The period from 2000 to 2016 shows a modest warming trend that the advocates of the anthropogenic global warming theory have labeled as the “pause” or “hiatus.” The strong warming peak observed in 2015-2016, the “hottest year on record,” gave the impression that the temperature standstill stopped in 2014.

The asteroid, known as 2012 TC4, was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii in 2012, but its orbit meant that it could not be tracked.

Mega destructive weapons can be fitted with nuclear warheads and travel so fast that they are basically unstoppable. Experts believe they will make an apocalyptically devastating global conflict more likely to occur.

Scientists have uncovered more than 8,000 fossils during an expedition to a lost, underwater continent in the Pacific Ocean. Drilling into the crust of Zealandia, thousands of feet below the surface, researchers discovered the remains of hundreds of species including pollen from land plants.

The land mass, on which New Zealand sits, was announced as the globe’s newest continent earlier this year. It spans 5,000,000 sq km and is a distinct geological entity, a landmark study declared in the summer.

“U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials said they cannot determine with certainty that walruses are likely to become endangered “in the foreseeable future,” which the agency defines as the year 2060.”

Hurricanes have been a topic of attention recently for obvious reasons. I have done a lot of analysis of Atlantic storms, but elsewhere there is much less historical data, due to the lack of monitoring at the time.

Global warming over the past 15 years suggests that climate models “are very likely flawed,” a group of Italian scientists claimed in a study.

The study comes amid mounting evidence that climate model predictions have increasingly diverged from real-world observations during the so-called “hiatus” in warming during the 21st century.

As described by J. Marvin Herndon (pictured), all stars and planets formed as gas giants. The current thinking is that stars ignite due the friction and compression of in-falling matter achieving the requisite 100 to 200 millions of degrees temperature to ignite fusion. This cannot happen.

The Earths Energy budget? I was looking at and I started thinking to myself, “Is this someone’s idea of a bad joke or what?”

It is so ridiculously stupid it hurts, just to look at it. Anyone using it to make decisions is a Muppet and anyone who actually believes in any of the figures is an even bigger one.

The massive one-trillion tonne iceberg that broke off in Antarctica in July, has just revealed a hidden ecosystem that was frozen for nearly 120,000 years. As the giant iceberg moves away from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica and into the Wendell Sea, it is estimated to reveal around 2,240sq miles (5,800sq km) of seafloor with a hidden ecosystem, which scientists are now eager to study.

The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for developing a technique to produce images of the molecules of life frozen in time.

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson will receive equal shares of the 9m Swedish kronor (£825,000) prize, which was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Wednesday.

Lots of global warming alarmists are hyperventilating over President Donald Trump’s pick of U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla. a “climate change denier,” to head NASA.

The Kalina geothermal power plant in Unterhaching, Germany, put into operation with great fanfare some 8 years ago in 2009, shuts down.

Scottish scientists have used meteorites fallen to Earth to recreate the evolution of a volcano on Mars, in a first-ever attempt made in history. The space rocks analysed hid more than 90 million years of information on the Red Planet’s volcanoes.

They allowed scientists to identify from which volcano they came from, how fast it grew and how long it was active. Mars has the largest volcanoes in the solar system. Olympus Mons is more than 370 miles wide and over 13 miles high, more than twice the height of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth.