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Hybrid cars emit way more pollution than advertised
Post Date: 2020-11-25 10:29:55 by Ada
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Top auto brands are getting smoked by environmental analysts who have found that their carbon emissions are much higher than what carmakers had reported. The European group Transport and Environment (T&E), which campaigns for renewable energy in transportation, found three top-selling plug-in hybrid SUVs — BMW’s X5, Volvo’s XC60 and Mitsubishi’s Outlander — are emitting 28% to 89% more carbon dioxide than advertised, even under ideal road conditions. “Plug-in hybrids are fake electric cars, built for lab tests and tax breaks, not real driving,” Julia Poliscanova, T&E’s senior director of clean vehicles, said in a press statement. ...
Are Temperatures And Ocean Levels Rising Dangerously? Not Really.
Post Date: 2020-11-23 08:39:36 by Ada
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There are two widely held climate-change beliefs that are simply not accurate. The first is that there has been a statistically significant warming trend in the U.S. over the last 20 years. The second is that average ocean levels are rising alarmingly due to man-made global warming. Neither of these perspectives is true; yet both remain important, nonetheless, since both are loaded with very expensive public policy implications. To refute the first view, we turn to data generated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the relevant years under discussion. The table below reports the average mean temperature in the continental U.S. for the years 1998 through 20 ...
The Godding of Dullards, the Death of Math and the Fall of America’s Premier High School
Post Date: 2020-11-22 08:57:34 by Ada
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Justice for Box Turtles! Reparations for Potted Plants! Headline “Fairfax school board eliminates admissions test at Thomas Jefferson High School” probably America’s most demanding school for science and technology. Oh god, Oh god. Who is on the school board? Predictably education majors, the dimmest, lowest SAT-scoring dregs of the professional classes, the horror of smart students subjected to their grade-school mentalities. But not just ed majors. Probably also psychologists, sociologists, bored housewives, and liberal-artsy painfully virtuous men alight with Civic Consciousness. Oh god. TJ, the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, is a jewel in the ...
Throwing Cats in Space
Post Date: 2020-11-18 18:53:17 by Esso
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Google Earth user spots dome-covered cave in Antarctica, sparking alien theories
Post Date: 2020-11-15 21:02:47 by Ada
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An eagle-eyed Google Earth devotee thinks there’s something odd going on in Antarctica. The self-proclaimed “Earth watchman” claims he spotted an air vent on top of a “metallic shield” in a no-fly zone on the icy continent. The keen observer posted a video on YouTube titled “HUGE Cave Opening Covered With an Iron Dome in Antarctica! – Appears to go DEEP Underground.” In his clip, Mr MBB333 estimates the area is over 150 feet wide — based on his measurement using Google Earth tools. Its two distinctive features: a pitch-black “opening” and a metal-like “shield.” “That looks like some sort of vent, a thermal vent that ...
The Crisis Wrecking Modern Science
Post Date: 2020-11-12 09:10:58 by Ada
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Biases toward exciting new results (and against negative ones) lead to widespread malpractice Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, by Stuart Ritchie, (Metropolitan Books: July 2020), 353 pages In 2011, psychologist Daryl Bem published a paper in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that claimed statistically significant proof of extrasensory perception (ESP). A patently ridiculous result had gotten into the professional literature. Stuart Ritchie, then a psychology graduate student at the University of Edinburgh, thought Bem had to be wrong. He and some colleagues redid Bem’s experiment—conducted a replication ...
Three 30m asteroids headed this way, but ‘planet-killer’ Bennu may be hollow & spinning itself to DEATH
Post Date: 2020-11-09 09:44:39 by Ada
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Three 30m asteroids headed this way, but ‘planet-killer’ Bennu may be hollow & spinning itself to DEATH After avoiding catastrophe on election day in the US, in the form of asteroid 2018 VP1 of course, NASA is now warning of another three space rocks headed this way, while also suggesting the ‘planet-killer’ Bennu may be hollow. As 2020 draws to a close, the threat from outer space remains as clear as ever, with three asteroids over 30 meters in diameter traveling Earth’s way this week alone, starting on November 10 with a double-header. Measuring roughly half the size of the Statue of Liberty (46m), asteroid 2020 UN3 will pass the planet at a safe distance ...
Under attack: The owner of a house struck five times by meteorites fears aliens are targeting him
Post Date: 2020-11-06 09:20:11 by Ada
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A Bosnian man whose home has been hit an incredible five times by meteorites believes he is being targeted by aliens. Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the rocks Radivoje Lajic has handed over were meteorites. They are now investigating local magnetic fields to try and work out what makes the property so attractive to the heavenly bodies. But Mr Lajic, who has had a steel girder reinforced roof put on the house he owns in the northern village of Gornja Lamovite, has an alternative explanation. He said: "I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. ...
Hello Winter My Cold Friend
Post Date: 2020-10-30 10:18:44 by Ada
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The unsustainable, corrupt, and brittle man-made global warming story is unraveling. Climate maniacs predicted a snowless world years ago. However, we have reports this week that the Northern Hemisphere snow mass is already 300 gigatons above the 1982-2012 average. This week hundreds of all-time cold records fell across North America. No heat, only frigid, deepening, and dangerous cold. The United States (Lower-48) just set its coldest temperature ever recorded this early in the season. Denver obliterated its all-time low-temperature record in weather books dating back 148 years. It is snowing in Hawaii! Winter is coming in hard and strong, with the cold reaching all the way to Mexico. ...
Who Owns Life? Canadian Farmer Sued by Monsanto
Post Date: 2020-10-27 16:02:29 by BTP Holdings
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Who Owns Life? Canadian Farmer Sued by Monsanto by Lynne Jackson This page last modified August 18, 2019 ALBANY, NY — The First Lutheran Church was the setting for the talk by Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian farmer being sued by Monsanto for patent infringement. Speaking to a standing room only crowd of more than 300, Percy spoke plainly and clearly about the lawsuit and what it means to everyone in the world. Percy described himself as a seed saver and seed developer. A seed saver is a farmer who saves seed from one year to the next so that he has seed to plant the next year, and does not need to buy seed. His crop was canola, also known as rapeseed. He and his wife Louise spent 50 ...
The Virus That Isn’t There, Genetic Sequencing, and the Magic Trick
Post Date: 2020-10-23 19:59:59 by Ada
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Recently, I’ve written a series of articles revealing that the existence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is unproven. I’ve quoted key CDC and study documents that confess “the virus is unavailable.” Which is like an ice company saying they have no access to water. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] I’ve published quotes from Dr. Tom Cowan’s major article [6] exposing how CDC journal authors “assemble” the idea of a virus from cobbled sequences they ASSUME are parts of SARS-CoV-2. (Below, I reprint my article on Dr. Cowan’s shocking findings.) Now, I want to make overall comments on the con, the game, the hustle. Wantdo Men’s Mil... Buy New $55.89 (as of 05:23 ...
Affordable US made AK-103!
Post Date: 2020-10-20 16:41:17 by Esso
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Post Date: 2020-10-19 13:45:29 by BTP Holdings
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Post Date: 2020-10-18 22:51:25 by Esso
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“But I Spoke With My Virologist Friend and He Said…”
Post Date: 2020-10-17 10:36:18 by Ada
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Dr. Scott Atlas, coronavirus advisor to President Trump: “History will record the faces of public health expertise, as some of the most sinful, egregious epic failures in the history of public policy. They have killed people, with their lack of understanding. The policy itself is a crime against humanity.” [1] Ever since I provided compelling evidence that no one has proved the COVID virus exists [2] [3] [4], I’ve been getting a sprinkling of messages from people: “My good friend, who is a virologist, says the virus is very real…” “My friend, a geneticist, says you don’t need to have an isolated specimen of the virus, as long as you’ve ...
Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50
Post Date: 2020-10-15 16:38:11 by Ada
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Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology It is not often that a comedian gives an astrophysicist goose bumps when discussing the laws of physics. But comic Chuck Nice managed to do just that in a recent episode of the podcast StarTalk. The show’s host Neil deGrasse Tyson had just explained the simulation argument—the idea that we could be virtual beings living in a computer simulation. If so, the simulation would most likely create perceptions of reality on demand rather than simulate all of reality all the time—much like a video game optimized to render ...
Perovskites could transform solar power
Post Date: 2020-10-14 10:15:35 by BTP Holdings
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Perovskites could transform solar power By Adrian Lydon, CNN Business 2 hours ago CNN logo Perovskites could transform solar power Solar energy is poised for what could be its biggest transformation in over half a century. a man standing in a room: Professor Henry Snaith, professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Oxford PV, and Dr Christopher Case, Chief Technology Officer, Oxford PV at work in the company's laboratory in the United Kingdom© Provided by CNN Professor Henry Snaith, professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Oxford PV, and Dr Christopher Case, Chief Technology Officer, Oxford PV at work in the company's ...
The Pentagon’s AI ‘ghost fleet’ is more than just scary — it’s unwise
Post Date: 2020-10-14 08:08:36 by Ada
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In an October address at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper unveiled the Pentagon’s plan for the future Navy, saying it would consist of over 500 warships — almost twice the number now in the U.S. inventory. A larger fleet was needed, he said, to counter the Chinese naval buildup and to ensure U.S. naval dominance well into the future. Esper indicated, however, that a Navy of 500 ships would not constitute an enlarged version of the current force — a feat probably far beyond the Navy’s fiscal and shipbuilding capabilities. Rather, it would contain approximately the same number of conventional warships now in the fleet ...
The Fake Coronavirus and the Missing Study: The Secret in Plain Sight
Post Date: 2020-10-13 08:52:39 by Ada
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NOTE: Readers have sent me electron microscope images of what are claimed to be “isolated COVID virus.” An image here, an image there—this is NOT the way science is done, as I will explain fully in this article. I have also been sent a CDC document that claims the COVID virus has been isolated. However, that document is dated two months earlier than the CDC document that admits they do not have the virus. So it means nothing. Last week, I wrote and published two articles (here and here) exposing the root of the poisonous tree: the CDC admits it does not have an isolated COVID virus. Therefore, SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic virus, has never been proved to exist. This ...
Renault's Backwards Car
Post Date: 2020-10-12 12:58:20 by Esso
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Poster Comment:This would be a good car for 2020. I want one.
"Trust the science, follow the expert advice"
Post Date: 2020-10-11 17:20:33 by Ada
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Thus we are instructed by our moral superiors. "Trust the science, follow the expert advice". But what if the science is unclear and the experts wrong? On Jan. 21, the day the first Covid-19 case in the U.S. was confirmed Anthony Fauci said the following on Newsmax TV: “This is not a major threat to the people of the United States, and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.” Shortly afterwards he said in an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine that Covid-19 would be no more dangerous than common influenza. Two months later he and CDC Director Robert Redfield proclaimed it to be "the ...
Killer whales orchestrating revenge attacks on boats off Spain
Post Date: 2020-10-11 09:30:35 by Ada
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Forget Jaws — this time it’s personal … for orcas. Killer whales off the coast of Spain are living up to their name, but instead of targeting great white sharks, pods of fish or seals as they have done in the past — they’re now after people and boats. Several scientists think the killers of the deep are attacking yachts and boats due to injuries several of them sustained over the summer from rudders, according to The Guardian. There have been at least 33 of the bizarre attacks in northern Spain, in the Strait of Gibraltar and off Portugal since July, in which the orcas surround small craft and deliberately ram the ships’ rudders, and attempt to tip them ...
The Woke Are Reversing the Compartmentalization of Science from Faith
Post Date: 2020-10-11 08:02:27 by Ada
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From a New York Times book review that provides a useful way to think about the Great Awokening’s “de-compartmentalization” of science from the Woke faith (“All races and genders are created equal, but some are more equal than others”) that is threatening scientists and thus science. BOOKS OF THE TIMES Modern Science Didn’t Appear Until the 17th Century. What Took So Long? By Jennifer Szalai Oct. 7, 2020 … “The Knowledge Machine,” a provocative and fascinating book by the philosopher Michael Strevens that mostly enthralled me, even as a couple of parts set my teeth on edge. … But human civilization has existed for millenniums, and ...
Gearhead Porn
Post Date: 2020-10-11 00:37:37 by Esso
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Stephen C. Meyer, Douglas Axe, Chuck Darwin, and Me
Post Date: 2020-10-10 20:22:15 by Ada
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Three Evolutionary Siege Howitzers and a Popgun This is a much-updated version of a previous column on evolution, is atrociously long, criminally even, by internet standards but I post it anyway because I get occasional requests. Few will read it, which is understandable. Apologies. The Devil made me do it. I will get transcendently stupid email saying that I am a snake-handling primitive Christian in North Carolina with three teeth. Actually, I do believe that all humans descend from one man and woman (Deucalion and Pyrrha). The Bugs in Darwin “A scientist is part of what the Polish philosopher of science Ludwik Fleck called a “thought collective”: a group of people ...
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