Author Archive

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot

Written by Max Read

Photo: Artwork by Ayatgali Tuleubek

In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their ads and “premium” websites — i.e., established and legitimate publications — on which to host them.

Continue Reading 1 Comment

Saltbush Solar Activity Watch Established

Written by Viv Forbes

Is the sun setting on Java? | IT PRO

The Saltbush Club today announced the formation of the “Saltbush Solar Activity Watch” led by Mr David Archibald. The Executive Director of Saltbush, Mr Viv Forbes, said it was obvious to everyone except school teachers, the ABC, the Greens and the leaders of CSIRO that the sun is the main driver of weather and climate on Earth.

Continue Reading No Comments

Pseudoscience-Buster Destroys Musk’s Boring Company Tunnel Idea

Written by Tyler Durden

The name “Thunderf00t” is the alias of Phil Mason, (pictured) a British chemist and video blogger who has become well-known for posting YouTube videos that criticize, among other things, pseudoscience.

His day job is as a scientist in the field of chemistry and biochemistry at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His tongue in cheek, yet starkly accurate criticisms, have earned him nearly 850,000 subscribers on YouTube and an aggregate total of more than 220 million views.

Continue Reading 6 Comments

How Canada Worked to Stoke Climate Alarmism

Written by Dr Tim Ball

It is not hyperbole to say that Canada was central to creating and mobilizing the false claim of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). The idea that humans were causing runaway global warming originated with the Club of Rome. Formed in 1968 by David Rockefeller, it expanded on the Malthusian idea that the population would outgrow the food supply. The expansion was that world population would outgrow all resources. They made three major assumptions.

Continue Reading 6 Comments

The Inner Sanctums of Climate Change Propaganda

Written by William Walter Kay BA LL B

At the close of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco (September 14, 2018) twenty-nine foundations signed a communique heralding the “largest climate-related philanthropic commitment ever made.” The foundations pledged $4 billion (over 5 years) to the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) campaign. Nat Simons, Sea Change Foundation co-founder, hastened to add:

The multi-billion commitment announced today is only a down payment.”

Continue Reading 2 Comments

Bumblebee Drones

Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser

Bumblebee Drones
Next time you see a bumblebee close by, beware—it could be a “living “drone.” Sort of like in the picture above.

Bumblebee with attached electronic tracking device on a flower; source: MACH.

Continue Reading 1 Comment

A mile-deep ice crater on Mars – and marsquakes

Written by Ashley Strickland

Although it looks like a beautiful mound of snow on the Red Planet, the Korolev crater would be more suited for ice skating than building a snowman. The European Space Agency released an image taken by its Mars Express mission on Thursday, showing the crater filled with water ice.

Continue Reading 2 Comments

Inconvenient Truth: Arctic Ice Still Going Strong

Written by Onar Am via Liberty Nation

Former Vice President Al Gore made a ruckus at the COP15 climate conference in December 2009 when he said that “some of the models say that there is a 75{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} chance that Arctic sea ice could be completely gone during part of the summer in only five to seven years.”

Now, nine years later, the ice is still there, just like realistic scientists predicted (see image above).

Continue Reading 2 Comments

Special Winter Solstice 2018: Full Moon + Meteor Shower!

Written by Katia Hetter, Forrest Brown and Autumn Spanne

For six months now, the days have grown shorter and the nights have grown longer in the Northern Hemisphere — but that’s about to reverse itself.
Winter solstice, the shortest day of 2018, is Friday, December 21.
The solstice this year will be extra special because it will be followed the next day by a full moon known as the Cold Moon, and you might be able to see a meteor shower to boot.

Continue Reading 1 Comment

Where did the hot Neptunes go? A shrinking planet holds the answer

Written by Université de Genève

This artist’s illustration shows a giant cloud of hydrogen streaming off a warm, Neptune-sized planet just 97 light-years from Earth. The exoplanet is tiny compared to its star, a red dwarf named GJ 3470. The star’s intense radiation is heating the hydrogen in the planet’s upper atmosphere to a point where it escapes into space. The alien world is losing hydrogen at a rate 100 times faster than a previously observed warm Neptune whose atmosphere is also evaporating away. Credit: © Crédit NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI)

Continue Reading No Comments

Ingestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly

Written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT researchers have designed an ingestible sensor that can lodge in the stomach for a few weeks and communicate wirelessly with an external device. Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers

Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule that can be controlled using Bluetooth wireless technology.

Continue Reading No Comments