Summer is the season where temperatures have historically hovered around a comfortable 70 degrees most days while occasionally reaching a slightly warm 80 degrees.

Perhaps the Deep South would rarely reach 85 degrees during a historic heat wave before global warming. But now summers are hot – real hot.

“We continue to run California as if the longest drought we are ever going to encounter is about seven years,” said Scott Stine, a professor of geography and environmental studies at Cal State East Bay. “We’re living in a dream world.”

by Mike Egan

“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”— Nikola Tesla 

Four senior geologists are calling for a moratorium on oil and gas drilling in Surrey in the UK, southeast of London, after 12 earthquakes were registered in the area over the past four months.

                    Eric Weinstein

Recently a new meme started doing the rounds on the Internet — the “Intellectual Dark Web”. The phrase was coined by the mathematician Eric Weinstein. It seems to have caught on — showing that whatever it is, quite a few people are recognising it — even though there’s a lot of discussion about what exactly it means.

As the world’s population expands and we become wealthier, drugs and chemical-based care products become more prevalent.

While pharmaceuticals are essential for human health and well-being, less is known on the effects they have on the freshwater sources on which we depend for our existence, and their impact on human health and biota.

Like so many other people on this Earth, I was led to believe that Albert Einstein was the “Greatest” scientist that the world has ever known.

But just as so much of so-called ‘history’ has been fabricated in order to brainwash the public into believing myths that serve the parasitic controllers, so was Albert Einstein created into a mythic figure in order to support those ends.

SPOTLIGHT: Changing people’s behavior is profoundly difficult. BIG PICTURE: The media is in a tizzy this week over the latest climate change research published in America’s PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.

On Saturday, Aug. 11th, the New Moon will pass in front of the sun producing a partial solar eclipse visible from parts of Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia and much of Asia. As much as 73% of the solar disk will be covered. Selected cities in the eclipse zone include Moscow (2.1%), Oslo (4.8%), Raykjavik (20%), Tromso (29%), and Seoul (35%). Watch this movie for a preview.

When the eastern U.S. plunged into a deep freeze last winter, some scientists blamed Arctic ice melt from man-made global warming for the anomalously cold weather in the eastern part of the country.

SPOTLIGHT: Changing people’s behaviour is profoundly difficult.

BIG PICTURE: The media is in a tizzy this week over the latest climate change research published in America’s PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.