Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The Earth’s atmosphere does not act like a greenhouse. The analogy was partially developed to help students understand the apparent disparity between energy coming in…
Category: Earth
Experiments cast doubt on how the Earth was formed
Public Release: 13-Aug-2017 Goldschmidt Conference From Eurekalert New geochemical research indicates that existing theories of the formation of the Earth may be mistaken. The results of experiments to show how…
Surprising: NASA's Global visualization in 3D of Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Atmosphere
From NASA Goddard via the OCO-2 Satellite Carbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse gas released to the atmosphere through human activities. It is also influenced by natural exchange with…
Fault off San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles counties could produce 7.3 earthquake
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO Fault system off San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles counties could produce magnitude 7.3 quake Study finds rupture of offshore Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault is possible…
USGS records small Earthquakes near #OrovilleDam
Two small Earthquakes were recorded near Lake Oroville in the last 24 hrs, which appear to be a result of the fast lake level changes, and the subsequent release of…
Earth's magnetic poles may be poised to flip
Article by Phil Livermore, Associate Professor of geophysics, University of Leeds and Jon Mound, Associate Professor of Geophysics, University of Leeds The Earth’s magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible…
Study: Vaporized Earth formed the Moon from it's mantle after ancient collision
From WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated Data confirm model in which impact pulverizes Earth like a sledgehammer hitting a watermelon Measurements of an…
Lush Venus? Searing Earth? It could have happened
Rice University scientists propose that life in the solar system could have been very different If conditions had been just a little different an eon ago, there might be plentiful…
Ironing out the mystery of Earth's magnetic field
Scientists directly measure thermal conductivity of iron at planetary core conditions for the first time The earth’s magnetic field has been existing for at least 3.4 billion years thanks to…
New Earthquake Early Warning System to be Deployed by USGS
USGS Awards $4 Million to Support Earthquake Early Warning System in California and Pacific Northwest RESTON, Va.— The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded approximately $4 million this week to four universities…
Claim: Huge Earthquake overdue Pacific North West
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t IceAgeNow – seismologist Chris Goldfinger has warned that a gigantic Earthquake, just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, with the potential to kill…
How plasma connects the Sun to the climate
Guest essay by Robert Johnson How plasma connects the Sun to the climate The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) are a plasma phenomenon caused by charged particles from the solar wind…
Newsweek Disgracefully Links the Mt Everest Tragedy to Rising CO2
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Its hard to…
Anthropocene – The New Pop Religion
Steve Harris writes: An article came out on the AIP Physics Today website about a push from some scientists to formally designate today’s human geological epoch as the “Anthropocene”. Editors…
Earth Hour – Celebrate the Warmth
Saturday 28th March is “Earth Hour” – a time to sit in the dark and appreciate the benefits of our cheap reliable hydrocarbon-energy. [Like these candles, for example, from the…
Tides, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Graphs updated to include error bars] Inspired by the paper by the charmingly-named Maya Tolstoy discussed here on WUWT, I decided to see if tidal forces…
NASA's new Orbiting Carbon Observatory shows potential tectonically-induced CO2 input from the ocean?
Guest essay by Martin Hovland, Geophysiscist and Professor Emeritus, Center for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Norway The newly released satellite OCO2-data indicates that there is CO2 input in tectonically active…
Claim: Most of Earth's carbon may be hidden in the planet's inner core, new model suggests
From the University of Michigan, and the “department of models that can’t ever be verified”, comes this claim ANN ARBOR–As much as two-thirds of Earth’s carbon may be hidden in…
When will we ever stop running out of resources?
This is a shout-out to Tim Worstall’s latest “Weekend Worstall” column on The Register Limits to Growth is a pile of steaming doggy-doo based on total cobblers The Guardian praised…
New evidence for oceans of water deep in the Earth
From Northwestern University (h/t to Harold Ambler) Water bound in mantle rock alters our view of the Earth’s composition Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico report…
How Earth avoided global warming before SUV's
From the European Association of Geochemistry, a claim that looks to be little more than paleo-dowsing. Though, ya gotta love the silly claim that Earth would have hit a runaway…
When worlds collide – study says our moon was formed by a collision with planet-sized body
From the European Association of Geochemistry New isotopic evidence supporting moon formation via Earth collision with planet-sized body A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that…
Watch Earth from orbit – LIVE stream
The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) was activated April 30, 2014. It is mounted on the External Payload Facility of the European Space…
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