Written by SHANIKA GUNARATNA
Alien species are a global problem, but they’re a particular headache in certain hotspots of the world.
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.
Written by Andrew Follett
Satellites can predict when massive swarms of desert locusts will form in Africa, according to a Tuesday statement by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Written by Brooks Hays
Scientists in Australia have developed a solar paint capable of pulling water molecules from the air and splitting them into oxygen and hydrogen, the latter of which can be stored for use as fuel.
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.
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.
Written by Alan Carlin
The Climate-Industrial Complex (CIC) is fighting hard to keep the US in the Paris Accord (to the extent it ever was in it given that the Senate has never consented to it), which I call the Paris non-treaty Treaty. And President Trump promises a decision after the G-7 meeting this weekend.
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.
Written by Ethan Siegel
“They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonized’ it. So technically, I colonized Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong!” –Andy Weir
In 1960, just three years after Sputnik 1, humans began launching missions to Mars.
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?”
Written by S Schirott
Open a standard textbook in astronomy and read the discussion of galaxies, stars, and planets. It will appear that gravity alone organized the cosmos and now keeps it running. We all know that electricity powers our lights runs our computers and, in an unleashed form, creates static shocks and awe-inspiring lightning bolts.
Written by PSI Staff
British Physicist and weatheraction.comeatheraction.com front man, Piers Corbyn, issues a stark rebuke to climate alarmists who claim the 18-year-old pause in global warming won’t last. “The mini ice age is here to stay!”
Illustrating his analysis of the data with deft graphwork Corbyn shows that in April 2017 temperatures in both the northern and southern hemispheres plunged dramatically last month. “The mini ice age is in a new phase and is here to stay for at least 20 years.”
Written by Peter Hasson
A peer-reviewed academic journal published on Friday a hoax gender studies paper titled, “The Conceptual Penis As A Social Construct.”
Two academics, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, used pen names to successfully submit the hoax paper — which argued that “the penis vis-à-vis maleness is an incoherent construct” — to the peer-reviewed journal Cogent Social Sciences. Boghossian and Lindsay cited 20 sources, none of which they say they read, and five of which are fake papers that were “published” in journals that don’t actually exist.
Written by University of Bergen
Geochemical fingerprinting links microscopic ash found on the bottom of a Svalbard lake to volcanic event happening 7000 years ago and 5000 km away.
Written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The environment on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, may seem surprisingly familiar: Clouds condense and rain down on the surface, feeding rivers that flow into oceans and lakes. Outside of Earth, Titan is the only other planetary body in the solar system with actively flowing rivers, though they’re fed by liquid methane instead of water. Long ago, Mars also hosted rivers, which scoured valleys across its now-arid surface.
Now MIT scientists have found that despite these similarities, the origins of topography, or surface elevations, on Mars and Titan are very different from that on Earth.
Written by Joseph E Postma
I was having an email discussion with an old professor of mine (from undergad) about the fraud of the radiative greenhouse effect who has himself implied doubt about the greenhouse effect. Actually the proff is Dr. Essex who wrote the book “Taken by Storm“. He suggested that I look at the “equations of transfer” in regard to the problem, which of course I have already done extensively and am quite familiar with. I will post the reply here since it may help some people: