Category: Unsettled Science

The Sound Of Settled Science

AP News;

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.

Narrative Fatigue

Remember when you were around 40 times more likely to be hospitalized with Covid if you were unvaxxed? Or around 15 times more likely to get Covid?

It’s remarkable how little time it took for these ratios to head for the basement. Any bets on how long it will be until the fully vaxxed are more likely to acquire Covid or be hospitalized than unvaxxed?

This sure doesn’t sound like the results one should expect from an allegedly 98% effective product. But I’m sure the situation will be measurably improved by allowing only 250 people to attend a Jets game.

Website here.

Mug Punters

While Canadians bow down to every lockdown farce, some in the media are beginning to question it. Outside our borders of course. Dan Wootton on lockdown laws.

In other news, how many people living in Ottawa are idiots? Fighting colonialism in Ottawa.

And Extinction Rebellion is  dishonest when it comes to indigenous people.

Update: Warning, CBC link.  Apparently ferries are racist. No I’m not talking about people in Toronto.  B.C. ferries use the wrong unpronounceable Indian language.

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