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The bad news is EVs won't help in time to keep global warming below +2.0oC, or reduce emissions in the critical years up to 2040. The EV transition means things still get worse before they get better, until late as 2050. The problem is not the 'long tailpipe argument', but the challenge of the transition to EVs. EVs do, over their lifetime, result in a reduction in emissions, but the whole process can take decades, does not alone solve immediate climate problem. Emissions can even be worse if too many people buy EVs too soon.
Moving to EVs is going to increase electricity requirements, and at a time when there is already a technical challenge to more the electricity supply to "green" source. But what it electric vehicles could solve the "green power grid" problem, provide energy security, and avert a threat of increasing inequality? It turns out dream scenario is definitely possible, but can be fully realised only if the home charging problem be solved.
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The EV climate change lag problem: Don’t buy an EV just to save the planet.
June 9, 2022
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The bad news is EVs won’t help in time to keep global warming below +2.0oC, or reduce emissions in the critical years up to 2040. The EV transition means things still get worse before they get better, until late as 2050. The problem is not the ‘long tailpipe argument‘, but the challenge of the transition to EVs. EVs do, over their lifetime, result in a reduction in emissions, but the whole process can take decades, does not alone solve immediate climate problem. Emissions can even be worse if too many people buy EVs too soon.
Big Oil, AKA Big Fossil: How real, and what about ‘big climate’?
June 7, 2022
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It is clear that significant funding is directed to promoting the continued use of fossil fuel.
Time after time I find the need to make this claim, and as I do not make claims without supporting evidence, so each time it triggers a search for supporting evidence.
I have now decided to create a page with links to supporting evidence, as an improving over multiple pages each linking directly to one or two pieces of the puzzle.
For balance, I examine the idea of ‘big climate’ or ‘big science’, being a source of funding bias data applied against the arguments of ‘big oil’.
Home Charging: The Challenge To A Green Equitable EV Transition
February 26, 2022
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Moving to EVs is going to increase electricity requirements, and at a time when there is already a technical challenge to more the electricity supply to “green” source. But what it electric vehicles could solve the “green power grid” problem, provide energy security, and avert a threat of increasing inequality? It turns out dream scenario is definitely possible, but can be fully realised only if the home charging problem be solved.
Covid-19 & Vaccination Deaths: Statistically, Coincidences will distort reported deaths.
January 23, 2022
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I read recently about reasonable people protesting over post vaccination deaths in South Korea, echoing stories from around the globe about the underreporting of deaths following vaccination.
Can most of these deaths be just coincidences? This question has me seeking the real story on what is happening, not just with deaths following vaccination, but also with deaths from the virus. Almost one year after my initial exploration of vaccine efficacy and safety, now there is data, not just projections, so it is time for a review, and this question needs answering for any such a review.
Djokovic: Rescued from PR Disaster By Australian Leader “Scotty from Marketing” Morrison!
January 10, 2022
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Overview. There are No Heroes: Morrison – Djokovic. The Timeline. Overview. Novak Djokovic had committed a nightmare public relations mistake, appearing to gloat at having
From Covid-Zero to Worlds Worst Outbreak? Tracking Omicron, and The Australian ‘Pandemic-Over’ Experiment.
January 4, 2022
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On December 16th, I wrote on how, despite the world facing a looming Omicron surge, Australia and one state in particular in Australia (NSW), opened
Omicron Doom, But Australia Parties & Experiments: December 2021 snapshot.
December 16, 2021
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It is mid December 2021. The Covid-19 responses are as divided as ever, but in new ways: In Australia, almost all remaining Covid-19 restrictions are
Our Journey To A Finite Planet.
December 8, 2021
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Hasn’t The Planet Always Been Finite? The Finite Planet Of The 21st Century Pre-1650 and “Sustainability”, A Seemingly Infinite Planet. The Economics of Finite Planet.
Omicron Alert, Or Already Time For Alarm?
December 6, 2021
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I first looked at Omicron just under one week ago. The data since that time has already been sufficient to rethink my origin viewpoint. Recap:
Covid-19 Immunity: Layers, immunity from vaccination vs infection, and the good news.
December 5, 2021
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Shrek: No. Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers.
Instead of a single immune response, the human immune system can be though of as having several layers of immune response, that all fade at different rates.
Immunity is a complex set of different layers all subject to change over time at varying rates, making comparison between immunity following vaccination or infection highly time dependant.