It's horrible but hardly unexpected. Throughout history, suspected collaborators have always fared badly in the chaotic power vacuum that ensues when an occupying force withdraws. (View Post)

Someone needs to have a word (heh!) with my local health centre, which insists on sending me messages in some archaic .doc format that all of my mobile apps (even MS Word) struggle to read. (View Post)

Probably for fear of alienating the Jewish vote in the US, which was already suspicious of the Democrats. When Trump did it, they didn't really have any choice but to go along with it. Paradoxically,… (View Post)

The dilemma is that humanity cannot extract and burn all the remaining exploitable reserves of oil and gas without seriously disrupting the Earth's climate. Some of it has to be left in the ground, o… (View Post)

Literally nobody thinks you can treat historical readings with the same certainty as modern readings. In fact, a huge amount of past climate reconstruction work consists of working out how to compens… (View Post)