GOTLAND, SWEDEN—It’s a cold, dreary day in early March, and Josefin Sundin is standing in one of the two aquarium rooms at the Ar Research Station on a remote corner of Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. “This is where it all happened,” she says, while gazing around as if searching for fresh clues. Her colleague and friend Fredrik Jutfelt takes cellphone pictures.

The popular claim that a surge in electric cars will hasten the arrival of peak oil demand is undermined by the data. High quality global journalism requires investment.

The majority of the world’s cars will remain powered by petrol, also commonly known as gasoline, for at least the next two decades and this will drive oil demand, according to data from Facts Global Energy.

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… they suspected it was caused by a dead zone–a low-oxygen area that snuffs out marine life–rather than by ocean warming or acidification…

The team thinks that such dead zones may be common in the tropics but have gone largely unreported, simply because scientists never looked…

Based on our analyses, we think dead zones may be underreported by an order of magnitude…

Principia Scientific International recently published a novel paper ‘Simultaneous Conduction And Radiation Energy Transfer‘ (Pierre Latour PhD, March 2, 2017).  In it the author claimed that there are solutions to thermodynamics with heat flowing from cold to hot, as long as heat was flowing from hot to cold via a different mechanism at the same time.

Here we will present the review, just because it’s great reading for math and physics Übermenschen.

The use of wood for electricity generation and heat in modern technologies has grown rapidly in recent years. For its supporters, it represents a relatively cheap and flexible way of supplying renewable energy, with benefits to the global climate and to forest industries. To its critics, it can release more greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere than the fossil fuels it replaces, and threatens the maintenance of natural forests and the biodiversity that depends on them.  ¹

This is a difficult post for me to write since I believe in post-publication peer review and F1000Research is seen as a pioneer in using this model.

However, when I envisioned post-publication peer review I never imagined getting rid of editors, allowing the authors to invite their friends to review their articles, relinquishing the responsibilities of accepting or retracting articles, and then passing the articles off as if they underwent a thorough peer-review process.

New peer-reviewed study of raw temperature data for Australia proves no warming trend exists in the actual records – only in the adjustments. Evidence proves that published records by Australian Bureau of Meteorology are intentionally and artificially exaggerated with a subjective (probably political) bias.

Albert Parker of the School of Engineering and Physical Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia and Cliff Ollier of the School of Earth and Environment, The University of Western Australia show that Australian records since the end of the 1800s give no sign of warming or increased occurrence of extreme weather events.

Measuring from the March 2007 peak to the March 2017 peak (which is the correct way to measure trends) Arctic sea ice extent has expanded about 60 Manhattans per year over the past decade.

Press release from the South Carolina Department of Agriculture. 85 to 90 percent crop losses

Freezing Temperatures Devastate South Carolina Farmers

South Carolina Department of Agriculture
Hugh E. Weathers, Commissioner

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As President Trump leads the charge in dismantling fake news and the ‘hoax’ of global warming we examine how the most climate-skeptical body of scientists are still being reviled and misrepresented.

At Jeff Condon’s site “the Air Vent”, he plays the “Challenge PSI” game following after Anthony Watts and Roy Spencer.  Apparently this is the fun thing to do, even though it continues to support PSI’s position and defeat the challengers. [PSI is Principia Scientific International, a hub for applied scientists and engineers who point to flaws in the greenhouse gas theory]. Will Trump’s administration take note?

Scientists at Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool studying past historical floods determine nothing exceptional in recent severe British flooding events.

Abstract. The last decade has witnessed severe flooding across much of the globe, but have these floods really been exceptional? Globally, relatively few instrumental river flow series extend beyond 50 years, with short records presenting significant challenges in determining flood risk from high-magnitude floods.

A huge hole in the magnetically hot corona of the sun in the coming weeks will lead to a powerful solar wind and initiate hefty polar lights in the earth’s magnetic field. This will be a brief pause in the solar activity slumber that has taken hold over the past year and thus allowed cosmic rays to penetrate almost freely into the earth’s atmosphere.

The drive to find novel energy storage systems for all the “alternative” energy produced from wind-turbines and solar (photovoltaic) systems is fostering the most bizarre ideas.

Needless to say, government bureaucrats are just too happy to throw taxpayers’ funds at any idea that promises to fulfill the quest. One of the latest “grand schemes” involves hollow concrete balls sunk into the depths of the ocean, the deeper the better and the larger the better too.

So, what am I talking about, specifically? Of course, hollow concrete balls, the latest scheme in the quest to provide “free energy.”

The alleged ‘attack on science’ by U.S. President Donald Trump is exposed as fake news by one of his trusted science advisers. Tony Heller, a respected climate analyst faced the ire of The New York Times as part of a hit piece against EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Trump’s ongoing reforms.

It is said the devil’s greatest trick was convincing us he doesn’t exist. And for a while he succeeded. He told us that he would help distribute our research to the world. He told us he would put a stamp of approval on the work so that we knew we could trust it.

And the devil did us a favor, for we didn’t have the ability to distribute the work ourselves. Tragically, by the time we were given the gift of fire from the heavens, we had grown too dependent on the devil. We needed his stamp of approval to get jobs, to get grants.