Current Affairs 🌡️ Weather / climate change

[MaybeTop8]

Isn’t the base science and what’s happening in the world just about facts?

yes and science is a discipline based on experiments, peer reviews and rigorous fact checking.

Once this paper, written by an economist who has right wing leanings follows the below framework I'll be happy to review it myself.

Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence.​

Scientific methodology includes the following:

• Objective observation: Measurement and data (possibly although not necessarily using mathematics as a tool)
• Evidence
• Experiment and/or observation as benchmarks for testing hypotheses
• Induction: reasoning to establish general rules or conclusions drawn from facts or examples
• Repetition
• Critical analysis
• Verification and testing: critical exposure to scrutiny, peer review and assessment

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Isn’t the base science and what’s happening in the world just about facts?

Everyone knows facts have a political bias

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Science has been hijacked for ideology for a hot minute.

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False - PMC

There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Classic case that’s been doing the rounds. So egregious was the fraud, the researcher left out obvious data that contradicted their hypothesis. Same goes with wage gap bs, inter generational trauma, and rest of the junk.

Why did it take four years to debunk the black baby study?

A study published this week in a prestigious journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, makes a claim that’s almost unheard of on the pages of leading medical journals: systemic racism and implicit bias are not the self-evident explanations for a pervasive racial disparity. To be...

unherd.com

 

[MaybeTop8]

Great news

Australian electric car market to get influx of new models as cheaper EVs hit the road

New utes, sports cars and hatchbacks will break price records at both ends as traditional brands release electric vehicles

www.theguardian.com

 

[miket12]

Great news

Australian electric car market to get influx of new models as cheaper EVs hit the road

New utes, sports cars and hatchbacks will break price records at both ends as traditional brands release electric vehicles

www.theguardian.com

Except if there's not the generation capacity to provide the power required so the unit price continues to rise.

 

[MaybeTop8]

Except if there's not the generation capacity to provide the power required so the unit price continues to rise.

Well yes! So let's build it! Let's tax the billionaires and the fossil fuel companies who should have been building this stuff in the first place!!!

LETS!!!

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Except if there's not the generation capacity to provide the power required so the unit price continues to rise.

Add on hidden taxes like road user charges, then mandatory V2G and watch the savings (and freedom) evaporate.

Aussies are just starting to get slugged with solar export charges and freaking out.

 

[miket12]

Well yes! So let's build it! Let's tax the billionaires and the fossil fuel companies who should have been building this stuff in the first place!!!

LETS!!!

Problem is without more capacity, more fossil fuels such as coal is used for power generation…. defeating the climate positives having more EV’s would have.

TBH, that’s one of the areas where the fast tracking of resource consents is working in that the majority of them have been for renewable power generation and power storage. Certainly not impressed with it being used for the Waihi Mine extension.

 

[MaybeTop8]

Add on hidden taxes like road user charges, then mandatory V2G and watch the savings (and freedom) evaporate.

Aussies are just starting to get slugged with solar export charges and freaking out.

The times they are a'climate changing Frank - all of these charges exist within a monopolistic neoliberalist fossil fuel driven mindset.

Regardless of the denial, we're all going to have to change. We just need to make sure the billionaires and giant corporates redistribute fairly

 

[MrFrankWhite]

We just need to make sure the billionaires and giant corporates redistribute fairly

Spoken like someone who knows nothing about energy markets. Solar panels and wind turbines aren't some small community operations, they are owned by guess who? Billionaires and giant corporates... And they are even worse than fossil fuel ones, because the product they are selling is snake oil.

Mike Cannon-Brookes
Simon Holmes à Court
Twiggy Forest

Names you probably dont know, but these are the billionaires milking taxpayer money for their own private gain.

The only way to break out this cycle is state owned nuclear power. No private profit.

 

[watcher]

I do not care what any one says. We never had weather like this before we had the bow and arrow.

 

[Inruin]

I do not care what any one says. We never had weather like this before we had the bow and arrow.

This is the biggest issue below. More rain falling in the ocean, lifting sea levels. Need to find a way of diverting it so more falls on the land so sea levels don't rise.

 

[Rick O’Shay]

I do not care what any one says. We never had weather like this before we had the bow and arrow.

Agree and my mother in law always said the world went to shit when Armstrong stepped on the moon.

Or did he?