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Solar Electric Propulsion Makes NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Go
The spacecraft will launch in August 2022 and travel about 1.5 billion miles (2.4 billion kilometers) over three and a half years to get to the asteroid, which scientists believe…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet
The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster-size,…
Celebrate our bright future on New Year’s eve!
Reposted from the Fabius Maximus website. Posted by Larry Kummer, Editor Summary: Amidst the gloom that blankets America, there is evidence that a discontinuity in history approaches – a technological…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory makes a stunning portrayal of the Sun’s magnetic field
From the cool stuff department and NASA Goddard, comes this. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists used their computer models to generate a view of the Sun’s magnetic field on…
NASA’s @JimBridenstine has reversed his position on ‘Climate Change’ and can no longer be trusted
Wow, “say anything” to get the appointment, then reverse your position. I see a “you’re fired!” Trump moment in the not too distant future. James Delingpole writes: NASA’s new administrator…
The group the 'Right Climate Stuff' says there's no need to worry about catastrophic global warming
New Study; Earth is Safe From ‘Global Warming’ Say the Men Who Put Man on the Moon The planet is not in danger of catastrophic man made global warming. Even…
Team of Ex-NASA Scientists Concludes No Imminent Threat from Man-Made CO2
More counterpunch to Obama’s recent speech. Rocket scientists -vs- James Hansen, “in God we trust, all others bring data” WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A group of 20 ex-NASA scientists have…
NASA Astronauts Announce Second Letter to NASA at Heartland Conference
This will be a top sticky post for a day or two, new stories will appear below this one. At the Heartland Conference in Chicago this morning, four of the…
Hansen and Schmidt of NASA GISS under fire for climate stance: Engineers, scientists, astronauts ask NASA administration to look at empirical evidence rather than climate models
Looks like another GISS miss, more than a few people are getting fed up with Jim Hansen and Gavin Schmidt and their climate shenanigans. Some very prominent NASA voices speak…
Skeptical Stocking Stuffers
Yesterday on the Friday Funny – the new and improved 4 legged AGW table thread, there was quite a bit of interest in getting T-Shirts of Josh’s latest CAGW cartoon, the…
NASA: Are Sunspots Disappearing?
From NASA News: Are Sunspots Disappearing? September 3, 2009: The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century. Weeks and sometimes whole months go…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #590
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #589
The Week That Was: 2024-02-24 (February 24, 2024)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The care of human life and happiness, and…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #588
There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind…
Tipping Is Optional
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was greeted this morning by a CNN headline saying “Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse, prompting warning from scientists“.…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #585
’The exception proves that the rule is wrong.’ That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation,…
What is Landification?
The other side of the coin is “land emergence” — or the gaining of dry land. How does this happen? Ask a geologist. Continental masses rise up, coral islands and…
Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #568
I fully agree with you concerning the pseudo-science of astrology. The interesting point is that this kind of superstition is so tenacious that it could persist through so many centuries.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #567
What is necessary for the very existence of science and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #566
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #565
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
Modeling the Universe
“In cosmology, a plausible explanation of the history of the universe has formed by making simple assumptions about stuff we know nothing about — dark matter and dark energy —…