Rice researcher part of team that used Doppler shifts to ID phenomenon; may help predict space weather HOUSTON – (July 2, 2012) – Doppler measurements that help track storms on…
Tag: NASA
Debby, a lot of clouds, wind, rain – but no hurricane
NASA Sees Tropical Storm Debby’s Clouds Blanket Florida Two satellites have captured imagery that shows Tropical Storm Debby has thrown a large white blanket of clouds over the state of…
Satellite imagery of Colorado's High Park Fire
To hear and read the MSM reports about this fire, you’d think that the entire states of Colorado and Wyoming were ablaze. Meanwhile, the usual paid advocates are already wailing…
ARCUS June Sea Ice Outlook – The 'New Normal'
From ARCUS: I’m late getting this posted, apologies. WUWT comes in third highest, same position we were last year. My thanks to Helen Wiggins for allowing us to enter again…
NASA: Study Finds Ancient Warming Greened Antarctica
It seems Antarctica once had vegetation and had a lot of rain. This artist’s rendition created from a photograph of Antarctica shows what Antarctica possibly looked like during the middle…
Siberian smoke tracked to North America
I wonder how much of the EPA’s perceived air pollution problems in the USA actually originate elsewhere? From NASA: Satellite Sees Smoke from Siberian Fires Reach the U.S. Coast Fires…
Quote of the Week: 'global warming stunts black holes'
It appears “global warming” is now the most potent force in the universe, according to a scientist from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. An actual scientific paper preprint published…
Time lapse video of Venus transit seen from SDO
Thanks to reader Mike McMillan for pointing this awesome HiDef video out. It is the best I’ve seen.
Transit of Venus today may reveal the "Mysterious Arc of Venus"
From Dr. Tony Phillips Science at NASA When Venus transits the sun on June 5th and 6th, an armada of spacecraft and ground-based telescopes will be on the lookout for…
Global Hawk drones to be used to hunt hurricanes this year
From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, it seems the days of the Orion P3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft may soon be numbered. NASA mission sending unmanned aircraft over hurricanes this year…
Asteroid blows past Earth in near miss
From ChicoEr.com Flying close enough to Earth that in astronomic terms one could feel the breeze as it passed, a small asteroid flashed by just after midnight today. NASA reported…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “As an agency, NASA does not draw conclusions and issue ‘claims’ about research…
Global warming – splodeified
Via Tom Nelson, no wonder they hate nuclear power so much, they don’t see any difference! Global warming increasing by 400,000 atomic bombs every day | The Vancouver Observer The…
McIntyre rebuts Schmidt’s Rant on Yamal
By Steve McIntyre Two days ago, NASA blogger Gavin Schmidt posted an extended rant against me at Real Climate, a rant directed in part at my recent poston Yamal. I’ve…
"…the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012"
Its always important to remember what has been predicted by the elders of science, and to review those predictions when the time is right. In four months, just 132 days…
Tracking the ash from the 'unpronounceable' volcano
From the FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology Scientists ‘read’ the ash from the Icelandic volcano 2 years after its eruption In May 2010, the ash cloud from…
Hansen’s ‘Game Over for the Climate’ op-ed
This op-ed appeared in the New York Times today, and since it was written by a government employee, using his NASA title at the end of the article, I consider…
Solar cycle update for April – sun still slumping
Got a bit sidetracked earlier in the month, this is overdue for an update. Earlier we reported that Hathaway had updated his solar cycle prediction saying “…the predicted size makes…
"firecracker" sunspot turning towards earth – possible large solar flares
Sunspot AR1476 may have some surprises for us in the coming days, and I hope it isn’t a Carrington type event. It has already launched two CME’s yesterday. From NASA’s Spaceweather.com:…
Lightning induced Schumann Resonance may help divine exoplanets
From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Science nugget: Lightning signature could help reveal the solar system’s origins Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce…
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