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eSci: Epic Arctic Meltdown
The beach like boundary with open water at 89° north shows the thinness of the ice. Polar sea ice melt ponds are common in July but open water is not. Source: NOAA PMEL This photograph from the north...
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eSci: Cryocide
Cryocide. Like bycatch. Like civilians killed in a drone raid. It's happening now, unintentionally, because no one important cares enough to do something. We have been warned repeatedly by polar...
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eSci: The Sun is Acting Strangely
Solar activity is failing to revive normally after the deepest solar minimum in a century. This solar cycle, number 24, is not only very late, it is off to a very weak start. At the bottom of the...
View ArticleObama Administration to Polar Bear Scientist/Truth Teller - Shut up, and you...
The President is proving once again that he is much better than his predecessor George Bush as a President - When it comes to getting to more oil in pristine environments and silencing critics and...
View ArticleeSci: Incredible Movie of Likely Flowing Water on Mars
The NASA movie shows a flowing liquid which forms under conditions near the Martian equator where water is stable. Dry ice (CO2) would sublimate to CO2 gas under these conditions. Pure water would...
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eSci: Inhofe Joins Inquisition of Polar Bear Scientist
Polar bear researcher Dr. Charles Monnett continues to be silenced and suspended from his job of managing Arctic biology research for the Department of Interior as the DOI's Inspector General...
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eSci: Enhanced Continent-Scale Flow of Antarctic Ice Discovered
Old theories of Antarctic ice stability, proven wrong today by a report in Science, incorrectly disconnected ice flow in the deep interior from ice flow near the coast. Therefore, they probably...
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eSci: Record Low Arctic Sea Ice Volume & Area Hit, Methane Found in Ice Free...
The terminal collapse of summer Arctic sea ice accelerated this summer despite unfavorable weather for much of the summer. Much warmer than normal water temperatures entering the Arctic combined with...
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eSci: Half of Canada's Ice Shelves Lost in the Past 6 Years
Canada's Ice shelves are collapsing at a shocking rate. Since the summer of 2005 half of Canada's ice shelves have shattered into icebergs and flowed into the Arctic ocean. These thick ice shelves,...
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Chemistry Nobel: Quasicrystals - Israeli Found New Form of Matter Imagined in...
This year's Nobel prize in Chemistry will be awarded to Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals, metallic alloys with atoms arranged in orderly, infinite, aperiodic,...
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eSci: Mysterious Source of Earth's Oceans Found in a Strange Comet
The existence of earth's oceans has been a mystery challenging earth scientists for decades because the source of the water could not be identified. Extremely low levels of the element Neon and other...
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eSci: Fukushima, A River Runs Through It
A river of groundwater, 450 tons per day, is running through Fukushima Daiichi Units 1-4 according to calculations made by Asahi Shinbun. The water is interacting with water contaminated by the melted...
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Fracking Hits Home in NC, We Fight Back (Fracking Causes Quakes)
Imagine developers want to frack gas, near a nuclear power plant, and many geological faults less than 20 miles from where you live. Imagine your town gets water from a river that flows through the...
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Giant Crack Found in Antarctic Glacier that Calved Just 4 Years Ago
NASA investigators discovered a giant crack in the Pine Island glacier in Antarctica that indicates an enormous iceberg with an area of more than 300 square miles is about to form. The new iceberg...
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eSci: Oklahoma's Strongest Recorded Quake (M5.6) Likely Triggered by Oil &...
What caused the M5.6 Sunday Nov. 6 quake, the strongest earthquake in Oklahoma's history? Was it a random natural event? Was it directly caused by hydrofracturing (fracking) or oil and gas activities?...
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eSci: Greenhouse Warming led to Huge Fires & Ecosystem Collapse @ the End...
The most precise study yet of the the earth's most catastrophic extinction event, the end Permian, found that warming caused by natural releases of CO2 was greatly amplified by the collapse of...
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eSci: "Global Cooling Assured for the Next 3 Decades"
Three decades of global cooling was the bold prediction made by geology professor Don Easterbrook on Anthony Watt's Weblog award winning climate change denier web site. Unlike most of the posts on...
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Nuclear Regulatory Meltdown: Four NRC Commisioners Conspire with Republicans...
Four commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission attempted to delay the Commission's response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear emergency, to cover up the severity of the incident and to weaken...
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eSci: New Cause of Bee Colony Collapse Disorder Found
A fly known to parasitize American bumble bees and wasps has recently been discovered parasitizing California honey bees, causing bees to abandon their colonies in the night. The investigators, who...
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Sea Ice Death Spiral Driving Atlantic Water into Arctic Causing Wild Weather
Flowers are blooming in England in January more than a month early. The Vail, Colorado ski resort has no natural snow for the first time in 30 years of operation while Homer Alaska had over 15 feet...
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