A small team of astronomers have found a new way to ‘see’ the elusive dark matter haloes that surround galaxies, with a new technique 10 times more precise than the…
Author: Charles Rotter
US Election Open Thread
Most of our readers realize that today’s media pronouncements are meaningless and we are in for a month or more of lawfare.
Rivers melt Arctic ice, warming air and ocean
A new study shows that increased heat from Arctic rivers is melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and warming the atmosphere.
Preparing the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite for Launch
A U.S.-European partnership, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft will begin a five-and-a-half-year prime mission to collect the most accurate data yet on global sea level and how our oceans are…
Western & Southern Hudson Bay polar bears experience earliest freeze-up in decades
This is shaping up to be one of the shortest ice-free seasons in at least 20 years for both Western and Southern Hudson Bay polar bears.
CLINTEL challenges McKinsey’s climate alarmism
McKinsey and Company is the world’s biggest management consulting firm, with annual revenue topping ten billion dollars. Lately they have launched a climate scare campaign, no doubt hoping to make…
The role of the Sun in the spread of viral respiratory diseases
Why do most viral epidemics spread cyclically in autumn and winter in the globe’s temperate regions? According to an interdisciplinary team of researchers of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics,…
CDC Bails on Coronavirus Rules, Goes All In With Democrats
The Covid-19 epidemic has provided ample opportunity for the public health community to repeatedly destroy their credibility. Whether it is publishing (and then retracting) wishcasting studies based on the flimsiest…
UAH Global Temperature Update for October 2020: +0.54 deg. C
The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for October, 2020 was +0.54 deg. C, down slightly from the September, 2020 value of +0.57 deg. C.
After nearly a decade away, La Niña weather system is back…
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), La Niña is back in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, after nearly a decade’s absence.
Claim: Disease-transmission model forecasts election outcomes
To simulate how interactions between voters may play a role in the upcoming presidential, gubernatorial and senatorial elections, a Northwestern University research team is adapting a model that is commonly…
Terence Corcoran: Tricks and treats from Peter Foster
Lined up for tricks are the likes of Al Gore, David Suzuki, Tim Flannery, Maurice Strong, Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau, Klaus Schwab, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben,…
Water on ancient Mars
There’s a long-standing question in planetary science about the origin of water on Earth, Mars and other large bodies such as the moon. One hypothesis says that it came from…
Claim: UN report says up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless we protect nature
Human damage to biodiversity is leading us into a pandemic era. The virus that causes COVID-19, for example, is linked to similar viruses in bats, which may have been passed…
Religion of Green
Has environmentalism become more than just a good faith effort to protect the Earth? Is it now tantamount to a religion?
To survive asteroid impact, algae learned to hunt
Tiny, seemingly harmless ocean plants survived the darkness of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs by learning a ghoulish behavior — eating other living creatures.
Where’s the sea ice? 3 reasons the Arctic freeze is unseasonably late and why it matters
I’ve watched the region’s transformations since the 1980s as an Arctic climate scientist and, since 2008, as director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. I can tell you,…
The Election Day Weather Forecast: Who Will it Favor?
Reposted from Cliff Mass’s Weather Blog Tuesday, October 27, 2020 I got a call today from a political science professor from California: he wanted to know how to get reliable…
Mean and Unclean: Electric Cars Powered by Child Labor in Africa
The makers of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles and other supposedly environment-friendly technologies — as well as the green activists, politicians and bureaucrats who promote and support them with…
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