After nearly a decade away, La Niña weather system is back…
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), La Niña is back in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, after nearly a decade’s absence.…
Claim: Disease-transmission model forecasts election outcomes
To simulate how interactions between voters may play a role in the upcoming presidential, gubernatorial and senatorial elections, a Northwestern University research team is adapting a model that is commonly used to study infectious diseases.…
Trump Signs Order to Protect Fracking, Fossil Fuel Jobs
Guest essay by Eric Worrall In the wake of Biden’s promise to abolish the oil industry, President Trump has signed an executive order to protect fracking. But some Biden supporters claim even Pennsylvanians don’t care about fossil fuel jobs. Inside Clean Energy: Biden’s Oil Industry Comments Were Not a Political Misstep Republicans thought they could……
Terence Corcoran: Tricks and treats from Peter Foster
Lined up for tricks are the likes of Al Gore, David Suzuki, Tim Flannery, Maurice Strong, Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau, Klaus Schwab, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, the Pope — and Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist whose 2019 emotional “how dare you!” speech before the United Nations explains the title. Foster says the phrase “reflects the self-righteous authoritarian intolerance of the climate industrial complex and its mouthpieces.”…
Water on ancient Mars
There’s a long-standing question in planetary science about the origin of water on Earth, Mars and other large bodies such as the moon. One hypothesis says that it came from asteroids and comets post-formation. But some planetary researchers think that water might just be one of many substances that occur naturally during the formation of planets. A new analysis of an ancient Martian meteorite adds support for this second hypothesis.…
The Guardian: A Biden Victory would Push the World on Climate Change
Scratch a climate activist, find a … ; Guardian author Katharine Murphy fantasising about the possibility a Biden administration would use America’s economic might to dictate climate policy to the freely elected government of Australia, and to the rest of the world.…