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Asteroid likely caused global fires, which led to extinctions

Posted on March 27, 2013 by

From the AGU: Global fires after the asteroid impact probably caused the K-Pg extinction About 66 million years ago a mountain-sized asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan in Mexico at exactly the time of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction. … Continue reading →

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Why we don’t take CNN or Bill Nye seriously anymore: asteroid> meteor> global warming

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

Paul Westhaver writes in Tips and Notes: CNN talking empty head (Feyerick) asks Bill Nye if approaching Meteor was a result of global warming…. but Bill’s response is oddly disquieting.

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Asteroid blows past Earth in near miss

Posted on May 29, 2012 by

From ChicoEr.com Flying close enough to Earth that in astronomic terms one could feel the breeze as it passed, a small asteroid flashed by just after midnight today. NASA reported the space rock, with the unimaginative name of 2012 KT42, … Continue reading →

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Asteroid near miss – the movie

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

There’s no danger that the asteroid will strike Earth, but Sky and Telescope reports that if it did, it would “deliver a kinetic-energy punch equivalent to several thousand megatons of TNT … the kind of potential threat that outer-space sentries … Continue reading →

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Oil company geologist helps find new asteroid crater

Posted on October 9, 2010 by

From Australian National University Sciencewise Magazine A big impact on climate: Examining a new asteroid crater found in the Timor Sea As new land-based oil deposits become increasingly scarce, oil companies have turned to the seabed in search of new … Continue reading →

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Close call – Asteroid near miss for Earth yesterday

Posted on November 7, 2009 by

From NASA’s Spaceweather.com and NASA JPL Twitter feed. It only takes one missed space rock to ruin your day. On Friday November 6th at 2132 UT (16:32/ 4:32PM EST) asteroid 2009 VA barely missed Earth when it flew just 14,000 … Continue reading →

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Asteroid explosion over Indonesia

Posted on October 28, 2009 by

From NASA’s Spaceweather.com INDONESIAN ASTEROID: Picture this: A 10-meter wide asteroid hits Earth and explodes in the atmosphere with the energy of a small atomic bomb. Frightened by thunderous sounds and shaking walls, people rush out of their homes, thinking … Continue reading →

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Aussie astronomers call for more funding in wake of asteroid explosion

Posted on October 8, 2008 by

From ABC News, Australia Astronomers are calling for more funding to watch southern skies, after an asteroid took sky-gazers by surprise and entered the earth’s atmosphere over Africa yesterday. Yesterday morning astronomers in Arizona reported seeing a tiny asteroid, which … Continue reading →

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Sudan hit by Apollo Asteroid

Posted on October 7, 2008 by

Posted by Dee Norris A recently discovered Apollo Asteroid, 2008 TC3, exploded over Sudan at about 1046 EDT on October 7, 2008. 2008 TC3 was discovered on Monday by an observer at the Mt Lemmon Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. 2008 … Continue reading →

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Asteroid flyby tonight

Posted on April 17, 2007 by

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U.N. Urged to Take On Asteroid Threat

Posted on February 20, 2007 by

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

The Week That Was: 2013-04-13 (April 13, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: I say that’s also important in giving certain types of government advice. Supposing a senator … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

The Week That Was: 2013-03-30 (March 30, 2013)  Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: The first principle is that you must not fool yourself–and you are the easiest person … Continue reading →

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The PR is in: the ‘may haves’ have it at NSF

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

From the National Science Foundation, another bit of Speculative Science™ note the caveat in bold, which is all they need for a headline that screams certainty: This sudden release of gases into the atmosphere may have created intense global warming, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Extinction, Paleoclimatology, Science | Tagged , | 82 Comments

The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, Original Data For Science Posterity

Posted on February 26, 2013 by

Guest post by Dennis Ray Wingo Introduction The foundation of all observational science is data. This is true whether the data is temperature measurements from ground networks, satellites, or any other thing in nature that can be observed, quantified, and … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

The Week That Was: 2013-02-23 (February 23, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and … Continue reading →

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Russian Chelyabinsk Meteor largest since 1908 Tunguska event

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

Image credit: Google Earth, NASA/JPL-Caltech › Larger view From the WSJ (NASA JPL Statement follows): The meteor that crashed to earth in Russia was about 55 feet in diameter, weighed around 10,000 tons and was made from a stony material, … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

The Week That Was: 2013-02-16 (February 16, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “As long ago as 1994, cosmologist Carl Sagan expressed concern about the trend toward an … Continue reading →

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A problem that is bigger than global warming

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

In light of what happened yesterday, this story is even more relevant now. It was written before the meteor event in Russia. Asteroid 2012 DA14 makes its closest approach at 2:24 p.m. EST/1924 GMT today. One wonders if yesterday’s meteor … Continue reading →

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Large meteor in Russia caught on tape – building hit

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

VIDEO: Large meteorite caught on dash cameras in Russia Image from RT video, see below. People are a little jumpy with news of the close flyby of the asteroid 2012 DA14 tomorrow. This meteor actually hit and destroyed a building. … Continue reading →

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