Abstract.  This paper reviews the alleged Allais Effect, i.e., anomalous behavior of pendulums or gravimeters sometimes observed during a total solar eclipse.

With the Moon in a direct line between the Earth and Sun, the potential for an additional gravitational perturbation is examined as a possible contributor to the effect.

If you follow the subject of global warming alarm, you will have read many times that there is a “consensus” of “97% of climate scientists” on — well, on something.

I had Scotch Broth for lunch yesterday, under the watchful eye of wifey. First I cut three slices of bread and buttered them. Then I poured the can into the saucepan and put it on the gas hob. I turned the gas on and made sure it ignited.

This year, the fear mongering about measles has reached epidemic proportions in America.

A day doesn’t go by without media outlets publishing angry articles and editorials spewing hatred toward a tiny minority of parents with unvaccinated children, who are being blamed for measles outbreaks.

Whenever NASA GISS announces how recent global temperatures are much hotter than, for example, 100 years ago, just how statistically reliable are such statements?

Most will agree, based mainly on sundry observations, that today is indeed warmer than it was when surface temperatures began to be recorded back in 1880.

Natural variability rules in Antarctica. Scientists have identified clouds, wind, and localized solar heating – not CO2 – as the factors driving ice melt; rising CO2 leads to Antarctic cooling.

Some members of the United States House are concerned the Pentagon may have unleashed disease-infected ticks that caused the spread of Lyme disease.

The Rockefellers were just getting started with their eugenics plan back in the early 1900s, and by the time the 1960s rolled around, they were full steam ahead with their population control agenda – including the development of anti-fertility vaccines for both men and women.

Today the Buluus glacier is as packed with visitors as the only official beach in Yakutsk, the world’s largest city built on permafrost.

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                On Friday 19 October, 1934, the passenger plane Miss Hobart fell from the sky to the sea.

Eight men, three women and a baby boy fell with her, swallowed – it’s believed – by the waters of the Bass Strait that lies between Tasmania and mainland Australia.

 

It has been more than 10 days since southern California was hit by the two largest earthquakes that the state has experienced in decades, and yet the shaking refuses to stop.

Fifty years ago, Apollo XI was on its way to the moon. It was one of the greatest scientific achievements in history.

America’s pioneers in space were “steely-eyed missile men;” a term they devised that meant no-nonsense, quick-thinking, objective problem solvers.

Atmospheric temperature is rising at less than half the rate predicted by the computer models. Even the predicted rate isn’t particularly disturbing so far as its effects on ecosystems or human wellbeing are concerned.

So this is it: the 50^th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. In 2016, a survey showed that 52 percent of the British public thought that Apollo missions were faked. Skepticism is highest among those who were too young to see it live on TV: 73 percent of aged 25-34 believe we didn’t land on the moon, compared to 38 percent of those aged 55 or more. These numbers seem to be rising every year.

The answer to the question—What determines the minimum possible daily air temperature?—is not likely the daily solar radiation.  For most of us have experienced that once the sun sets, the air temperature, which we commonly measure, begins to decrease.