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Does hydroxychloriquine work against COVID-19?

August 13, 2024May 26, 2020 by Dave
hydroxychloriquine

hydroxychloriquine has been promoted by Trump as a COVID-19 cure and has taken it himself. Does it actually work, what does the evidence say?

Categories consumer, Medicine, science Tags COVID-19, evidence, hydroxychloriquine Leave a comment

Global CO2 emissions update

April 23, 2021May 21, 2020 by Dave
CO2 emissions

Estimates for the decline of CO2 due to lockdown have been published in Nature. What does this reveal, and what do we do now?

Categories Climate Change, environment, news, science, study Tags CO2, COVID-19, emissions Leave a comment

Online competition: pro- and anti-vaccination

December 23, 2020May 20, 2020 by Dave
anti-vaccination

Smaller anti-vaccination movement is more effective at reaching undecided than the larger pro-vaccine. Ending COVID-19 will be challenging.

Categories consumer, Fake News, science, Skepticism, society, study Leave a comment

Distilled MIT Climate Science

July 27, 2021May 18, 2020 by Dave
climate science

MIT has launched a new Climate Science portal. It is an excellent basic primer in the science of climate. You should check it out.

Categories Climate Change, education, news, science Tags climate science, MIT, Risks and Solutions Leave a comment

Climate Change Could Reawaken Indian Ocean El Niño

May 12, 2020 by Dave
indian ocean

Climate Change could cause an ancient pattern similar to El Niño in the Indian Ocean to reawaken. It would throw weather into disarray

Categories Climate Change, environment, news, science, study Tags El Niño, indian ocean, study Leave a comment

The Emergence of Heat beyond human tolerance

February 18, 2024May 11, 2020 by Dave
Heat beyond human tolerance

There is a limit to the amount of heat humans can tolerate. Beyond that limit we die. Climate change means we are reaching that limit in some regions.

Categories Climate Change, environment, news, science, study Tags 35C, heat, study, tolerance, wet bulb temperature Leave a comment
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