Follow The Money

Written by Dr Duane Thresher

Abstract: The wasted and misspent money at NASA GISS and all climate research institutions is staggering. So, as they said in Watergate, follow the money.

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‘Machines Taking Control Doesn’t Have to be a Bad Thing’

Written by Andrew Anthony

A few years ago the cosmologist Max Tegmark found himself weeping outside the Science Museum in South Kensington. He’d just visited an exhibition that represented the growth in human knowledge, everything from Charles Babbage’s difference engine to a replica of Apollo 11. What moved him to tears wasn’t the spectacle of these iconic technologies but an epiphany they prompted.

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Astronomers probe origin of Planet 9

Written by University of Sheffield

Astronomers at the University of Sheffield have shown that ‘Planet 9’ – an unseen planet on the edge of our solar system – probably formed closer to home than previously thought.

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Cassini: Probe incinerates on entry to Saturn

Written by Jonathan Amos

Artwork CassiniImage copyright: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SSI
Image caption: Artwork: The Cassini spacecraft burnt up about a minute after plunging into the atmosphere

The American-led Cassini space mission to Saturn has just come to a spectacular end. Controllers had commanded the probe to be destroyed by plunging into the planet’s atmosphere.

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Canada now investigates ‘climate denial’

Written by Lorrie Goldstein

It’s like something out of George Orwell’s 1984.

Canada’s Competition Bureau, an arm’s length agency funded by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to the tune of almost $50 million annually, investigated three organizations accused of denying mainstream climate science for over a year, following a complaint from an environmental group.

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Your ancestors would have aced the long jump

Written by Duke University

A 52-million-year-old ankle fossil suggests our prehuman ancestors were high-flying acrobats. These first primates spent most of their time in the trees rather than on the ground, but just how nimble they were as they moved around in the treetops has been a topic of dispute.

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Stephen Hawkings Believes We Must Move to Other Planets or Die

Written by www.mirror.co.uk

Professor Stephen Hawking believes we will reach other planets as settlers “in the next hundred years”. And he reckons starships will eventually take “just a few years” to get us to planets that can be colonised. The scientist believes we face extinction from threats including pollution and climate change unless we go to new homes like Proxima b – 4.2 light years away and the nearest habitable planet.

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