Lies, Damn Lies And Green Statistics | GWPF

Almost all predictions about the expansion and cost of German wind turbines and solar panels have turned out to be wrong – at least by a factor of two, sometimes by a factor of five.

- Bishop Hill blog - More UEA footdragging (Part One)

So 166 days after the Tribunal Decision, which required UEA to search for the email “sent by Prof Jones to Georgia Tech on or about 15 January 2009”, the forces supporting disgraced, FOI-breaching, email-deleting, scientific-method abusing people appeared to have won the day.

See what happens in Part 2!

Bovine growth hormone 'could ease global warming' [By how many degrees C?]

The study, published by the American Academy of Paediatrics*, says there may be environmental benefits from using recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) in dairy herds. The resulting increase in productivity meant more milk per cow and therefore higher yields from smaller herds, write authors Joel Forman and Janet Silverstein.

How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR

Then — and this is more a conjectural, based on arguable evidence — an already cool Earth got colder. The world was having an ice age 70,000 years ago, and all that dust hanging in the atmosphere may have bounced warming sunshine back into space. Sam Kean writes "There's in fact evidence that the average temperature dropped 20-plus degrees in some spots," after which the great grassy plains of Africa may have shrunk way back, keeping the small bands of humans small and hungry for hundreds, if not thousands of more years.

So we almost vanished.