Written by Phoebe Weston
The long-awaited Perseid meteor shower will peak on Saturday with 150 meteors streaking through our skies an hour.
The shower happens every August as the Earth passes through debris from the Comet Swift Tuttle.
Written by AP
Federal researchers studying critically endangered North Pacific right whales sometimes go years without finding their subjects. Over the weekend they got lucky.
Written by Kenneth Richard
Textbook Details Robust Planetary Theory Explaining Climate Change Without CO2
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The increasingly corroborated atmospheric mass pressure (gravity) explanation for variances in planetary temperatures – which precludes a significant role for CO2 concentration changes – has now advanced from peer-reviewed scientific journals to university-level textbooks.
Written by University of Arkansas
The universe is incomprehensibly vast, with billions of other planets circling billions of other stars. The potential for intelligent life to exist somewhere out there should be enormous.
So, where is everybody?
Written by Dr. Craig Idso
Writing as background for their work, Poulton et al. (2017)* state that “ocean acidification is predicted to reduce the ocean’s capacity to absorb low-frequency sounds produced by human activities.” As a result, they hypothesize that “anthropogenic noise could propagate further under an increasingly acidic ocean” and alter certain behavioral and physiological traits of marine life. One important concern in this regard is that such noise will impair the startle response of fish to predatory strikes.
Written by Dr. Duane Thresher
What do Gavin Schmidt, Hillary Clinton, Lois Lerner and Lisa Jackson have in common?
Gavin Schmidt is the current head of NASA GISS and the leading climate change warrior scientist/spokesperson. Hillary Clinton, of course, is the disgraced former Secretary of State and a presidential loser. Lois Lerner is the disgraced former IRS official who illegally targeted conservative groups for audits. Lisa Jackson is the disgraced former EPA Administrator who seemed to take direction from climate change warrior lobbyists.
Written by Thomas Claburn
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a nanochip contact patch that can reprogram nearby cells, to help repair damaged or aging organs, blood vessels, or nerve cells.
Written by Paul Homewood
The plot thickens!
I mentioned in my previous post that the latest draft climate report, published in June, had seemingly left out a rather embarrassing table from the Executive Summary, one that had previously been written into the Third Draft, published last December.
Written by University of Edinburgh
Scientists have helped solve the mystery of what lies beneath the surface of Neptune – the most distant planet in our solar system. A new study sheds light on the chemical makeup of the planet, which lies around 4.5 billion kilometers from the sun.
Written by Mariella Moon
When SpaceX’s rocket takes off on August 14th, it will be carrying a machine that could make things a lot easier for future astronauts embarking on deep space missions.
Written by Thomas Richard
On Wednesday night, Tucker Carlson grilled climate activist Joe Romm about Bill Nye’s comments that older scientists needed to “die out” so climate science could progress.
Romm runs the progressive website Think Progress, which is funded by the Center for American Progress.
Written by PLoS ONE
Science is fascinating to many, but sentences that are full of expert-level terms and description can scare away even the most passionate readers. Can scientists learn to talk about their research without using too many technical terms? One of the obstacles to avoiding jargon is that scientists suffer from “the curse of knowledge” – they simply do not remember not knowing what they now know as experts.
Written by Tony Heller
The ice age scare was front page news in 1970. Scientists said it was caused by burning fossil fuels and would cause the Antarctic ice sheet to collapse – drowning coastal cities. They wanted to melt the Arctic and poison Africans to save the planet.
The front page of the Washington Post, January 11, 1970: Colder Winters Held Dawn Of New Ice Age. “That’s the long range forecast being given out by climatologists.”
Written by Sophie Curtis
We all know that the world is being transformed by technology, but a leading artificial intelligence expert has made a series of predictions that put these changes into harsh perspective.
Written by Robert W. Felix
Unusually chilly August forecast for the eastern US:
Lower temperatures than usual east of the Rockies
The Weather Channel reports that Sunday morning saw record breaking lows in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana.
Written by Daily Express
Lord Lawson blasted Al Gore for his major interventions in warning the world of the dangers of global warming saying there were bigger threats to focus on – including North Korea and terrorism.