SPOTLIGHT: Yesterday, I was supposed to feel guilty about my carbon footprint. Today it’s my plastic footprint.
From Carbon Footprint to Plastic Footprint
Written by Donna Laframboise
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Winds of Change
Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser
In Grimm brothers’ world-famous mythical story about “Hänsel and Gretel” in the forest, their answer to the witch’s question about the strange sound she heard, was “Der Wind, der Wind, das himmlische Kind” (the wind, the wind, the heavenly child).
Some Inconvenient Truths About Recycling
Written by www.investors.com
Environment: It has become an article of faith in the U.S. that recycling is a good thing. But evidence is piling up that recycling is a waste of time and money, and a bit of a fraud.
Multiple New Earthquakes Beneath East Antarctica’s Ice
Written by Maddie Stone
Antarctica is being pulled apart by an ancient rift system deep in Earth’s continental crust.
How to Prove if Skeptics or Climate Alarmists Are Wrong
Written by CO2 is Life
(left) A healthy ocean snail has a transparent shell with smoothly contoured ridges. (right) A shell exposed to more acidic, corrosive waters is cloudy, ragged, and pockmarked with ‘kinks’ and weak spots. Photos courtesy Nina Bednarsek, NOAA PMEL.
Study: Plastics Bans Bad for the Environment
Written by Jason Hopkins
Outright bans on plastics have an overall negative effect on the environment, and recycling initiatives make for better solutions, according to an Independent Institute report.
NOAA Scientist To Media: Don’t Link Hurricanes To Global Warming
Written by cfact
The news media should be cautious about linking hurricane activity to global warming, according to National Hurricane Center Science and Operations Officer Chris Landsea.
Climate Science ‘Gone Astray’ say German Scientists
Written by Pierre Gosselin
At the Wall Street Journal, Steven F. Hayward penned a great summary of the current state of the climate movement, telling us the CO2 climate change issue is quickly running out of oxygen.
A Light Discussion: Particles or Waves?
Written by Herb Rose
The debate on the nature of light in the early twentieth century, whether light was a particle or a wave, led to Einstein’s solution with the creation of the photon where waves could become particle like, having no mass but containing energy.
Pacific Rats Reveal 2000 Years of Human Impact on Island Ecosystems
Written by Dr. Jillian Swift Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Credit: © Jillian A. Swift Agakauitai Island in the Gambier Archipelago (Mangareva).
Rats were carried on ships as humans settled the remote islands of the Pacific – analysis of the rats’ remains reveals changes humans made to the island ecosystems.
‘Planet Nine’ may not be needed to explain odd orbits
Written by Christopher Davidson
Many TNOs have wide, circular orbits that bring them nowhere near any of the solar system’s gas giants, leading scientists to question how the former initially got to their current positions without having interacted with a much larger object.
NASA to launch mission to study cosmic rays in the heliosphere
Written by Karen Graham
This image shows the locations of Voyagers 1 and 2. Voyager 1 is traveling a lot and has crossed into the heliosheath, the region where interstellar gas and solar wind start to mix.
NASA/Walt Feimer
NASA has selected a science mission planned for launch in 2024 that will sample, analyze, and map particles streaming to Earth from the edges of interstellar space.
NASA Focuses on Telescope Heat Protection in Space
Written by Thomas Claburn
Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn
While the spaceship name Heart of Gold was taken by the late, great Douglas Adams, NASA has come up with something similar for its forthcoming space telescope.
Berkeley Scholar Admits “Climate Change Has Run Its Course”
Written by Tyler Durden
Climate change is over. Blasphemy!! No, I’m not saying the climate will not change in the future, or that human influence on the climate is negligible. I mean simply that climate change is no longer a pre-eminent policy issue.
“Heavily Faulted” London Now At Risk Of Major Earthquakes
Written by Tyler Durden
Earthquakes in Britain are unusual to say the least, and in London even more so. In fact, an earthquake has not struck the capital since the 1700s.
How to Foster Famine
Written by Viv Forbes
Famine has haunted humans for most of their history. In the days of the Pharaohs, whenever the Nile River failed to flood, Egypt starved. Joseph was called in and he organised stockpiling of grain for famine relief.