Are we heading for a Grand Minimum?
If so, it will put to the test the CO2 climate thesis.
Category Archives: General Science
Asteroidal Resources
Just as when you’re pulling nickel out of the ground in Sudbury, when you use ocean water you’re mining asteroids. As I noted in my latest essay, the more we learn about the solar system, the more we discover that, as opposed to being what we long thought was “the water planet,” earth is a comparative desert. The water is mostly extraterrestrial.
To expand on Krafft Ehricke’s famous statement, if God had wanted us to become space faring, he’d have given us a moon. With water on it.
Irreproducibility
The Childrens’ Crusade
Thoughts on the modern version of it. What’s horrible is that children like Greta Thunberg are being terrified by leftist propaganda.
A New Grand Minimum?
What’s going on with the sun, and what does it mean for climate hysteria?
Faster Than Light
This is indeed an extraordinary claim. We’ll see, I guess.
California Major Earthquakes
We should have had one by now.
Another reason to move out, I guess. It would be a natural disaster on top of the unnatural one that is California voters.
Cats
…recognize their own names, even if they don’t bother to respond.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, statements like this never make any sense to me:
Saito says she thinks feline pets learn to recognize their names because of what is in it for them. “I think cats associated their names with some rewards or punishments,” she says—adding that she thinks it is unlikely the cats understand their names are attached to them. “There is no evidence that cats have the ability to recognize themselves, like us,” she explains. “So, the recognition about their name is different from ours.”
My emphasis. Gee, every time I see a cat ignore itself in the mirror, instead of treating the image like another cat, I think that’s evidence of ability to recognize itself.
Methane On Mars
I suppose it’s possible that this is an April Fools post, but I don’t think Leonard would do that.
Climate Sensitivity
What is the plausible worst case?