Starvation due to natural causes is the leading cause of death for polar bears and loss of body condition (aka getting thinner) is, therefore, the first symptom of impending death for virtually all polar bears that die naturally.

When we hear about “clean” energy these days, it generally refers only to solar and wind, which do not emit CO2. CO2 is never mentioned as a “criteria pollutant” in the Clean Air Act or any amendment.

The Venta Maersk (VM) is a brand new container ship with a carrying capacity of 3,600 standard 20 ft. size (TEU) containers. With a length of 200 m and a beam of 36 m, it is quite a large vessel but nowhere near the really large container ships that can carry three to five times as many TEU.

Climate alarmists frequently claim that rising atmospheric CO2 and rising global temperatures are “twin evils” to the environment. If left unchecked, they say their unfettered increases will alter and destroy habitats and potentially lead to the extinction of untold species of plants and animals. But how realistic are such concerns?

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It appears that the melt season has just about finished on the Greenland ice cap, and for the second year running ice accumulation has been way above normal.

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Once upon a time, two early humans of different ancestry met at a cave in Russia. Some 50,000 years later, scientists have confirmed that they had a daughter together.

DNA extracted from bone fragments found in the cave show the girl was the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.

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A British-assembled satellite has been launched into space to make the first truly global maps of wind behaviour.

The Aeolus spacecraft will get its data by firing a powerful laser down into the atmosphere to trace the movement of air particles.

How does that news grab you: New research suggests evolution might favor ‘survival of the laziest’ found at https://phys.org/news/2018-08-evolution-favor-survival-laziest.html ).

That’s what I call important news! Laziness to the Fore! Who could possibly resist such critical new findings?

A University in Sweden has set up what it claims is the “world’s first global research network looking into climate change denial.” Chalmers University of Technology is seeking to explore “connections between conservatism, xenophobia, and climate change denial.”

YouTube just added an “information panel” to all my videos about climate change. We at Stossel TV do weekly videos on many controversial topics, but apparently, YouTube thinks climate change is special.

As the heat and drought peaked across northern Europe in early August, the media became chock-full of climate doom stories of how the heat and drought were all sure signs of a tipping planet, always citing the ever-reliable doomsday scientists.

When people talk of the Earth what they are usually referring to is the very thin layer that we are familiar with. The Earth is not the just the upper layer of the crust and the troposphere but is the entire system consisting of the entire atmosphere and the entire solid Earth.

When they speak of the Earth radiating heat they are thinking of heat loss from the surface of the planet. This is wrong because the surface of the Earth is the coolest part of it.

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Scientists say they have definitive evidence for water-ice on the surface of the Moon. The ice deposits are found at both the north and south poles, and are likely to be ancient in origin.

The result comes from an instrument on India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, which explored the Moon between 2008 and 2009.

Palaeontologists have long sought to understand ancient life and the shared evolutionary history of life as a whole.