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New Green Deals, Junk Science

Written by Dr Tim Ball (Climatologist)

Energia verde, una tariffa luce per risparmiare ...

Here is what to do when the title is a lie. Confirm it also lies within the text. Confirm the lies in a historical and political context. Expose the lies and the people responsible.

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Relativity for Believers

Written by Herb Rose

What Would Happen if You Traveled at the Speed of Light ...

This article comes from a discussion of an article on black holes published in PSI.

It was clear from that discussion that some did not understand the consequences of a constant speed of light, relativity, time dilation, or special relativity.

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150 years ago, science changed forever

Written by Don Lincoln

Dentist: Are you Dmitri Mendeleev, the father of the ...
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the invention of the periodic table of elements, which epitomizes our modern understanding of chemistry.
Displayed on the wall of chemistry classrooms, it is a vast chart of over 100 elements, which is to say the chemical building blocks of every substance you’ve ever seen.

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Debunking The 97% Climate Consensus Nonsense

Written by James Taylor

Australian Government to Ban Free Scientific Inquiry on ...

During last week’s Natural Resources Committee climate hearings, an alarmist witness – I believe it was Deborah Bronk – smugly proclaimed that a ‘fair’ hearing would have 97 of her warmist allies testifying against three skeptics.

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Science over obedience, understanding over belief

Written by John O'Sullivan

What Company Owns Instagram? Five Companies Owned by ...

New Facebook open discussion group invites readers to engage in discussion on the position that contemporary science isn’t really science but obedience.

The argument follows one long made by skeptics of man-made global warming, and to a lesser extent, critics of government-funded cosmology.

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Breakthrough: Purifying Water using CO2

Written by Emily Nordvang

Estimates suggest that 1 in 10 people do not have access to safe drinking water. As the world population continues to increase, so does the demand for clean drinking water.

Current water purification technologies typically involve micro- or ultrafiltration processes to remove undesired particles.

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Australian Met Office Accused Of Man-Made Climate Change

Written by Graham Lloyd

sydney australia

The Bureau of Meteorology has rewritten Australia’s temperature records for the second time in six years, greatly increasing the rate of warming since 1910 in its controversial homogenized data set.

Rather than the nation’s temperature [showing it has] increased by 1C over the past century, the bureau’s updated homogenized data set, known as ACORN-SAT, now shows mean temperatures have risen by 1.23C.

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What Exactly is a Black Hole?

Written by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

What exactly is a black hole?

What is a black hole? In an article that has just appeared in the journal Nature Astronomy, LMU philosopher Erik Curiel shows that physicists use different definitions of the concept, depending on their own particular fields of interest.

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