Written by Pallab Ghosh
Image copyright: MILLARD H. SHARPThe first dinosaurs may have originated in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly in an area that is now Britain. This is one of the conclusions of the first detailed re-evaluation of the relationships between dinosaurs for 130 years.
It shows that the current theory of how dinosaurs evolved and where they came from may well be wrong. This major shake-up of dinosaur theory is published in this weeks’s edition of the journal Nature.
Written by Matt McGrath
Image copyright: GARY MCARTHURTwelve “new” types of cloud – including the rare, wave-like asperitas cloud – have been recognised for the first time by the International Cloud Atlas.
The atlas, which dates back to the 19th Century, is the global reference book for observing and identifying clouds. Last revised in 1987, its new fully-digital edition includes the asperitas after campaigns by citizen scientists. Other new entries include the roll-like volutus, and contrails, clouds formed from the vapour trail of aeroplanes.
Written by bbc.co.uk
A British teenager has contacted scientists at Nasa to point out an error in a set of their own data. A-level student Miles Soloman found that radiation sensors on the International Space Station (ISS) were recording false data.
The 17-year-old from Tapton school in Sheffield said it was “pretty cool” to email the space agency. The correction was said to be “appreciated” by Nasa, which invited him to help analyse the problem.
Written by Tony Heller
Right before they got slammed with cold and three feet of snow upstate, the fake news New York Times announced the early spring due to your SUV.
As with almost everything climate experts say, they are lying. Prior to 1950, early spring temperatures in the US were much warmer. The four warmest March 23 dates in the US were 1910, 1907, 1939 and 1928.
./ghcn.exe US.txt date=0323 threshf=70 > US_0323_70F.csv
On this date in 1910, two-thirds of US stations were over seventy degrees, and 80 degree temperatures occurred all the way up to northern Minnesota and North Dakota.
./ghcn.exe US.txt date=03231910 threshf=70 > US_03231910_70F.csv
Northern Minnesota is forecast to reach the low 40’s today, about 40 degrees cooler than 1910.
Read more at realclimatescience.com
Written by Andrew Follett
NASA has found two small breaks in one wheel on the Curiosity Mars, marking the first step in the rover’s long decline.
Curiosity has breaks in the rover’s left middle wheel that appear to have been caused by simple wear and tear. It has driven a total of 9.9 miles since the mission’s August 2012 landing on Mars. The rover only needs to go another 3.7 miles to complete its mission.
Written by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
According to Foreign Affairs magazine, Americans reject the advice of experts so as “to insulate their fragile egos from ever being told they’re wrong.” That’s in support of a book by Tom Nichols called The Death of Expertise, which essentially advances that thesis.
Well, it’s certainly true that the “experts” don’t have the kind of authority that they possessed in the decade or two following World War II. Back then, the experts had given us vaccines, antibiotics, jet airplanes, nuclear power and space flight. The idea that they might really know best seemed pretty plausible.
Written by Professor Ole Humlum
Written by Pallab Ghosh
Image copyright: EQUINOX GRAPHICS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYThe Large Hadron Collider has discovered new sub-atomic particles that could help to explain how the centres of atoms are held together. The particles are all different forms of the so-called Omega-c baryon, whose existence was confirmed in 1994.
Physicists had always believed the various types existed but had not been able to detect them – until now. The discovery will shed light on the operation of the “strong force”, which glues the insides of atoms. The centres of atoms consist of particles called neutrons and protons. They in turn are made up of smaller particles called quarks, which have unusual names.
Written by Philippa Roxby
Image copyright: SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYHow an individual sperm swims, against all the odds, through fluid to reach the fallopian tubes has been revealed – and it’s all about rhythm. Researchers from the UK and Japan found that the head and tail movements of sperm made patterns similar to the fields that form around magnets.
And these help to propel sperm towards the female egg. Knowing why some sperm succeed and others fail could help treat male infertility, the researchers said.
Written by Paul Rincon
Image copyright: ESA/ROSETTA/NAVCAMThe comet visited by the Rosetta spacecraft is constantly being re-shaped, sometimes in dramatic fashion. It witnessed the collapse of entire cliffs at two locations on Comet 67P, events that were probably driven by exposure to sunlight.
The European probe documented the widespread breakdown of materials on the surface during nearly two years orbiting the 4km-wide body. Details were presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC).
Written by Tony Heller
NASA has a “Common Sense Climate Index” which shows the capital of Iceland super-hot after the year 2000.
Data.GISS: Common Sense Climate Index
They accomplished this by massively cooling the past to get rid of the pre-1960 warmth.
Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
NASA did exactly the same thing at the capital of Greenland – massively cooled the past to make the present appear warm.
Data.GISS: Common Sense Climate Index
Before data tampering, the 1940’s was warmer in Greenland than the present.
Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
The warmth of that period was very real. Glaciers were rapidly disappearing in 1922, which NASA now shows (after “common sense” data tampering) as cold in that region.
07 Apr 1923 – NORTH POLE MELTING
Same story in 1940. It was very warm and glaciers were “nearing a catastrophe.” NASA cooled Reykjavik 1940 temperatures by 2C, to make the inconvenient warmth disappear.
06 May 1940 – Greenland’s Climate Becoming Milder
Greenland is very cold. Their capital is buried in deep snow.
It is -34C in the interior of the ice sheet.
Greenland is blowing away all records for ice gain this year.
Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI
Even as all of the fake news and fake government science agencies claim Greenland is rapidly melting.
This fraud didn’t happen by accident. During Obama’s first year in office, “independent” government agencies got together and made plans to make the 1940’s warmth disappear.
After the November 2016 election, government climate scientists were frantically trying to protect data, which it seems safe to assume means destroy evidence of fraud during the Obama administration.
Read more at realclimatescience.com
Written by Martin Enserink
GOTLAND, SWEDEN—It’s a cold, dreary day in early March, and Josefin Sundin is standing in one of the two aquarium rooms at the Ar Research Station on a remote corner of Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. “This is where it all happened,” she says, while gazing around as if searching for fresh clues. Her colleague and friend Fredrik Jutfelt takes cellphone pictures.
Written by South Carolina Department of Agriculture
Press release from the South Carolina Department of Agriculture. 85 to 90 percent crop losses
South Carolina Department of Agriculture
Hugh E. Weathers, Commissioner
Media Contacts: Stephanie Sox, 803-734-2196, [email protected]
Written by Cuneyt Kazokoglu
The popular claim that a surge in electric cars will hasten the arrival of peak oil demand is undermined by the data. High quality global journalism requires investment.
The majority of the world’s cars will remain powered by petrol, also commonly known as gasoline, for at least the next two decades and this will drive oil demand, according to data from Facts Global Energy.
Written by Joseph E Postma
As President Trump leads the charge in dismantling fake news and the ‘hoax’ of global warming we examine how the most climate-skeptical body of scientists are still being reviled and misrepresented.
At Jeff Condon’s site “the Air Vent”, he plays the “Challenge PSI” game following after Anthony Watts and Roy Spencer. Apparently this is the fun thing to do, even though it continues to support PSI’s position and defeat the challengers. [PSI is Principia Scientific International, a hub for applied scientists and engineers who point to flaws in the greenhouse gas theory]. Will Trump’s administration take note?
Written by Steve Milloy
Key quotes:
… they suspected it was caused by a dead zone–a low-oxygen area that snuffs out marine life–rather than by ocean warming or acidification…
The team thinks that such dead zones may be common in the tropics but have gone largely unreported, simply because scientists never looked…
Based on our analyses, we think dead zones may be underreported by an order of magnitude…