Written by Loren Grush
NASA’s newest planet-hunting spacecraft has already spied and confirmed a third world outside our Solar System — just three months into the vehicle’s science operations.
This newly discovered planet, or exoplanet, is relatively close by, orbiting a small star just 53 light-years away. And that means we may be able to study this world more extensively, to figure out what its atmosphere might hold.
Written by Jennifer Collins
At last count, there were at least 8.3 billion tons of plastic in the world. Much of it gets discarded and eventually ends up in our oceans.
Researchers are looking for ways to collect that trash in the sea using a variety of technologies but the overall consensus is that using less plastic, or at least catching the trash at the source, would be much better than filtering it out afterwards.
Written by Joseph E Postma
This has been posted before, but repetition is one recipe for success. Especially one so simple.
Climate alarmism is based, of course, upon its alternative conception of a greenhouse effect from that of an actual real greenhouse.
Written by John O'Sullivan
Despite repeated alarmist claims in the media there remains no real world evidence of carbon dioxide induced warming of oceans. Two new ocean warming papers typify the ceaseless reliance on unproven and empty pseudo-scientific claims.
Written by James Taylor
Global warming alarmists and their media allies launched a new scare last week, claiming that global warming is causing crop failures and food shortages around the globe.
Written by Dr Benny Peiser
According to Dr. David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said. —The Independent, 20 March 2000
Written by Dianne Apen-Sadler
Leading cancer expert Martin Gore, 67, (pictured) has died suddenly after a routine yellow fever jab.
A leading cancer expert once described by the Duke of Cambridge as an ‘inspiration’ has died suddenly after a routine yellow fever jab.
Written by Dr Albert Parker
According to fresh analysis, the sea levels around Japan have been rising slowly, without any acceleration component, since the end of the 1800s. The finding is consistent in all the long term trend tide gauges available.
Written by Anastasios Tsonis
Dr. Anastasios Tsonis, emeritus distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Authored more than 130 peer-reviewed papers and nine books:
‘I am a skeptic not just about global warming but also about many other aspects of science…Climate is too complicated to attribute its variability to one cause. We first need to understand the natural climate variability (which we clearly don’t; I can debate anybody on this issue). Only then we can assess the magnitude and reasons of climate change.’
‘If science were settled, then we should pack things up and go home.’
Written by Tom D Tamarkin
Supposedly “green” or “renewable” energy has become a trillion-dollar-plus annual industry that has spawned tens of thousands of new businesses worldwide. The total Climate-Industrial Complex is a $2-trillion-per-year business. Major fossil fuel companies like Shell Energy now have green energy divisions.
Written by Roger Pielke Jr
The figure above shows disaster losses as tracked by Munich re from 1900 to 2018, based on an update published earlier this week (here). The update allows me to add another year to the data reported in this paper:
Pielke, R. (2018). Tracking progress on the economic costs of disasters under the indicators of sustainable development goals. Environmental Hazards, 1-6.
Written by Optical Society of America
A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal. They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm.
Written by Hans Schreuder and Joe Postma
Definition of twilight:
NOUN
⦁ the soft glowing light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, caused by the reflection of the sun’s rays from the atmosphere.
synonyms: half-light · semi-darkness · dimness · gloom
So there you have it, in a word or three: “soft glowing light”
Written by Andrew Griffin
The breakthrough is only the second time scientists have seen such a repeating radio burst. It both deepens the mystery and offers a potential opportunity to finally understand what might be throwing out the burst from a galaxy billions of light years away.
Written by Dr Susan J Crockford
“…despite the loss of good denning areas and a shrinking habitat for hunting, Svalbard’s bears seem to be doing fine…The sea ice season is now several months shorter, and the ice edge typically lies several degrees further north than what was normal 20-40 years ago….Polar bears can survive long periods without food, provided they have accumulated a good fat reserve during the few months in spring and summer when sea ice is present, and seals are abundant.” [Jon Aars, Norwegian Polar Institute, 2018]
Written by Gravity Transformation
If you’re a man you already know that your testosterone levels are pretty important. So it might be a little scary to learn that testosterone levels are going down at a fast pace for American men.
According to the “Massachusetts Male Aging Study” between the year 1987 and 2004 testosterone levels have dropped by about 17 percent, and they’re dropping by about 1.2 percent per year. The observations in this study are also consistent with other long term trends including a decrease in overall sperm quality.
