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
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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…
Written by Neil Macdonald and Heather Sangster
Scientists at Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool studying past historical floods determine nothing exceptional in recent severe British flooding events.
Abstract. The last decade has witnessed severe flooding across much of the globe, but have these floods really been exceptional? Globally, relatively few instrumental river flow series extend beyond 50 years, with short records presenting significant challenges in determining flood risk from high-magnitude floods.
Written by PSI staff
Principia Scientific International recently published a novel paper ‘Simultaneous Conduction And Radiation Energy Transfer‘ (Pierre Latour PhD, March 2, 2017). In it the author claimed that there are solutions to thermodynamics with heat flowing from cold to hot, as long as heat was flowing from hot to cold via a different mechanism at the same time.
Here we will present the review, just because it’s great reading for math and physics Übermenschen.
Written by Pierre L. Gosselin
A huge hole in the magnetically hot corona of the sun in the coming weeks will lead to a powerful solar wind and initiate hefty polar lights in the earth’s magnetic field. This will be a brief pause in the solar activity slumber that has taken hold over the past year and thus allowed cosmic rays to penetrate almost freely into the earth’s atmosphere.
Written by Jack Dini
The use of wood for electricity generation and heat in modern technologies has grown rapidly in recent years. For its supporters, it represents a relatively cheap and flexible way of supplying renewable energy, with benefits to the global climate and to forest industries. To its critics, it can release more greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere than the fossil fuels it replaces, and threatens the maintenance of natural forests and the biodiversity that depends on them. 1
Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser
The drive to find novel energy storage systems for all the “alternative” energy produced from wind-turbines and solar (photovoltaic) systems is fostering the most bizarre ideas.
Needless to say, government bureaucrats are just too happy to throw taxpayers’ funds at any idea that promises to fulfill the quest. One of the latest “grand schemes” involves hollow concrete balls sunk into the depths of the ocean, the deeper the better and the larger the better too.
So, what am I talking about, specifically? Of course, hollow concrete balls, the latest scheme in the quest to provide “free energy.”
Written by Jordan Anaya
This is a difficult post for me to write since I believe in post-publication peer review and F1000Research is seen as a pioneer in using this model.
However, when I envisioned post-publication peer review I never imagined getting rid of editors, allowing the authors to invite their friends to review their articles, relinquishing the responsibilities of accepting or retracting articles, and then passing the articles off as if they underwent a thorough peer-review process.