Many are the studies that seek to understand the response of marine life to possible future conditions of ocean acidification and warming. The latest such study to catch our attention comes from Bahr et al. (2017), but not quite in the manner that one might think; it is what this study did not find that was of interest to us.
Climate alarmists got hysterical a few weeks ago about a forecast high temperature of 121F in Phoenix. It didn’t happen and wouldn’t have been unusual for Arizona anyway.
But on July 24, 1936, temperatures did reach 121F in Kansas, and 118F in Nebraska. Almost the entire US was over 90F.
Geologists and biologists are about to pierce one of the world’s youngest islands: tiny Surtsey, which was formed by a series of volcanic eruptions off Iceland’s southwestern coast between 1963 and 1967. Next month, the team plans to drill two holes into Surtsey’s heart, to explore how warm volcanic rock, cold seawater, and subterranean microbes interact.
A commentary appearing here at the Swiss Baseler Zeitung (BAZ) slams a recently published British paper on moss growth in Antarctica that gave the impression the south polar continent was greening up due to climate change.
The BAZ writes that the paper is an example of “how today science is manipulated and used for political purposes“.
If I had not looked past the headline of the press report on a new study, I would have just filed it under “It’s worse than we thought”. While technically correct, the story was misleading.
A bag of moon dust from NASA’s Apollo 11 mission – which a woman bought for $995 in 2015 — sold for $1.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction this week following an intense court battle.
Managing lifestyle factors such as hearing loss, smoking, hypertension, and depression could prevent one-third of the world’s dementia cases, according to a report by the first Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention and Care.
The two gases that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identifies as being the instruments by which humanity is destroying of the biosphere are the two gases that give the biosphere life—carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor (H2O), i.e., humidity.