Written by PSI staff
Now that 2017 has come and gone, we wanted to remind you, our faithful supporters, of important achievements at Principia Scientific International (PSI) during the year. Please take a few moments to read our seasonal message and give generously, to ensure 2018 is even better.
Written by Dr Jerry L Krause
Why should everyone read what Galileo wrote? To see what Galileo pondered.
Part 2 is the result of James McGinn’s comments to the previous posting—Everyone Should Read What Galileo Wrote!!! (https://principia-scientific.
Written by John O'Sullivan
Mass media’s love affair with cell batteries, as an environmental solution to everything, is creating a new mass delusion. Battery-power gives life to every high tech gadget from smart phones to electric cars. We are told to embrace this greener, cleaner energy. But the spin often masks the worryingly deadly dangers.
Growing evidence shows that as manufacturers respond to pressures to make ever thinner, lighter batteries, increased incidents of injuries and deaths from spontaneous combustion suggests consumer safety is being compromised. Fingers have been pointed at China, with accusations of a “Sloppy” battery industry.
Written by Michael Bastasch
A prominent glaciologist is facing criminal charges in Argentina after he released a glacier survey that angered environmental activists because it didn’t result in the closing of a gold mine.
A federal judge charged Ricardo Villalba, who headed the Institute of Snow, Ice and Environmental Research (IANIGLA), with “abusing his authority and violating his duty as a civil servant,” Nature.com reported.
Written by Pierre L. Gosselin
Recently I wrote about 7 signs showing that the earth has been cooling and likely will continue to cool.
To back this up, Kenneth Richards commented in a reply that this year has seen 7 new peer-reviewed papers that show us that the earth’s surface temperature at the poles and elsewhere has been cooling since about a decade. What’s worrisome is that the southern hemisphere surface is mostly ocean.
Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser
Why not just take the next rocket to that holiday resort there? Sure, it’s a long journey but the vistas are breath-taking. In fact, not just the vistas, the atmosphere too!
Written by Technical University of Denmark
A team of scientists from the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space) and the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has linked large solar eruptions to changes in Earth’s cloud cover in a study based on over 25 years of satellite observations.
Written by Terence Corcoran
Written by Larry Kummer
Summary: Climate activists have made polar bears “the face of climate change.” This week we see how they have done so: with fake news.
“This is the face of climate change.”
Written by Jennifer Lui
New research from the Jackson School of Geosciences illuminates the history of the moon’s landscape. In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters last month, a team of researchers from UT’s Jackson School of Geosciences discovered why the moon’s crust is composed of one mineral.
Written by Dr Duanne Thresher
It’s that time of year again. The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting is December 11 – 15. Unlike previous years when it was in San Francisco, this year it is in New Orleans. When we (Dr. Duane Thresher and Dr. Claudia Kubatzki) used to go, it was always in San Francisco.
Written by Chelsea Follett and Tirzah Duren
Tom Hanks – of all people – this time last year, was discussing overpopulation on NBC’s Today show. He was doing it to promote his upcoming movie, Inferno, which is all about an overpopulation crisis. The actor claimed that we will have too many people “in an instant” and that the planet will be unable to support them. This is not a new idea. It dates back to the late 1700s, when Thomas Robert Malthus feared that large population would exhaust Earth’s resources and result in mass poverty and starvation.
Written by Dr Susan J Crockford
We finally have this year’s example of the new fad of claiming every polar bear that died of starvation (or on its way to starving to death) — and caught on film — is a victim of climate change: a young bear on Somerset Island near Baffin Island, Nunavut filmed in August during its last angonizing hours by members of an activist conservation organization called SeaLegacy.
Written by Hans Schreuder (using original work by Dr Martin Hertzberg & Carl Brehmer)
Empirical evidence does not support the claim that anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions cause global warming and/or climate change. We suggest that without adequately proven evidence being demonstrated – should it exist in the first place – such a conclusion can not be adduced from the facts.
Written by Kenneth Richard
Image source: York et al., 2016, Journal of Ecology and Evolution.
Most of the world’s polar bears live in Canada. Hunters and elders from northern Canada’s native communities have been immersed in studying polar bear ecology for centuries.
Written by Jo Nova
The world is watching one volcano in Bali, but it’s sobering to think there may be hundreds of others going off, and almost certainly ones we don’t even know about.