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Study: Higher Levels of CO2 make Bigger, Tastier Onions!

Written by www.co2science.org

Paper Reviewed: Bettoni, M.M., Mogor, A.F., Pauletti, V. and Goicoechea, N. 2017. The interaction between mycorrhizal inoculation, humic acids supply and elevated atmospheric CO2 increases energetic and antioxidant properties and sweetness of yellow onion. Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology 58: 432-440.

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How effective are earthquake early warning systems?

Written by Mary Halton

Image of a phone screen with seismometer readout - three lines with regular pulses
Image caption MyShake: An app which allows users’ phones to act as seismometers

Earthquake early warning detection is more effective for minor quakes than major ones. This is according to a new study from the United States Geological Survey.

Seismologists modelled ground shaking along California’s San Andreas Fault, where an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 or more is expected within 30 years.

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Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is MOSTLY OXYGEN!

Written by Tom Harris

Carbon is a solid, naturally occurring, non-toxic element found in all living things. It forms thousands of compounds, much more than any other element. Medicines, trees, oil, and even our bodies are made of carbon compounds.

Pure carbon occurs in nature mainly in the forms of graphite and diamond. So, what is the “carbon pollution” environmentalists are concerned about? Are they speaking about soot emissions reduction? Amorphous carbon, carbon without structure, is the main ingredient in soot, which is a pollutant important to control. Power plants have already done a good job reducing soot, as they have with other pollutants.

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A Constant Universe – Section Two

Written by Robert A. Beatty BE (Minerals) FAusIMM(CP)

1 INTRODUCTION, In Section One, it was concluded:

1)            If the constellations are moving apart at whatever speed, and are simultaneously being replaced by some mass derived from energy, this could provide another explanation for the evolution of the universe, which does not involve a big bang explanation.

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Ground breaking Paper: Global Warming, Ice Melt ‘Not Related To Sea Level Rise’

Written by Kenneth Richard

1 – 2 Meters Of Sea Level Rise By

2100 A ‘Highly Erroneous’ Claim

Geophysicist and tectonics expert Dr. Aftab Khan has unearthed a massive fault in the current understanding of (1) rapid sea level rise and its fundamental relation to (2) global-scale warming/polar ice melt.

Succinctly, Dr. Khan concludes the two have little to nothing to do with one another.

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Archaeopteryx Flew but Not Like Birds Today

Written by European Synchrotron Radiation Facility


Credits: ESRF/Pascal Goetgheluck

The question of whether the Late Jurassic dino-bird Archaeopteryx was an elaborately feathered ground dweller, a glider, or an active flyer has fascinated palaeontologists for decades.

Valuable new information obtained with state-of-the-art synchrotron microtomography at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron (Grenoble, France), allowed an international team of scientists to answer this question in Nature Communications. The wing bones of Archaeopteryx were shaped for incidental active flight, but not for the advanced style of flying mastered by today’s birds.

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The Black Hole – Can the ‘Irresistible Force’ Overcome the ‘Immovable Object?’

Written by Raymond HV Gallucci, PhD, PE

The past decade of work by Stephen Crothers (pictured), following some earlier work by Antoci and Abrams, has focused on mathematically demonstrating the impossibility of the black hole, consistent with the original analysis by Karl Scwarzschild.

This paper briefly reviews Crothers’ work, then presents a physical argument against the credulity of the black hole.  This argument examines the extreme difficulty, if not altogether impossibility, of the ‘irresistible force’ of increasing gravity allegedly collapsing a neutron star into an even greater ‘immovable object’ of increasing density – a black hole.

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Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may be water worlds

Written by Laurel Hamers

TRAPPIST-1 planets

WATER WORLDS  The TRAPPIST-1 system, with seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a dwarf star, has captured the attention of scientists hunting for life outside the solar system. New estimates of the planets’ composition indicates that several are enveloped in water and ice.

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Peer-reviewed study debunks hydropower methane claims

Written by James Taylor

The vast majority of hydropower dams in the Mekong Delta in Southeast Asia have a similar climate footprint as wind power, solar power, and other renewable power sources, scientists conclude in a newly published study in the peer-reviewed Environmental Research Letters.

The findings are particularly powerful because the Mekong Delta dams are likely to emit more methane than dams built and maintained in the United States and much of the rest of the world.

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Bad Measuring Made CO2 our Climate’s Control Knob

Written by John O'Sullivan

A US Federal Court finally recognizes that climate scientists do not measure properly. Honest mistakes are forgivable, some are plainly intended to commit science fraud.

An open California courtroom this week saw dodgy alarmist scientists properly exposed and taken to task by a US Federal judge –  who just so happens to also be a trained engineer! (see: ‘California Court Shines Bright Light On Junk Climate Science

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How Fake News Demonizes Scientists Investigating Vaccines Claims

Written by Jayson Veley

There are a number of different techniques and methods that the fake news media uses to attack and demonize those who are concerned with the harmful side effects of some vaccines. Some of these methods were outlined in a recent article published by The World Mercury Project titled “Journalists ‘Shots’ Sometimes Miss Their Mark.”

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Scientists develop tooth-mounted sensors to track what you eat

Written by Tufts University

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 22, 2018) – Monitoring in real time what happens in and around our bodies can be invaluable in the context of health care or clinical studies, but not so easy to do.

That could soon change thanks to new, miniaturized sensors developed by researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering that, when mounted directly on a tooth and communicating wirelessly with a mobile device, can transmit information on glucose, salt and alcohol intake.

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A Constant Universe – Section One

Written by Robert A. Beatty BE (Minerals) FAusIMM(CP)

ABSTRACT: The cause of gravity and its relationship to the formation of the Universe is explored together with a possible relationship between our nearest Black Hole, and Earth.

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California Court Shines Bright Light on Junk Climate Science

Written by Phelim McAleer

Attempt to sue oil companies backfires as judge calls out their exaggerations and deceptions. ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners suing oil companies were left wounded yesterday when the first ever “climate change trial” left their exaggerations badly exposed under questioning from a curious judge who demanded evidence not allegations.

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