This video from a dashcam was taken July 24th, 2016 in Chicago. The slo-mo of the lightning hitting a pole near the vehicle is one of the most intriguing things…
Category: Curious things
Analysis of Washington Post police-shootings data reveals surprising result – nearly 2x more whites than blacks shot by police
Note: While not the usual fare of WUWT, after some discussion with Mr. Eschenbach, I decided that this was an impartial data analysis, and that publishing it would be a…
Scientists move one step closer to creating Harry Potter's invisibility cloak
From the curious things department and Queen Mary University of London: Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have made an object disappear by using a composite material with nano-size…
Blame Climate Change? New orchid looks like the devil
For some reason, this press release showed up in my Eurekalert news feed for Atmospheric Science. That makes me wonder how long it will take for somebody to blame this…
Surprise: natural methane seeps created 'lost city' in Greece that isn't
From the University of Athens and East Anglia and the “methane time bomb” department comes this surprising finding that takes all the fun out of snorkeling for a whole bunch of people.…
Declassified files released of atomic relic of the Cold War: USS Independence (CVL-22)
Recently declassified documents on the USS Independence freely available online in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology The April issue of Springer’s Journal of Maritime Archaeology (JMA) focuses on a single…
Curious: A Total Solar Irradiance nosedive seen in SORCE data
I don’t know if this is a real measurement, and that the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) measured by the SORCE project is real, or if we are seeing another sensor…
Australian Ecologist Deploys a Deadly Robotic Killing Machine to Terminate Feral Cats
Guest essay by Eric Worrall An Australian ecologist has created and deployed a killing machine, which uses robot technology to identify and spray feral cats with poison. The cats die…
Zika virus defense: Shooting Mosquitoes Down with Lasers
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Imagine a machine which can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky using a laser. From the Arctic to the tropics, mosquitoes are a major nuisance,…
Mauna Loa Daily Meteorology
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As a confirmed data junkie, I’m fond of hourly data. The interesting processes in the climate system unfold on the scale of minutes and hours,…
A little known ancient historical building that marks the winter solstice
This year the solstice occurs on Tuesday December 22nd at 04:49 GMT, about 15 hours from the time of this posting. This thought provoking article highlights what the ancient people…
The most eye-opening thing I've seen while at #AGU15 so far – #muslimcarolers
This isn’t the typical fare for WUWT, but in the spirit of Christmas, I thought this photo was worth sharing. Why, well it made me reflect a bit on the…
'Supermandia' doesn't seem to like questions about Shukla, #RICO20, and The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
Long time WUWT readers may remember that a defender of “the cause”, Professor Scott Mandia, donned a Halloween costume and professed his love of defending Michael Mann and others who…
Tornado of 5 million degree plasma on the sun is bigger than the Earth
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched the Sun’s magnetic forces twist and turn enormous plumes of superheated plasma in a tornado that is larger than the Earth. The particles observed…
Lags and Leads
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been thinking about thermal lags in the climate system. Everyone is familiar with thermal lag in everyday life. When you put a cast-iron pan…
Friday Funny – backspin, balls, gravity, and the atmosphere
This is some cool science in a video that explains how you can take advantage of something known as “The Magnus Effect” with the application of just a bit of…
I wonder if the global ear can 'hear' climate change
It seems to me like somebody will try to have it listen, since there are many claims of “climate change” being ubiquitous. Nothing escapes The Global Ear: Nuclear tests, volcanoes, earthquakes…
Slow motion landslide devours road and power lines – no it's not melting permafrost
Remember the craters in Russian permafrost supposedly caused by global warming (that turned out to be pingos) story? Well, there’s a new potential “climate boogeyman” afoot in Russia. When I…
Can anyone check out this claim of suppressed access?
Samiz Dat writes in WUWT Tips and notes May 4, 2015 at 5:33 pm Hey, Anthony, just a heads up. I am a chemical engineering student at the University of…
Giant red blob seen in the skies over the western USA
One day after a Chinese rocket disintegrated brightly over the western USA, another set of strange lights appeared over the same region. This time it was NASA’s doing. Before sunrise…
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