Written by Donna Laframboise
For the past decade, Greenpeace has publicly insisted that free speech* is not absolute. Rather than regarding it as a fundamental, non-negotiable pillar of democracy, Greenpeace treats free speech like a bit of wire to be twisted this way and that.
Intent on squelching climate dissent, a Greenpeace website says“there’s also a responsibility that goes with freedom of speech – which is based on honesty and transparency.”
Written by Dr Judith Curry
In looking for causes, I have applied the ‘Sherlock Holmes procedure’ of eliminating one suspect after another. The procedure has left us without any good suspect. Thermal expansion was the candidate of choice at the time of the first IPCC review. The computed steric rise is too little, too late, and too linear.– Walter Munk
Written by Richard Chirgwin
Physicist Stephen Hawking’s final paper attempted to unify gravity and quantum mechanics. But, sorry, that last paper doesn’t favour the so-called “multiverse”, though there’s some cool stuff in it if you ignore the headlines.
The late professor Hawking and colleague Belgian theoretical physicist Thomas Hertog first published this paper at arXiv in July last year, and posted an updated version on 4 March, 10 days before Hawking’s death.
Written by Raymond HV Gallucci, PhD, PE
Molecular hydrogen has been a leading candidate for ‘dark matter,’ at least within a galaxy, for 50 years or more, starting with conjectures by Varsavsky (1966), P. Marmet and Reber (1989), and L. Marmet (1995). Most recently (2012),
Written by Craig Murray
In 13 years of running my blog I have never been exposed to such a tirade of abuse as I have for refusing to accept without evidence that Russia is the only possible culprit for the Salisbury attack. The abuse has mostly been on twitter, and much of the most venomous stuff has come from corporate and state media “journalists”.
Written by Dr Tony Phillips
The vernal equinox is here. That means one thing: Cracks are opening in Earth’s magnetic field. Researchers have long known that during weeks around equinoxes fissures form in Earth’s magnetosphere. Solar wind can pour through the gaps to fuel bright displays of Arctic lights. One such episode occurred on March 9th. “The sky exploded with auroras,” reports Kristin Berg, who sent the picture (above) from Tromsø, Norway.
Written by Pierre L. Gosselin
A television documentary dubbed “The Weather Machine” produced in 1975 – long before NASA fiddled with the data – warned of an impending ice age (10:35), and maintained that the globe is cooling. Hat-tip: reader The Indomitable Snowman.
The documentary attempted and succeeded at presenting the latest on climate change at the time.
Written by www.craigmurray.org.uk
By Craig Murray, former British intelligence officer, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, and Rector (i.e. Chancellor) of the University of Dundee. Originally published at CraigMurray.org.uk.
As recently as 2016 Dr Robin Black, Head of the Detection Laboratory at the UK’s only chemical weapons facility at Porton Down, a former colleague of Dr David Kelly, published in an extremely prestigious scientific journal that the evidence for the existence of Novichoks was scant and their composition unknown.
Written by Pierre Gosselin
German scientists Dr. Sebastian Lüning (geology) and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (chemistry) say a recent sea-level rise paper is “alarmist” and based on sloppy, “faulty” science.
Written by Dr Jerry L Krause (Chemistry)
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” Einstein
“Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.” Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
Written by via The Daily Bell
If a train leaves New York going west at 60 mph, and a train leaves Chicago going east at 70 mph, how many microaggressions will the conductors commit before the trains collide?
Think this question can’t be answered by physics? Think again! According to Pomona College, racial bias and microaggressions are a necessary subject for physics coursework.
Written by Michael Bastasch
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announces he will soon end his agency’s use of “secret science” to craft regulations.
“We need to make sure their data and methodology are published as part of the record,” Pruitt said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Otherwise, it’s not transparent. It’s not objectively measured, and that’s important.”
Written by Mary Halton
Image copyright REUTERSEarly humans may have flourished after the largest volcanic eruption in history, according to new research.
Mount Toba erupted in Indonesia about 74,000 years ago. The event was long thought to have caused a volcanic winter, drastically reducing the global human population at the time.
Written by CSIRO
Picture: Laura Romin and Larry Dalton
A breakthrough by Australian scientists has brought the introduction of an unlikely hero in the global fight against antibiotic resistance a step closer; the humble platypus.
Due to its unique features – duck-billed, egg-laying, beaver-tailed and venomous- the platypus has long exerted a powerful appeal to scientists, making it an important subject in the study of evolutionary biology.
Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser
That title ought to get your attention in a hurry, don’t you agree? In my perception, it certainly should! So, what happened?
What Happened?
As you may have gleaned from recent news, on March 4, 2018, in the city of Salisbury (population of 60,000) in Wiltshire, England, two people were found on a downtown park bench in a state of unresponsiveness. They were transported to the local hospital where they are said to still remain in intensive care, nearly two weeks later.
Written by Professor Dr. Joachim Burger Palaeogenetics Group
The transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Europe is marked by two key events in European history, the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the migration into this Empire by various barbarian tribes such as the Goths, Alemanni, Franks, and Lombards. This resulted in a profound cultural and socioeconomic transformation throughout the continent, and many settlements from this epoch would subsequently develop into the villages and towns we still know today.