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A manta ray mothership, eel-like drones and fish-shaped torpedoes… not things from a sci-fi movie but visions of the Royal Navy submarines of the future.

Image copyright: STUART HAY/ANU

A planetary takeover by ocean-dwelling algae 650 million years ago was the kick that transformed life on Earth.

That’s what geochemists argue in Nature this week, on the basis of invisibly small traces of biomolecules dug up from beneath the Australian desert. The molecules mark an explosion in the quantity of algae in the oceans.

Again and again, our sympathies, donations, and support for the victims of hurricane Harvey should be foremost in everyone’s mind. But let’s pause and reflect as the climate hysterics are at it again.

Hurricane Harvey presented a golden opportunity to global warming hysterics who are trying mightily to connect the storm’s intensity to climate change.

Arctic sea ice extent is up 25% over the past five years. Green shows ice gain since August 30, 2012.

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Extent is fourth highest in a decade.

Ten years ago, the government of Australia announced the permanent drought.

This drought may never break – Environment – smh.com.au

Two years later it was raining so much in Australia that sea level was falling.

We keep being told by climate [alarmists] that global warming is responsible for more intensive rainfall, the theory that a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. Funny then that when we look at rainfall records across the US for all sorts of different timescales, we find none at all since 1981. –Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 30 August 2017

First, I (Dr. Duane Thresher) do not make light of the deaths and damage Hurricane Harvey has caused. I know all too well the devastating deadly power of hurricanes. I lived for several years on Okinawa, a small Japanese island infamous from WWII. There they have typhoons, which in general are worse than hurricanes. I saw first hand this devastating deadly power.

This Friday, a three-mile-wide asteroid is going to fly past Earth – the biggest space rock to pass our planet this close in a century.

Breakthrough Listen, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Stephen Hawking, and billionaire Yuri Milner, has been gathering data with the Green Bank Radio Telescope in West Virginia, Lick Observatory’s Automated Planet Finder on Mt Hamilton in California, and the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia.

NOAA makes a large adjustment to US temperatures known as the Time of Observation Bias Adjustment (TOB.) Here is their official explanation.

This year’s baseless media frenzy over walrus survival and loss of summer sea ice blamed on human-caused global warming was initiated by a press release from US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) last week (16 August 2017, pdf here: “Pacific walruses haulout near Point Lay earlier than in previous years“). Quote below, my bold:

Here’s another blow to the global warming alarmist scientists who have claimed that the Medieval Warm Period was a local, North Atlantic phenomenon, and not a global event. What follows is a report on yet another paper contradicting this now worn-out claim.

As the Houston flood disaster is unfolding, there is considerable debate about whether Hurricane Harvey was influenced by “global warming.” While such an issue matters little to the people of Houston, it does matter for our future infrastructure planning and energy policy.

Before I (Dr. Duane Thresher) start this article, yes, there are more Nazi references (to start, the twin photo above is Josef Mengele). We don’t use these lightly. My wife, Dr. Claudia Kubatzki, is a native German and I lived in Germany for several years.

Our source of energy and life at the center of our solar system was significantly below normal with respect to activity last month.