Surrey Physics Blog

You might be tempted to think that some multinational oil companies think that the global warming is not occurring. Particularly if you read articles like this one in The Guardian. It covers the oil company ExxonMobil funding a climate-change-sceptic, who seems to make a living attacking the scientific consensus that our world is getting warmer. […]

In one of the research talks I give I use the picture at the top-left to illustrate a point. It is of genetically modified (GM) fish. They are a species of fish you can buy in a pet shop. The fish are called zebrafish, Danio rerio to give them their latin name.

A lot of science can be relatively quiet, perhaps even staid, but some topics can cause things to kick off. So-called alternative medicine (acupuncture, homeopathy, etc) is one of them. A couple of papers in the British Journal of General Practice have been the cause of no fewer than 10 (count ’em here) letters to […]

Perhaps the most contentious area that scientists get involved in in public is global warming. Debates often get rather adversarial. On the one hand you might have the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). On the other perhaps The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).  The 4th report of the IPCC states “Warming of the climate system […]