Global warming and its effect on the Arctic seems to be regarded as recent phenomena but sixty years ago scientists were already concerned about reports of loss of ice cover in the Arctic Ocean and…
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OK, stop laughing. No, please, let’s have some order. Andrea Leadsom is complaining that the Times has misquoted her. Well, no surprise there then but a revealed transcript is being taken by either side in…
Tory candidates for PM keep saying the EU Referendum gave a clear result for leaving the EU. Really? Here are the results expressed as a percentage of the total electorate: Leave: 37.44% Remain: 34.71% ‘Abstained’:…
Back in 1969, I attended a talk by N E Davis covering 100-year cycles he’d found in our local (English? UK?) seasonal temperatures. One thing that was apparent was that the cycles were out of…
I read in the New Scientist a little while ago that scientists had discovered the best way to cut toenails in order to avoid them ingrowing. As I recall, it involved cutting the nail in the shape…
This is just a test of putting images from LibreOffice Calc in a blog. I’ve just copied a section of a spreadsheet page, pasted into GIMP and then exported it as a PNG image. Let’s…
Why The Big Chill made me hot under the collar. You probably have heard during the past dozen years of the “Ocean Conveyor” and how increased melting of Greenland glaciers could affect this “conveyor” in…