Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, advocate, and protestor with a rap sheet released a new paper (non peer reviewed) on his website recently. A video report follows. The paper is…
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NASA takes AIM on noctilucent clouds
From AIM. High up in the sky near the poles some 50 miles above the ground, silvery blue clouds sometimes appear, shining brightly in the night. First noticed in 1885,…
Watched solar CME's never boil?
I covered the recent uptick in solar activity earlier this month here and here last month. Now NASA offers this summary of the events, saying Cycle 24 is finally “on”.…
The smallest sunspot cycle in two hundred years
I missed this earlier this week from NASA, I got a bit distracted with other things. Sixty two – that’s the new number from Hathaway on April 4th, have a…
MESSENGER Sends Back First Image of Mercury from Orbit
And it looks a lot like our moon…below is an artists rendition, and below the “Continue reading…” line is the actual image. From the MESSENGER website: Early this morning, at…
The fireball network: an opportunity for citizen science?
This is an interesting project put on by NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Project (MEO) using some low light B/W video cameras placed into a skyward looking weatherproof housing made of a…
Recycling research: meteorite alien life discovery dubious?
Post by Ryan Maue You may have seen the breathless coverage on Fox News of the alien life discovery from NASA’s Dr. Hoover — in some fancy meteorite. The “exclusive”…
NASA'S Glory Satellite Fails To Reach Orbit
NASA reports that Glory, a satellite to monitor aerosols failed to reach orbit, apparently from a fairing that didn’t release. See update below on the massive budget overruns for this…
Missing sunspots solved by NASA?
News from NASA that they believe they have solved the mystery of the missing sunspots and why the solar minimum was so prolonged: Researchers Crack the Mystery of the Missing…
Glory, glory, hallelujah – twice delayed three's a charm?
NASA’s Glory Satellite scheduled for launch March 4 WASHINGTON — NASA’s Glory spacecraft is scheduled for launch on Friday, March 4. Technical issues with ground support equipment for the Taurus…
We had to nuke the planet to save it from global warming
Eric Nielsen writes to me via Facebook: I find it disturbing the National Geographic would suggest something like this Well, um, yeah. This sort of thing is why I don’t…
Controversial NASA temperature graphic morphs into garbled mess
UPDATE: Repaired – see below What happened to that image? Back in 1999, Dr. James Hansen of NASA penned a report on surface temperatures still located on their servers. However,…
NASA's Hathaway revises the sunspot prediction down again
From the Marshall Space Flight Center, Dr. Hathaway’s page: Current prediction for the next sunspot cycle maximum gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 58 in July of 2013.…
NASA climate programs being eyed for the budget axe
NASA spent over a billion dollars last year on climate change studies…which would you rather have? Pronouncements about death trains, expert testimony for climate vandals, failed predictions, failed models, and…
Has the BBC broken faith with the General Public?
Guest Post by Barry Woods It is my opinion that the BBC in broadcasting the BBC 2 Horizon program ‘Science Under Attack’ did not treat the general public in the UK and…
A new galaxy distance record by the Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble sees farther back in time than ever before Above: This image of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field is a small part of the deepest infrared image ever taken of the…
Hansen gets FOIA'd on ethics issues with NASA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 19, 2011 Contact: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org ATI Environmental Law Center Seeks NASA Records on Dr. James Hansen Today the American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center…
NASA Sun Spot Number predictions revised again
UPDATE: see my animation of NASA solar forecasts since 2004 below. WUWT Commenter J Gary Fox writes: The solar cycle 24 predicted sunspot maximum has been reduced again – predicted…
D'Aleo on NOAA and NASA
By Joe D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow The pressure has been mounting. The public doubt about global warming has been increasing in the past year given Climategate, and how promises of…
NASA: La Niña has remained strong
From NASA JPL in Pasadena: New NASA satellite data indicate the current La Niña event in the eastern Pacific has remained strong during November and December 2010. A new Ocean…
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