From Washington University in St. Louis, and in honor of melted globe week, here’s one more thing for weepy Bill McKibben to worry about. In science fiction novels, evil overlords…
Category: Curious things
Aurora Borealis induced sounds confirmed – measured at 70m AGL
From Aalto University , something I’ve always wondered about but could never hear myself. They have a video of aurora, complete with sounds which follows below. I wonder if this…
Some vexing vexillology – don't forget to fly your flag today
As I put out my flag this morning (seen at left), I recalled this interesting story in the WSJ the other day about vexillology – the study of flags, and…
I get mail: strange sciency spam
People send me stuff. I get about 1000 emails a day now, between all my different accounts. A lot of it is spam. Today I got an email from “Tesla…
Explosives may be used to dislodge frozen cows
Last Friday I had weather cows, this week it’s frozen cows. From the “winter that wasn’t” department, it seems that the winter in Colorado was bad enough to cause some…
Titanic Anniversary: Unusual Climate + Extreme Ice Conditions = Tragic Accident
Guest Post by Dr. Tim Ball April 14th is the anniversary of Titanic‘s collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The event occurred at 41° 46′ N and 50°…
Mystery cloud spotted on Mars by amateur astronomer
Here’s something fascinating and puzzling, maybe WUWT readers can help figure this one out. There’s also a neat flipbook animation below the read more line. Wayne Jaeschke writes: Here’s a…
My Monday adventure with planes, trains, and automobiles
This post has nothing to do with science or climate, but it does go to illustrate how life gets more complex each day thanks to increased bureaucracy, and that you…
10 Billion Butterfly Sneezes
More chaos than you can shake a stick at. Guest post by Andi Cockroft (Anyone familiar with the Moody Blues should recognise the title – from “Higher and Higher”) As…
Ranger Rick
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach “Ranger” Rick Kaufman, 1949-2012 I’ve had the privilege of living in a wide variety of countries and societies. And having not always been entirely sane…
The Simon-Ehrlich Wager at Seven Billion People
Guest post by David Middleton Back in 1980, the great libertarian economist, Julian Simon, and the prepetually wrong Malthusian biologist, Paul Ehrlich, entered into a little wager regarding population growth…
Climate change invites aliens into Canada
From the Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press) Climate change invites alien invaders – Is Canada ready? Ottawa, Ontario – A comprehensive multi-disciplinary synthesis just published in Environmental Reviews reveals…
Spaceballs – the debris
Curious story in AFP yesterday: Full story here – Click the image above for a large view of the object. Me thinks it is from either of these spacecraft:
Climate Skeptic Combusts in New [William J Clinton Foundation] Video
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Correction: This video appears to be associated with the William J Clinton Foundation versus the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as was previously stated. Updated…
Little Bubbles, part 1
Guest Post by Caleb Shaw Preface: Climate Scientists and School Girls – A humorous description of a layman trying to investigate the little bubbles in ice cores, involving both the…
Electric airplane
No, that’s not the name of a rock band. But there is a real twin fuselage motor glider featuring a 145 kW electric motor, lithium-ion batteries, and retractable landing gear.…
Deep Carbon Pollution?
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science, this press release was for some reason included in the atmospheric science category of Eurekalert. Carbon cycle reaches Earth’s lower mantle,…
Astronomers find extreme weather on an alien world
Alternate title: How long before Bill McKibben says: this brown dwarf has a middle name, and it’s global warming. Cosmic oddball may harbor a gigantic storm TORONTO, ON – A…
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