A recent post at Phys.org claims that a recent attribution study shows that climate change made April 2022’s flooding in South Africa “significantly” worse. [emphasis, links added]
“Chemistry – well, technically chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change…. But that’s all of life, right? It’s just the constant, it’s the cycle…. It is growth, then decay, then transformation. It is fascinating. Really.”
— Walter White, Breaking Bad
Let us review the state of climate pseudoscience and how Climate of Sophistry defeated it. I highly recommend that everyone study this essay as you will inevitably encounter these arguments when dealing with the climate change question online.
Electricity demand is set to grow by two thirds by 2050, a new report shows. This increased demand will be driven in the short term by the needs of data centres, according to the report by Pinergy and global insight business Wood Mackenzie.
Written by Ronald Stein P.E. and Yoshihiro Muronaka
Modern society depends on continuous, reliable electricity not only for lighting and appliances but also for transportation, industrial production, communication, and the maintenance of public health systems. [emphasis, links added]
In the U.S., around half of the food that people eat every day is ultraprocessed — industrially manufactured products, like chips or candy, that are made by breaking down whole foods, modifying and combining them with additives to make them more attractive in the way they look, smell and taste.
People could someday get a flu vaccine by flossing their teeth, according to a study published last week in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The authors of the study said their findings “establish floss-based vaccination as a simple, needle-free strategy that enhances vaccine delivery and immune activation.”
Over the past week, a troubling portrait of American healthcare came into sharper focus. From new calls to mandate vaccine passports for schoolchildren, to shocking revelations of organ harvesting on living patients, to legal shields protecting mRNA vaccine makers, and profiteering middlemen inflating drug prices—one thing is clear: the system is not serving the people it’s meant to protect.
An advance in medical care or an ethical minefield? Dr Ros Jones:
This news item from the Telegraph highlights part of the new NHS 10-year plan. The claim is that “Advances will allow people to avoid fatal diseases and receive personalised health care”
July 31, 2025 – The 8.8 magnitude megaquake is the joint-sixth largest earthquake ever recorded and the first tsunami waves have already hit Oahu, Hawaii.
The authors of a recent study of 1.2 million children claimed they found no link between the aluminum in vaccines and autism. However, corrected data now added to the study show the opposite is true, according to scientists with Children’s Health Defense.
In a sweeping new advisory opinion released July 23rd, 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has officially declared that states not doing enough to fight climate change may be held internationally liable for violating human rights.
UK Energy Minister, Michael Shanks’, claims last week that scrapping ‘net zero’, as Nigel Farage proposed, would cost a million jobs, were soon shown to be a fantasy when the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its own analysis of ‘green’ jobs the day after
During the first half of 2025, a new record was set for the number of deaths caused by climate and weather disasters. Can you guess what that record was?