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Aalto-2 satellite no longer responds to commands

Written by Aalto University

Astronauts at the International Space Station released Aalto-2 into orbit on 25 May. The first satellite signal was detected from Japan on the same day, and later that evening the satellite had already made contact with the Otaniemi ground station.

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New evidence that all stars are born in pairs

Written by Robert Sanders

Did our sun have a twin when it was born 4.5 billion years ago?

Almost certainly yes—though not an identical twin. And so did every other sunlike star in the universe, according to a new analysis by a theoretical physicist from UC Berkeley and a radio astronomer from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard University.

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Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction

Written by Peter Brannen

At the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Smithsonian paleontologist Doug Erwin took the podium to address a ballroom full of geologists on the dynamics of mass extinctions and power grid failures—which, he claimed, unfold in the same way.

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Word to the Wise on Politicized Global Warming Issues

Written by Hans Shreuder (retired Analytical Chemist)

Whilst I am also most sincerely concerned about our environment and detest any and all types of man-made pollution, I can not agree with all the hype about “climate issues” based on the so-called “man-made climate change” meme.

For the wiser among us who genuinely want to hear all sides of the argument, please spend a little of your time to read my reasons below for not going along with the issue that humans have an influence on the earth’s climate via the emissions of carbon dioxide. By the way, as a scientist who has studied the science, I am aware of the compelling evidence that wind turbines, solar PV panels, and battery cars are far worse for the environment than any current means of generating electricity and transport.

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Carbon Dioxide Doesn’t Cause Global Warming

Written by Craig Brougher

There is a little-known fact that gas molecules excite with direct radiation, while atom pairs do not. This warming is called “resonance,” not because we hear them singing when buzzed by solar photons, but because physicists have no other way of describing how molecules pass on heat energy.

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Oddity: Are Trump’s Climate Science Enemies Proving Him Right?

Written by Michael Bastach

A study meant to debunk a claim made by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt in his confirmation hearing ended up doing the opposite — it proved him right.

The study, published Thursday in the journal Nature, found that Pruitt’s claim of a “leveling off of warming” over the past two decades is unsupported by satellite-derived temperature data, which measures the lowest few miles of the atmosphere.

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What To Do with ‘Uncorrectable Science?’

Written by Joseph E Postma

What happens if science is actually uncorrectable, or becomes uncorrectable?  This is the response I get from other scientists who I ask to consider the skeptical arguments which debunk climate alarm:

“since we expect climate scientists to trust our own work and expertise in astrophysics, then why wouldn’t we return that trust to the experts in climate science?”

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