Written by Jonathan Amos
One of the most powerful X-ray machines ever built has officially opened in the German city of Hamburg. The facility, which has cost more than a billion euros to build, will be used to study the detailed structure of matter, atom by atom.
Written by Pierre L. Gosselin
Way back in February, Global Weather Oscillations (GWO) veteran meteorologist David Dilley predicted that the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season would be “the most dangerous and costliest in 12 years for the United States.”
Written by BBC
Image copyright: ROYAL NAVYA manta ray mothership, eel-like drones and fish-shaped torpedoes… not things from a sci-fi movie but visions of the Royal Navy submarines of the future.
Written by Richard F. Cronin
Again and again, our sympathies, donations, and support for the victims of hurricane Harvey should be foremost in everyone’s mind. But let’s pause and reflect as the climate hysterics are at it again.
Written by Tony Heller
Arctic sea ice extent is up 25% over the past five years. Green shows ice gain since August 30, 2012.
Extent is fourth highest in a decade.
Written by Dr Benny Peiser
We keep being told by climate [alarmists] that global warming is responsible for more intensive rainfall, the theory that a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. Funny then that when we look at rainfall records across the US for all sorts of different timescales, we find none at all since 1981. –Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 30 August 2017
Written by Rob Waugh
This Friday, a three-mile-wide asteroid is going to fly past Earth – the biggest space rock to pass our planet this close in a century.
Written by Tony Heller
NOAA makes a large adjustment to US temperatures known as the Time of Observation Bias Adjustment (TOB.) Here is their official explanation.
Written by BBC
Image copyright: AFPThe apparent hydrogen bomb that North Korea is believed to have detonated underground on Sunday was a massive explosion.
Written by Astronomical Journal
Three potentially habitable Earth-sized planets in another solar system are likely to contain substantial amounts of water, say astronomers.
Written by Roland Pease
Image copyright: STUART HAY/ANUA planetary takeover by ocean-dwelling algae 650 million years ago was the kick that transformed life on Earth.
That’s what geochemists argue in Nature this week, on the basis of invisibly small traces of biomolecules dug up from beneath the Australian desert. The molecules mark an explosion in the quantity of algae in the oceans.
Written by Rick Moran
Hurricane Harvey presented a golden opportunity to global warming hysterics who are trying mightily to connect the storm’s intensity to climate change.
Written by Tony Heller
Ten years ago, the government of Australia announced the permanent drought.
This drought may never break – Environment – smh.com.au
Two years later it was raining so much in Australia that sea level was falling.
Written by Dr Duane Thresher
First, I (Dr. Duane Thresher) do not make light of the deaths and damage Hurricane Harvey has caused. I know all too well the devastating deadly power of hurricanes. I lived for several years on Okinawa, a small Japanese island infamous from WWII. There they have typhoons, which in general are worse than hurricanes. I saw first hand this devastating deadly power.
Written by Cheyenne MacDonald
Breakthrough Listen, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Stephen Hawking, and billionaire Yuri Milner, has been gathering data with the Green Bank Radio Telescope in West Virginia, Lick Observatory’s Automated Planet Finder on Mt Hamilton in California, and the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia.
Written by Susan Crockford
This year’s baseless media frenzy over walrus survival and loss of summer sea ice blamed on human-caused global warming was initiated by a press release from US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) last week (16 August 2017, pdf here: “Pacific walruses haulout near Point Lay earlier than in previous years“). Quote below, my bold:
