A New Year’s Look At WUWT

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Today, as the result of a series of wrong turns and bad choices, I ended up at the Wikipedia entry for Watts Up With That.……

The relative infectivity of the new UK variant of SARS-CoV-2

The apparent rapid growth in England of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 has led to dire warnings by those advising the UK government. Their advice suggested only that the new variant was more transmissible (more infective), not that it was more virulent (causes more serious illness). Nevertheless, it resulted in swift (many would say panicky) actions first by the UK government and then by governments of many other countries.…

Shaping a Spiral Galaxy

The magnetic fields align along the entire length of the massive spiral arms — 24,000 light years across (0.8 kiloparsecs) — implying that the gravitational forces that created the galaxy’s shape are also compressing the its magnetic field.…

Stargate Atlantis and “The Cause”

But here is the interesting part. In the introduction to this episode, Tunney (Harry Anderson), has a conversation with his funder about the safety of the project and its goal, being “The Cause”, more than a year before the Climategate emails were revealed to the public. Take a look.…