Guest essay by Robert Johnson How plasma connects the Sun to the climate The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) are a plasma phenomenon caused by charged particles from the solar wind…
Category: Earth
Newsweek Disgracefully Links the Mt Everest Tragedy to Rising CO2
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Its hard to…
Anthropocene – The New Pop Religion
Steve Harris writes: An article came out on the AIP Physics Today website about a push from some scientists to formally designate today’s human geological epoch as the “Anthropocene”. Editors…
Earth Hour – Celebrate the Warmth
Saturday 28th March is “Earth Hour” – a time to sit in the dark and appreciate the benefits of our cheap reliable hydrocarbon-energy. [Like these candles, for example, from the…
Tides, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Graphs updated to include error bars] Inspired by the paper by the charmingly-named Maya Tolstoy discussed here on WUWT, I decided to see if tidal forces…
NASA's new Orbiting Carbon Observatory shows potential tectonically-induced CO2 input from the ocean?
Guest essay by Martin Hovland, Geophysiscist and Professor Emeritus, Center for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Norway The newly released satellite OCO2-data indicates that there is CO2 input in tectonically active…
Claim: Most of Earth's carbon may be hidden in the planet's inner core, new model suggests
From the University of Michigan, and the “department of models that can’t ever be verified”, comes this claim ANN ARBOR–As much as two-thirds of Earth’s carbon may be hidden in…
When will we ever stop running out of resources?
This is a shout-out to Tim Worstall’s latest “Weekend Worstall” column on The Register Limits to Growth is a pile of steaming doggy-doo based on total cobblers The Guardian praised…
New evidence for oceans of water deep in the Earth
From Northwestern University (h/t to Harold Ambler) Water bound in mantle rock alters our view of the Earth’s composition Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico report…
How Earth avoided global warming before SUV's
From the European Association of Geochemistry, a claim that looks to be little more than paleo-dowsing. Though, ya gotta love the silly claim that Earth would have hit a runaway…
When worlds collide – study says our moon was formed by a collision with planet-sized body
From the European Association of Geochemistry New isotopic evidence supporting moon formation via Earth collision with planet-sized body A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that…
Watch Earth from orbit – LIVE stream
The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) was activated April 30, 2014. It is mounted on the External Payload Facility of the European Space…
Ridley on the claims of exhausting global resources
In the Wall Street Journal, Matt Ridley has an interesting article about the the claims that we will run out of “X”, except that human ingenuity always seems to grasp…
NASA revises Earth's Radiation Budget, diminishing some of Trenberth's claims in the process
From the “settled science” department comes this new revision of Earth’s entire radiation budget. Many WUWT readers can recall seeing this radiation budget graphic from Kenneth Trenberth in 2009: Source:…
Climate as a heat engine
Guest essay by Jan Kjetil Andersen As Willis describes in his article on December 21, the atmosphere can be seen as a gigantic heat engine, i.e. a machine which convert…
Scientists solve a decades-old mystery in the Earth's upper atmosphere
From the University of California – Los Angeles New research published in the journal Nature resolves decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely energetic particles known as…
Earth's self regulation of Carbon Dioxide is remarkably stable
From CSIRO: “What we learned is that in spite of droughts, floods, volcano eruptions, El Niño and other events, the Earth system has been remarkably consistent in regulating the inter-annual…
Claim: Faint Young Sun Paradox solved
From the University of Colorado at Boulder a claim that computer modeling has solved the problem, with an atmosphere that is 20,000 parts per million of CO2 and 1,000 ppm…
Just had an earthquake in California – 56 earthquakes (so far) in cluster near Mt. Lassen Volcanic National park
Felt at my location in Northern CA, details follow
Celebrate Earth Day – come all ye carbonators
Bjørn Lomborg has a new column in USA Today. This morning in USA TODAY, Lomborg argues that in virtually every developed country the air is more breathable and the water is more…
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