Observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into…
Author: Charles Rotter
Claim: Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet…
Ancient genomes suggest woolly rhinos went extinct due to climate change, not overhunting
he extinction of prehistoric megafauna like the woolly mammoth, cave lion, and woolly rhinoceros at the end of the last ice age has often been attributed to the spread of…
Air pollution could be making honey bees sick – new study
Whether it’s exhaust fumes from cars or smoke from power plants, air pollution is an often invisible threat that is a leading cause of death worldwide.
Cliff Mass Fights Back Against @knkxfm
It is time for me to speak about my firing from KNKX and I will reveal much that is not known publicly about the station, its leadership, and the events…
More Solar Cyclomania
Previous investigative forays of this solar cyclomania sort have not ended well, so Charles asked me to investigate this one.
Scientist to resurrect water fleas from U.S. nuclear fallout zone
A researcher of The University of Texas at Arlington could soon uncover the evolutionary effects of nuclear testing by resurrecting decades-old crustaceans.
McIntyre on Kaufman et al 2020
I was curious as to why their new Antarctic reconstruction was so dramatically different from PAGES2K only seven years ago – a question that both they and reviewers ought to…
FLASHBACK: Sen Kamala Harris Supported Eliminating Senate Filibuster To Pass Green New Deal
California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris said in 2019 that she would consider ending the Senate filibuster as president if Republican lawmakers refused to embrace legislation addressing what she and other…
The Oceans Won’t Suffocate!
Unfortunately, scientific journals also succumb to the same profit incentives. Indeed, pictures of thousands of suffocated fish floating belly-up is very disturbing. However, media outlets amplified our fears with headlines…
Insect apocalypse? Not so fast, at least in North America
In recent years, the notion of an insect apocalypse has become a hot topic in the conservation science community and has captured the public’s attention.
Exact climate data from the past
Corals precipitate their calcareous skeletons (calcium carbonate) from seawater. Over thousands of years, vast coral reefs form due to the deposition of this calcium carbonate. During precipitation, corals prefer carbonate…
The Climate Left Attacks Nobel Laureate William D. Nordhaus
Having received the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics largely in recognition of his economic analysis of climate policy—in particular the development and application of the Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy (DICE) model—William…
Claim: Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035
A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, supports predictions that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035.
One Rehearsal Away from Touching Asteroid Bennu
On Aug. 11, the mission will perform its “Matchpoint” rehearsal – the second practice run of the Touch-and-Go (TAG) sample collection event.
Clean coal: the commonsense answer to Africa’s energy crisis
The problem is that we’re not there yet. Solar doesn’t work at night, the output slips in cloudy weather, and turbines stand idle when the wind doesn’t blow.
Cascading fallacies in climate risk assessment
This is not about New Zealand. The authors of the assessment make clear that theirs is a new approach which they hope will be used globally. So this is about…
NASA Goes Woke: Bye Bye ‘Eskimo Nebula’ & ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’
“It has become clear that certain cosmic nicknames are not only insensitive but can be actively harmful. NASA is examining its use of unofficial terminology for cosmic objects as part…
Polar Bears Defy SCIENCE! by Refusing to Die.
This pattern of bears staying out on the ice long after the so-called ‘critical threshold’ of 50% concentration has passed has been going on since at least 2015 and many…
Florida current is weaker now than at any point in the past century
A key component of the Gulf Stream has markedly slowed over the past century–that’s the conclusion of a new research paper in Nature Communications published on August 7.
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