7. Weather extremes may be less extreme than you think – Debby Guha-Sapir
Mind the Shift29 Juli 2020

7. Weather extremes may be less extreme than you think – Debby Guha-Sapir

”This is like a bushfire. If there is one spark, this thing will catch fire”, says epidemiologist Debby Guha-Sapir about the fact that authorities stopped measles vaccinations due to covid-19. Debby founded the world’s best and most reliable database on natural disasters, EM-DAT, at the university of Louvain, Belgium. Dry numbers can be more contentious than you think: ”We get a lot of hate mails about the fact that our data doesn’t show that disasters are increasing. Nobody wants good news.”

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122. The Maya Saw this World Coming – Carl Johan Calleman

122. The Maya Saw this World Coming – Carl Johan Calleman

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121. Alternative Archaeologists are Also Wrong – Robert Schneiker

Geophysicist Bob Schneiker stumbled upon the debate about the age of the Sphinx by chance. He got hooked, and the more he found out, the more convinced he became that Robert Schoch and other maverick ...

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120. The Grip of Climate Culture – Andy West

120. The Grip of Climate Culture – Andy West

Climate catastrophism displays all the core features of a cultural entity, says Andy West, author of The Grip of Culture. Other cultural entities are religions, ideologies, sometimes cults and even st...

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119. Are We Re-Living Our Past? – Aleksander Czeszkiewicz

The word prodigy comes to mind when you learn about the young Polish independent researcher and writer Aleksander Czeszkiewicz. Already as a child, he read heaps of books about our distant past and sc...

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117. Humanity’s Epic Awakening – Mary Reed

Mary Reed was a staunchly agnostic healthcare executive in Washington DC when she began venturing uncontrollably into mystical realms in the company of divine masters. ”I went into the body and the be...

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116. Visions of Atlantis (part II) – Michael Le Flem

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115. Climate Change Has Become a Quasi Religion – Judith Curry

115. Climate Change Has Become a Quasi Religion – Judith Curry

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