A recent paper estimates that vertical wind shear over the North Atlantic has increased 15 percent during the last four decades - but it is hard to know how much because it's only since the 1980s that we've had accurate measurements, even of things like temperatures.Models say climate change will lead to an increase in clear-air turbulence, invisible to both pilots and weather radar, and planes will be fine structurally but if you are moving about the cabin when it happens, you will get knocked around.

Mobile homes are only 6 percent of US housing, but they are a 6 percent overwhelmingly dominated by the poor and seniors on fixed incomes. When the Biden administration forced new regulations on the sector in 2022, the argument was that it would curb emissions and save poor people money.

A UK start-up named WNWN is making alternative chocolate using fermentation. Great, I am already a fan. If I had my way my full Easter meal would be GMOs just to stick it to anti-science hippies and the various trade groups they fund to tear down regular food.

In 2014, during the previous recurring drought in the state, California voters bypassed the legislature and the Governor by passing a referendum to build water storage.Unfortunately, unlike pointless cancer warning labels on virtually every product, building lakes and dams and reservoirs still requires government so the same government - different leader, a few different names in the legislature, same one-party control - has shown voters who is boss by doing nothing.

A recent op-ed in JAMA has an epidemiologist and a lawyer claiming that the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has meant the death of science at the Supreme Court. While common in the "Notorious RBG" era(1), especially as epidemiologists have become more like humanities scholars than scientists, it is in defiance of facts.

California and a few other states have more stringent "emissions" regulations that don't really improve the air, but because air crosses state boundaries and more regulations lead to higher costs for consumers they need a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency to force it on the public. Every few years, EPA has dutifully complied and depending on when you ask, California is either cleaner than ever - regulations worked! - or we're all dying from virtual pollution - we need more regulations!

Genetic research found that horses evolved in North America millions of years ago and spread to Asia and Europe before dying out in the Americas 6,000 years ago.Then in the early 1600s they were back, brought by Europeans, according to a new study.Some stories claimed that natives only got horses after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 , when Spanish were defeated in New Mexico and left those and livestock.

The FDA has granted OTC approval of Narcan 4 milligram (mg) naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray to Emergent BioSolutions; the first naloxone product approved for use without a prescription. Naloxone reverses the effects of opioid overdose. Recreational fentanyl use has led to a major public health issue in the United States, with more than 101,000 fatal overdoses occurring last year, primarily due to illegal sale and use. 

Once again, 500,000 students couldn't go to school due to a teacher's strike. Teachers are government employees, at least 40 percent and over 50 percent (if you count colleges) of the state budget goes toward education, but a lot of that has nothing to do with teachers. Much of the $129 billion is everything except education, it is nebulous state programs like $250,000,000 to "improve the quality of reading for students" which, like a 2014 voter mandate to add water storage, means years and years of proposals with little being done.  A year after Governor Newsom bragged during his re-election campaign that his progressive policies were Making California Great Again, he says there is no money for teachers, but there is money for new government agencies.

Assembly Bill 742 will limit the use of police dogs to search/rescue, drugs, and explosives detection, and ban their use in apprehension or crowd control. The reason is racism. Obviously dogs are not racist so Democrats who control the legislature, and the ACLU and NAACP groups behind the bill, think police dog trainers are racist -  dogs attack people of color twice as often as white people, they state.