Neat video: Total Solar Eclipse In 30 Seconds Seen From From a Plane
This is neat. The Total Solar Eclipse In 30 Seconds Seen From From a Plane Over The Faroe Islands, a perspective few will see. Video follows Here is another view
While warning us of 'rising oceans' in SOTU, did Obama just buy a beachfront mansion?
Story submitted by Eric Worrall Rumours are flying that the owner of a beachfront mansion in Hawaii, which was once used to film the hit TV series “Magnum PI”, is none other than President Obama – the same President who warns us that global warming, and rising sea levels, are a greater danger to the…
Another 'polar bears are in trouble' story….yawwwn
From the University of Washington and the department of unbearable press releases: First global review on the status, future of Arctic marine mammals For Arctic marine mammals, the future is especially uncertain. Loss of sea ice and warming temperatures are shifting already fragile Northern ecosystems. The precarious state of those mammals is underscored in a…
Is the Solar System's Galactic Motion Imprinted in the Phanerozoic Climate?
Guest essay by Kirby Schlaht Nir Joseph Shaviv is an Israeli-American physics professor, carrying out research in the fields of astrophysics and climate science. He is a professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.He is also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is best…
Claim: Did volcanic induced climate change wipe out Neanderthals 40,000 years ago?
From the Geological Society of America: Boulder, Colo., USA – The Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption in Italy 40,000 years ago was one of the largest volcanic cataclysms in Europe and injected a significant amount of sulfur-dioxide (SO2) into the stratosphere. Scientists have long debated whether this eruption contributed to the final extinction of the Neanderthals.…