We are now close enough to the April 8 total eclipse that the skill of our models is now appreciable.
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Modern Scientific Controversies 2024: The Monarch Wars — Part 3
Science. New studies were done, new findings emerged. See Parts 1 and 2. Monarch counts at overwintering sites were called into doubt by the California Monarch Rebound of 2021-2022 –…
Weaponizing ‘The Science’
Pielke Jr. argues like this: “The notion of consensus-as-truth has been operationalized in various forms: journalistic “fact checkers,” academic “misinformation” researchers, and content moderation on social media platforms. The practical…
Modern Scientific Controversies 2024: The Monarch Wars — Part 2
It takes a lot of nerve to do research and publish findings that are contrary to long-standing shared viewpoints in any field. Kudos to those mentioned above who have done…
Modern Scientific Controversies 2024: The Monarch Wars — Part 1
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 4 February 2024 – 1000 words/5 minutes When we say that “science is never settled”, we mean that there are always new things to…
Surfing The Sixth Wave
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading about how we’re already well into the “Sixth Wave Of Extinctions”. Now, I’ve studied this question extensively. I started back in 2010…
Catastrophic and Frightening Solar Storms: Miyake Events
Miyake events are believed to be several orders of magnitude greater than the Carrington Event. It is not clear what causes the event. If a Miyake event equivalent to the…
Analyzing Studies
For issues that are really important, you need to learn how to separate credible studies from unreliable ones.
In Denial about the Science – Part 2, ARC in London
If Western civilisation is to persist, it needs more than anything else to save its science, because otherwise our civilisation will be conquered and replaced.
Scientific Method Restored to Science Education in North Carolina
Challengers of the status quo are more likely to be met with ad hominem than data.
Geophysical Consequences of Celestial Mechanics
The core of their elegant physics explains well the careful observations gathered in the past 200 years.
La Brea Megafaunal Extinctions Driven by Fires 13,000 Years Ago
Peer-Reviewed Publication AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE (AAAS) Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions from Southern California were driven by large-scale fires in an ecosystem made increasingly vulnerable by climate change…
The March 1940 Superstorm: Geoelectromagnetic Hazards and Impacts on American Communication and Power Systems
In some places, geoelectric amplitudes induced during the March 1940 storm, Section 12, exceeded American electric-power-industry benchmarks.
Room Temperature Superconductor Mania
Room Temperature Superconductor? A room temperature, ambient pressure Superconductor. So how exactly does it work, is this research legit, and why does it matter?
Anniversary Issue: the Crichton CalTech Michelin Lecture
It is not strictly the 20th anniversary of this repeatedly-quoted lecture – that would have been the 17th of January, but I am not a strict by-the-calendar guy. I post…
Claim: We’ve Pumped So much Groundwater that We’ve Nudged the Earth’s Spin
The shifting of mass and consequent sea level rise due to groundwater withdrawal has caused the Earth’s rotational pole to wander nearly a meter in two decades
Masters of Acclimation: Octopuses Adjust to Cold by Editing their RNA
The idea the environment can influence that genetic information, as we’ve shown in cephalopods, is a new concept.
The genetics of temperature adaptation: how does life thrive in extreme conditions?
Interestingly, the researchers found that thermotolerant organisms had smaller genomes and a higher fraction of core genome.
32-year Reuters veteran reporter comes clean on ‘climate change’: ‘I had no reason to think this wasn’t established fact. I was wrong’
The science wasn’t even close to being proven, and I had great difficulty finding anyone to say the link between excessive human-made carbon dioxide (CO2) and a changing climate was…
Academics Blame Lower Trust In Scientists On Everything But Bad Scientists
The mistake the paper makes is assuming scientists’ expertise is always better than people’s. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But never always.