Can’t make it into the path of totality? Traffic jams got you down, here’s relief. Video follows. From the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, TEXAS ADVANCED COMPUTING CENTER Researchers use supercomputers to forecast corona of the sun On August 21, 2017, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible across the U.S. The eclipse,…
Both government and news media thrive on end-of-days narrative. Guest opinion by Chris Horner Another week of the Trump presidency, another bout of fevered reporting on claims promoted by the career (and holdover) federal employee “resistance.” But particularly when it comes to climate change, it seems the ordinary way of doing things is simply too…
Life without oil, natural gas and coal would most likely be nasty, brutish and short. Guest essay by Paul Driessen Foreword: The drumbeat for a fossil-fuel-free energy utopia continues. But few have pondered how we will supposedly generate 25 billion megawatts of total current global electricity demand using just renewable energy: wind turbines, for instance.…
An NJIT researcher throws a global ham radio ‘party’ to study the eclipse From the NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY When a solar eclipse plunges the country into darkness Aug. 21, Nathaniel Frissell will be stationed directly along the shadow’s path, leading one of the largest ionospheric experiments in the history of space science from the…
From the “let’s limit our losses on this stinker” department. Last week I wrote about Gore’s movie, a sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth” coming in 35th on opening weekend, and being in only 4 theaters. I predicted it would be a bomb, and wondered why the film company Paramount, would only put it in 4…
While we enjoy a 4300+ day drought of major hurricanes making landfall on the USA, hurricane expert Dr. Ryan MAue opines on Twitter about the possibilities for a Hurricane hitting the Atlantic Coast. He shows model output for a powerful hurricane to develop, with some predcted tracks showing US landfall around South Carolina, but cautions…
The numbers for weekend movie sales are in, and Al Gore’s new movie, a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth, called An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (AIT2) tanked at the box office this weekend according to numbers gathered by movie sites “Box Office Mojo” and IMDB. The opening weekend for any new movie is usually when the…
