The possibility of alien life on the icy planets and moons in our Solar System could be lower than previously thought, because any water on them will quickly vaporize, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience.

A growing number of researchers think that the sun is actually larger than commonly thought.

Scientists don’t know the sun’s size as precisely as the details of the Earth and moon, making it a sticking point for perplexed eclipse modelers.

The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July 2017 was +0.28 deg. C, up a little from the June 2017 value of +0.21 deg. C (click for full-size version):

Toto has never seen cool weather like this in August before. He is more used to the Dust Bowl and tornadoes.

Jupiter is indeed the largest planet in the solar system, weighing more than twice the mass of all the other planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and more combined.

However, because it’s so dauntingly massive, Jupiter does not technically orbit the sun.

Scientists have found a surprise algae species growing in Wisconsin lakes, a species most thought was existent from the Americas.

“It’s never been harder to be a climate scientist,” claims a heartrending piece in the New Republic.

Climate scientists working directly for the Trump administration are the most affected. A report published last week by the Union of Concerned Scientists describes a “culture of fear” as government scientists are gagged, sidelined, or fired, and funding cuts loom. “Some are afraid to utter the words ‘climate change,’” the report reads.

But wait. You haven’t got to the saddest part, yet.

Just over the North Atlantic Ocean from the United States lies a geophysical threat that may be close to unleashing hell on Earth. It is Iceland’s dangerous Katla volcano.

CNN flooded its front page with “grim” global warming coverage ahead of the network’s so-called “climate crisis” with former Vice President Al Gore set for Tuesday.

David Shukman has been to Greenland to look at algae:

Scientists are “very worried” that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet could accelerate and raise sea levels more than expected.

The Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland: They all feature prominently in the climate change scare stories. According to the dominant alarmist meme, human greenhouse gases are causing unusual global warming which is (or should be at least) causing the polar ice caps to melt, dramatically raising sea levels.

There are multiple problems with this narrative of which I want to address three specific claims about the ice in the Arctic, Antarctica, and Greenland.

The world is presently in an era of unusually low weather disasters. This holds for the weather phenomena that have historically caused the most damage: tropical cyclones, floods, tornadoes, and drought.

AGW scandal by four scientists and the IPCC

By Kyoji Kimoto, ky***@*******co.jp,
July 30, 2017
(Background here, where Robert Cess admits error)

The anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory of the IPCC is a fake science developed by the following scientists for fame & fund, and causing huge economic losses to the world.

On 12 October, an asteroid will pass by Earth at an astronomical stone’s throw from the surface of Earth, whizzing past us at a distance of as little as 4,200 miles. And NASA is using this opportunity to test out some of its planetary defense systems.

Keep your fingers crossed for clear nights and get ready for a collection of treats from the skies. There are no fewer than five events to look forward to in August.

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found that stem cells in the brain’s hypothalamus govern how fast aging occurs in the body.