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Sahara Expert Says Desert Shrinking, Calls Alarmist Tipping Points “Complete Nonsense”

Guest Blogger — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Climate tipping points are much more fantasy than science

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NASA’s Running a Mental Ward?! Kimberley Miner: ‘I’m a NASA Climate Scientist. Here’s How I’m Handling Climate Grief’

Guest Blogger — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 21:00:00 +0000

I already have five scientist friends with severe, emergent health challenges’

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Earth Looks Like Jupiter–Is This What NASA Has Descended to?

Guest Blogger — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0000

It goes without saying that the Earth looks nothing like this at all.

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Sea Level Is Rising – But So What?

Guest Blogger — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Climate Central needs more than a fancy interactive map to make a convincing case sea level will change that drastically.

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NASA’s InSight Waits Out Dust Storm

Charles Rotter — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 05:00:00 +0000

InSight’s team is taking steps to help the solar-powered lander continue operating for as long as possible.

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Ten Years of Curiosity on Mars

Charles Rotter — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Today marks 10 years since the Curiosity rover landed on Mars.

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Ocean Atmosphere Response to Solar EMR at Top of the Atmosphere

geoarmstrong — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 21:00:00 +0000

How can climate models hope to reflect the real world when clouds are parameterised with no sensitivity to surface temperature?

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50 Years of Landsat

Charles Rotter — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000

We're celebrating 50 years of the Landsat satellite, the first of which launched on July 23, 1972. The latest in the series, Landsat 9, launched in September 2021.

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NASA Seeks Public’s Designs to Throw Shade in Space

Charles Rotter — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000

To further this exploration, NASA is supporting the early-stage study of a concept for a hybrid observatory that would combine a ground-based telescope with a space-based starshade.

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NASA Highlights Climate Research on Cargo Launch, Sets Coverage

Charles Rotter — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000

NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8:44 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 14, to launch the agency’s next investigation to monitor climate change to the International Space Station.

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Update on NASA’s TROPICS-1 Mission

Charles Rotter — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0000

With four satellites, TROPICS will still provide improved time-resolved observations of tropical cyclones compared to traditional observing methods.

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NASA to Set Up Independent Study on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

Charles Rotter — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 05:00:00 +0000

The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that data to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward.

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NASA to Launch 6 Small Satellites to Monitor, Study Tropical Cyclones

Charles Rotter — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0000

When launched, the TROPICS satellites will work together to provide near-hourly microwave observations of a storm's precipitation, temperature, and humidity.

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Climate Nuttiness: IPCC Scientist Peter Kalmus Unglued (‘Scientist Rebellion’ a dud)

Guest Blogger — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The climate nuts hurt their cause as much or more than they help it. And their own words doom them to ridicule and irrelevance.

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NASA to Highlight Climate Research on Cargo Launch, Sets TV Coverage

Charles Rotter — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Flying aboard SpaceX’s 25th commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory is NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT).

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Geology from 50 Light-Years: Webb Gets Ready to Study Rocky Worlds

Charles Rotter — Fri, 27 May 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Another intriguing possibility, however, is that 55 Cancri e is not tidally locked. Instead, it may be like Mercury, rotating three times for every two orbits (what’s known as a 3:2 resonance). As a result, the planet would have a day-night cycle.

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Gravity Assist: How to Grow Food on the Moon

Charles Rotter — Tue, 17 May 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Space botanists are working on strategies to grow crops on the lunar surface, as NASA makes strides toward sending astronauts to the Moon through the Artemis program. A team of scientists at the University of Florida successfully grew small plants in lunar soil brought back during three different Apollo missions. How did they do it, and what does it mean for the future of space exploration? Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul explains.

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WUWT Contest Runner Up, Professional: NASA Knew Better #NASA_Knew

Guest Blogger — Mon, 16 May 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The minor incremental static warming effect from slowly increasing concentrations of GHGs is readily overwhelmed by the performance of the heat engine.

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Sea Ice Can Control Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability, New Research Finds

Charles Rotter — Sat, 14 May 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Despite the rapid melting of ice in many parts of Antarctica during the second half of the 20th century, researchers have found that the floating ice…

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NASA Goddard Scientists Begin Studying 50-year-old Frozen Apollo 17 Samples

Charles Rotter — Wed, 04 May 2022 05:00:00 +0000

For Elsila, “it’s very cool to think about all the work that went into collecting the samples on the Moon and then all the forethought and care that went into preserving them for us to be able to analyze at this time,” she noted.

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