The individual who established the relationship between CO2 and temperature, and received a Nobel prize for it, concluded that it was overwhelming a GOOD thing, leading to more temperate global temperatures and overall greening. What he assumed we now know to be correct based on the temperature changes in the past 30 years: increased temperatures makes more areas habitable and arable.

Enough with the climate denial ...

Svante Arrhenius thought that more CO2 in the atmosphere will make the climate better. But he did that all the way back in 1906.

He didn't know a lot of things that scientists now know ...

At that time, there were trucks and cars driven by almost every family in the Western world, nor was the population what it is now.

Here didn't know how fast CO2 levels are rising (look at the Keeling Curve).

CO2 levels are at their highest in 800,000 years. The last time it was that high, there were no humans around.

And ecosystems need time to adapt. That is impossible when CO2 levels go up by 2.8 ppm PER YEAR.

Even later Nobel Prizes were awarded to all the complexities of the weather and climate.

XKCD has a clear drawing that gives one a perspective on what is going on ...

* The famous 1977 Powers of Ten video has had a few "versions" over the years:
* The Scale of the Universe - Maybe you were thinking of this one?
* UNIVERSCALE - craps out at the fm scale
* The Super Zoom - CG animation but still a nice quantum perspective

Thank you. I saw the first one a while back, and perhaps the second.

There is also this simpler, lay person, one from 1968. No quantum stuff, no galaxy clusters, ...etc.

Cosmic Zoom.

Good points ...

I also forgot about immunotherapy.
Some cancers are now treated with that as a first line.

Because of British tabloids, we will hear soon what it might be.

Kind of an important detail is that what type of cancer isn't announced, but it's not prostate cancer. Which isn't great news, since prostate cancer is usually you die with but not from.

One can guess it is some type of blood cancer, say leukemia or lymphoma.

That is probably why it was discovered recently, when he went in to get blood tests before the prostate procedure (most likely Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia BPH).

Also, this is why he is getting treatment in sessions, not surgery. Maybe chemotherapy, or even radiation.

Either that, or he has something that is in a late stage and he opted for no surgery.

Like others said earlier, this is like tobacco executives testifying there is no link to cancer.

And also reminds me of the same industry promoting leaded fuel for many decades. A scientist trying to measure the age of earth using isotopes of lead, found that lead was everywhere.

Back to Keeling ...

Here is the Keeling Curve from readings at Mauna Loa.

Mauna Loa is chosen because it is away from significant vegetation (boreal forests, agriculture, tropical rain forests).

CO2 levels are rising by 2.8 ppm PER YEAR! It passed 400 ppm in 2013.

See my reply.

Although I have a bachelor's degree in pharmacy, and I try to keep up to date, I have not practiced in decades (switched to the then new computer thing).

Also, I use Aleve myself for osteoarthritis.

But yes, it is a good idea not to take any medical advice from someone you don't know.

Instead, talk to your family doctor about Aleve, and see what he says.
It is an over the counter medicine, and needs to be taken on a full stomach.

If it is osteoarthritis, try Aleve (naproxen 220 mg) once a day, with breakfast.

Works wonders ...

Two different accused, two different accusations.

The article from The Volokh Conspiracy is about one Dr Jeffery Battle, who was accused of seditious conspiracy.

The USA Today link is written by Dr. Jonathan Turley, who was accused by ChatGPT of sexual harassment. Eugene Volokh is the one who alerted him of the accusation.

The Volokh Conspiracy is a blog by Dr. Eugene Volokh on legal matters (his specialty).

It is about time ...

These so called hallucinations can cause real harm and ruin people's lives.

Examples:

Professor accused of sexual harassment based on a non-existent article in the Washington Post.

Another professor accused of being convicted and imprisoned for seditious conspiracy against the USA.

Lawyer fined $5,000 for submitting an AI generated brief to court quoting non-existent precedence cases.

Fake complaint against man for embezzlement.

Let me start by saying that self checkout is often more convenient than cashiers.
So I see value in them ...

But this part:

Retailers hoped it would usher in a new age of cost savings. Their thinking: why pay six employees when you could pay one to oversee customers at self-service registers, as they do their own labour of scanning and bagging for free?

When self checkout started, I remembered what happened with banks and ATM.

They were marketed as a way to lower costs, but whatever cost savings that materialized, were never passed on to the consumer.

Same with self checkout: it will not affect what you pay, but it is a convenience thing.

I didn't mean for my comment to be reassuring.
It is just a statement of the facts we know ...

And I do agree with you this is scary stuff, and we can't do much about it.
No spraying, no medicines, no vaccines, spontaneously happens, ...etc.

The saving grace here is that incidence is very low with only several 100s of cases per ~ 330 million. Compare that to a respiratory virus like COVID-19 or flu ...

I still think we don't know certain things about it:

• why can a protein (a relatively large molecule with ~ 209 amino acids) get absorbed by plants?
• the exact structure of the misfolded isomer is not known
• why can't it be denatured at 120C (autoclave). The disulfide bond is one factor, but is it the only factor?
• and so on and on

Even the Wikipedia article has some of these uncertainties ...

I agree that prions are scary.

Here is coverage on the topic from a virology professor, part of a virology course at Columbia University.

And a case study in Texas, and emergency room contamination causing equipment to be incinerated.

They are basically a single protein from a single encoding gene, with variation among various mammals, with genetic, infectious or sporadic occurrences.

And it has a long incubation period, decades in many cases ...

To me, all this is both fascinating and horrifying.

And it is odd that prions are not degraded by environmental factors, like other proteins.

It is also odd that it is excreted in urine, and the the whole protein gets absorbed by plant roots, and transported to the leaves unchanged where they can infect animals.

Another thing one wonders about is whether natural grassland fires kept the prions in check in the past, but now that these fires are less because of human intervention, they surfaced back?

Or maybe that is not a factor at all, and it was spontaneous rise in cattle?

Very confusing, and scary ...

The sane "right of the liberals" party is long gone in Canada.

It was the Progressive Conservatives (imagine a right leaning party has 'progressive' in its name! Compare to Trump and Republicans maligning that word just like 'socialism').

The PC party was swallowed by the Reform/Alliance two decades ago, in the "unite the right" action by Stephen Harper. That consolidated the usually sane fiscal conservatives, with the extremist ones, who now control the Conservative Party of Canada ...

Now we don't have a reasonable option for the right leaning part of the spectrum.

We seem to be heading to a Poilievre/CPC government (perhaps minority government) in a year or so ...

Also, even purely homeopathic water-based products are going through an industrial process. There can be bacterial growth in the distilling vats, or dirty containers. If you are putting this stuff in your eye it could cause problems.

I have a bachelor's degree in pharmacy, but have not practiced in almost four decades, since I switched careers to the newfangled computer stuff.

From what I remember (Industrial Pharmacy courses), all eye drops and ointments should be sterile, just like any injected medicine or vaccine. If they are not sterile when manufactured and packaged, bacteria can grow in them, causing serious issues.

In fact, there were recalls of some eye drops that were made in India, and they did contain bacteria, and caused horrible disease to some patients. Here is the FDA recall notice.

If someone (homeopathy or otherwise) is selling eye drops that are not sterile, they are risking these nasty infections, and they should be prevented from marketing any such thing.

And yes, I agree that all homeopathy should be banned too. Not sure how can the FDA or equivalent agencies in other countries go about doing this.