Challenging IChemE climate scaremongering
This basically means that the members are invited to submit comments. Given that many engineers are skeptical of the climate scare, it will be interesting to see if all of these comments are made public.…
Extinction Rebellion Lets the Veil Slip on their Political Agenda
Anyone who thinks Extinction Rebellion is about climate change should check out a banner they presented at their latest march.…
Horror UK Covid-19 Tax Rises Considered, while the UK Squanders Billions on Renewable Energy
My question – instead of punishing ordinary people by raising £30 billion of new taxes, why doesn’t the British Government plug their budget shortfall by cutting £30 billion of useless expenditure, by cancelling all subsidies for renewable energy, the foreign aid guarantee, and other assorted big government boondoggles?…
ExxonMobil “Cancelled” by The Wall Street Journal… Dumped From DJIA
Guest “WTF?” by David Middleton A couple of days ago Charles forwarded me a reader request for commentary on the recent decision to dump ExxonMobil from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The reader specifically mentioned me, possibly because I’ve been a geophysicist/geologist in the oil & gas industry since 1981. I replied that it’ll either……
The FAA Just Approved Amazon Delivery Drones
The FAA just approved Amazon to deliver packages by drone across the United States. But a small scale drone trial in Australia caused such a noise nuisance locals threatened to shoot the drones out of the sky.…
CDC Insights
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The recent CDC update contains some interesting insights. The big news being discussed is the following statement: Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For……