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Dr Karl

@doctorkarl

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki ~ an answer looking for a question.
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" Danish Energy Agency has granted extensions to two of the country’s oldest offshore wind farms for up to 25 years. ... originally granted an electricity production permit in 2000 and was at the time the biggest offshore wind project in the world." reneweconomy.com.au/denmark-extend…

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"Social media posts are falsely linking Covid-19 vaccine mandates to an increase in cancer rates identified by an Australian study. However, the research on bowel cancer rates is based on data from 1990 to 2020, before Covid-19 vaccines were introduced." thenewdaily.com.au/life/health/20…

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" how much heat enters Earth’s atmosphere vs how much heat leaves= Earth’s energy budget. Over last 20 years, energy imbalance rose from 0.6 W/m2 (Watts/sq m) to 1.3 W/m2 = rate at which energy is accumulating near the planet’s surface has doubled." theconversation.com/earth-is-trapp…

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"While the profits of insurance companies and the ways they treat consumers should always be carefully scrutinised, it makes no sense to blame the industry for charging higher premiums to insure against more likely and destructive storms and fires." thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/0…

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Munich Re, the world’s largest re-insurance company, started increasing premiums for Greenhouse Effect/Climate Change-related events in 1973

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"For the first 25 years of his career, Dr. Adam Ratner, a pediatric infectious disease physician, never saw a child with Hib meningitis. But this spring he was an author of a report on two cases of severe disease in unvaccinated New York infants." nytimes.com/2025/07/04/opi…

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"We investigated the prevalence of misinformation about EVs in four countries – Australia, the United States, Germany and Austria. Unfortunately, we found substantial agreement with misinformation across all countries." thenewdaily.com.au/life/auto/2025…

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"As painstakingly documented by X account Pentagon Pizza Report, a "busier than usual" indicator on the Google Maps profile of the Domino's in Arlington has been associated with major acts of war taking place around the world." futurism.com/the-byte/war-p…

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" ocean acidification has a profound effect. It damages coral reefs, makes waters inhospitable for shell-building creatures, and kills off or weakens other marine life. That then has a knock-on effect on the rest of the ecosystem." sciencealert.com/ocean-acidity-…

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"At roughly 2% of body weight, the brain, at rest gorges on 20% of our body’s energetic resources, But effortful, goal-directed tasks use only 5% more energy than restful brain activity. For infants, that number is closer to 50%." quantamagazine.org/how-much-energ…

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"Most lithium-based batteries have only been able to harness one- or two-electron reactions, limiting the amount of energy they can store. This cutting-edge development, has a four-electron chemical reaction." interestingengineering.com/energy/solid-l…

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"25 years after measles was officially declared eliminated from the United States, this spring marked a harrowing time of rediscovery. ... one of the largest outbreaks in a generation, spreading through communities with declining vaccination rates." nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/…

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"tonic immobility is triggered when the animal is turned upside down – it stops moving, its muscles relax, and it enters a trance-like state. Some scientists even use tonic immobility as a technique to safely handle certain shark species." theconversation.com/sharks-freeze-…

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Dunno - it varies around the world. If you read the article about the Texas measles outbreak, you will see that in that specific small community they were overwhelmingly white, Christian, Anglo and poor.