The aim of education is to make people think, not spare them from discomfort.– Robert Zimmer

Campus craziness

As a citizen of a third-world country, I bring a different perspective about climate change from that held by most people in wealthy countries. While they fret about possible tenth-of-a-degree changes in global average temperature, I think about how a billion of my fellow Indians and I will obtain the food, water, health care, and other things we need that our richer neighbors take for granted.

Invisible goings-on at Mars. Having referred to ‘the magnetotail found at Venus, a planet with no magnetic field of its own’, it seems clear that such things must have a lot to do with the electro-magnetic forces being delivered in the solar wind, as this ScienceDaily report explains.

A MASSIVE botnet that has been gathering steam over the past few weeks is threatening to ravage the web, security researchers have warned.

A botnet uses collections of devices like wifi routers or smart webcams which have been hacked to collaboratively send surges of data to servers – causing them crash, disrupt services and ultimately go offline.

Oil. From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the petrochemical industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world.

In the last post we examined the equations conserving energy, defining heat flow, and thermodynamic equilibrium for a power-generating sphere enclosed by a shell.  We examined the equations for when the system either existed in an ambient-temperature environment above 0K, or not.

In previous articles I (Dr. Duane Thresher) have hinted at sexual victimization in climate science. For example, in Bridenstine, Climate Scientists Are Not Noble, Stop Paying Them:

“But for now let’s just say a lot of men climate scientists who missed out on dating as graduate students and are determined to make up for it when they become senior scientists.”

Researchers at the University of the West of Scotland have discovered a protein that can stop viruses developing. The team had already established that the same protein can suppress cancer.

Now the fight is on to fully understand how it works in the hope of turning the laboratory research into a treatment. The protein is called Hira. Technically it is a histone chaperone complex, but it is easier to understand in terms of what it can do.

Space weather and solar activity are inconvenient natural climate drivers on earth that alarmist ‘climate scientists’ would rather you didn’t know about. But while NASA GISS are cooking up the numbers,  the Japanese are providing precision scientific advances to fill the void.

Last week I posted an article saying that, contrary to what the mainstream media may tell you, sea levels declined in 2016 and 2017. I received many snotty comments about that article, telling me that sea levels on average have been rising (presumably due to human activity), and accusing me of not looking at the bigger picture.

So okay, let’s look at that bigger picture. Sea levels have been rising for 10,000 years. Did humans cause all of that sea-level rise? I think not.

Image copyright: CHINA MANNED SPACE ENGINEERING

China’s Tiangong-1 space station is currently out of control and expected to fall back to Earth next year. But not in the remote place where many other spacecraft end their days.

Explorers and adventurers often look for new places to conquer now that the highest peaks have been climbed, the poles reached and vast oceans and deserts crossed. Some of these new places are called the poles of inaccessibility. Two of them are particularly interesting.

The discovery of a set of 9.7-million-year-old teeth has led archaeologists to raise questions about the commonly believed ‘out-of-Africa’ theory of human origins.

The teeth, which were discovered in a former bed of the Rhine river, don’t resemble those of any other human species found in Europe or Asia. The find suggests that contrary to popular belief, Europe may be the cradle of humanity.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will remain at Ceres for the rest of its mission, heading closer to the asteroid belt’s largest resident than ever before to obtain new measurements of ice, salts and a tenuous intermittent atmosphere detected around the dwarf planet, the space agency announced Thursday.

The “steel greenhouse” concept for demonstrating the radiative greenhouse effect has been debunked many times on this blog (the least reason of which its advocates attempt to conserve temperature instead of energy!), but the solution for it sitting in an ambient-temperature environment has never been demonstrated.

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal, Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos gets warning of deep-rooted climate of abuse also at Washington Post. Ex-NASA climatologist, Dr Duanne Thresher’s open letter to the media mogul shows just how deep-rooted and evil is this culture of hate in both Bezos businesses.

Do Supernova Events Cause Extreme Climate Changes?

“Global warming will not be reduced by reducing man-made CO2 emissions” — Dr. William Sokeland