EV sales need to grow 34% every year to achieve 2030 EV goals
To reach 60% by 2030, that means we need to grow EV sales at a compound annual growth rate of 34% between now and then – a similar growth rate…
Evs, Education: “Exposing the structural violence of private electric automobility”
WE MUST BAN ALL PRIVATE AUTOMOBILES AND TRANSPORT SAY ACADEMIC EXPERTS. Electric vehicles are “VIOLENCE”! EVs are a source of “structural violence”: A wolf in sheep’s clothing: Exposing the structural…
Public health oops: Masks made no difference in health care settings
In a world moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and medical offices have been the last bastions of mandatory masking. But new research finds that in communities where pandemic…
Climate Future Followup: Global Warming will cause more baseball homeruns
Abstract Home runs in baseball—fair balls hit out of the field of play—have risen since 1980, driving strategic shifts in gameplay. Myriad factors likely account for these trends, with some…
Business: Frontier Airlines pays $10 bonus to staff for each carry-on they reject
Dyana Villa shared a video of her experience traveling with Frontier , in which she and her friends can be seen fitting their bag into the baggage sizer. She later…
Demographics: Hospital “Maternity units are closing across America”
A low volume of births is another reason for the closures. In announcing the closure, Bonner General noted that in 2022, it delivered just 265 babies, which the hospital characterized…
Public health oops: “Masks in hospitals made ‘no difference’ to Covid infection rates”
Researchers from St George’s Hospital in London analysed routinely collected infection control data over a 40-week period between December 4, 2021 and September 10, 2022. …. Researchers found removing the…
Demographics: Italy’s fertility rate now 1.25
Births in Italy dropped to a new historic low below 400,000 in 2022, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, as the population continued to shrink. Source: Births in Italy…
Follow up: California drought likely to continue into 2023
100% wrong: As California’s 2022 water year ends this week, the parched state is bracing for another dry year — its fourth in a row. So far, in California’s recorded…
Follow up: “XBB.1.5 to be “deadliest wave in pandemic history”
Another “expert” prediction crashed and burned to the ground. Jacob B. Aguilar, PhD on Twitter: “I wish all a prosperous 2023. However, in realty the XBB.1.5 SUPER variant is exploding…