Erwin Schrödinger’s Cute Personality

Written by Joseph E Postma

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A quirk of personality which resulted in one of modern science’s greatest intellects not making a sufficiently powerful statement is found with Erwin Schrödinger’s attempt to refute the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics with his paradox of the cat.

I mean it is all a very cute idea, a very nice little silly idea of no particular consequence to any standers-by.

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Almost all plastic in the ocean comes from just 10 rivers

Written by Jennifer Collins

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At last count, there were at least 8.3 billion tons of plastic in the world. Much of it gets discarded and eventually ends up in our oceans.

Researchers are looking for ways to collect that trash in the sea using a variety of technologies but the overall consensus is that using less plastic, or at least catching the trash at the source, would be much better than filtering it out afterwards.

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Funding the Climate-Industrial Complex

Written by Tom D Tamarkin

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Supposedly “green” or “renewable” energy has become a trillion-dollar-plus annual industry that has spawned tens of thousands of new businesses worldwide. The total Climate-Industrial Complex is a $2-trillion-per-year business. Major fossil fuel companies like Shell Energy now have green energy divisions.

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Lasers used to trigger thunderstorms for the first time

Written by Optical Society of America

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A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal. They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm.

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Why Climate Change Isn’t Science

Written by Daniel G Jones

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Environmentalists first predicted impending climate disaster in the 1970s, but they didn’t call it global warming. Back then, it was “Global Cooling” that would end life on earth as we knew it.

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NASA’s new planet-hunting spacecraft TESS finds third distant world

Written by Loren Grush

An artistic rendering of NASA’s TESS spacecraft observing this new exoplanet
 NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s newest planet-hunting spacecraft has already spied and confirmed a third world outside our Solar System — just three months into the vehicle’s science operations.

This newly discovered planet, or exoplanet, is relatively close by, orbiting a small star just 53 light-years away. And that means we may be able to study this world more extensively, to figure out what its atmosphere might hold.

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Climate scientist retires, then declares ‘I am a skeptic’

Written by Anastasios Tsonis

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Dr. Anastasios Tsonis, emeritus distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Authored more than 130 peer-reviewed papers and nine books:

‘I am a skeptic not just about global warming but also about many other aspects of science…Climate is too complicated to attribute its variability to one cause. We first need to understand the natural climate variability (which we clearly don’t; I can debate anybody on this issue). Only then we can assess the magnitude and reasons of climate change.’

‘If science were settled, then we should pack things up and go home.’

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Weather & Climate Disaster Losses Trend DOWN As % of Global GDP

Written by Roger Pielke Jr

Disaster Losses Munich Re 1990-2018

The figure above shows disaster losses as tracked by Munich re from 1900 to 2018, based on an update published earlier this week (here). The update allows me to add another year to the data reported in this paper:

Pielke, R. (2018). Tracking progress on the economic costs of disasters under the indicators of sustainable development goalsEnvironmental Hazards, 1-6.

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How Long is Twilight?

Written by Hans Schreuder and Joe Postma

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Definition of twilight:

NOUN
⦁ the soft glowing light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, caused by the reflection of the sun’s rays from the atmosphere.

synonyms: half-light · semi-darkness · dimness · gloom

So there you have it, in a word or three: “soft glowing light”

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