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Prompted by an exchange on Titter beginning with that nice JA:  a pandemic is such a problem for the right, as it's an existential thre...

Just when you were bored with Covid, along comes a little light relief in the form of  A warning on climate and the risk of societal collap...

Once upon a time, before blogs and wiki and even before the web, there was Usenet; and on Usenet there was sci.environment. This was a looo...

What with Trump giving up, things were in danger of becoming dull, but happily the SCOTUS has come along to liven up our lives, by upholdin...

I can't answer that, but the Economist has a recent article  Are governments following the science on covid-19? Which has a chart of h...

ATTP, in Climate change doesn’t work like that , makes the conventional "the streets will be yards deep in horse shit" mistake: ...

After the intro , the next step really ought to be the development from there. But, perhaps the wars of ~2010 are of more interest; they ar...

Well, there's an election coming up - you may have noticed - so it is Time to Opine, thereby fixing my words in stone for posterity to ...

The latest installment in a long line of bollox. E&E News breathlessly tells us that Scientists at two of America's biggest auto...

Another Hollow Man shuffles off, though I don't have an RS for that 1 , only the Potty Peer . Oh, the shame. Does no one else notice, ...

Not so long ago, when I last wrote - the first of October - the Beeb was reporting " Covid-19: Growth in cases may be slowing in Engl...

Things are getting somewhat confusing. In our own parochial UK... no wait, in our own parochial East, things aren't too bad; we're o...

[Another incomplete draft, published at end of year. I didn't finish this, and it isn't as polished as I'd hope, but may be int...

The chapter on Rousseau begins with the witty Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), though a philosophe in the eighteenth-century French sense,...