In an unprecedented crackdown on academic misconduct, as many as 179 university professors from some 110 universities in South Korea were indicted on Monday after an extensive criminal investigation into a huge copyright scam.

The professors have been charged with republishing existing textbooks written by others under their own names by modifying the covers with the alleged connivance of the publishing companies.

According to the Prosecutors’ Office which conducted an extensive criminal investigation, this is the first time university professors have faced criminal charges for copyright violations using ‘cover-swapping’ tricks. It is also the first time so many professors have been indicted in a single investigation.

Since 1978, satellites have been measuring the Earth’s temperature and have given us a snapshot of 2015‘s overall temperature: it’s not a record breaker. Not even close. In fact, 2015 didn’t even come close to breaking any all-time records, the Daily Caller reported yesterday. Culling data from weather satellites that have been orbiting the Earth since 1978, climate scientists at the University of Alabama/Huntsville (UAH) reported that 2015 has only been the third-warmest year since satellite tracking began.

The supporters of the UN’s “climate agenda” are completely ignorant when it comes to building and maintaining stable, affordable electrical grids.  They, for example, are attempting to persuade (and if persuasion fails force) developed countries to transition away from powering their economies with hydrocarbon energy under the delusion that hydrocarbon energy can simply be replaced by what they call “green energy” without any diminution of the modern way of life that developed countries now enjoy.

Here is one such example from the Ceres Coalition:

“In order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world’s leading [political] scientists say we must: [1] Make ‘substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades and near zero emissions of CO₂ and other long-lived GHGs by the end of the century’ [and 2] Phase out fossil fuels and move to 100{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} clean energy [solar panels and windmills].”

The complicated subject of climate change and geo-engineering (intentional human control of weather and environment) warrants our careful consideration. As with much science that has become politicized it requires a keen eye to weed out the hype from the facts. 

To help fellow scientists and lay readers alike Principia Scientific International has much pleasure in presenting Marian Calcroft’s ‘PSI’s Big Picture Guide to Climate Science & Geo-engineering.’

This 29-page PDF explains how the sun is by far the dominant force controlling our planet’s temperature and climate. The atmosphere actually acts as a refrigerator mechanism and regulates the cooling of the planet by convection and radiation into the top of the atmosphere.

According to a new NOAA report issued December 28, the current status of the El Niño that is driving the much-hyped ‘extreme weather’ may be the third-strongest since 1950.

A far cry from being the worst El Niño in history that numerous media outlets are thundering and desperately trying to tie to global warming. Under NOAA’s El Niño Advisory system, they state that warmer-than-normal equatorial sea surface temperatures (SST) will continue across most of the Pacific Ocean and will “transition to normal SST conditions in the spring or early summer 2016.”

There is a mysterious line of volcanoes that have formed in certain areas of Antarctica – and could hold the key to the area’s future. 

For years, researchers have been trying to look below the ice sheets to find out why, but due to extreme cold their technology has not been able to gather any answers.

Now with the assistance of ruggedized seismometers, geologists have been able to get the first look at the mantle below the ice, revealing areas of ‘hot rock’.

If you have ever seen any company’s press release or similar kind of announcement, the term “forward looking statement” will be quite familiar to you. It is a phrase that allows the originating party to claim nearly any size or kind of a potential future benefit without any obligation to ever meeting it at all.

Indeed, without such legal disclaimers, many companies would quickly be sued into financial ruin by the ever present litigious members of society.

However, there appear to be numerous exceptions to the rule as well. In particular, I am referring to claims involving next to “free energy” that “will” power future generations’ electric power requirements, etc.

Climate: President Obama attended the climate summit (COP21) in Paris with lukewarm support from the people of his polluting superpower.  One in five Americans don’t believe in climate change.   In contrast to the almost unanimous opinion of climate researchers around the world, only one in two Americans believe that human activity is the cause of the rise in global temperatures.  One of the skeptics is Wade Linger who introduced his doubt into the school textbooks in West Virginia.

The row over big American cars and sports cars make it evident.   Wade Linger (pictured) just wants to give it gas and hit the accelerator on one of his 12 polished show cars without thinking of the environment.

But resistance to the climate debate runs deep in the 58-year-old father of five and owner of a software firm and garage called Wade’s Garage for so-called hotrod cars with lots of horsepower in Fairmont, West Virginia.

Ever dialed a wrong number? I bet you did, just as I have on some occasions. What makes the internet swirl though is the fact that Tim Peake, presently residing in the International Space Station (ISS) high above the earth’s surface did so recently. Why should it be such an “un-earthly” event? Sooner or later, it happens to the best of us! 

As his excuse, Peake claims to have had a faulty phone book, due to incorrect “rounding” of the numbers in a spreadsheet of such.

With an obstinate atmosphere failing to warm as predicted, another peril was needed to sustain the junk-science industry and keep lazy reporters supplied with bogus scoops. No problem! Conscript a Disney character, garnish with misrepresentations and there you have it: ocean acidification.

How scary is “ocean acidification”?  Very scary. The previously scary “global warming” stopped 19 years ago, but do stay scared because all that CO2 since 1997 has instead been “acidifying” the oceans. Please imagine baby oysters dissolving in the equivalent of battery acid, and hermit crabs raising a nervous feeler to discover that their protective shells have disappeared. Curse you, horrible human-caused CO2 emissions!

WASHINGTON – Think you’ve got enough to worry about with collapsing economy, terrorism, wars and rumors of wars? Think again.

Have you been paying attention to what appears to be an increase in volcanic activity across the planet?

There’s a 5 percent to 10 percent chance in the next 80 years, scientists say, one of these eruptions will kill millions of people and poison the atmosphere beyond the imagination of anything man’s activity could do in 1,000 years.

And no one is yet making any plans to deal with the calamitous possibilities.

In the ongoing debate about whether humans are dangerously affecting the climate, facts can often be lost in the holler of propaganda. To help readers gain better traction on the facts beneath the hype Tony Bright-Paul herein offers us a very simple Climate Quiz for 2016, which is good for Warmists and Sceptics alike, and better still for those who are confused about the whole issue.

All the questions are questions of fact – there are no opinions. Some questions may need reference to Google for an answer, and some of the answers can be quite surprising to those who already know a fair bit about this subject. Best for 2016!

Astronomers are excited: a new planet has been discovered, currently termed WOLF-1016c, a planet of the red dwarf star WOLF-1016.

It’s said to be the planet most similar yet discovered to Earth, both in size, trajectory and other features but a bit far away, about 15 light years or so. Let’s put that distance into perspective.

Speed of Light and Distance
With the speed of light roughly being 300,000 km/SECOND (or 190,000 miles/second), even a meteor falling on earth at a speed of “only” 50 km/second is a slowpoke in comparison. Of course, relative to common speed limits on highways of 100 km (60 miles) per HOUR, they do compare rather favorably, not to mention typical downtown stop-and-go traffic in the city near to you.

The mighty Cassini probe has made many great discoveries at Saturn, but none top its extraordinary revelations at Enceladus. 

What the plutonium-powered satellite has seen at this 500km-wide, ice-crusted moon is simply astounding.

Cassini has pictured huge jets of water vapour and other materials spewing from cracks at its south pole.

It’s quite a spectacle, and it’s unique in the Solar System, according to Carolyn Porco, who runs the camera system on the big spacecraft.

NASA scientist denounces Paris Global Climate Conference (COP21) and the Plot against the Developing Countries. NASA Meteorologist and member of the Johnson Space Center Climate Group (Ret.), Tom Wysmuller (photo) was interviewed in New York by Celestin Ngoa Balla for the weekly Cameroon newspaper Journal Integration. 

The interview questions were translated from French into English and the replies translated back into French by the Committee for the Republic of Canada. The interview was published in French in issue No. 209 of Journal Integration on Monday, 23 November, 2015, and appears here in English with permission of Journal Integration (http://www.journalintegration.com).

Mr Wysmuller:  When did you start investigating the global climate change phenomenon and what evidence do you have to convince our readers of the seriousness, of the rigour of your work?

Thomas Wysmuller:  I’ve always had a love for Meteorology, studied it in school, and forecasted weather at the Royal Dutch Weather Bureau in Amsterdam, before working at NASA before, during, and after the Moon Landings.  Mathematics I helped develop while assigned to work at Jet Engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney is being used by most climate scientists all over the world.  In the late 1990s I started lecturing on formation of the Ice Ages; ergo the copyright on The Colder Side of Global Warming.  I continue doing so to this day, and am part of the NASA. The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) group centered at the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas.

As the United Nation’s COP 21 climate summit continues in Paris Anthony Bright-Paul takes a critical look at one of the most fudged aspects of this pseudo-scientific jamboree: the concept of a known global temperature:

Here is the answer that I got by Googling this question. The answer is quite revealing.

WHY ARE GLOBAL TEMPERATURES EXPRESSED AS A DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL, INSTEAD OF A SIMPLE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE? 

One reason is that there are several different techniques for coming up with a global average, depending on how one accounts for temperatures above the data-sparse oceans and other poorly sampled regions.

Since there is no universally accepted definition for Earth’s average temperature, several different groups around the world use slightly different methods for tracking the global average over time, including:

• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

• NOAA National Climatic Data Center

• UK Met Office Hadley Centre

Please note carefully the words – ‘…INSTEAD OF A SIMPLE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE?

Here we see that those organisations, which we can safely say are hell-bent on proclaiming anthropogenic global warming, in fact admit that there is no simple global temperature. Therefore I am happy to say that I am not alone in declaring that there is no Global Temperature, and indeed there cannot possibly be one. What they are saying and what is well known in scientific circles is that Global temperatures are expressed as a departure from a Norm – in other word with the use of anomalies. But do the general public know this? Do the general public know the number and the disposition of the Weather stations that are situated at some 5ft above the ground?