Written by Mariella Moon
On July 18, 2017, at around 2 PM Eastern time, Professor Stefano Vitale sent the LISA Pathfinder its final kill commands from the mission’s control center in Germany.
Written by Sam Shead
The House of Lords has launched a public inquiry into advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
The House of Lords said on Wednesday that the new Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence will “consider the economic, ethical, and social implications of advances in artificial intelligence.”
Written by Paul Homewood
Utter drivel from the Daily Mail, and doubtless the rest of the MSM as well:
Written by James Delingpole
See if you can work out what these recent stories from around the world have in common:
This one (from PV Tech):
Written by Chris White
Terrifying people about the possibility climate change could eventually destroy Earth is justifiable because alarming citizens about the Y2K bug worked, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Written by Tony Heller
Ten years ago, NASA’s top climate guru, Gavin Schmidt announced the Lake Powell permanent drought.
Written by Shannon Hall
Our planet is in constant flux. Tectonic plates—the large slabs of rock that divide Earth’s crust so that it looks like a cracked eggshell—jostle about in fits and starts that continuously reshape our planet—and possibly foster life.
Written by NIcole Pelletiere
A piece of history has been found thanks to a boy stumbling upon a rare, 1.2 million-year-old animal fossil.
Written by Andrew Follett
Government research published Tuesday indicates that drilling for oil and gas isn’t to blame for rising methane emissions.
Written by Triana O'keefe
For a long time, scientists have wondered how a large number of species can live together while competing for a single, limiting resource. Why doesn’t a single species that is better at competing for the resource crowd out all the others? According to new findings by Macquarie University, the answer to this question on coral reefs is like a very big game of rock-paper-scissors.
Written by Chris White
Future generations might need to employ a nearly $20 trillion vacuum cleaner to suck pollution and deadly carbon emissions out of the atmosphere, according to a study from former NASA scientist James Hansen.
Written by JoNova
Funny, Al Gore didn’t say anything about 2017 being “less devastating”:
Frankfurt am Main (AFP) – Natural catastrophes worldwide were less devastating in the first half of 2017 than the average over the past 10 years, reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday, while highlighting the role of climate change in severe US storms.
Written by Andrew Follett
A Stanford University professor indicated he was ready to take legal action against NOAA researchers who published a recent study critical of his work on green energy.
Written by British Antarctic Survey
A new study on mosses found in the polar regions reveals how several species have migrated around the globe and are even found in their polar opposite.
Written by P Gosselin
Yesterday on Twitter meteorologist Joe Bastardi, a well-known climate science antagonist, directed our attention to the NCEP temperature situation for South America. Yikes!
Written by Dr. Craig Idso
Paper Reviewed
O’Leary, J.K., Micheli, F., Airoldi, L., Boch, C., de Leo, G., Elahi, R., Ferretti, F., Graham, N.A.J., Litvin, S.Y., Low, N.H., Lummis, S., Nickols, K.J. and Wong, J. 2017. The Resilience of Marine Ecosystems to Climatic Disturbances. BioScience 67: 208-220.