“Russia will Shape the Future of Spaceflight”: Announces Nuclear Powered Reusable Rocket Programme

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Russia has just raised the stakes in the space race, by going public with a reusable commercial nuclear powered launch vehicle which has been under…

Earth Devouring Its Own Oceans!!! Film at 11.

Guest oy vey by David Middleton First we learn that climate change is dissolving the seafloor and now we find out that Earth is devouring its own oceans (like it…

Skepticism is a Full Time Job

The following post is officially Anthony approved. Quoting me: I know I can be brusque.  I can also be funny.  I can even be kind.  Who knows what the wheel…

Newsworthy Items

But not necessarily worth promoting to individual posts.  A good way to acknowledge a whole bunch of tips.  This may or may not become a regular thing. From user Neo:…

October 2018 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update

As you’ll soon see, there was an eye-catching uptick (+0.25 deg C) in the GISS global Land-Ocean Temperature Index (LOTI) data from September to October 2018. We’ll have to wait…

IEA: Global Coal Demand Bounced Back in 2017

Guest climate wrecking by David Middleton It looks like my third-favorite fossil fuel continues to refuse to die… Business Coal Demand Bounced Back in 2017 After Two Years of Decline:…

2015 Paradise downtown street project reducing 4 lanes to 2, may have created dangerous evacuation bottleneck during #CampFire

The ironically titled “Downtown Paradise Safety Project” may have created a deadly evacuation bottleneck. We have all seen videos of the horror of the exodus from the town of Paradise, CA…

Declassified report shows solar flares detonated mines

By Jonathan Griffin A strong solar storm in 1972 caused widespread disturbances to satellites and spacecraft, and may have led to the detonation of mines during the Vietnam War, according…

British Government Climate Plan: Drastically Reduce Cattle and Sheep Farming, Return Farmland to Forest

Guest essay by Eric Worrall You would think in a country where poverty leads to thousands of deaths every winter, where far too many people go hungry every night, government…