Facebook’s “Offshore Drilling” Mishap
Guest “irony can be so… ironic” by David Middleton Facebook abandons broken drilling equipment under Oregon coast seafloorUpdated Aug 13, 2020 By Kale Williams | The Oregonian/OregonLive […] Despite their concerns, and a vocal campaign to stop the project, construction began earlier this year. Then, on April 28, the drilling crew hit an unexpected area……
Hubble Finds That Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst
Observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that blocked starlight coming from Betelgeuse’s surface.…
Claim: Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet would continue shrinking.…
Bernie Scolds Elon Musk for Taking Government Subsidies That Sanders Made Possible
In a twitter battle last week, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders criticized Elon Musk for accepting billions of dollars in government support. The exchange erupted over Sanders’ new bill to impose a wealth tax on Musk and other billionaires.…
Ancient genomes suggest woolly rhinos went extinct due to climate change, not overhunting
he extinction of prehistoric megafauna like the woolly mammoth, cave lion, and woolly rhinoceros at the end of the last ice age has often been attributed to the spread of early humans across the globe. Although overhunting led to the demise of some species, a study appearing August 13 in the journal Current Biology found that the extinction of the woolly rhinoceros may have had a different cause: climate change.…
Aussie Government Asks the UN to Dismiss an Indigenous Climate Case
The Australian government has asked the United Nations to dismiss a climate case brought by Torres Strait islanders, on the grounds the harms they claim are a violation of their human rights have not happened yet. The Torres Strait islands are steaming hot tropical islands which sit just to the north of the Australian mainland.…