Stuffthatcounts

If you follow the various high profile 100% renewable energy advocates, Mike Cannon-Brooks, Simon Holmes a Court and anybody in the...

It's a terrible thing when people misuse statistics, because it gives the whole field a bad name. It feeds the anti-science cover-story...

When it comes to the carbon footprint of food, most people have worked out that reducing your carbon footprint involves comparisons....

In the lead up to my sister's death in 2018, we had a number of traumatic conversations about hope and lies. "Why do doctors have to...

Public transport and rooftop solar panels. Is there a connection? Everybody loves public transport ... as an idea. Everybody understands...

I'm not at all sure about writing anything about those afraid of 5G. Will anybody worried about 5G actually read or care about what I or...

Living in cities has a way of insulating people from the consequences of their choices. We carefully nurture the trees we love in parks...

Nobody opposes the soap industry because it may lead to chemical weapons. Nobody opposes vaccination because it may lead to biological...

Kirk Smith died on the 15th of June of a heart attack and stroke. The stream of emails I'd been getting from him since 2008 had gone...

You can burn hydrogen and it contains more energy per kilogram than petrol. That makes it sound terrific, but a cubic metre of hydrogen...

The New York Times at the moment has a daily table of Covid-19 cases and deaths in every US state. Here's the top five today (June 19th)...

It's always confusing when people use different names for the same thing. Natural gas is burned for warmth and to generate electricity...

The Advertiser today featured Tory Shepherd at the top of the page taking on racists pretending to be protectors of free speech and...

The image above comes from the Visual Capitalist website in December 2019 ... just before Covid-19 burst upon the scene and borrowed the...

Natasha Mitchell's Science Friction is often worth listening to, but I generally only listen to the podcasts, so I can be quite a bit...

The old-school energy grid is on the nose. It still dominates the global supply, but all the talk is of renewable grids dominated by the...

Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore have been finding out what it's like to throw a sacred cow onto a BBQ with their documentary Planet of the...

Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore didn't say much about LNG (liquified natural gas) in their inconvenient documentary Planet of the Humans....

SARS-Cov-2 (the virus causing the Covid-19 disease) has jumped to us from another species. Which is how we got most other deadly...

Putting Michael Moore's name on a documentary guarantees it will get an audience. And Jeff Gibbs's documentary Planet of the Humans, is...