Study: Doubling CO2 from present to 800 ppm has almost no warming effect

The effect of doubling CO2 from 400 ppm to 800 ppm plus feedbacks is 0.5°C, reports a new study using HITRAN data. This is only 0.04°C more than the warming from doubled CO2 from 200ppm to 400 ppm (0.46°C). Support JunkScience.com!

Update: Wildfires more than offset California’s expensive cap-and-trade emissions cuts

We reported last year that California’s wildfires were offsetting the emissions cuts associated with California’s expensive cap-and-trade system. Here’s the 2021 update. At what point will the federal and state government be charged for emissions due to their failure to management public lands so as to reduce acreage burned?

California Air Resources Board (CARB) CO2 emissions chart annotated to include wildfire emissions at a rate of 23 tons per acre burned. Note 2007 and 2019 emissions were so high they are literally “off the chart.”

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Epidemiology to take seriously: Natural immunity better than COVID vaccines

A new epidemiology study reports that natural immunity confers better protection against COVID than current vaccines. I’ve been publishing JunkScience.com for 25+ years and can’t think of a single epidemiology study I’ve seen that was worth anything. That has now changed. This study reports that vaccinated individuals were 13 times more likely to have a breakthrough infection than individuals with natural immunity. Assuming the results actually are what they are reported to be, that’s an impressive odds ratio, worthy of being taken seriously. The result also has obvious biologic plausibility. For comparison purposes, the usual epidemiology crap we’ve been debunking for decades generally have meaningless odds ratios on the order of 2.0 or below, often 1.1 and below and even on the order of 1.01 and below (where an odds ratio of 1.0 means no effect). Of course, the study results need to be replicated. But it’s lookin’ good so far.

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Milloy talks vaccines and ‘defund the police’ on Newsmax

From the August 5, 2021 episode of “National Report” on Newsmax. Two segments.

Is Communist China stealing Medicare data through air pollution researchers?

Check out Jim Enstrom’s letter to the editor of Nature about 69 million Medicare records made available to Chinese researchers in the US. The lead researcher mentioned is Emory University’s Liuhua Shi, who is from China and may still be a Chinese national. Is anyone making sure China isn’t stealing personal and private Medicare data?