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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXIII–Biophysical Economics
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXIII–Biophysical Economics Today’s post is courtesy of a fellow traveller (Schuyler Hupp) on the collapse road that I’ve had the pleasure of communicating with and learning from for a number of years via a mutual Facebook Group (Peak Oil). I present a recent post of his to this Peak Oil FB group […]
The Bulletin: February 20-26, 2025
The Bulletin: February 20-26, 2025 US Flies Bomber Group Over Middle East In Warning To Enemies | ZeroHedge Bizarre Symptoms of Societal Collapse Peak Oil. Food. Fascism. Collapse. Guest post: How the global ‘water gap’ will grow under climate change – Carbon Brief Bird study finds much larger volumes of toxic PFAS chemicals than previously […]
The Bulletin: August 30-September 5, 2024
The Bulletin, August 30-September 5 MM #18: What Can I Do? | Do the Math Japan Declares State of Emergency After ‘Nanobots’ Found in 96 Million Citizens – Global Research Will science and technology save us? – by Gunnar Rundgren “A NATO invasion of nuclear Russia is currently underway, and the world is unaware that […]
July 9, 2024 Readings
July 9, 2024 Readings The meme that is destroying Western civilisation Part V–Steve Keen Food Ecomodernism And The Emptying Of Politics, Part 1–Chris Smaje Global News Round-up: Let them Eat Bugs–Robert Malone After Leftist Lobbying, German Bank Kills AfD Donation Account–Armageddon Prose Weak Data Says a Recession Has Already Started, Let’s Now Discuss When – […]
Exposed: How Climate Racketeers Aim to Force Us into Smart Gulags
Exposed: How Climate Racketeers Aim to Force Us into Smart Gulags In Australia and NZ, “managed retreat” schemes could force people out of homes that “climate change” models render “uninsurable” Shocking evidence is emerging from Australia and New Zealand of how the climate scam is being used to impose a techno-totalitarian smart-city future. The criminocratic […]
The Dangerous Illusion of Scientific Consensus
The Dangerous Illusion of Scientific Consensus Join Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Rav Arora in their new independent media project. Science is the process by which we learn about the workings of material reality. Though modern innovations – built on the fruits of science – would look like magic to people living only decades ago, they […]
‘Gold mine’ of century-old wheat varieties could help breeders restore long lost traits
‘Gold mine’ of century-old wheat varieties could help breeders restore long lost traits Historic traits could make modern wheat more resilient to disease and other stressors Some of the historic wheat in a century-old collection was gathered from as far as Australia.KGPA LTD/ALAMY Table of contents A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXX–She Blinded Me With Science, and More on the ‘Clean’ Energy Debate…
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXX She Blinded Me With Science, and More on the ‘Clean’ Energy Debate… For whatever reason, I just can’t seem to help myself… The most relevant issue for the first part of this Contemplation is a loose definition and lack of agreement at the outset on what all of us involved […]
The Destiny of Civilization
The Destiny of Civilization From the cave to the stars…? Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash We live in dangerous times. Everything seems to be out of normal: stagnating economies, inflation, wars and an unfolding ecological and climate disaster. This is clearly not how things ought to be… While many just wave a hand and say, we will […]
Trust The “Science”…That Just Retracted 11,000 “Peer Reviewed” Papers
Trust The “Science”…That Just Retracted 11,000 “Peer Reviewed” Papers It’s yet another reminder of why blindly ‘trusting the science’ may not always be the best go-to move in the future. 217 year old Wiley science publisher has reportedly “peer reviewed” more than 11,000 papers that were determined to be fake without ever noticing. The papers […]
Gresham’s Law Comes for Science
Gresham’s Law Comes for Science Yves here. KLG below describes how science publications have become much less reliable over time, with the proliferation of “open access” journals part of the problem. As he said via e-mail: As science has hypertrophied, the bad is supplanted the good as spurious quantification of scientific research has come to […]
Science Snippets: Expect Extreme Weather Events
Science Snippets: Expect Extreme Weather Events Draft script: From Scientific American on 27 March 2024 comes this headline: Global Warming Is Slowing the Earth’s Rotation. Here’s the subtitle: “Drastic polar ice melt is slowing Earth’s rotation, counteracting a speedup from the planet’s liquid outer core. The upshot is that we might need to subtract a leap […]
Anti-Science? Scientific Reporting RE: Covid-19 mRNA vaccines
Anti-Science? Scientific Reporting RE: Covid-19 mRNA vaccines “Anti-Science” Accusations are Anti-Scientific “By trying to reduce “science” – which, by definition, explores doubts, complexity, and is in constant evolution – to simple messages set in stone, scientists can become the worse enemies of science.” Paul, Brown et al, “Who is anti-science”? We now know that a […]
Scientists Try Risky Air and Water Experiments Hoping to Stop Climate Change
Scientists Try Risky Air and Water Experiments Hoping to Stop Climate Change Scientists desperate to stop or reverse climate change are dumping chemicals in the ocean and spraying saltwater in the air. What can go wrong? I discuss the short and long term. The Wall Street Journal reports Scientists Resort to Once-Unthinkable Solutions to Cool the […]
Putting Science in its Place
Putting Science in its Place Photo by Noam R Although I might be described as a dyed-in-the-wool scientist, I’m about to say some things that are critical of science, which may be upsetting to some. It’s like those warnings on a movie or show: strong language, nudity, smoking, badmouthing science. So, before I lay into […]
