Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study links changes in regionalized air pollution across the globe to storm activity going both up and down. A 50% decrease in pollution particles and droplets in Europe and the U.S. is linked to a 33% increase in Atlantic storm formation in the past couple decades, while the opposite is happening in the Pacific with more pollution and fewer typhoons, according to the study published in Wednesday’s Science Advances.
NOAA hurricane scientist Hiroyuki Murakami ran numerous climate computer simulations to explain change in storm activity in different parts of the globe that can’t be explained by natural climate cycles and found a link to aerosol pollution from industry and cars — sulfur particles and droplets in the air that make it hard to breathe and see.
Spring Fever
h/t DeNihilist
They Told Me There Wouldn’t Be Any Math
What it looks like when you use real numbers.
Sheldon Yakiwchuk- “BASE RATE FALLACY”, they Screech…
Seriously, one of the most unintelligent conversations going on, with those still clinging to being vaccinated, is the Base Rate Fallacy Claim. Somebody pulled out a Crayola drawing and now it’s so common, you almost get a nosebleed just looking at the ignorance behind it.
Because the pool of ‘Vulnerable to COVID’ was diluted in the vaccine effective metrics by governments coercing a majority of the population into getting a medical treatment for a virus that 99.9x% of the population would have survived without…the people who were complete assholes to everybody else based on their virtue signalling how many jabs they have, they’ve used this completely moronic logic to try and back up this failed claim.
It’s embarrassing and really stupid.
Baby Boosters
eugyppius- The Booster Campaign Has Been A Stupid Thing
el gato malo- none of the “experts” really believed this #4,291
el gato malo- blaming the victim
The HighWire with Del Bigtree- Geert Vanden Bossche predicts a coming catastrophe
Mark Steyn- The Vax Scandal
My “Truth” is nothing but THE TRUTH™
Jonathon Kay- When Disagreement Becomes Trauma
How does one deal with those who claim that debate itself represents an agony beyond human endurance?
Like the report as a whole, the supplied definition of “truthing” contained within is written in a way that makes dissent impossible: It is “the act of stating truths on subject matter considered difficult and/or dangerous knowledge, in contexts of hyper policing, surveilling, and micro-managing of racialized bodies … while simultaneously addressing power relations and injustices which actively interrogate the discomfort, denial, disavowal, erasure, and censure that accompanies truthing the subject-matter.” In other words, to refute a truthing isn’t an act of mere disagreement, but rather a symptom of the truth-denier’s bigotry and intellectual dishonesty.
What Would We Do Without Experts?
Meet Dr. Brad Spellberg, MD “healthcare policy expert” and “expert in infectious diseases.”
… this walking bastion of purported expertise has been too frightened to fly for two years despite functionally zero spread events on planes.
he’s afraid now and possibly mentally unsound due to alleged covid PTSD. (or maybe just likes the performance art of claiming to be so traumatized.)
his move to decide whether to fly:
read some studies? nope.
assess some data? nope.
hey, let’s poll the twitter audience!
Politicized Normality
When governments start measuring things…
eugyppius- Reminder: Respiratory viruses infect huge numbers of people all the time, and nobody cared about this until 2020
Liberals have other ideas.
Your Daily Dose of Deena
Poop patrol.
https://twitter.com/realmonsanto/status/1517565429153214464
The Sound Of Settled Science
A 2021 study appearing in Nature Communications by Buentgen et al reports on the results of a double-blind experiment of 15 different groups that yielded 15 different Northern Hemisphere summer temperature reconstructions. Each group used the same network of regional tree-ring width datasets…
h/t Don
Cancel The Road Trip
True North- US extends border ban on unvaccinated, so some Canadians are still trapped
Masks Forever!
City Journal- The Failed Covid Policy of Mask Mandates
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Then there’s the hypocrites.
Ottawa Citizen- Attaran and Shelley: How Kieran Moore, Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau all broke the Quarantine Act
And the psychopaths’
Sun- Toronto teacher under investigation for hostile mask email
Thought For The Day
How comes there’s an official psychiatric Oppositional Personality Disorder diagnosis but not one for compulsively going along with every order you receive and then wanting more orders to go along with when those run out? How come they’ve medicalized dissent but not compliance?
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) April 19, 2022
The Sound Of Settled Science
This Indian study showed that for every extra 1ppm CO2, wheat yields increased by 370,000 tonnes. https://t.co/VVCVeqPtyQ pic.twitter.com/ucTLZEJf1P
— DonKeiller (@KeillerDon) April 13, 2022
Next Pandemic Gonna Be So Woke
U of T’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health launches Institute for Pandemics
“The strength that DLSPH brings to this battle is the exceptional intersectionality built from the ground up,” says Sabina Vohra-Miller, the foundation’s co-director. “The Institute for Pandemics takes a holistic view of the pandemic, focusing not just on the current situation, but also on resilience and recovery, using a health equity lens as a key driver.
h/t Scott
We’re All In This Together
Toronto Star- Private schools, large firms won big in Ontario’s rapid testing program, while hot spots lost out
Over the next 10 months, however, just one-fifth of the 20.7 million taxpayer-funded COVID-19 rapid tests distributed through the program went to hot spot neighborhoods, according to provincial data obtained by the Star and never before seen by the public. Private schools got more tests than paramedics, daycares, shelters and jails combined.
And Just Like That
Suddenly self reports via phone surveys are considered reliable information.
Eric Topol, virus moron, doesn't realise or doesn't care that these numbers are totally worthless, based on self-reports from representative surveys that don't even confirm seropositivity or positive SARS-2 test. https://t.co/ldBRuqZLb8
— eugyppius (@eugyppius1) April 8, 2022
“Close” Contact
Kissing someone doesn’t qualify as close contact, says Psaki. pic.twitter.com/vFLnP0GIbj
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 7, 2022
Follow The Science (And The Money)
Stories that you will never find in the establishment media, whether in the U.S. or Canada. The many sins of Anthony Fauci
Fringe Making
DarkHorse- “Fringe” scientists with Nobel prizes