Humans are used to being outdone by computers when it comes to recalling facts, but they still have the upper hand in an argument. For now. It has long been the case that machines can beat us in games of strategy like chess.
Confidence is rising in two key aspects of healthy climate scepticism. First, climate models have run “hot” and been wrong in predicting the speed and extent of warming. Second, the extended slowdown in the rate of warming since the turn of the century was real. —Graham Lloyd, The Australian, 23 September 2017
On Twitter, physical scientist Ned Nikolov informs us of a 2015 paper that “finds NO trend in global Tropical Cyclone Activity between the decade 1965-1974 and the present. Hence, warming has NOT affected hurricane activity for the past 45 yrs!”
The recent spate of hurricanes has inevitably attracted attention and spawned wildly inaccurate headlines, such as “a 1000 year event”, “the most powerful Atlantic storm on record”, “storm of the century”, and even “most deadly storm in history”.
Image copyright: AIRBUS DS/MAX ALEXANDERImage captionS: entinel-5P will launch in mid-October to monitor air quality around the globe
Europe has begun the process of scoping an expansion to its Sentinel Earth observation network. Six new satellite concepts will be studied, including a constellation of spacecraft that can monitor emissions of carbon dioxide.
Written by Dr. Wolfgang Thüne (Translated by Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser)
Since time immemorial, the weather has been a common theme among people. That was the case a thousand years ago and modern newscasts would be incomplete without weather information.
A six year drought in California was finally declared over this year but the threat for the south-western state as well as other locations in the world remains the same.
The bladed terrain of Pluto’s Tartarus Dorsa region, imaged by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its encounter with the dwarf planet in July 2015. Credit: NASA, JHUAPL, SwRI
Pluto’s surface hosts blades of ice that soar to the height of skyscrapers — and researchers have narrowed down exactly how the dramatic features form.
3 Atmospheric Scientists: Greenhouse Effect Based On ‘Physically Irrelevant Assumptions’
Yet another new scientific paper has been published that questions the current understanding of the Earth’s globally averaged surface temperature and its relation to the theoretical greenhouse effect.
A 35-year-old man who had been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for 15 years has shown signs of consciousness after receiving a pioneering therapy involving nerve stimulation.
There’s a scene in the movie Straight Outta Compton – (it’s OK: you don’t need to like rap to get this analogy) – where Eazy-E goes to confront his manager Jerry Heller.
Sept. 26, 1963, began like no other day in San Diego history. It was 95 degrees at Lindbergh Field — at 8 a.m. And it kept getting hotter. Much, much hotter.