Category Archives: Curious things

The Simon-Erlich Wager at Seven Billion People

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton Back in 1980, the great libertarian economist, Julian Simon, and the prepetually wrong Malthusian biologist, Paul Erlich, entered into a little wager regarding population growth and resource scarcity. They decided on using the inflation-adjusted prices … Continue reading →

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Climate change invites aliens into Canada

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

From the Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press) Climate change invites alien invaders – Is Canada ready? Ottawa, Ontario – A comprehensive multi-disciplinary synthesis just published in Environmental Reviews reveals the urgent need for further investigation and policy development to … Continue reading →

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Spaceballs – the debris

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

Curious story in AFP yesterday: Full story here – Click the image above for a large view of the object. Me thinks it is from either of these spacecraft:

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Climate Skeptic Combusts in New [William J Clinton Foundation] Video

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Correction: This video appears to be associated with the William J Clinton Foundation versus the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as was previously stated. Updated Below – New “The Air-Conditioned Suit” video surfaces “‘Combustible’ is … Continue reading →

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Little Bubbles, part 1

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

Guest Post by Caleb Shaw Preface:  Climate Scientists and School Girls – A humorous description of a layman trying to investigate the little bubbles in ice cores,  involving both the actual science,  and a layman’s amazement over the politics. My … Continue reading →

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Earth versus the flying saucers

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

I’m sure many of you remember this campy scifi film from 1956. Roswell on steroids. But did you know that there is a natural phenomenon on Earth that gives rise to reports of flying saucers on a regular basis? In … Continue reading →

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Electric airplane

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

No, that’s not the name of a rock band. But there is a real twin fuselage motor glider featuring a 145 kW electric motor, lithium-ion batteries, and retractable landing gear. From NASA: Pipistrel-USA, Taurus G4 aircraft is seen as it … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious things, Technology | Tagged , , , | 63 Comments

Deep Carbon Pollution?

Posted on September 17, 2011 by

From the American Association for the Advancement of Science, this press release was for some reason included in the atmospheric science category of Eurekalert. Carbon cycle reaches Earth’s lower mantle, Science study reports Evidence of carbon cycle found in ‘superdeep’ … Continue reading →

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Astronomers find extreme weather on an alien world

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

Alternate title: How long before Bill McKibben says: this brown dwarf has a middle name, and it’s global warming. Cosmic oddball may harbor a gigantic storm TORONTO, ON – A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has observed extreme brightness … Continue reading →

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Uranium munching microbes

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

From Michigan State University Microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste EAST LANSING, Mich. — Researchers at Michigan State University have unraveled the mystery of how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals. Details … Continue reading →

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Diamonds the size of potatoes shoot up at 40 miles per hour from their birthplace 100 miles below Earth’s surface and other strange carbon tales

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

From the American Chemical Society the same folks who are looking for science superheroes, carbon tales of the weird. Tackling mysteries about carbon, possible oil formation and more deep inside Earth DENVER, Aug. 28, 2011 — How do diamonds the … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Curious things | Tagged | 101 Comments

The tool that will save you time on WUWT and the web

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

I was surprised to learn that many people don’t know what I know about how to find things in web pages and documents. For as many comments and web pages we have on WUWT, I wanted to  make sure everybody … Continue reading →

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Hey – how much Thorium you got under the hood?

Posted on August 13, 2011 by

Much like “flying cars”, atomic powered cars were a campy futuristic meme of the 50′s, for example, there was the Ford Nucleon concept: From Wikipedia: The Ford Nucleon was a scale model concept car developed by Ford Motor Company in … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious things, energy, thorium power | 173 Comments

Even Further Down “The Borehole”

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

Yesterday we had an enlightening guest post by Ian Rons titled Further Down the “Bore Hole” which presented some comment data and graphs, along with some observations about that nature of RealClimate.org and the way they treat visitors and commenters. Ian … Continue reading →

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Further Down the “Bore Hole”

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

A look at comment deletion at RealClimate compared with WUWT Guest post submitted by Ian Rons Regular readers will doubtless be familiar, either at first- or second-hand, with the enthusiasm with which moderators at RealClimate.org seem to reject comments from … Continue reading →

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20 trillion watts is not even Trenberth’s missing heat

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes: News Article On The Earth’s Heat From Radioactive Decay An intriguing news article has appeared by Charles Q. Choi titled Radioactive decay fuels Earth’s inner fires The article includes the text “Extraordinary amount of heat remains from … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious things, Radiation | Tagged | 105 Comments

A demonstration of Chladni Patterns

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Post submitted by John A. Readers of Climate Audit will have noted Steve McIntyre  mentioning Chladni patterns in respect to the results of some climate reconstructions which exhibit spacial autocorrelation – which means that the data points are related to … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Curious things | 25 Comments

For you military history buffs – bad karma das boot

Posted on May 15, 2011 by

Since I spent so much time working with Google Earth for the surfacestations project, I decided to create a blog for fun, where I can practice my sleuthing skills using that great tool. I find aerial photo recon quite fun.

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Yesterday it was triangles in the desert…

Posted on May 14, 2011 by

…today it is arrows carved in the forest.

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Curiosity in the desert

Posted on May 13, 2011 by

It is not often we see perfect triangles in the desert from space. Anybody know what this is?

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