A beautiful Moon-Mars conjunction tonight
Skywatchers, don’t miss this event. Tonight, Oct. 2nd, the Harvest Moon and Mars are in conjunction, less than 1 degree apart for sky observers. The Moon is nearly full, and bright red Mars is only days away from its closest approach to Earth, making the conjunction extra bright and beautiful. The celestial pair rise in the east just after sunset……
Friday Funny: Will the World Drown as Greenland Ice Melts? (w/ Dr. Michael Mann)
From the “Manntastic claims require Manntastic evidence” department. From the description: The human eye could see the rise in sea level as the ice sheets in Greenland melt. Measurements also show a change in gravity as the ice melts. A new study has climate models showing the variation in ice sheet melts and how sea……
California’s Looming ‘Green New Car Wreck’
The numbers don’t pencil out for the future where just 25% of cars in California would be electric. On September 23, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that will ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars in the Golden State by 2035. Ignoring the hard lessons of this past summer, when California’s solar- and……
Greenland Ice Sheet Doomed… Again
Guest “geological perspective” by David Middleton CRYOSPHERE RESEARCH UPDATEUnprecedented ice loss is predicted for Greenland Ice Sheet30 Sep 2020 Over the next eighty years global warming is set to melt enough ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet to reverse 4000 years of cumulative ice growth – with rates of ice-loss more than quadruple even the fastest……
Study: Global Warming Heating Nights Faster than Days
And both increased and decreased cloud cover is bad.…
Nearby supernova may have helped to initiate ice ages?
Discovery of a nearby supernova 2.5 million years ago boosting cosmic rays may lend credence to Svensmark’s cosmic rays modulate clouds on Earth theory. From the TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH (TUM) via Eurekalert Stellar explosion in Earth’s proximity When the brightness of the star Betelgeuse dropped dramatically a few months ago, some observers suspected an……