were to burn the all the remaining fossil fuel reserves, it's unlikely that it would initiate a runaway greenhouse effect a la Venus. James Hansen used to think it would, but later calcula… (View Post)

I doubt that there's much point in trying to mitigate climate change now. The world simply doesn't have the political will to it. Trump and Putin clearly couldn't give a fuck. China and Europe are ma… (View Post)

According to a New Scientist article on the topic a few weeks ago, general scientific opinion remains that the cause of Covid-19 is very unlikely to have been a lab leak, but not impossible. If you h… (View Post)

My lad keeps calling me about it. He made a load of cash from crypto trading - enough to pay his uni fees and maintenance - a couple of years ago. He got back into it this Christmas, and had made him… (View Post)

My cryptocurrency-trading son is currently in a state of high excitement/agitation about the overnight release of Trump Coin. Apparently he woke up to find that his various crypto holdings had droppe… (View Post)