* Posts by Chris Taylor

2 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2009

UK boffin: Social networking causes cancer, heart attacks, lupus, dementia...

Chris Taylor

This is nonsense, and Greenfield should quit the RI too

All you need to know about this is on the Bad Science blog. Ben Goldacre was on Newsnight a few nights ago ripping Sigman a new one (with a smile). Lots of HQ follow up on there.

http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/the-evidence-aric-sigman-ignored/

Forget Google rationing: Only lighting farts can save the planet

Chris Taylor
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Methane isn't so bad (comparatively speaking)

Methane stays in the atmosphere for (on a quick survey of sources) around a tenth of the time that CO2 does (maybe even less, depending on how you estimate things -- the CO2 figure especially has a very high upper limit depending on who you ask). And I'm pretty sure that it isn't so simple as saying that the 10-fold difference in lifespan is outweighed by the 25-fold difference in effect.

All I'm saying is that this isn't quite so clear cut as the 25x thing suggests.

So don't go rectum searing just yet.