Wise alecks on social media noted with amusement how Beto O’Rourke recently claimed humans had only ten years to act on climate change, thus one-upping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who had previously gone out on a limb by putting the deadline at twelve years.

Researchers have discovered that lower cloud coverage in the Antarctic can promote sea ice growth.

Unlike the rapid decline of Arctic sea ice in the warming climate, Antarctic sea ice witnessed a modest extension over the past four decades, according to the paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.

Mention the words ‘climate change’ or ‘climate emergency’ and climate scientists and ‘entrepreneurs’ are drooling in anticipation of the research grants, subsidies and investment grants which will keep them in luxury for years.

When the Danish Government sent their Chief Planner to threaten me I froze. I could not believe what I heard. Was I in Denmark or some banana republic, or were the two the same?

There is no beginning or ending. The material universe extends beyond the greatest distances we can observe optically or by radio means. It is boundless. (G. Reber)

The 20^th century’s two keenest astronomers haled from Wheaton, Illinois. Edwin Hubble moved to Wheaton in 1900, age 10. Grote Reber (pictured) was born there in 1911.

When Greg Wetherbee sat in front of the microscope recently, he was looking for fragments of metals or coal, particles that might indicate the source of airborne nitrogen pollution in Rocky Mountain National Park. What caught his eye, though, were the plastics.

May 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. What are you doing to mark the occasion?

In the Royal Collection, London, is the most important group of Leonardo’s drawings to survive. It’s more than 500 sheets that have been together as a group since Leonardo’s death all those years ago.

Until now, little was known about the biogeochemical interaction between fungi and gold. But a new study published by Nature.com reveals that some fungi possess a high gold-oxidizing capacity.

Brace yourself – but also try to relax a little. You didn’t really create another new crisis. Capitalism didn’t either.

Biomarker evidence for Arctic-region sea ice coverage in the northern Barents Sea indicates the most extensive sea ice conditions of the last 9,500 years occurred during the 20th century (0 cal yr BP).

It is a remarkable thing that the U.K. and Irish parliaments were able to hypnotize themselves and pass climate emergency legislation when the southern half of the planet has not warmed at all in 120 years.

For the upcoming  Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) a rate of global mean sea level rise over 1980-2000 is touted faster than during any preceding 20-year period since at least 1000 BCE.

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Amateur space photographer Andrew McCarthy, or ‘space nerd’ as he calls himself on his Instagram account, has a passion for astronomy, thanks to his dad introducing him to the moon through his telescope when he was a child.