In recent years, October has seen some rapid recoveries of Arctic ice extents.  But this year may become something special. With the early onset of Siberian snow cover and the resulting surface cooling, ice is roaring back, especially on the Asian side. Consider the refreezing during the last 11 days through yesterday. —Ron Clutz, Science Matters, 7 October 2017

There have been 26 significant ‘space weather’ events affecting Earth over the last 50 years. These solar events can severely disrupt the Earth’s magnetosphere (the boundary between the Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind), and pose a direct threat to electrical infrastructure – knocking out technologies that we rely on every single day, like GPS signals, electrical grids, computers and satellites. To put it lightly, if a major event were to happen tomorrow, it’s likely to cost at least $2 trillion in damages in the first year alone.

Atmospheric Scientists Slam Fundamentals of the Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory

Scafetta et al., 2017    Natural climate variability, part 1: Observations versus the modeled predictions

R. C. Sutcliffe had been invited to write his book,Weather and Climate, by W. W. Norton & Company as part of their Advancement of Science Series.  This series aimed to inform the intelligent reader about new developments in science and their relevance to everyday life. (From dustcover)  It was published in 1966 and has become my reference for the history of this very young science.

Scientists have identified a way in which the effects of Antarctic melting can be enhanced. Their new satellite observations of the Dotson Ice Shelf show its losses, far from being even, are actually focused on a long, narrow sector.

Dr. Ryan Maue here reports via Twitter that although the Atlantic hurricane season “is going gangbusters,” the Pacific is, in fact, seeing “one of quietest Typhoon seasons on record.”

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted a potential sand-producing region that could be feeding the red planet’s stunning expanse of dunes.

In a breathtaking new image, the space agency has revealed a look at the sloping sediments near the boundary of Mars’ Southern highlands and Northern lowlands.

And we wonder what is heating our seas.According to Oregon State University (OSU), there may be more than one million underwater volcanoes. Here’s how their website puts it:

New reports are arguing that Brexit may not have such a major effect on the UK’s tech sector as previously imagined.

Research released by Tech City UK and Nesta claim that foreign workers are more likely to have come from outside the EU, meaning that losing EU-based workforce may not be as ‘dangerous’ for businesses as previously thought.

The Titus-Bode (pronounced Bow-Dee) Law, developed in the 1700s, describes how the distances between major planets follows a sequential order with the orbit of a given planet as twice the distance from the Sun as the previous planet.

The upper reaches of the sun’s atmosphere are thousands of times hotter than its surface, and a new study offers a possible reason for that intense heat: countless explosions from the sun, each too small for scientists to detect.

From the world of science – as opposed to grant-troughing junk science – two more studies confirming that the man-made global warming scare is a myth.

What a hurricane season! It started very early with Arlene in April but the real action held off until the last week of August when Hurricane Harvey flooded Texas and Louisiana. Harvey was the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Ike in 2008 and the first Category 4 hurricane in Texas since Carla in 1961.

UK scientists will lead an international expedition to the huge new iceberg that recently calved in the Antarctic. A-68, which covers an area of almost 6,000 sq km, broke away in July.