diff --git "a/ClimaText/test-data/Claims (test).tsv" "b/ClimaText/test-data/Claims (test).tsv" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/ClimaText/test-data/Claims (test).tsv" @@ -0,0 +1,1001 @@ +id label title paragraph sentence +0 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/pope-francis-encyclical-laudato-si/ -1 In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events, even if a scientifically determinable cause cannot be assigned to each particular phenomenon. +1 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/playing-semantics-misleading-breitbart-article-downplays-us-contribution-to-climate-change/ -1 “Some experts, such as UN climate scientist Dr. Indur Goklany, have defended rising CO2 levels as a good thing for humanity. +2 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/commentary-australian-ignores-evidence-misrepresents-research-falsely-claiming-humans-not-responsible-climate-change-ian-plimer/ -1 The grasslands, crops, forests and territorial waters of Australia absorb more carbon dioxide than Australia emits. +3 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/melting-ice-global-warming.htm -1 Arctic summer sea ice has shrunk by an area equal to Western Australia, and might be all gone in a decade. +4 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/big-melt-global-sea-ice-record-low-usa-today-doyle-rice/ -1 “There is now less sea ice on Earth than at any time on record. +5 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/heading-into-new-little-ice-age.htm -1 "And since the last ice age ended almost exactly 11,500 years ago…"" (Ice Age Now)" +6 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect-advanced.htm -1 The amount of warming caused by the anthropogenic increase in atmospheric CO2 may be one of the most misunderstood subjects in climate science. +7 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/7 -1 The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988]. +8 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/why-are-climate-change-models-so-flawed-because-climate-science-is-so-incomplete-jeff-jacoby-boston-globe/ -1 “CO2 is certainly a heat-trapping greenhouse gas, but hardly the primary one: Water vapor accounts for about 95 percent of greenhouse gases. +9 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-just-detected-major-change-earths-oceans-linked-warming-climate-chris-mooney-the-washington-post/ -1 Because oxygen in the global ocean is not evenly distributed, the 2 percent overall decline means there is a much larger decline in some areas of the ocean than others. +10 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/sea-level-rise.htm -1 Around 1990 it became obvious the local tide-gauge did not agree - there was no evidence of 'sinking.' +11 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/heres-why-its-so-frickin-hot-right-now-andrew-freedman-mashable/ -1 In Albany, New York, the high temperature of 74 degrees on Thursday was the warmest temperature on record for any day during the months of December, January and February. +12 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/hillary-clinton-boards-climate-crisis-train-nowhere-roy-spencer-forbes/ -1 Drought in the western U.S. pales in comparison to the mega-droughts tree rings tell us existed in centuries past. +13 1 https://www.truthorfiction.com/top-scientist-hal-lewis-resigns-climate-change-corruption-truth-disputed/ -1 Top Scientist Hal Lewis Resigns Over Climate Change Corruption +14 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/cosmic-rays-and-global-warming-advanced.htm -1 Hypothetically, an increasing solar magnetic field could deflect galactic cosmic rays, which hypothetically seed low-level clouds, thus decreasing the Earth's reflectivity and causing global warming. +15 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/7 -1 [S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low. +16 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/climate-context-for-a-wet-winter-in-drought-stricken-california-in-the-la-times-rong-gong-lin-ii-paige-st-john-los-angeles-times/ -1 Not everyone is convinced that the evidence is in that climate change is responsible for extreme swings between drought and deluge. +17 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Plant stomata show higher and more variable CO2 levels +18 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/investors-business-daily-editorial-misrepresents-study-to-claim-plants-will-prevent-dangerous-climate-change/ -1 If Houlton’s finding about these vast, previously unknown nitrogen stores holds true, then it would have an enormous impact on global warming predictions. +19 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-temperature-correlation-intermediate.htm -1 Even during a period of long term warming, there are short periods of cooling due to climate variability. +20 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Weather and climate are different; climate predictions do not need weather detail. +21 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-limits-economy-advanced.htm -1 Climate economics research shows that in reality, we are harming the economy by failing to implement CO2 limits. +22 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-phony-war-against-co2-the-wall-street-journal-rodney-nichols-harrison-schmitt/ -1 “In 2013 the level of U.S. farm output was about 2.7 times its 1948 level, and productivity was growing at an average annual rate of 1.52%. +23 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Climategate-CRU-emails-hacked.htm -1 Focusing on a few suggestive emails, taken out of context, merely serves to distract from the wealth of empirical evidence for man-made global warming. +24 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-australian-commentary-by-ian-plimer-relies-on-false-claims-to-make-its-case/ -1 Renew­ables such as wind turbines are environmentally disastrous because they pollute a huge land area, slice and dice birds and bats, kill insects that are bird food, create health problems for humans who live within kilometres of them, leave toxins around the turbine site and despoil the landscape. +25 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 IPCC graph showing accelerating trends is misleading +26 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/wall-street-journal-op-ed-economic-consequences-climate-change-found-naive-scientists-david-henderson-john-cochrane/ -1 Climate change need not endanger anyone” +27 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect.htm -1 """While major green house gas H2O substantially warms the Earth, minor green house gases such as CO2 have little effect...." +28 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/ -1 In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet. +29 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Humans are small but powerful, and human CO2 emissions are causing global warming. +30 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/great-barrier-reef-coral-climate-change-dieoff-the-new-york-times-damien-cave-justin-gillis/ -1 If water temperatures stay moderate, the damaged sections of the Great Barrier Reef may be covered with corals again in as few as 10 or 15 years +31 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 IPCC overestimate temperature rise +32 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/1 -1 Human additions of CO2 are in the margin of error of current measurements and the gradual increase in CO2 is mainly from oceans degassing as the planet slowly emerges from the last ice age. +33 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food.htm -1 This growth stimulation occurs because CO2 is one of the two raw materials (the other being water) that are required for photosynthesis. +34 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/playing-semantics-misleading-breitbart-article-downplays-us-contribution-to-climate-change/ -1 According to the WHO, exposure to particulate matter increases the risk of acute lower respiratory infection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, stroke and lung cancer. +35 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-caller-uncritically-reports-misleading-satellite-temperature-study-michael-bastasch/ -1 “‘Those eruptions happened relatively early in our study period, which pushed down temperatures in the first part of the dataset, which caused the overall record to show an exaggerated warming trend,’ Christy said. +36 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Satellites measure Antarctica losing land ice at an accelerating rate. +37 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/op-ed-in-the-australian-gets-nearly-every-fact-wrong-ian-plimer/ -1 More than 100 climate models over the past 30 years did not predict what actually happened because it was assumed carbon dioxide had the pivotal role in driving climate change and that the effects of clouds, back-radiation and the sun were trivial. +38 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Cosmic rays show no trend over the last 30 years & have had little impact on recent global warming. +39 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/ocean-acidification-global-warming.htm -1 'Our harmless emissions of trifling quantities of carbon dioxide cannot possibly acidify the oceans. +40 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Tree-ring-proxies-divergence-problem.htm -1 For instance, in the original hockey stick (ending 1980) the last 30-40 years of data points slightly downwards. +41 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-scientists-in-it-for-the-money.htm -1 In truth, the overwhelming majority of climate-research funding comes from the federal government and left-wing foundations. +42 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-intermediate.htm -1 Empirical measurements of the Earth's heat content show the planet is still accumulating heat and global warming is still happening. +43 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/10 -1 Local and regional sea levels continue to exhibit typical natural variability—in some places rising and in others falling. +44 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/great-barrier-reef-australia-coral-die-off-doyle-rice-usa-today/ -1 Scientists confirm a mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef this year has killed more corals than ever before, with more than two thirds destroyed across large swathes of the biodiverse site. +45 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Hansen-1988-prediction-advanced.htm -1 Had he used the currently accepted value of approximately 3°C warming for a doubling of atmospheric CO2, Hansen would have correctly projected the ensuing global warming. +46 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-positives-negatives-advanced.htm -1 The consequences of climate change become increasingly bad after each additional degree of warming, with the consequences of 2°C being quite damaging and the consequences of 4°C being potentially catastrophic. +47 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-not-urgent-advanced.htm -1 One more decade of business as usual will make this impossible. +48 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Humans have been through climate changes before- but mostly cold ones and +49 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-too-hard-intermediate.htm -1 "The argument that solving the global warming problem by reducing human greenhouse gas emissions is ""too hard"" generally stems from the belief that (i) our technology is not sufficiently advanced to achieve significant emissions reductions," +50 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/iflscience-story-on-speculative-report-provides-little-scientific-context-james-felton/ -1 With that in mind, they propose a plausible and terrifying “2050 scenario” whereby humanity could face irreversible collapse in just three decades. +51 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/forbes-james-taylor-updated-nasa-data-polar-ice-not-receding-after-all/ -1 Since the end of 2012, moreover, total polar ice extent has largely remained above the post-1979 average. +52 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/melting-ice-global-warming.htm -1 In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards. +53 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Global warming' and 'climate change' mean different things and have both been used for decades. +54 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/renewable-energy-is-too-expensive.htm -1 When you account for the effects which are not reflected in the market price of fossil fuels, like air pollution and health impacts, the true cost of coal and other fossil fuels is higher than the cost of most renewable energy technologies. +55 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/washington-examiner-op-ed-cherry-picks-data-to-mislead-readers-about-climate-models-patrick-michaels-caleb-stewart-rossiter/ -1 Globally averaged thermometers show two periods of warming since 1900: a half-degree from natural causes in the first half of the 20th century, before there was an increase in industrial carbon dioxide that was enough to produce it, and another half-degree in the last quarter of the century. +56 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/independent-makes-giant-leap-global-warming-worse-than-thought-single-study-andrew-griffin/ -1 The sea was much colder than previously thought, the study suggests, indicating that climate change is advancing at an unprecedented rate” +57 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 The most recent ocean measurements show consistent warming. +58 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/western-journal-op-ed-deceives-readers-with-completely-unsupported-claims-jay-lehr-tom-harris/ -1 as time progresses and fossil fuel emissions increase, the number of record highs should increase and record lows should decrease. +59 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/science-about-links-between-global-warming-and-massive-heat-waves-chris-mooney-washington-post/ -1 “Typically, in such an attribution study, scientists will use sets of climate models — one set including the factors that drive human global warming and the other including purely “natural” factors — and see if an event like the one in question is more likely to occur in the first set of models. +60 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 We didn't have global warming during the Industrial Revolution +61 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/December-2009-record-cold-spells.htm -1 The world has entered a 'cold mode' which is likely to bring a global dip in temperatures which will last for 20 to 30 years, they say. +62 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 IPCC were wrong about Himalayan glaciers +63 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/friends-of-science-video-promoted-by-youtube-presents-long-list-of-climate-myths-steve-goreham/ -1 “Every day, nature puts twenty times as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as all of Earth industries. +64 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-series-accurately-describes-research-antarctic-ice-sheets-sea-level-rise-justin-gillis/ -1 ‘We could be decades too fast, or decades too slow,’said one of them, Robert M. DeConto of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. +65 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-wire-article-misunderstands-study-carbon-budget-along-fox-news-telegraph-daily-mail-breitbart-james-barrett/ -1 The team of climate scientists notes that in failing to predict the warming ‘hiatus’ in the beginning of the 21st century, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models overestimated temperature increases… +66 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-free-atmosphere.htm -1 Yet clouds reflect about seventy-five watts per square meter. +67 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Hansen-West-Side-Highway.htm -1 'What I can comment on is this prediction by Dr. Hansen: “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water.” +68 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/popular-article-in-the-independent-accurately-summarizes-june-heat-in-europe-conrad-duncan/ -1 Rapid assessment of average temperatures in France between 26-28 June showed a “substantial” increase in the likelihood of the heatwave happening as a result of human-caused global warming, experts at the World Weather Attribution group said. +69 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/one-of-the-most-troubling-ideas-about-climate-change-just-found-new-evidence-in-its-favor-chris-mooney-washington-post/ -1 Ever since 2012, scientists have been debating a complex and frankly explosive idea about how a warming planet will alter our weather — one that, if it’s correct, would have profound implications across the Northern Hemisphere and especially in its middle latitudes +70 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/pluto-global-warming-intermediate.htm -1 Pluto's climate change over the last 14 years is likely a seasonal event. +71 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-explain-what-new-york-magazine-article-on-the-uninhabitable-earth-gets-wrong-david-wallace-wells/ -1 as the pathbreaking work by Rosamond Naylor and David Battisti has shown, the tropics are already too hot to efficiently grow grain, and those places where grain is produced today are already at optimal growing temperature — which means even a small warming will push them down the slope of declining productivity. +72 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/usa-today-op-ed-ignores-evidence-to-claim-climate-change-had-no-role-in-hurricane-florence-roy-spencer/ -1 While such a storm does not happen in New England anymore, it happened again there in 1675, with elderly eyewitnesses comparing it to the 1635 storm. +73 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/increasing-Antarctic-Southern-sea-ice.htm -1 The news of expanding Antarctic sea ice stole headlines from global warming alarmists who asserted Arctic sea ice had reached its lowest extent since 1979.' +74 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/friends-of-science-video-promoted-by-youtube-presents-long-list-of-climate-myths-steve-goreham/ -1 “So now we’re able to explain from natural factors how we’ve had the 20th Century warming. +75 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-story-accurately-describes-rio-grandes-climate-context-henry-fountain/ -1 Last year, though, was a wet one on the Rio Grande, with a strong snowpack in the winter of 2016-17 that allowed the conservancy district to store water in upstream reservoirs. +76 1 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-13/abbott-government-mandate-carbon-tax/5085340 -1 Tony Abbott the Opposition must respect the Government's mandate to overturn the carbon tax. +77 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Global sea level data shows that sea level rise has been increasing since 1880 while future sea level rise predictions are based on physics, not statistics. +78 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-early-20th-century.htm -1 "That drop in temperature came after what was described in the National Geographic as 'six decades of abnormal warmth'.""" +79 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-change-global-warming.htm -1 They changed the name from “global warming” to “climate change” after the term global warming just wasn’t working (it was too cold)! +80 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Murry-Salby-CO2-rise-natural.htm -1 It’s usually taken to be the fact that as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase, the 1 per cent of CO2 that’s the heavier carbon isotope ratio c13 declines in proportion. +81 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/james-taylor-2015-was-not-even-close-to-hottest-year-on-record/ -1 Forget what global warming activists would lead you to believe—2015 was not even close to the hottest year on record. +82 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/polar-bears-global-warming.htm -1 “A leading Canadian authority on polar bears, Mitch Taylor, said: ‘We’re seeing an increase in bears that’s really unprecedented, and in places where we’re seeing a decrease in the population +83 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-story-accurately-describes-rio-grandes-climate-context-henry-fountain/ -1 The effect of long-term warming is to make it harder to count on snowmelt runoff in wet times +84 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/usa-today-paleoclimate-study-mostly-accurate-lacks-clarity-doyle-rice/ -1 But as the change gets larger or more persistent … it appears they underestimate climate change +85 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/global-quackery-earth-not-warmed-past-19-years-new-study-finds-joseph-curl-the-daily-wire/ -1 ever since December temperatures in the Arctic have consistently been lower than minus 20 C +86 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/playing-semantics-misleading-breitbart-article-downplays-us-contribution-to-climate-change/ -1 Goklany has argued that the rising level of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere ‘is currently net beneficial for both humanity and the biosphere generally.” +87 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/ocean-acidification-yet-another-wobbly-pillar-climate-alarmism-james-delingpole-the-spectator/ -1 There was, he said, an ‘inherent bias’ in scientific journals which predisposed them to publish ‘doom and gloom stories’. +88 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/volcanoes-and-global-warming-intermediate.htm -1 Volcanoes emit around 0.3 billion tonnes of CO2 per year. +89 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Freedom-of-Information-FOI-requests-climate-scientists.htm -1 The Independent Climate Change Email Review found the CRU scientists were unhelpful and unsympathetic to information requesters and at times broke FoI laws. +90 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/earth-albedo-effect.htm -1 """Earth’s Albedo has risen in the past few years, and by doing reconstructions of the past albedo, it appears that there was a significant reduction in Earth’s albedo leading up to a lull in 1997." +91 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/himalayan-glaciers-growing-intermediate.htm -1 While there are isolated cases of growing glaciers, the overwhelming trend in glaciers worldwide is retreat. +92 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/ian-plimer-op-ed-in-the-australian-again-presents-long-list-of-false-claims-about-climate/ -1 It has never been shown that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming. +93 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/npr-story-accurately-describes-ecological-consequences-of-altered-spring-timings-in-a-warming-climate-nathan-rott/ -1 The April low temperatures here are now about 6 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than they used to be. +94 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/mauna-loa-volcano-co2-measurements-intermediate.htm -1 The trend in CO2 at Mauna Loa is practically identical to the global trend because CO2 mixes well throughout the atmosphere. +95 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/environment-climate-change-records-broken-international-report-oliver-milman-the-guardian/ -1 This means that the world is now 1C warmer than it was in pre-industrial times +96 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/1 -1 They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. +97 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Water vapor in the stratosphere stopped global warming. +98 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/usa-today-op-ed-ignores-evidence-to-claim-climate-change-had-no-role-in-hurricane-florence-roy-spencer/ -1 But like most claims regarding global warming, the real effect is small, probably temporary, and most likely due to natural weather patterns +99 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-mid-20th-century-advanced.htm -1 The main reason behind this mid-century cooling was global dimming due to anthropogenic sulfate aerosol emissions. +100 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/klaus-martin-schulte-consensus.htm -1 The fact that so many studies on climate change don't bother to endorse the consensus position is significant because scientists have largely moved from what's causing global warming onto discussing details of the problem (eg - how fast, how soon, impacts, etc). +101 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/big-melt-global-sea-ice-record-low-usa-today-doyle-rice/ -1 Antarctic ice fluctuates wildly year to year, and the link to man-made global warming there is not clear, NASA ice expert Walt Meier said. +102 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/ocean-acidification-yet-another-wobbly-pillar-climate-alarmism-james-delingpole-the-spectator/ -1 [ocean acidification was ] First referenced in a peer-reviewed study in Nature in 2003 +103 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 2009-2010 winter saw record cold spells. +104 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/ocean-acidification-global-warming-intermediate.htm -1 Last December, the respected  journal “Oceanography” published projections (see graphic below) for this rising acidity, measured by falling pH +105 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/9 -1 Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid. +106 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/financial-post-commentary-misrepresents-scientific-understanding-of-weather-extremes-ross-mckitrick/ -1 Globally there’s no clear evidence of trends and patterns in extreme events such as droughts, hurricanes and floods. +107 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Kevin-Trenberth-travesty-cant-account-for-the-lack-of-warming.htm -1 "He claimed ""the planet is running a ’fever’ and the prognosis is that it is apt to get much worse.""" +108 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/10 -1 The temperature is not rising nearly as fast as the alarmist computer models predicted. +109 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Global sea level data shows that sea level rise has been increasing since 1880 while future sea level rise predictions are based on physics, not statistics. +110 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-straightforward-answers-common-climate-questions-accurate-justin-gillis/ -1 Over the coming 25 or 30 years, scientists say, the climate is likely to gradually warm +111 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-temperature-correlation.htm -1 It was the post war industrialization that caused the rapid rise in global CO2 emissions, but by 1945 when this began, the Earth was already in a cooling phase that started around 1942 and continued until 1975. +112 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Tree-ring-proxies-divergence-problem.htm -1 "Actual reconstructions ""diverge"" from the instrumental series in the last part of 20th century." +113 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/waste-heat-global-warming.htm -1 The contribution of waste heat to the global climate is 0.028 W/m2. +114 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/financial-post-publishes-misleading-opinion-misrepresents-science-polar-bears-peril-susan-crockford/ -1 “Although the extent of the summer sea ice after 2006 dropped abruptly to levels not expected until 2050, the predicted 67-per-cent decline in polar bear numbers simply didn’t happen. +115 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/surface-temperature-measurements-advanced.htm -1 Natural temperature measurements also confirm the general accuracy of the instrumental temperature record. +116 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/settled-science-intermediate.htm -1 For example, we have a lower understanding of the effect of aerosols while we have a high understanding of the warming effect of carbon dioxide. +117 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-caller-uncritically-reports-misleading-satellite-temperature-study-michael-bastasch/ -1 A recent study led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory climate scientist Ben Santer found that while the models ran hot, the ‘overestimation’ was ‘partly due to systematic deficiencies in some of the post-2000 external forcings used in the model simulations.’ +118 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Recent studies agree that recent global temperatures are unprecedented in the last 1000 years. +119 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 They changed the name from 'global warming' to 'climate change' +120 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/9 -1 Therefore, CO2 levels could not have forced temperatures to rise. +121 1 https://www.conservation.org/stories/11-climate-change-facts-you-need-to-know -1 Seventeen of the 18 warmest years have occurred since 2000. +122 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/washington-post-accurately-covers-permafrost-study-albeit-under-a-somewhat-sensational-headline-chris-mooney/ -1 The Arctic’s carbon bomb might be even more potent than we thought […] methane, a shorter-lived but far harder-hitting gas that could cause faster bursts of warming +123 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/bloomberg-accurately-describes-rapidly-changing-arctic-eric-roston-blacki-migliozzi/ -1 Sea ice has diminished much faster than scientists and climate models anticipated. +124 1 http://pandora.nla.gov.au//pan/140601/20131209-1141/www.politifact.com.au/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/oct/28/tony-abbott/abbott-says-climate-chief-talking-through-hat-on-b/index.html -1 There is a link between climate change and the NSW bushfires. +125 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/washington-examiner-op-ed-cherry-picks-data-to-mislead-readers-about-climate-models-patrick-michaels-caleb-stewart-rossiter/ -1 Most of the atmospheric moisture originates in the tropical ocean, and the difference between surface and upper atmospheric temperature determines how much of the moisture rises into the atmosphere. +126 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Venus-runaway-greenhouse-effect.htm -1 Venus is not hot because of a runaway greenhouse. +127 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/ipcc-overestimate-global-warming.htm -1 The IPCC’s predicted equilibrium warming path bears no relation to the far lesser rate of “global warming” that has been observed in the 21st century to date. +128 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/ -1 Based on the increase of solar activity during the twentieth century, it should account for between half to two-thirds of all climate change. +129 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/heres-why-its-so-frickin-hot-right-now-andrew-freedman-mashable/ -1 While transient weather variability is playing a key role here, the widespread record warmth across the U.S. so far this year is part of a long-term trend toward more warm temperature records versus cold ones. +130 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/telegraph-article-misleads-with-false-balance-mixing-in-unsupported-and-inaccurate-claims-sarah-knapton/ -1 In its 5th assessment report in 2013, the IPCC estimated that human emissions are probably responsible for more than half of the observed increase in global average temperature from 1951 to 2010. +131 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect-intermediate.htm -1 Satellite measurements of infrared spectra over the past 40 years observe less energy escaping to space at the wavelengths associated with CO2. +132 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/louisiana-flooding-natural-disaster-weather-climate-change-oliver-milman-the-guardian/ -1 Some, however, bristle at the belief that because floods and storms have always occurred, they should not be linked to climate change” +133 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/its-not-us.htm -1 Believers think the warming is man-made, while the skeptics believe the warming is natural and contributions from man are minimal and certainly not potentially catastrophic à la Al Gore.' +134 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/western-journal-op-ed-deceives-readers-with-completely-unsupported-claims-jay-lehr-tom-harris/ -1 On Feb. 7, several major newspapers carried stories of the declaration by NASA and NOAA that the past five years have been the warmest on record. +135 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/analysis-record-breaking-climate-change-pushes-world-uncharted-territory-damian-carrington-guardian/ -1 Our children and grandchildren will look back on the climate deniers and ask how they could have sacrificed the planet for the sake of cheap fossil fuel energy, when the cost of inaction exceeds the cost of a transition to a low-carbon economy,’ Watson said. +136 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-wire-article-misunderstands-study-carbon-budget-along-fox-news-telegraph-daily-mail-breitbart-james-barrett/ -1 The report, published in the journal Nature Geoscience on September 18, acknowledges that most of the models of warming trends failed to predict the ‘slowdown’ in warming post-2000, resulting in less pronounced warming than predicted and thus more room in the CO2 ‘emissions budget’ for the coming decades. +137 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/op-ed-in-the-australian-gets-nearly-every-fact-wrong-ian-plimer/ -1 South Australia is winning: it has the most unreliable grid in the world outside Africa and the most expensive electricity. +138 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Peer-reviewed research, physics, and math all tell us that a grand solar minimum would have no more than a 0.3°C cooling effect, barely enough to put a dent in human-caused global warming. +139 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/financial-post-commentary-misleads-warming-effect-greenhouse-gas-emissions-cherry-picking-studies-ross-mckitrick/ -1 Their ECS estimate is 1.5 degrees, with a probability range between 1.05 and 2.45 degrees. +140 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/6 -1 Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...] +141 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm -1 "The data suggests solar activity is influencing the global climate causing the world to get warmer.""" +142 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/ipcc-graph-showing-accelerating-trends-is-misleading.htm -1 """The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, 2007, carries in three places a graph in which the Hadley Center’s global mean surface temperature anomaly dataset from 1850-2005 is displayed with four arbitrarily-chosen trend-lines overlaid upon it." +143 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/renewable-energy-investment-kills-jobs.htm -1 for every renewable energy job that the State manages to finance, Spain’s experience...reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average +144 1 https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ -1 This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the oceans. +145 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/iflscience-story-on-speculative-report-provides-little-scientific-context-james-felton/ -1 North America suffers extreme weather events including wildfires, drought, and heatwaves. +146 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-officially-declare-2016-hottest-year-record-chris-mooney-the-washington-post/ -1 Last year’s warmth was manifested across the planet, from the warm tropical ocean waters off the coast of northeastern Australia, where the Great Barrier Reef experienced its worst coral bleaching event on record and large scale coral death, to the Arctic, where sea ice hit regular monthly record lows and overall temperatures were also the warmest on record, at least from January through September 2016. +147 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/financial-post-publishes-misleading-opinion-misrepresents-science-polar-bears-peril-susan-crockford/ -1 many scientists were surprised when other researchers subsequently found that ringed and bearded seals (the primary prey of polar bears) north of the Bering Strait especially thrived with a longer open-water season, which is particularly conducive to fishing +148 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/alaskas-vicious-cycle-warming-tundra-spews-co2-speeding-up-warming-joe-romm-think-progress/ -1 Melting permafrost can release not just CO2, but also methane, a much stronger heat-trapping gas. +149 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/greenlands-huge-annual-ice-loss-is-even-worse-than-thought-damian-carrington-the-guardian/ -1 The melting Greenland ice sheet is already a major contributor to rising sea level and if it was eventually lost entirely, the oceans would rise by six metres around the world, flooding many of the world’s largest cities. +150 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Schmittner finds low climate sensitivity. +151 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/guardian-story-accurately-covers-sea-ice-event-but-makes-unsupported-connection-weather-patterns-gulf-stream-jonathan-watts/ -1 But abnormal temperature spikes in February and earlier this month have left it vulnerable to winds, which have pushed the ice further away from the coast than at any time since satellite records began in the 1970s.” +152 1 https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ -1 The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the upper layer of the oceans is increasing by about 2 billion tons per year. +153 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Ice-Sheet-mass-loss-melting.htm -1 Wu et al (2010) use a new method to calculate ice sheet mass balance. +154 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/climate-context-for-a-wet-winter-in-drought-stricken-california-in-the-la-times-rong-gong-lin-ii-paige-st-john-los-angeles-times/ -1 “Warm weather worsened the most recent five-year drought, which included the driest four-year period on record in terms of statewide precipitation. +155 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/4 -1 Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. +156 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-limits-economy.htm -1 The costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of mitigation. +157 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Southern sea ice is increasing. +158 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-other-planets-solar-system-intermediate.htm -1 The sun has shown no long term trend since 1950 and in fact has shown a slight cooling trend in recent decades. +159 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/mauna-loa-volcano-co2-measurements-advanced.htm -1 The influence of the volcano is easily spotted and removed, together with other even more important spurious influences. +160 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Kevin-Trenberth-travesty-cant-account-for-the-lack-of-warming-advanced.htm -1 Heat is continuing to build up in the subsurface ocean. +161 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/humidity-global-warming.htm -1 """...the largest of all the positive or temperature-amplifying feedbacks in the UN’s arsenal is the water-vapor feedback." +162 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Lindzen-Choi-2009-low-climate-sensitivity.htm -1 A number of independent studies using near-global satellite data find positive feedback and high climate sensitivity. +163 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/4 -1 More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a 'European Climate Declaration' to the Secretary-General of the United Nations +164 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-series-accurately-describes-research-antarctic-ice-sheets-sea-level-rise-justin-gillis/ -1 We’re not sure because we don’t have enough data, for long enough, to separate signal from noise,” said Eric J. Steig, a scientist at the University of Washington who has studied temperature trends in Antarctica. +165 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/acrim-pmod-sun-getting-hotter.htm -1 In particular, PMOD alters the data from the Nimbus7/ERB record from 1989 to 1991. +166 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/10 -1 sea-level rise is not accelerating. +167 1 https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ -1 The IPCC (2013), USGCRP (2017), and USGCRP (2018) indicate that it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-twentieth century. +168 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 If anyone claims to be part of the 97 percent, it means they disagree with the contrarian argument that humans are having a minimal impact on global warming. +169 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/9 -1 'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017. +170 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/broken-hockey-stick.htm -1 They all confirm the original hockey stick conclusion: the 20th century is the warmest in the last 1000 years and that warming was most dramatic after 1920. +171 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/arctic-will-be-ice-free-in-summer-next-year-robin-mckie-peter-wadhams-the-guardian/ -1 Most people expect this year will see a record low in the Arctic’s summer sea-ice cover. +172 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/water-vapor-greenhouse-gas.htm -1 The public understand it, in that if you get a fall evening or spring evening and the sky is clear the heat will escape and the temperature will drop and you get frost. +173 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/methane-and-global-warming.htm -1 ...Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together. +174 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/water-vapor-stratosphere-global-warming.htm -1 "The lower temperatures at this ""coldest point"" have caused global water vapor levels to drop, even as carbon levels rise." +175 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/playing-semantics-misleading-breitbart-article-downplays-us-contribution-to-climate-change/ -1 CO2 is colorless, odorless and completely non-toxic. +176 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 97% consensus on human-caused global warming has been disproven. +177 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/environment-climate-change-records-broken-international-report-oliver-milman-the-guardian/ -1 Greenland ice sheet … would balloon sea levels by around 7m should it disintegrate +178 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/washington-examiner-op-ed-cherry-picks-data-to-mislead-readers-about-climate-models-patrick-michaels-caleb-stewart-rossiter/ -1 the models predicted seven times as much warming as has been observed +179 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Polar bears are in danger of extinction as well as many other species. +180 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/1934-hottest-year-on-record.htm -1 "As a result, ""The warmest year on US record is now 1934." +181 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 The 2nd law of thermodynamics is consistent with the greenhouse effect which is directly observed. +182 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Around 97% of climate experts agree that humans are causing global warming. +183 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/8 -1 NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were. +184 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/atlantic-climate-implications-reduced-beef-consumption-provide-clearer-context-james-hamblin/ -1 “Which is to say that these beans will be eaten by cows, and the cows will convert the beans to meat, and the humans will eat the meat. +185 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-free-atmosphere.htm -1 "Given that a doubling of carbon dioxide would change the surface heat flux by only two watts per square meter, it is evident that a small change in cloud cover can strongly affect the response to carbon dioxide.""" +186 1 https://www.truthorfiction.com/nasa-finds-antarctica-is-gaining-ice-not-losing-ice/ -1 NASA Finds Antarctica is Gaining Ice, +187 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/1 -1 The polar bear population has been growing. +188 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/1 -1 The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists +189 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/soot-global-warming.htm -1 The United States has been restricting soot emissions in Draconian fashion since the Clean Air Act of 1963. +190 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-on-jupiter-intermediate.htm -1 Jupiter's climate change is due to shifts in internal turbulence fueled from an internal heat source - the planet radiates twice as much energy as it receives from the sun. +191 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/renewable-energy-investment-kills-jobs.htm -1 The claim that 2.2 conventional jobs are destroyed for every new job created in the alternative energy industry is based on a study which relies on incorrect numbers, cherrypicked dates, faulty theory, flawed methodology, and is disproven by real-world examples. +192 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/story-on-congressmans-incorrect-claims-about-sea-level-rise-could-have-corrected-them-more-explicitly/ -1 “But there are plenty of studies that have come that show with respect to Antarctica that the total ice sheet, particularly that above land, is increasing, not decreasing. +193 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/sea-level-rise-those-non-disappearing-pacific-islands-bjorn-lomborg-wall-street-journal/ -1 “The most famous of these studies, published in 2010 by Paul Kench and Arthur Webb of the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission in Fiji, showed that of 27 Pacific islands, 14% lost area. +194 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Clouds provide negative feedback +195 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/coral-atoll.htm -1 "Thousands of coral atolls have ""drowned"" in the past when they were unable to grow fast enough to maintain a presence at sea level" +196 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/11 -1 the warming is not nearly as great as the climate change computer models have predicted. +197 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-residence-time.htm -1 Individual carbon dioxide molecules have a short life time of around 5 years in the atmosphere. +198 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/water-vapor-stratosphere-global-warming.htm -1 According to the study, as carbon levels have risen, the cold air at high altitudes over the tropics has actually grown colder. +199 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/antarctica-gaining-ice.htm -1 but Antarctica is losing land ice at an accelerating rate, which has implications for sea level rise. +200 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 A few degrees of global warming has a huge impact on ice sheets, sea levels and other aspects of climate. +201 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/arctic-will-be-ice-free-in-summer-next-year-robin-mckie-peter-wadhams-the-guardian/ -1 “Underneath the permafrost there are sediments full of methane hydrates. +202 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-caller-uncritically-reports-misleading-satellite-temperature-study-michael-bastasch/ -1 policies based on previous climate model output and predictions might need to be reconsidered +203 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/10 -1 more than 100 per cent of the warming over the past century is due to human actions +204 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/environment-climate-change-records-broken-international-report-oliver-milman-the-guardian/ -1 The world’s alpine glaciers recorded a net annual loss of ice for the 36th consecutive year and the Greenland ice sheet … experienced melting over more than 50% of its surface. +205 1 https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ -1 The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen. +206 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/its-official-humans-are-making-the-earth-much-greener-washington-post-chris-mooney/ -1 It is clear, then, that greening is emerging as a factor with the potential to blunt some of the worst impacts of human greenhouse gas emissions. +207 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/arctic-ice-melt-already-affecting-weather-patterns-live-right-now-damian-carrington-the-guardian/ -1 Severe ‘snowmageddon’ winters are now strongly linked to soaring polar temperatures, say researchers, with deadly summer heatwaves and torrential floods also probably linked. +208 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 The warming trend is the same in rural and urban areas, measured by thermometers and satellites. +209 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-are-exaggerating-carbon-threat-to-reefs-and-marine-life/ -1 We simply could never release enough CO2 into the atmosphere to cause the pH to go below 7 [the point in the pH scale at which a solution becomes acidic].” +210 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/popular-story-fox2news-accurately-describes-2017-global-temperature-sea-ice-extent-cnn/ -1 La Niñas, on the other hand, feature cooler than average waters in the Pacific +211 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/decelerating-sea-level-rise.htm -1 “Our analyses do not indicate acceleration in sea level in U.S. tide gauge records during the 20th century,” the study’s authors concluded. +212 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Second-law-of-thermodynamics-greenhouse-theory-intermediate.htm -1 The effect of this disparity is that thermal radiation escaping to space comes mostly from the cold upper atmosphere, while the surface is maintained at a substantially warmer temperature. +213 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-early-20th-century-intermediate.htm -1 Volcanoes have been relatively frequent and if anything, have exerted a cooling effect. +214 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-pollutant.htm -1 While the greenhouse effect is a natural occurence, too much warming has severe negative impacts on agriculture, health and environment. +215 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/7 -1 Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says +216 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/4 -1 Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate +217 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/sea-level-rise-those-non-disappearing-pacific-islands-bjorn-lomborg-wall-street-journal/ -1 However, there is a process of accretion, where coral broken up by the waves washes up on these low-lying islands as sand, counteracting the reduction in land mass. +218 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/el-nino-southern-oscillation.htm -1 """Three Australasian researchers have shown that natural forces are the dominant influence on climate, in a study just published in the highly-regarded Journal of Geophysical Research." +219 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/antarctica-doomsday-glaciers-could-flood-coastal-cities-grist-eric-holthaus/ -1 Pollard and DeConto are the first to admit that their model is still crude, but its results have pushed the entire scientific community into emergency mode. +220 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Pacific-Decadal-Oscillation.htm -1 In 1946, PDO switched to a cool phase. +221 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/roy-spencer-negative-feedback-climate-sensitivity.htm -1 The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed. +222 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-telegraph-bjorn-lomborg-in-many-ways-global-warming-will-be-good-thing/ -1 A recent Nature study expecting more severe hurricanes from global warming still found that damages would halve from 0.04 per cent to 0.02 per cent of global GDP, because the increased ferocity would be more than made up by increased prosperity and resilience. +223 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/no-warming-in-16-years.htm -1 Once natural influences, in particular the impact of El Niño and La Niña, are removed from the recent termperature record, there is no evidence of a significant change in the human contribution to climate change. +224 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-news-coverage-2016-global-temperature-data-accurate-summary-justin-gillis/ -1 When the heat buildup in the ocean is taken into account, global temperatures are rising relentlessly. +225 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-series-accurately-describes-research-antarctic-ice-sheets-sea-level-rise-justin-gillis/ -1 The acceleration is making some scientists fear that Antarctica’s ice sheet may have entered the early stages of an unstoppable disintegration. +226 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/breathing-co2-carbon-dioxide.htm -1 If Senator Wong was really serious about her science she would stop breathing because you inhale air that's got 385 parts per million carbon dioxide in it +227 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/telegraph-article-misleads-with-false-balance-mixing-in-unsupported-and-inaccurate-claims-sarah-knapton/ -1 In one particularly damning email, CRU director Phil Jones said he had used ‘Mike’s Nature trick’ to ‘hide the decline’ in temperatures in the second half of the 20th century. +228 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/friends-of-science-video-promoted-by-youtube-presents-long-list-of-climate-myths-steve-goreham/ -1 There is no empirical evidence that increasing greenhouse gases are the primary cause of Global Warming +229 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 A drop in volcanic activity caused warming. +230 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Lindzen-Choi-2009-low-climate-sensitivity.htm -1 It appears, for the entire tropics, the observed outgoing radiation fluxes increase with the increase in sea surface temperatures (SSTs). +231 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/louisiana-flooding-natural-disaster-weather-climate-change-oliver-milman-the-guardian/ -1 While the north-east, midwest and upper great plains have experienced a 30% increase in heavy rainfall episodes – considered once-in-every-five year downpours – parts of the west, particularly California, have been parched by drought. +232 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Ice-Sheet-mass-loss-melting.htm -1 """Rapid loss of ice-mass from the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica are cited as proof positive of global warming's onslaught." +233 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/2 -1 Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization +234 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Pacific-Decadal-Oscillation-intermediate.htm -1 The long term warming trend indicates the total energy in the Earth's climate system is increasing due to an energy imbalance. +235 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Can-animals-and-plants-adapt-to-global-warming.htm -1 A large number of ancient mass extinction events have been strongly linked to global climate change. +236 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-increase-is-natural-not-human-caused.htm -1 There is no question whatsoever that the CO2 increase is human-caused. +237 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/CO2-trace-gas.htm -1 "If the public were aware that man-made CO2 is so incredibly small there would be very little belief in a climate disaster ...""" +238 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 CFCs contribute to global waerming at a small level. +239 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/npr-story-accurately-describes-ecological-consequences-of-altered-spring-timings-in-a-warming-climate-nathan-rott/ -1 In Alaska, brown bears are changing their feeding habits to eat elderberries that ripen earlier. +240 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/analysis-record-breaking-climate-change-pushes-world-uncharted-territory-damian-carrington-guardian/ -1 The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is already contributing significantly to sea level rise, and new research is highlighting that the melting of Arctic sea ice can alter weather conditions across Europe, Asia and North America.’” +241 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/forbes-james-taylor-updated-nasa-data-polar-ice-not-receding-after-all/ -1 Beginning in 2005, however, polar ice modestly receded for several years. +242 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Arctic-sea-ice-melt-natural-or-man-made.htm -1 What you were not told was that the data that triggered this record is only available back to the late 1970s. +243 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming-intermediate.htm -1 In the last 35 years of global warming, the sun has shown a slight cooling trend. +244 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/abc-article-effectively-illustrates-important-climate-trends-for-australian-readers-tim-leslie-joshua-byrd-nathan-hoad/ -1 They can now model how likely a specific event would be to occur under historical conditions, compared to the record temperatures we’re experiencing. +245 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/humidity-global-warming.htm -1 It fails to explain how we can have short-term positive feedback and long-term negative feedback. +246 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/arctic-will-be-ice-free-in-summer-next-year-robin-mckie-peter-wadhams-the-guardian/ -1 by that I mean the central Arctic will be ice-free. +247 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/pope-francis-encyclical-laudato-si/ -1 Each year sees the disappearance of thousands of plant and animal species which we will never know, which our children will never see, because they have been lost for ever. +248 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-just-detected-major-change-earths-oceans-linked-warming-climate-chris-mooney-the-washington-post/ -1 warmer oceans have also begun to destabilize glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica +249 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Second-law-of-thermodynamics-greenhouse-theory-intermediate.htm -1 The atmosphere of the Earth is less able to absorb shortwave radiation from the Sun than thermal radiation coming from the surface. +250 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/97-percent-consensus-robust.htm -1 Cooks ’97% consensus’ disproven by a new peer +251 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/analysis-of-matt-ridley-benny-peiser-your-complete-guide-to-the-climate-debate/ -1 there has been no increase in frequency or intensity of storms, floods or droughts, while deaths attributed to such natural disasters have never been fewer +252 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/friends-of-science-video-promoted-by-youtube-presents-long-list-of-climate-myths-steve-goreham/ -1 If we double atmospheric carbon dioxide[…] we’d only raise global surface temperatures by about a degree Celsius. +253 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Greenland's ice loss is accelerating & will add metres of sea level rise in upcoming centuries. +254 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/bjorn-lomborg-overheated-climate-alarm-wall-street-journal/ -1 In pushing too hard for the case that global warming is universally bad for everything, the administration’s report undermines the reasonable case for climate action. +255 1 http://pandora.nla.gov.au//pan/140601/20131209-1141/www.politifact.com.au/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/aug/29/greg-hunt/name-expert-Hunt-counts-cheer-squad-direct-action/index.html -1 "and three Nobel economic laureates support ""direct investment in technology"" rather than a carbon tax." +256 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/coming-out-of-little-ice-age.htm -1 The IPCC blames human emissions of carbon dioxide for the last warming. +257 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/11 -1 Sea level rise, which was occurring long before humans could be blamed, has not accelerated. +258 1 https://www.factcheck.org/2018/03/smiths-error-filled-climate-op-ed/ -1 "Climate scientists have predicted global temperatures would increase more than one degree Celsius by 2020,"" but observed temperatures have been only half as high." +259 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-explain-what-new-york-magazine-article-on-the-uninhabitable-earth-gets-wrong-david-wallace-wells/ -1 In Alaska, already, researchers have discovered remnants of the 1918 flu that infected as many as 500 million and killed as many as 100 million” +260 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/ian-plimer-op-ed-in-the-australian-again-presents-long-list-of-false-claims-about-climate/ -1 Plants need almost three times today’s carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere to thrive. +261 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Scientists-retracted-claim-rising-sea-levels.htm -1 'Another global warming myth comes crashing down. +262 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scorching-earth-global-warming-blame-all-time-heat-records-worldwide-daily-mail-joe-pinkstone/ -1 But despite [the Gulf Stream], the summer of 2018 looks set to be one of the hottest on record. +263 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/waste-heat-global-warming.htm -1 """Global warming is mostly due to heat production by human industry since the 1800s, from nuclear power and fossil fuels, better termed hydrocarbons, – coal, oil, natural gas." +264 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/8 -1 They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records +265 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/CRU-tampered-temperature-data.htm -1 Though CRU neglected to provide an exact list of temperature stations, it could not have hid or tampered with data. +266 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/article-in-the-sun-misrepresents-antarctic-discovery-and-misplaces-it-on-map-charlotte-edwards/ -1 Extreme melting and changes to the climate like this has released pressure on to the continent, allowing the ground to rise up. +267 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/analysis-of-matt-ridley-benny-peiser-your-complete-guide-to-the-climate-debate/ -1 a new study by a leading climate economist, Richard Tol of the University of Sussex, concludes that warming may well bring gains, because carbon dioxide causes crops and wild ecosystems to grow greener and more drought-resistant. +268 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Peer-review-process.htm -1 The Independent Climate Change Email Review investigated the CRU scientists' actions relating to peer review. +269 1 https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/283/fund-proposals-to-help-fish-and-game-survive-clima/ -1 "Barack Obama supports proposals ""to devote billions of dollars annually to state game and fish agencies and federal land management agencies to help them ensure that fish and wildlife survive the impacts of climate change.""" +270 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/guardian-potential-future-hothouse-climate-generally-accurate-but-misstates-details-jonathan-watts/ -1 The heatwave we now have in Europe is not something that was expected with just 1C of warming +271 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Urban and rural regions show the same warming trend. +272 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-officially-declare-2016-hottest-year-record-chris-mooney-the-washington-post/ -1 [Jonathan Overpeck:] ‘No doubt about it anymore — humans, mainly by burning fossil fuels, are cooking the planet,’ Overpeck said. +273 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/stunning-new-data-indicates-el-nino-drove-record-highs-global-temperatures-david-rose-daily-mail/ -1 Global average temperatures over land have plummeted by more than 1C since the middle of this year – their biggest and steepest fall on record. +274 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/western-journal-op-ed-deceives-readers-with-completely-unsupported-claims-jay-lehr-tom-harris/ -1 However, since 1998, little warming has occurred while carbon dioxide emissions continue to increase. +275 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/financial-post-commentary-misrepresents-scientific-understanding-of-weather-extremes-ross-mckitrick/ -1 And from 1940 to today, flood damage as a percentage of GDP has fallen to less than 0.05 per cent per year from about 0.2 per cent. +276 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/2 -1 If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants. +277 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-limits-will-make-little-difference.htm -1 Australia accounts for 1.5 per cent of global carbon emissions. +278 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/ozone-layer-global-warming.htm -1 The Ozone Layer stops UV radiation from entering our atmosphere. +279 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-wire-article-misunderstands-study-carbon-budget-along-fox-news-telegraph-daily-mail-breitbart-james-barrett/ -1 the climate models have overestimated the amount of global warming and failed to predict what climatologists call the warming ‘hiatus’ +280 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-are-exaggerating-carbon-threat-to-reefs-and-marine-life/ -1 More than half of the 44 studies selected for publication found that raised levels of CO2 had little or no impact on marine life, including crabs, limpets, sea urchins and sponges +281 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/patrick-michaels-the-climate-snow-job-the-wall-street-journal/ -1 Often the compensatory cooling, known as La Niña, is larger than the El Niño warming.” +282 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/sea-level-rise.htm -1 Everybody knows that the Pacific island of Tuvalu is sinking. ... +283 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-sensitivity-intermediate.htm -1 Climate sensitivity can be calculated empirically by comparing past temperature change to natural forcings at the time. +284 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/higher-global-temperatures-sea-ice-record-lows-poles-brandon-miller-cnn/ -1 It “certainly puts the kibosh on everyone saying that Antarctica’s ice is just going up and up,” Meier said. +285 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/surface-temperature-measurements.htm -1 """We found [U.S. weather] stations located next to the exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat." +286 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/independent-makes-giant-leap-global-warming-worse-than-thought-single-study-andrew-griffin/ -1 The changes in the amount of oxygen in the shells isn’t a reflection of changing temperatures – just a consequence of the fact that the amount of oxygen seen changes over time anyway. +287 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Kevin-Trenberth-travesty-cant-account-for-the-lack-of-warming.htm -1 " As it happens, the writer of that October 2009 e-mail—Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of the warmist bible, the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report—told Congress two years ago that evidence for manmade warming is ""unequivocal." +288 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-are-exaggerating-carbon-threat-to-reefs-and-marine-life/ -1 “The oceans will never become acid because there is such a huge buffering capacity in the oceans. +289 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/stunning-new-data-indicates-el-nino-drove-record-highs-global-temperatures-david-rose-daily-mail/ -1 The record warm years of 2015 and 2016 were primarily caused by the super El Nino.’” +290 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 The IPCC 95% confidence that humans are responsible for most of the current global warming is simply a summary of the peer-reviewed scientific research. +291 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Hansen-1988-prediction.htm -1 "'On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen testified before the House of Representatives that there was a strong ""cause and effect relationship"" between observed temperatures and human emissions into the atmosphere." +292 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/financial-post-publishes-misleading-opinion-misrepresents-science-polar-bears-peril-susan-crockford/ -1 while it’s true that studies in some regions show polar bears are lighter in weight than they were in the 1980s, there is no evidence that more individuals are starving to death or becoming too thin to reproduce because of less summer ice. +293 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Evidence is building that net cloud feedback is likely positive and unlikely to be strongly negative. +294 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/higher-global-temperatures-sea-ice-record-lows-poles-brandon-miller-cnn/ -1 “While record low sea ice is nothing new in the Arctic, this is a surprising turn of events for the Antarctic. +295 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/hillary-clinton-boards-climate-crisis-train-nowhere-roy-spencer-forbes/ -1 If a major hurricane is approaching with a predicted storm surge of 10-14 feet, are you really going to worry about a sea level rise of 1 inch per decade?” +296 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-caller-uncritically-reports-misleading-satellite-temperature-study-michael-bastasch/ -1 climate models predict too much warming in the troposphere +297 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Arctic-sea-ice-melt-natural-or-man-made.htm -1 """In 2007, the Northern Hemisphere reached a record low in ice coverage and the Northwest Passage was opened." +298 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-global-warming.htm -1 Less energy is escaping to space: Carbon dioxide (CO2) acts like a blanket; adding more CO2 makes the 'blanket' thicker, and humans are adding more CO2 all the time. +299 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-news-coverage-2016-global-temperature-data-accurate-summary-justin-gillis/ -1 The heat extremes were especially pervasive in the Arctic, with temperatures in the fall running 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal across large stretches of the Arctic Ocean. +300 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/2017-track-among-hottest-year-recorded-scientists-not-surprised-thinkprogress-article-suggests-joe-romm/ -1 So it’s been a surprise to climate scientists that 2017 has been so remarkably warm — because the last El Niño ended a year ago. +301 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models.htm -1 """[Models] are full of fudge factors that are fitted to the existing climate, so the models more or less agree with the observed data." +302 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/arctic-ice-melt-already-affecting-weather-patterns-live-right-now-damian-carrington-the-guardian/ -1 This “blocking” effect means extreme events can unfold.” +303 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/big-melt-global-sea-ice-record-low-usa-today-doyle-rice/ -1 “[Sea ice] also helps regulate the planet’s temperature by influencing the circulation of the atmosphere and ocean. +304 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Royal Society embraces skepticism +305 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/heres-why-its-so-frickin-hot-right-now-andrew-freedman-mashable/ -1 So far this month, there have been nearly 5,000 daily record highs set or tied, compared to just 42 daily record lows. +306 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/cosmic-rays-and-global-warming.htm -1 Cosmic ray counts have increased over the past 50 years, so if they do influence global temperatures, they are having a cooling effect. +307 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/CO2-emissions-correlation-with-CO2-concentration.htm -1 Over the three years from 1979 to 1982 when CO2 emissions were decreasing due to the rapid increase in the price of oil that drastically reduced consumption, there was no change in the rate of increase in atmospheric concentration of CO2 proving that humans were not the primary source for the increase in concentration.' +308 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Water levels correlate with sunspots +309 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/bloomberg-accurately-describes-rapidly-changing-arctic-eric-roston-blacki-migliozzi/ -1 The gas builds up in the soil, forming mounds called ‘pingoes.’ +310 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models-intermediate.htm -1 While there are uncertainties with climate models, they successfully reproduce the past and have made predictions that have been subsequently confirmed by observations. +311 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/sea-level-rise-already-practical-concern-miami-bbc-story-accurately-explores-amanda-ruggeri-bbc/ -1 many of south Florida’s drainage systems and seawalls are no longer enough +312 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/CFCs-global-warming.htm -1 "Correspondingly, the global surface temperature has also dropped.""" +313 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/greenlands-huge-annual-ice-loss-is-even-worse-than-thought-damian-carrington-the-guardian/ -1 Global warming is driving major melting on the surface of Greenland’s glaciers and is speeding up their travel into the sea.” +314 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-officially-declare-2016-hottest-year-record-chris-mooney-the-washington-post/ -1 “But the differences between NOAA and NASA aren’t that significant, Schmidt further argued, in the context of the bigger picture. +315 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-series-accurately-describes-research-antarctic-ice-sheets-sea-level-rise-justin-gillis/ -1 “Recent computer forecasts suggest that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at a high level, parts of Antarctica could break up rapidly, causing the ocean to rise six feet or more by the end of this century. +316 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Arctic icemelt is a natural cycle. +317 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Water levels correlate with sunspots. +318 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/washington-post-story-puts-recent-weather-extremes-in-accurate-climate-change-context-joel-achenbach-angela-fritz/ -1 Gone are the days when scientists drew a bright line dividing weather and climate. +319 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-we-know-what-really-causes-climate-james-barrett-the-daily-wire/ -1 While evidence that the earth’s orbital variations impact radiation levels and thus global temperatures does not of course mean that man is not in some way impacting the climate, studies like these highlight that the role man plays on the planet is dwarfed by natural phenomena utterly out of our control. +320 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/environment-climate-change-records-broken-international-report-oliver-milman-the-guardian/ -1 The rapid changes in the climate may have profound consequences for humans and other species… Severe drought caused food shortages for millions of people in Ethiopia, with a lack of rainfall resulting in “intense and widespread” forest fires in Indonesia that belched out a vast quantity of greenhouse gas +321 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Sea level rise is decelerating. +322 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/greenland-cooling-gaining-ice-intermediate.htm -1 While the Greenland interior is in mass balance, the coastlines are losing ice. +323 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Pacific-Decadal-Oscillation.htm -1 In 1977, PDO switched to a warm phase. +324 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect-intermediate.htm -1 This provides a direct, empirical causal link between CO2 and global warming. +325 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-sensitivity-advanced.htm -1 Some global warming 'skeptics' argue that the Earth's climate sensitivity is so low that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 will result in a surface temperature change on the order of 1°C or less, and that therefore global warming is nothing to worry about. +326 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/its-planetary-movements.htm -1 "About 60% of the warming observed from 1970 to 2000 was very likely caused by the above natural 60-year climatic cycle during its warming phase"" (Loehle and Scafetta)" +327 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/methane-and-global-warming.htm -1 """A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. ..." +328 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-coming-from-ocean.htm -1 Measurements of carbon isotopes and falling oxygen in the atmosphere show that rising carbon dioxide is due to the burning of fossil fuels and cannot be coming from the ocean. +329 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 UAH atmospheric temperatures prove climate models and/or surface temperature data sets are wrong. +330 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-explain-what-new-york-magazine-article-on-the-uninhabitable-earth-gets-wrong-david-wallace-wells/ -1 The most notorious was 252 million years ago; it began when carbon warmed the planet by five degrees, accelerated when that warming triggered the release of methane in the Arctic, and ended with 97 percent of all life on Earth dead.” +331 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/ -1 Doubling the concentration of atmospheric CO2 from its pre-industrial level, in the absence of other forcings and feedbacks, would likely cause a warming of ~0.3°C to 1.1°C. +332 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/arctic-antarctic-sea-ice-intermediate.htm -1 Arctic sea ice loss is three times greater than Antarctic sea ice gain, and the amount of solar energy absorbed by the Earth is increasing as a result. +333 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun-justin-gillis-the-new-york-times/ -1 These tidal floods are often just a foot or two deep, but they can stop traffic, swamp basements, damage cars, kill lawns and forests, and poison wells with salt. +334 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/sea-level-rise-global-warming-climate-change/ -1 roughly three-quarters of the tidal flood days now occurring in towns along the East Coast would not be happening in the absence of the rise in the sea level caused by human emissions. +335 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 2nd law of thermodynamics contradicts greenhouse theory +336 1 https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ -1 Earth's changing climate is a critical issue and poses the risk of significant environmental, social and economic disruptions around the globe. +337 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/sunspots-and-water-levels.htm -1 There seems to be evidence for a link between solar activity and water levels. +338 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/usa-today-story-updates-readers-on-trend-in-monthly-global-temperatures-doyle-rice/ -1 It’s also a sufficiently long period to include several cycles of climate variability. +339 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/op-ed-in-the-australian-gets-nearly-every-fact-wrong-ian-plimer/ -1 Our evolving dynamic planet has survived[…] mass extinctions +340 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Dropped-stations-introduce-warming-bias-intermediate.htm -1 Dropped weather stations actually show a slightly warmer trend compared to kept stations. +341 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/pope-francis-encyclical-laudato-si/ -1 Many of the world’s coral reefs are already barren or in a state of constant decline. +342 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/mitigation-cheaper-than-adaptation.htm -1 "Yet the cost of doing something will likely be higher than 6 per cent of GDP"" (Bjorn Lomborg)" +343 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/9 -1 Forward projections of solar cyclicity imply the next few decades may be marked by global cooling rather than warming, despite continuing CO2 emissions. +344 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/heatwaves-past-global-warming-climate-change-intermediate.htm -1 Over the last decade, heatwaves are five times more likely than if there had been no global warming. +345 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/medieval-warm-period.htm -1 While the Medieval Warm Period saw unusually warm temperatures in some regions, globally the planet was cooler than current conditions. +346 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-phony-war-against-co2-the-wall-street-journal-rodney-nichols-harrison-schmitt/ -1 [CO2] is also a greenhouse gas which helps maintain earth at a habitable temperature. +347 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 They changed the name from 'global warming' to 'climate change'. +348 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature.htm -1 """An article in Science magazine illustrated that a rise in carbon dioxide did not precede a rise in temperatures, but actually lagged behind temperature rises by 200 to 1000 years." +349 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas. +350 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/abc-article-effectively-illustrates-important-climate-trends-for-australian-readers-tim-leslie-joshua-byrd-nathan-hoad/ -1 Small increases in average temperature translate to big increases in the number of extremely hot days, and those hot days have a big impact. +351 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Hulme-IPCC-consensus.htm -1 Ironically, it's those who are mispresenting Hulme's paper that are the ones being misleading. +352 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-phony-war-against-co2-the-wall-street-journal-rodney-nichols-harrison-schmitt/ -1 The costs of emissions regulations, which will be paid by everyone, will be punishingly high and will provide no benefits to most people anywhere in the world. +353 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/9 -1 according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined +354 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/IPCC-false-predictions-Amazon-rainforests-intermediate.htm -1 The error was incorrect citation, failing to mention the peer-reviewed papers where the data came from. +355 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Greenland ice sheet won't collapse +356 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Excess CO2 from human emissions has a long residence time of over 100 years +357 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/financial-post-publishes-misleading-opinion-misrepresents-science-polar-bears-peril-susan-crockford/ -1 Rather, global polar bear numbers have been stable or slightly improved.” +358 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-global-warming-intermediate.htm -1 Ocean and surface temperature measurements find the planet continues to accumulate heat. +359 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Arctic-sea-ice-melt-natural-or-man-made.htm -1 "We know the Northwest Passage had been open before.""" +360 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-story-accurately-describes-rio-grandes-climate-context-henry-fountain/ -1 The Rio Grande is a classic “feast or famine” river, with a dry year or two typically followed by a couple of wet years that allow for recovery. +361 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-series-accurately-describes-research-antarctic-ice-sheets-sea-level-rise-justin-gillis/ -1 an airplane is contributing to the emissions that put the frozen continent at risk. +362 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scorching-earth-global-warming-blame-all-time-heat-records-worldwide-daily-mail-joe-pinkstone/ -1 The sun was so intense, it took the mercury up to in excess of 120°F as it topped out at 122.4 °F (50.2°C). +363 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/patrick-michaels-the-climate-snow-job-the-wall-street-journal/ -1 Until last June, most scientists acknowledged that warming reached a peak in the late 1990s +364 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-series-accurately-describes-research-antarctic-ice-sheets-sea-level-rise-justin-gillis/ -1 About 120,000 years ago, before the last ice age, the planet went through a natural warm period, with temperatures similar to those expected in coming decades. +365 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/postma-disproved-the-greenhouse-effect.htm -1 """Skeptics hope that Postma’s alternative thermal model will lead to the birth of a new climatology, one that actually follows the laws of physics and properly physical modeling techniques..." +366 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/alaskas-vicious-cycle-warming-tundra-spews-co2-speeding-up-warming-joe-romm-think-progress/ -1 The Alaskan tundra is warming so quickly it has become a net emitter of carbon dioxide ahead of schedule, a new study finds +367 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/wall-street-journal-commentary-grossly-misleads-readers-about-science-of-sea-level-rise-fred-singer/ -1 The noted oceanographer Walter Munk referred to sea-level rise as an “enigma” +368 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/cooling-oceans-intermediate.htm -1 Early estimates of ocean heat from the Argo showed a cooling bias due to pressure sensor issues. +369 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/coral-bleaching.htm -1 On a world scale coral reefs are in decline. +370 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/its-planetary-movements.htm -1 """The solar system oscillates with a 60-year cycle due to the Jupiter/Saturn three-synodic cycle and to a Jupiter/Saturn beat tidal cycle..." +371 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/heartland-institute-report-incorrectly-claims-no-evidence-human-impacts-melting-ice/ -1 Melting of Arctic sea ice and polar icecaps is not occurring at unnatural rates and does not constitute evidence of a human impact on the climate. +372 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/commentary-australian-ignores-evidence-misrepresents-research-falsely-claiming-humans-not-responsible-climate-change-ian-plimer/ -1 “The worldwide temperature record has been changed. +373 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-wire-article-misunderstands-study-carbon-budget-along-fox-news-telegraph-daily-mail-breitbart-james-barrett/ -1 that likewise determined that the actual increases in warming post-2000 was ‘generally smaller than trends estimated’ from the models.” +374 1 https://www.conservation.org/stories/11-climate-change-facts-you-need-to-know -1 Eleven percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans are caused by deforestation — comparable to the emissions from all of the cars and trucks on the planet. +375 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 IPCC overestimate temperature rise. +376 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/global-quackery-earth-not-warmed-past-19-years-new-study-finds-joseph-curl-the-daily-wire/ -1 In April the extent of Arctic sea ice was back to where it was in April 13 years ago +377 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-caller-uncritically-reports-misleading-satellite-temperature-study-michael-bastasch/ -1 ‘While volcanic eruptions are natural events, it was the timing of these that had such a noticeable effect on the trend. +378 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Ice-Sheet-mass-loss-melting.htm -1 A new article in Nature Geoscience describes an innovative approach employed to derive ice-mass changes from GRACE data. +379 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/usa-today-story-updates-readers-on-trend-in-monthly-global-temperatures-doyle-rice/ -1 NOAA’s analysis found last month was the 3rd-warmest April on record globally. +380 1 https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ -1 Both the extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice has declined rapidly over the last several decades. +381 1 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/weather-or-not/ -1 Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman provided evidence that convincingly refutes the concept of anthropogenic global warming. +382 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/article-in-the-guardian-misleads-readers-about-sensitivity-of-climate-models-by-narrowly-focusing-on-single-study-jonathan-watts/ -1 Worst-case global heating scenarios may need to be revised upwards in light of a better understanding of the role of clouds, scientists have said. +383 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/water-vapor-stratosphere-global-warming.htm -1 "Thus rather than a ""doomsday"" cycle of runaway warming, Mother Earth appears surprisingly tolerant of carbon, decreasing atmospheric levels of water vapor -- a more effective greenhouse gas -- to compensate." +384 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 CO2 emissions were much smaller 100 years ago. +385 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/3 -1 Earth about to enter 30-YEAR ‘Mini Ice Age’ +386 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling.htm -1 All the indicators show that global warming is still happening. +387 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/pluto-global-warming.htm -1 "It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto.""" +388 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/settled-science.htm -1 """Many people think the science of climate change is settled." +389 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Plant stomata show higher and more variable CO2 levels. +390 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/patrick-michaels-the-climate-snow-job-the-wall-street-journal/ -1 In fact, the trend, while not statistically significant, is downward.” +391 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-not-urgent.htm -1 """There are many urgent priorities that need the attention of Congress, and it is not for me as an invited guest in your country to say what they are." +392 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Preventing global warming is relatively cheap; business-as-usual will cause accelerating climate damage costs that economists struggle to even estimate. +393 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/article-by-michael-shellenberger-mixes-accurate-and-inaccurate-claims-in-support-of-a-misleading-and-overly-simplistic-argumentation-about-climate-change/ -1 The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska +394 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-natural-cycle.htm -1 "The minute increase of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere (0.008%) was not the cause of the warming—it was a continuation of natural cycles that occurred over the past 500 years.""" +395 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/analysis-record-breaking-climate-change-pushes-world-uncharted-territory-damian-carrington-guardian/ -1 Global sea level rise surged between November 2014 and February 2016, with the El Niño event helping the oceans rise by 15mm. +396 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Arctic sea ice has shrunk by an area equal to Western Australia, and summer or multi-year sea ice might be all gone within a decade. +397 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/forbes-james-taylor-top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/ -1 U.S. Forest Service data show pine beetle infestations have recently declined dramatically throughout the western United States. +398 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/aerosols-global-warming.htm -1 The global dimming trend reversed around 1990 - 15 years after the global warming trend began in the mid 1970's. +399 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/great-barrier-reef-coral-climate-change-dieoff-the-new-york-times-damien-cave-justin-gillis/ -1 The corals may save themselves, as many other creatures are attempting to do, by moving toward the poles as the Earth warms, establishing new reefs in cooler water.” +400 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/antarctica-doomsday-glaciers-could-flood-coastal-cities-grist-eric-holthaus/ -1 “‘If you remove the ice shelf, there’s a potential that not just ice-cliff instabilities will start occurring, but a process called marine ice-sheet instabilities,’ says Matthew Wise, a polar scientist at the University of Cambridge. +401 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-skeptics-are-like-galileo.htm -1 """I mean, it - I mean - and I tell somebody, I said, just because you have a group of scientists that have stood up and said here is the fact, Galileo got outvoted for a spell"" (Texas Governor Rick Perry)" +402 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/arctic-was-warmer-in-1940.htm -1 Monckton appears to have cherry-picked temperature data from a few stations. +403 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period.htm -1 We have had ice ages and warmer periods when alligators were found in Spitzbergen. +404 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/melting-ice-global-warming.htm -1 The data is being reported by the University of Illinois's Arctic Climate Research Center, and is derived from satellite observations of the Northern and Southern hemisphere polar regions (Daily Tech). +405 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 The strong CO2 effect has been observed by many different measurements. +406 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/mauna-loa-volcano-co2-measurements.htm -1 'Mauna Loa has been producing a readout which supports Manning's predetermined goal by showing steady growth in atmospheric CO2 concentrations since 1959. +407 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/stable-greenland-ice-sheet.htm -1 """A July 6, 2007 study published in the journal Science about Greenland by an international team of scientists found DNA “evidence that suggests the frozen shield covering the immense island survived the Earth’s last period of global warming,” according to a Boston Globe Article.  ..." +408 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Murry-Salby-CO2-rise-natural.htm -1 But that conclusion holds true only if there are no other sources of c12 increases which are not human caused. +409 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Global surface temperatures have continued to rise steadily beneath short-term natural cooling effects, and the rise in global heat content has not slowed at all. +410 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/klaus-martin-schulte-consensus.htm -1 Klaus-Martin Schulte examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. +411 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 IPCC were wrong about Amazon rainforests +412 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-sensitivity.htm -1 "His best estimate is that the warming in response to a doubling of CO2 concentration, which may happen this century unless the usual suspects get away with shutting down the economies of the West, will be a harmless 1 Fahrenheit degree, not the 6 F predicted by the IPCC.""" +413 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Venus very likely underwent a runaway or ‘moist’ greenhouse phase earlier in its history, and today is kept hot by a dense CO2 atmosphere. +414 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/coming-out-of-little-ice-age-intermediate.htm -1 Greenhouse gases have been the main contributor of warming since 1970. +415 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Extreme weather isn't caused by global warming +416 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/CO2-is-not-the-only-driver-of-climate.htm -1 There are a myriad of other radiative forcings that affect the planet's energy imbalance. +417 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/chaos-theory-global-warming-can-climate-be-predicted.htm -1 At present, climate forecasts even as little as six weeks ahead can be diametrically the opposite of what actually occurs, even if the forecasts are limited to a small region of the planet.' +418 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/sea-level-rise-already-practical-concern-miami-bbc-story-accurately-explores-amanda-ruggeri-bbc/ -1 The unlikely scenarios are now, all of a sudden, becoming more probable than they once were thought to be,’ says Sweet.” +419 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-series-accurately-describes-research-antarctic-ice-sheets-sea-level-rise-justin-gillis/ -1 “Right now, the shelf works like a giant bottle-stopper that slows down ice trying to flow from the land into the sea. +420 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/ljungqvist-broke-the-hockey-stick.htm -1 Ljungqvist's millennial temperature reconstruction was very similar to Moberg et al. +421 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Hansen predicted in 1988 the West Side Highway would be underwater in 20 years. +422 1 https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ -1 The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 700 meters (about 2,300 feet) of ocean showing warming of more than 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969. +423 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/IPCC-Himalayan-glacier-2035-prediction-intermediate.htm -1 Satellites and on-site measurements are observing that Himalayan glaciers are disappearing at an accelerating rate. +424 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/letter-signed-by-500-scientists-relies-on-inaccurate-claims-about-climate-science/ -1 The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. +425 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/4 -1 Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same. +426 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/melting-ice-global-warming.htm -1 Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close. +427 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/soares-correlation-co2-temperature.htm -1 Soares looks at short-term trends which are swamped by natural variations. +428 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/climate-exaggeration-backfiring-robert-bradley-jr-forbes/ -1 “In 2009, then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicted that the world had only 50 days to save the planet from global warming. +429 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 "Thousands of coral atolls have ""drowned"" when unable to grow fast enough to survive at sea level." +430 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Record-snowfall-disproves-global-warming.htm -1 Meanwhile, it will likely to continue to snow in Chicago in the coming days. +431 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/coral-bleaching.htm -1 """Three recent articles give us reason to question the alarmists’ claims that coral reefs are in deep trouble due to the buildup of greenhouse gases."" (World Climate Report)" +432 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/CFCs-global-warming-intermediate.htm -1 Models and direct observations find that CFCs only contribute a fraction of the warming supplied by other greenhouse gases. +433 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 There's no empirical evidence for climate change. +434 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/ -1 Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors of climate change, but there’s simply no evidence that it is a significant one. +435 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/breitbart-misrepresents-research-58-scientific-papers-falsely-claim-disprove-human-caused-global-warming-james-delingpole/ -1 the mild warming of around 0.8 degrees Celsius that the planet has experienced since the middle of the 19th century +436 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/methane-and-global-warming.htm -1 And their wind and manure emit more than one third of emissions of another, methane, which warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide. +437 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-coverage-of-ipcc-report-clearly-presents-conclusions-coral-davenport/ -1 describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040 +438 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/story-on-congressmans-incorrect-claims-about-sea-level-rise-could-have-corrected-them-more-explicitly/ -1 Brooks added that Antarctic ice is growing. +439 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-op-ed-claiming-scientists-underestimated-climate-change-lacks-supporting-evidence-eugene-linden/ -1 In the early 2000s, ice shelves began disintegrating in several parts of Antarctica, and scientists realized that process could greatly accelerate the demise of the vastly larger ice sheets themselves. +440 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/soares-correlation-co2-temperature.htm -1 Warmer seasons or triennial phases are followed by an atmosphere that is rich in CO2, reflecting the gas solving or exsolving from water, and not photosynthesis activity. +441 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/11 -1 Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has helped raise global food production and reduce poverty. +442 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/arctic-will-be-ice-free-in-summer-next-year-robin-mckie-peter-wadhams-the-guardian/ -1 “The most recent prediction of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is that seas will rise by 60 to 90 centimetres this century. +443 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-telegraph-bjorn-lomborg-in-many-ways-global-warming-will-be-good-thing/ -1 “Yet, a new study of 60 climate models and scenarios shows this warning fails to take into account the fact that global warming will mean precipitation increases. +444 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/hillary-clinton-boards-climate-crisis-train-nowhere-roy-spencer-forbes/ -1 But the observed warming as monitored by satellites (our only truly global monitoring system) has been only about half of what computerized climate models say should be happening. +445 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 The claim sea level isn’t rising is based on blatantly doctored graphs contradicted by observations. +446 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Al Gore's book is quite accurate, and far more accurate than contrarian books. +447 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Polar bear numbers are increasing +448 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/iflscience-story-on-speculative-report-provides-little-scientific-context-james-felton/ -1 The most recent IPCC report lays out a future if we limit global heating to 1.5°C instead of the Paris Agreement’s 2°C. +449 1 https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/1304/help-restore-gulf-coast-wetlands-protect-against-h/ -1 Barack Obama will help the Gulf Coast restore the wetlands, marshes and barrier islands that are critical to tamping down the force of hurricanes. +450 1 https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ -1 Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa. +451 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/ian-plimer-op-ed-in-the-australian-again-presents-long-list-of-false-claims-about-climate/ -1 If there were [carbon emissions], we could not see because most carbon is black. +452 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/patrick-michaels-the-climate-snow-job-the-wall-street-journal/ -1 “The notion that world-wide weather is becoming more extreme is just that: a notion, or a testable hypothesis. +453 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/great-barrier-reef-coral-climate-change-dieoff-the-new-york-times-damien-cave-justin-gillis/ -1 Within a decade, certain kinds of branching and plate coral could be extinct, reef scientists say, along with a variety of small fish that rely on them for protection from predators. +454 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/hurricanes-global-warming.htm -1 […] Constant 24-7 media coverage of every significant storm worldwide just makes it seem that way.” +455 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-straightforward-answers-common-climate-questions-accurate-justin-gillis/ -1 [CO2] has increased 43 percent above the pre-industrial level so far +456 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Loehle and Scafetta find a 60 year cycle causing global warming +457 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/forbes-article-accurately-describes-research-atlantic-ocean-circulation-weakening-headline-goes-farther-trevor-nace/ -1 Global Ocean Circulation Appears To Be Collapsing Due To A Warming Planet +458 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/telegraph-article-misleads-with-false-balance-mixing-in-unsupported-and-inaccurate-claims-sarah-knapton/ -1 in 1995 one scientist at the IPCC – Jonathan Overpeck – wrote an email to a colleague claiming ‘we have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.’ +459 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/CO2-emissions-correlation-with-CO2-concentration.htm -1 When CO2 emissions are compared directly to CO2 levels, there is a strong correlation in the long term trends. +460 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/washington-post-story-puts-recent-weather-extremes-in-accurate-climate-change-context-joel-achenbach-angela-fritz/ -1 The heaviest precipitation events will become more frequent and more extreme. +461 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-phony-war-against-co2-the-wall-street-journal-rodney-nichols-harrison-schmitt/ -1 With more CO2 in the atmosphere, the challenge [feeding 2.5 billion more people] can and will be met. +462 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-news-coverage-2016-global-temperature-data-accurate-summary-justin-gillis/ -1 “The arc of global warming will be variously steep and less steep,’ said Richard Seager, a climate scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. +463 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995. +464 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Scientists-retracted-claim-rising-sea-levels.htm -1 No warming since at least 1995, no melting glaciers and now no rising sea levels. +465 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Clouds provide negative feedback. +466 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-explain-what-new-york-magazine-article-on-the-uninhabitable-earth-gets-wrong-david-wallace-wells/ -1 None of these places, which today supply much of the world’s food, will be reliable sources of any. +467 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/telegraph-article-misleads-with-false-balance-mixing-in-unsupported-and-inaccurate-claims-sarah-knapton/ -1 it’s virtually impossible to get funded for work that disputes climate change through other channels [other than oil companies] +468 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Soares finds lack of correlation between CO2 and temperature +469 1 https://www.conservation.org/stories/11-climate-change-facts-you-need-to-know -1 Natural climate solutions like ending deforestation and restoring degraded forests could, at the global level, create 80 million jobs, bring 1 billion people out of poverty and add US$ 2.3 trillion in productive growth. +470 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/global-quackery-earth-not-warmed-past-19-years-new-study-finds-joseph-curl-the-daily-wire/ -1 This means the global temperature trend has now shown no further warming for 19 years +471 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/washington-post-story-puts-recent-weather-extremes-in-accurate-climate-change-context-joel-achenbach-angela-fritz/ -1 The extent of climate change’s influence on the jet stream is an intense subject of research. +472 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-straightforward-answers-common-climate-questions-accurate-justin-gillis/ -1 Converting to these cleaner sources [of energy] may be somewhat costlier in the short term, but they could ultimately pay for themselves by heading off climate damages and reducing health problems associated with dirty air. +473 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/future-global-cooling.htm -1 """The climate of this planet oscillates between periods of approximately 30 years of warming followed by approximately 30 years of cooling." +474 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scorching-earth-global-warming-blame-all-time-heat-records-worldwide-daily-mail-joe-pinkstone/ -1 ‘Summers keep getting hotter,’ said Friederike Otto of the University of Oxford, who conducted extensive research into data from the heatwave that spread Europe in June, July and August 2017. +475 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/climate-exaggeration-backfiring-robert-bradley-jr-forbes/ -1 Back in the late 1980s, the UN claimed that if global warming were not checked by 2000, rising sea levels would wash entire counties away. +476 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/new-york-times-straightforward-answers-common-climate-questions-accurate-justin-gillis/ -1 ‘Clean coal’ is an approach in which the emissions from coal-burning power plants would be captured and pumped underground. +477 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Numerous papers have documented how IPCC predictions are more likely to underestimate the climate response. +478 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 Venus doesn't have a runaway greenhouse effect +479 1 https://www.truthorfiction.com/john-coleman/ -1 Weather Channel Co-Founder John Coleman Calls Global Warming a Hoax +480 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/financial-post-commentary-misleads-warming-effect-greenhouse-gas-emissions-cherry-picking-studies-ross-mckitrick/ -1 But it is part of a long list of studies from independent teams (as this interactive graphic shows), using a variety of methods that take account of critical challenges, all of which conclude that climate models exhibit too much sensitivity to greenhouse gases. +481 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/record-snow-cover.htm -1 As a result, the planet as a whole is becoming less reflective and absorbing more sunlight, which is accelerating global warming. +482 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Kevin-Trenberth-travesty-cant-account-for-the-lack-of-warming.htm -1 "But Trenberth’s ""lack of warming at the moment"" has been going on at least a decade." +483 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 The iris hypothesis has not withstood the test of time - subsequent research +484 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/ -1 So that means that probably about half, maybe half of that nine-tenths of the degree of total warming might be caused by greenhouse gases. +485 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/forbes-james-taylor-top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/ -1 “Global warming alarmists’ preferred electricity source – wind power – kills nearly 1 million bats every year (to say nothing of the more than 500,000 birds killed every year) in the United States alone. +486 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/telegraph-article-misleads-with-false-balance-mixing-in-unsupported-and-inaccurate-claims-sarah-knapton/ -1 The melting ice has led to global sea level rise of around eight inches since reliable record keeping began in 1880. +487 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-1860-1880-and-1910-1940.htm -1 Statistical analysis of the rate of warming over different periods find that warming from 1970 to 2001 is greater than the warming from both 1860 to 1880 and 1910 to 1940. +488 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/tom-harris-deceptive-temperature-record-claims/ -1 “Temperature, like viscosity and density, and of course phone numbers, is not something that can be meaningfully averaged. ‘ +489 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/usa-today-paleoclimate-study-mostly-accurate-lacks-clarity-doyle-rice/ -1 In looking at Earth’s past, scientists can predict what the future will look like +490 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 An exponential increase in CO2 will result in a linear increase in temperature +491 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/greenland-cooling-gaining-ice.htm -1 Greenland on the whole is losing ice, as confirmed by multiple satellite and on the ground field measurements. +492 1 https://climatefeedback.org/claim-reviews/4 -1 When the exact same group of 'experts' who claimed it was global cooling in 1977 now claim it's global warming you can easily see why I am skeptical +493 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php -1 97% consensus on human-caused global warming has been disproven +494 1 https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-telegraph-bjorn-lomborg-in-many-ways-global-warming-will-be-good-thing/ -1 “Because CO₂ acts as a fertilizer, as much as half of all vegetated land is persistently greener today. +495 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Hulme-IPCC-consensus.htm -1 Claims that the IPCC does not accurately represent the views and findings of the scientists, on whose work the IPCC reports are based, are not supported by the facts. +496 1 https://www.truthorfiction.com/u-s-pays-1-billion-green-climate-fund-top-polluters-pay-nothing/ -1 U.S. Pays $1 Billion into Green Climate Fund, Top Polluters Pay Nothing +497 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-pollutant.htm -1 "'To suddenly label CO2 as a ""pollutant"" is a disservice to a gas that has played an enormous role in the development and sustainability of all life on this wonderful Earth." +498 1 https://www.skepticalscience.com/arctic-was-warmer-in-1940.htm -1 The full data for latitudes 64-90°N reveal the Arctic is warmer today than in 1940. +499 1 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php -1 Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the climate warming today. +500 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 This oppressive atmosphere also blots out the sky, making it impossible to stargaze from the surface +501 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 But thanks to MMS’s detailed measurements, the scales flipped +502 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Europa’s ionizing radiation would damage or destroy cells in the human body, leading to radiation sickness +503 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 With an inclined orbit, Solar Orbiter will be able to see the polar regions for which SDO has limited coverage +504 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 One energy transfer mechanism was discovered in 2017 when scientists uncovered complex electron motions in the thin layers of electrical current where reconnection happens +505 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/field-projects -1 At Conservation International, we identify, prioritize and protect these critical areas +506 0 https://skepticalscience.com/EGU2020-sharing-geoscience-online-citizens-science-session.html -1 They look at many different parts of the Earth's systems: soil, river, sea level, coasts, mountains and forests +507 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 A theory first published by Fisk and colleagues more than two decades ago explains the process behind this field line migration, and its predictions line up with the switchbacks observed by Parker Solar Probe. +508 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 The models were a way to fill in the gaps between measurements made across large distances as captured by previous space missions +509 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Outreach at schools, museums, conferences and other events has also directly reached 120,000 people +510 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Different specialties within the healthcare profession even seem to have their own dialects — so there's been a fair amount of iteration and editing involved. +511 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 Later, they visit the Solar Energy Generating System (SEGS) solar farm, only to feign sadness and shock when they discover it’s been removed, leaving a dusty field of sand +512 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 SDO’s images have also become iconic — if you’ve ever seen a close up of activity on the Sun, it was likely from an SDO image. +513 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Although their value to conservation and people’s livelihoods is clear, small- and medium-sized sustainable enterprises often lack access to the startup financing that readies them for commercial investment +514 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Enter Leon Alkalai, engineering fellow in the Office of Strategic Integration, who for the past six years has led a medical engineering forum at JPL aimed at identifying the Lab's unique space technologies that could be applied to solving challenging problems in healthcare and medicine. +515 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/human-rights -1 Studies have found that when indigenous people are given rights to govern their land, biodiversity increases and more trees remain standing +516 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 This strong uptake is likely influenced by a decision taken by the German government in November 2019 +517 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 The total societal cost is estimated to be CNY3.1 billion, which possibly outweighs any short-term benefit to the few automakers that would take advantage of the delay. +518 0 https://skepticalscience.com/EGU2020-sharing-geoscience-online-citizens-science-session.html -1 Like me, you are possibly wondering how chat-sessions could work for scientific sessions, especially as the tool was only selected and put together a few weeks ago! So, EGU provided a lot of information for conveners, authors and attendees of these chat sessions to hopefully answer most of their questions +519 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 Many wind companies have learnt that insensitive, clumsy development leads to backlash that is harmful for everyone, so they’ve started to clean up their act +520 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 And those lovely rivers and lakes? They’re made of liquid methane +521 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 This has allowed new insights into magnetic reconnection in other regions of space, including explosions on the Sun and in supernovae and black holes. +522 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 “And as we prepare to return human explorers to the Moon and journey on to Mars, it’s even more exciting to consider all the scientific investigations still to come.” +523 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 We put the spacecraft back into a state where it will be just fine, assuming that everything goes normally with it during the time that the antenna is down, said Dodd +524 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 But that’s OK, and in the end a tribute to and not a criticism of these five decades of accomplishment and aspiration since Earth Day One. +525 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Mission observations determined which of several 50-year-old theories about magnetic reconnection were correct and further showed how the physics of electrons dominates the process, which had not been predicted +526 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 “We increased MMS’s instrument measuring speeds 100 times from previous instruments,” said Jim Burch, principal investigator for MMS at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas +527 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 When an open magnetic field line encounters a closed magnetic loop they can undergo a process called interchange reconnection +528 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 In 2016 Frieling et al published data from a 1986 oil exploration borehole that had been drilled through 390 meters (1,280 feet) of ocean and 3,521 meters (11,552 feet) into the seabed +529 0 https://theicct.org/publications/transparency-data-regulation-vehicle-emissions-european-union-and-united-states -1 Third-party, confirmatory testing is an important source of credibility in the vehicle type approval process +530 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Take Kepler-7b, for example, a gas giant with roughly the same density as foam board +531 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 In places where ocean tides are highest on Earth, the difference between low and high tide is about 50 feet (15 meters) +532 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 Obviously, the 11 months of repairs puts more constraints on the other DSN sites, said Jeff Berner, Deep Space Network's chief engineer +533 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/human-rights -1 To ensure that our work respects the rights and voices of these communities and individuals, we use a “rights-based approach.” This means that from our on-the-ground field projects to international policy negotiations, we respect human rights, protect vulnerable groups and encourage good governance: the core principles of the Conservation Initiative on Human Rights, a group of global conservation nonprofits, including Conservation International. +534 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 And thanks to one world-renowned pulmonologist, the learning curve was about to get steep. +535 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Businesses of all sizes have an important role to play in conservation while they help grow our economies +536 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 Gibbs was posting anti-wind memes roughly 23 full epidemics ago. +537 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/pale-blue-dot-revisited -1 JPL is a division of Caltech in Pasadena. +538 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 The medical professionals definitely have their own language, Boland said +539 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 Each is about the size of a refrigerator and comes equipped with up to eight configurable lockers and two drawers to house payloads +540 0 https://theicct.org/publications/transparency-data-regulation-vehicle-emissions-european-union-and-united-states -1 For example, in the EU, the German type-approval authority KBA publishes a database each year containing relevant testing data for all the vehicles approved in Germany +541 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 —Staci Tiedeken, planetary science outreach coordinator, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center +542 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/pale-blue-dot-revisited -1 Rays of sunlight scattered within the camera optics stretch across the scene, one of which happens to have intersected dramatically with Earth. +543 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 supply chain so the ventilators could be built in mass quantities; and those parts couldn't be the same used by traditional ventilators so manufacturing VITAL wouldn't block production of other ventilators. +544 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 Experiments can be conducted, removed independently and returned to Earth, depending on varying time requirements. +545 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Europa has a practically nonexistent atmosphere and brutally cold temperatures ranging from about minus 210 to minus 370 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 134 to minus 223 degrees Celsius) +546 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Here are five ways MMS has changed our understanding of these explosive events in our near-Earth space in the past five years. +547 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 The ventilator had to meet specific high-pressure oxygen flow rates to aid COVID-19 patients battling Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome; it had to be made of far fewer parts than a typical hospital ventilator to keep costs down; those parts had to be widely available in the U.S +548 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 The medical workers, the people knitting face masks, providing PPE for groups on the front lines … the amount of compassion people are displaying while we are all trying to cope with this epidemic is really heartwarming. +549 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 This process would create an outward-flowing S-shaped kink in the newly formed open magnetic field line — a shape that tracks with the switchbacks measured by Parker Solar Probe. +550 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Its thick atmosphere would remind us of home, though the air pressure there is slightly higher than Earth's +551 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 These regions, known as “hotspots,” are also home to more than 2 billion people — many of whom are extremely poor and directly dependent upon nature for their survival. +552 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 Now it’s our turn to chart the future, delivering the equipment to carry science and discovery missions into the next century and beyond.” +553 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of the best places to search for life beyond Earth +554 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 I had just seen some projections, and I was worried, Manning said. +555 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 This is ‘primary energy supply’ – how much energy was generated, but includes the quantity of energy wasted through inefficiency +556 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Titan is in some ways the most similar world to ours that we have found +557 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Our funds directly benefit local communities — with far-reaching effects +558 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 SDO’s long career in space has allowed it to witness nearly an entire solar cycle — the Sun’s 11-year cycle of activity +559 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 The broad vision has been there, Alkalai said +560 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 New analysis published today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters provides a possible explanation for the origin of switchbacks — sudden reversals in the magnetic field of the solar wind — first observed by Parker Solar Probe during its November 2018 solar flyby +561 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 The new rack is expected to be installed on the station and operational by fall 2020. +562 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 The Sun’s gravity is 28 times stronger than Earth’s +563 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 So don’t pack your bathing suit just yet; our bodies are denser than the methane, so they’d sink like boulders +564 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 It didn't take much extrapolating to see the potential of what could happen here, Van Buren said +565 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 This allows the open magnetic field line to snap into the loop, and allows one side of the formerly closed magnetic loop to connect to solar magnetic field extending outwards into the solar system +566 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 SDO has witnessed countless astounding flares — giant outbursts of plasma released from the solar surface — many of which have become iconic images of the ferocity our nearest star +567 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 Iceland (48%), Sweden (28%), Finland (16%), the Netherlands (12%) and France (10%) are the other leading electric vehicle markets in Europe +568 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 But these structures lay deep beneath the seabed, under hundreds of meters of Atlantic Ocean, so getting samples to date and analyze was near impossible +569 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 “Science leads, but engineering innovation is the true hallmark of NASA’s accomplishments for more than a half-century,” he said +570 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 The Sun's complex magnetic field is mostly made up of closed loops of magnetic field with both ends anchored in the Sun +571 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Since coronavirus restrictions had shut down the colleges, the school leadership granted us access to grab just about anything we needed from their labs that would help aid JPL's project, Gurevitch said. +572 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 He speculates on how the EXPRESS Racks will carry on that engineering legacy, impacting future hardware development as humanity extends its reach ever farther into the solar system +573 0 https://theicct.org/publications/engines-and-tires-technology-areas-efficiency-improvements-trucks-and-buses-india -1 How do reductions in aerodynamic drag compare to reductions in rolling resistance drag in terms of overall fuel consumption impacts over a range of different vehicle types and drive cycles? +574 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 We can’t protect our lands, waters an​d other natural resources without long-term financial commitments +575 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 This interchange reconnection also drags the open magnetic field line across the solar surface, meaning that the Sun's magnetic field can move east to west faster than solar rotation alone explains +576 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Europa is also tidally locked, meaning if a person stood on its Jupiter-facing side (like our Moon, one hemisphere always faces its parent planet), the solar system’s largest planet would loom overhead and never set +577 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Despite the low quality of life, there is one benefit of living there: The Venusian year (225 Earth days) is shorter than its day (243 Earth days) +578 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 What would it be like to live on this not-so-distant world, many have wondered? One day, astronauts will find out +579 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 Among the ten largest markets, new car registrations in March decreased the strongest in Italy (-87%), France (-73%) and Spain (-70%) +580 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Today MMS’s high resolution data has uncovered a myriad of electron-scale physics that the computer simulations are now rushing to accurately represent +581 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Van Buren sent an email, outlining a plan to develop and proof a low-cost respirator design that could be made quickly and in volume +582 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Congratulate the engineer, OK? Say hello to Dave, Trump said to Gallagher, referring to Van Buren. +583 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Landing something on Mars is incredibly exciting, but saving lives is a different beast. +584 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Indeed, a number of explorers have devised inventive ways to move civilization off this planet. +585 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 Year-to-date, the share of electric vehicles was the highest in Norway (70%), with two thirds of those being battery-electric vehicles +586 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 By linking coronal dimming to the size of CMEs, scientists hope to be able to study the space weather effects around other stars, which are too distant to directly measure their CMEs. +587 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 The surface of a black hole is an area called the “event horizon,” a boundary beyond which nothing can ever return +588 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Later observations found these tornadoes, which were created by magnetic fields spinning the plasma, could rotate at speeds up to 186,000 miles per hour +589 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Two days later, Gallagher was in the White House, showing off the ventilator to President Donald Trump. +590 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 This aligns with observations made during Parker Solar Probe's first solar encounters: the larger than expected “sideways” motion of solar wind near the Sun +591 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 The Deep Space Network (DSN) upgrades are planned to start now that Voyager 2 has returned to normal operations, after accidentally overdrawing its power supply and automatically turning off its science instruments in January. +592 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 That means it could actually float in a bathtub (fun fact: so could Saturn) +593 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 I feel like I’ve been transported back in time ten years, back to my early days in the renewable energy industry +594 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 MMS has opened a unique space laboratory where all scales of magnetic reconnection can be directly measured by the spacecraft as they fly through ongoing events +595 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 And in the US, gas has indeed expanded to fill a decent proportion of the gap left by coal: +596 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 In its first year, MMS’s state-of-the-art design broke records — and it hasn’t stopped excelling since. +597 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 Nor does it suggest that the battles are won, the gains so far achieved irreversible +598 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 For one, India was recently successful in leapfrogging from Euro 4-equivalent BS IV to BS VI vehicle emission standards, which are roughly equivalent to Euro 6 and China 6 standards +599 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 This allows navigators to communicate with spacecraft at the Moon and beyond at all times during Earth's rotation +600 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 A spacesuit might help with the temperature and pressure, but it can’t protect against those pesky atomic particles captured in Jupiter’s magnetic field, endlessly lashing Europa with such energy that they can blast apart molecules and ionize atoms +601 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 In an earlier scene, at the launch of the General Motors Chevy Volt (2010, of course), he complains that the cars are being charged by the coal-sodden electric grid of that state – another great example of the infinite loop Gibbs has created for himself, considering his reaction if more wind and solar were built to make that electricity cleaner. +602 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 If you’re familiar with the network of anti-wind farm groups, you’ll recognise that they’re old machines from South Point on Big Island, Hawaii +603 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Developed in just 37 days by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in response to the coronavirus pandemic, VITAL (short for Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally) wouldn't replace current hospital ventilators, which can treat a broader range of medical issues. +604 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 In a chance encounter, the two chatted about upcoming work and a bit about their coronavirus concerns. +605 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 Marshall oversees space station hardware development and implementation for NASA, and NASA personnel in Marshall’s Payload Operations Integration Center monitor experiments continuously, every day of the year +606 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 We needed to do something, and this was it, Manning said. +607 0 https://theicct.org/publications/engines-and-tires-technology-areas-efficiency-improvements-trucks-and-buses-india -1 This paper presents a primary analysis to estimate how improvements in engine and tire technology will translate into fuel consumption reductions for a select number of representative HDV types in India. +608 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 The racks operate at near capacity around the clock, and data compiled by Glasgow and his team reveals a staggering fact: Since installation and startup of the first space station rack in 2001, NASA has logged more than 85 total years of combined rack operational hours using these facilities. +609 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 There’s a lot of fragile, hard-fought stuff to wreck in there, and Gibbs goes absolutely wild +610 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 Lastly, China is not without other alternatives +611 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 “The work we did over those years got us here +612 0 https://theicct.org/publications/comparing-real-world-cycle-nox-emissions-control-euro-iv-v-and-vi -1 The evidence thus far indicates that under Euro VI NOx emissions are indeed meeting expectations, even in the most difficult operating conditions +613 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Using data from SDO, NASA scientists have worked on modeling the path of a CME as it moves across the solar system in order to predict its potential effect on Earth +614 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 All this motion has consequences: Io’s interior is very hot, making this moon the most volcanically active world in the solar system +615 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 In a given day, I'm talking to doctors, engineers, managers, visual strategists and sometimes also regulators, Boland said. +616 0 https://skepticalscience.com/EGU2020-sharing-geoscience-online-citizens-science-session.html -1 As already explained in the initial blog post published a few weeks ago, the organizers decided to still have the conference but to move it almost comletely online - not a simple task to do within just a few weeks and with around 700 sessions and 18,000 submitted abstracts in the program! On Monday morning, May 4 2020 Sharing Geoscience Online (#ShareEGU20) kicked off with its first sessions, now all held as typed chats. +617 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Even if a skydiver does make it through the hundreds of miles, or kilometers, of atmosphere, plus crushing air pressure and extreme heat, it’s not clear they’ll reach a solid surface +618 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 These circulation patterns may even explain why at times one hemisphere might have more sunspots than another. +619 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 On Earth tornadoes only reach speeds of 300 miles per hour. +620 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 The vessel would drift with the ice for a year as a rotating cast of nearly 600 experts from 20 nations representing dozens of scientific disciplines spread out in research camps around the ship. +621 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Instead, the mechanical systems engineer was crunching coronavirus numbers +622 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Descending through Jupiter’s clouds is for the most extreme thrill seekers +623 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Capturing the imaginations of scientists and sci-fi writers alike, black holes are extremely compact objects that do not let any light escape +624 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 Some parts of the 70-meter antenna, including the transmitters that send commands to various spacecraft, are 40 years old and increasingly unreliable +625 0 https://theicct.org/publications/comparing-real-world-cycle-nox-emissions-control-euro-iv-v-and-vi -1 Although it is possible to adopt supplemental or improved test procedures for Euro IV/V vehicles (as is being done in China ), the best solution is to implement Euro VI +626 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 In February 2012, SDO captured images showing strange plasma tornados on the solar surface +627 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 And that short listing doesn’t even begin to acknowledge the victories gained – the pollution and environmental degradation avoided – as a result of the January 1970 enactment of the National Environmental Policy Act, with its provisions for environmental impact statements +628 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 Or picture the water quality of our endless rivers, lakes, and streams were it not for the gains made under the 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act (AKA Clean Water Act) +629 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 In many parts of the world, communities are using their land, water and other natural resources in unsustainable ways — simply because there is no economic alternative +630 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Chief among them is oxygen — there isn’t any in the atmosphere +631 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 We've invested more than US$ 250 million in such organizations — and we’ve been able to leverage that funding by bringing in another US$ 500 million from our partners +632 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Moving about at the mid-latitudes are large-scale circulation patterns called Meridonial circulation +633 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 All that matter is how the transition is managed +634 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Solar Orbiter also has complementary instruments that will allow the two missions to work together to create 3D images of structures below the visible surface of the Sun, giving scientists an even greater understanding of solar activity in the years to come. +635 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 “We’re five years in and this mission is still just as capable as when it launched.” +636 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 The timeline is a feat nearly unheard of in medical device development, completed by a research and development center that makes robots for space, not breathing aids for humans +637 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 The long baseline of solar observations has also helped scientists form additional machine-learning models to try to predict when the Sun might release a CME. +638 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 "This, well before most people even knew the meaning of ""ventilator,"" let alone the fatal implications of a shortage." +639 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 It was a typical bustling Wednesday before mandatory teleworking kicked in, but Van Buren wasn't focused on his typical workload. +640 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 The three Canberra 34-meter (111-foot) antennas can be configured to listen to Voyager 2's signal; they just won't be able to transmit commands +641 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 It uniquely qualified her for a position on VITAL +642 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 The ‘wind and solar are too intermittent’ meme, for instance, is a great hallmark of that era +643 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 “When I looked up and saw the Earth coming up on this very stark, beat up lunar horizon, an Earth that was the only color that we could see, a very fragile looking Earth, a very delicate looking Earth, I was immediately almost overcome by the thought that here we came all this way to the Moon, and yet the most significant thing we’re seeing is our own home planet, the Earth,” said William Anders, a crew member on Apollo 8, the first crewed mission to the Moon. +644 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 But to live on the Sun, we’d have to kiss all solid ground goodbye +645 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 As the Medical Director of the School of Respiratory Therapy for East Los Angeles and Santa Monica Colleges, Dr +646 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 MMS has also launched early career scientists and contributed to 14 PhD theses and 10 master’s theses +647 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Without a spacesuit providing essential life support, humans would have to inhale carbon dioxide, a toxic gas we typically exhale as a waste product +648 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 With more than 4,000 planets discovered so far outside our solar system, called “exoplanets,” we don’t know of any that offers the comforts of Earthly living — and many would be downright nightmares +649 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 Or recall the so-called potable water that was being swept down the Mississippi River to folks in New Orleans +650 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 None of which, by the way, is intended to suggest that any of those statutes, nor the vast and complex implementing regulations under them, are “perfect.” Far from it +651 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/rocket-borne-telescope-detects-super-fine-strands-on-the-sun/ -1 They also provide visual evidence that the staggeringly hot material that fills the Sun’s corona — which is some 300 times hotter than its surface — has definite structure on fine scales, rather than being a homogenous soup of particles. +652 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Made possible by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the GCF gives local communities, nonprofits and governments the financial and strategic assistance they need to protect their biological riches +653 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 This is the story of how a team of engineers, fueled by a desire to help during the crisis, brought VITAL into being. +654 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 We provide grants to help people maintain their water supplies +655 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Conservation International recognizes this important truth +656 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Like other exoplanets called “hot Jupiters,” this one is really close to its star — a “year,” one orbit, takes just five Earth days +657 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 The technology is a legacy of the space shuttle program, which conducted a raft of scientific investigations from its versatile “mid-deck lockers” -- slotted payload storage racks -- during more than 130 flights between 1981 and 2011 +658 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, or MMS, has been making new discoveries as it flies around Earth studying magnetic reconnection — the explosive snapping and forging of magnetic field lines, at the heart of space weather storms that manifest around Earth +659 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 Which is a weird one, because the latest 2020 satellite imagery shows a site full of solar arrays, and a total absence of any “dead zones” +660 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 It saw magnetic reconnection where scientists first expected it, behind the Earth, away from the Sun — and it discovered magnetic reconnection in several new places +661 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Due to careful maneuvering during flight operations, MMS should have enough fuel to last it at least another two decades. +662 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Don’t worry, though, there would be a break of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,600 degrees Celsius) if you stumbled on a sunspot, which is a “cool” region formed by intense magnetic fields +663 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 In parallel, the company car tax rate for electric vehicles was reduced from 0.5% to 0.25% +664 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 But Venus isn’t all bad +665 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Boland's other job is working on the MAIA instrument (Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols) — NASA's first time partnering with epidemiologists and health organizations to use satellite data to study human health +666 0 https://theicct.org/publications/transparency-data-regulation-vehicle-emissions-european-union-and-united-states -1 Access to the vehicle testing data needed to conduct confirmatory testing, however, is uneven, and dependent on where the vehicle was type-approved +667 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 For Van Buren, the congratulations go all around for the team, and beyond. +668 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 These forces cause Io's surface to regularly bulge up and down by as much as 330 feet (100 meters) — and we’re talking about rock, not water +669 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 On this 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, we reflect on nine reasons Earth is the best place to live +670 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 If someone decides to not build that battery, he can look up the statistics and monotone sadly about the lack of battery capacity. +671 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 But we know already that living there would require some major adjustments +672 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 SDO’s measurements of the Sun — from the interior to the atmosphere, magnetic field, and energy output — have greatly contributed to our understanding of our closest star +673 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Much of the discovery was driven by MMS’s innovative instrument design +674 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 In return, communities receive benefits such as education, health services, wages and agricultural support +675 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Having solid ground to stand is starting to sound like a luxury +676 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 It is the Cedar Street Solar Array, a 150 kilowatt 824 (that’s small) panel farm in downtown Lansing +677 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/human-rights -1 Conservation International and its Policy Center for Environment and Peace takes special care to make sure that everywhere we work, the rights of people — indigenous peoples, rural communities, men and women — are respected. +678 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 The human rights issues around mining and materials are becoming more prominent +679 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 But these days, our neighboring planet has an atmosphere so thick (55 times denser than Earth’s) it helps keep Venus at a searing 900 degrees Fahrenheit (465 degrees Celsius) year round — that’s hotter than the hottest home oven +680 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 Berner says the work on the 70-meter antenna is like bringing an old car into the shop: There's never a good time to do it, but it will make the car much more dependable if you do. +681 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 This organization, founded in 2000, provides grants to communities, nonprofits and private sector partners that can help protect Earth’s most biologically rich, yet threatened, regions +682 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 The mission uses four identical spacecraft flying in a pyramid-shape to measure magnetic field lines and charged particles in three-dimensions +683 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Systems Engineer Stacey Boland is no stranger to JPL's penchant for acronyms and jargon, but as operations lead on VITAL, she was tasked with essentially writing a user manual for the device as it was being built. +684 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Given the planet’s strong gravity and super-fast rotation on its axis compared to Earth (10 hours vs +685 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Even if we were fortunate enough to have a spaceship that could travel to a relatively nearby black hole, its gravity is so strong that approaching too close would stretch and compress the spacecraft and everyone inside it into a noodle shape — a fate scientists call “spaghettification.” Making matters even weirder, time ticks by more slowly around a black hole +686 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 In 2016 their trajectory won the spacecraft a Guinness World record for highest altitude fix of a GPS — 43,500 miles above the surface (which it later smashed with a fix at 116,300 miles) +687 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 This extremely silly concept – that coal-fired power stations run at 100% capacity all the time regardless of how much power they output – is so old it hurts my brain +688 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 That’s why Conservation International works to find innovative, successful and lasting ways to fund conservation. +689 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 Funded by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the EXPRESS Racks were developed by engineers at the Boeing Co +690 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 On March 11, Mechanical Systems Engineer David Van Buren found himself waiting in line for a cup of coffee at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California +691 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 This is the result of a strong uptake of Tesla battery-electric vehicle sales, with a tenfold increase in deliveries in markets such as the UK, while at the same time sales of the Fiat brand combustion engine vehicles were cut in half compared to the previous month +692 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Money might not grow on trees +693 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 And at the same time, I was thinking about our work; we have these missions and efforts to explore other planets, but I started questioning if what we were doing at JPL was what we should be doing, Van Buren said. +694 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 In February 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — is celebrating its 10th year in space +695 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 MMS has also given insight into nuclear experiments on Earth +696 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 In Germany, the share of electric vehicles remained below 4% throughout the year 2019, but then increased to 7% in January and February and 9% in March 2020 +697 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 Weeks after the letter, an automobile magazine further clarified that the industry is essentially seeking two accommodations: (1) allow the sale and registration of their stock of China 5 vehicles for an additional six months, until December 31, 2020; and (2) delay the implementation of the particle number (PN) limit of 6 x 10^11#/km required in the standard, also for six months. +698 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Both contain about one-seventh the parts of a traditional ventilator, and both can deliver the high-pressure oxygen flows needed for COVID-19 patients while keeping the lungs slightly inflated even as they exhale — key for patients to stave off infections like pneumonia. +699 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Linked to the Sun’s magnetic field, the holes follow the solar cycle, increasing at the solar maximum +700 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 It looks like we're near the peak in the U.S., but it could get worse as easily as it gets better, Van Buren said +701 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 All that is left now are small hexagonal pads on farmland used by the cattle that roam it: +702 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 To bridge this gap, Conservation International launched CI Ventures — a new kind of responsible investment vehicle that deploys capital as low-interest loans and other financial resources to startup and growth-stage enterprises that operate in key conservation areas +703 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 That same morning, JPL Chief Engineer Rob Manning's thoughts were preoccupied by the virus, and he needed coffee, too. +704 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/human-rights -1 Conservation efforts that neglect to take these rights into account, however, place individuals and communities at risk of losing their livelihoods and cultural identities. +705 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 For the following reasons, it would not benefit the Chinese economy, the auto industry, or, most importantly, public health. +706 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 But in the hands of the right people, it can help keep them standing +707 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 It’s no surprise: The promise of a better life in the mysterious beyond can be seductive +708 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 “MMS has well over 100 instrument components,” said Barbara Giles, MMS senior project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland +709 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Alongside our ​partners, we’re establishing endowments that fund protected areas +710 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 After the meeting, VITAL's design team, led by Mechatronic Engineer Mike R +711 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Designed specifically for COVID-19 patients, the prototype is composed of far fewer parts than traditional ventilators and is intended to last three to four months +712 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 David's idea brought the urgency and the opportunity for JPL to make a significant contribution in a unique way, and I wanted to help in any way I could. +713 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Even the moon’s terrain and landscape look eerily similar to some parts of Earth +714 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Mechatronic engineer Michelle Easter worked as prototype logistics and hardware test lead for VITAL +715 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Starting near the beginning of Solar Cycle 24, SDO watched as the Sun’s activity ramped up to solar maximum and then faded to the current ongoing solar minimum +716 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 On April 30, after reviewing the 505-page submission, the FDA approved VITAL for a ventilator Emergency Use Authorization +717 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 No longer would we be able to take long, deep breaths of nitrogen- and oxygen-rich air while a gentle spring breeze grazes the skin +718 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 As PV Magazine writes, “The film reports on a solar installation in Michigan with PV panels rated at “just under 8 percent” conversion efficiency +719 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Thus, a 170-pound (77-kilogram) adult on Earth would weigh an extra 4,590 pounds (2,245 kilograms) at the Sun +720 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 And we're just getting started. +721 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 If you tried to stand on the Sun’s visible surface, called the photosphere, you’d fall right through, about 205,000 miles (330,000 kilometers) until you reached a layer of plasma so compressed, it’s as thick as water +722 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 For a long time, gas was sold as a transition fuel, including by organisations like the Breakthrough Institute +723 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Scientist don’t know yet whether Jupiter, a giant planet that can fit 1,300 Earths inside of it, has a solid core +724 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 We’re helping to relieve countries of their debts in exchange for investments in important ecosystems +725 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 CI’s CSP works with locals who agree to protect their natural resources and the benefits they provide, in exchange for a steady stream of compensation from investors. +726 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 That said, past Earth Days have brought together large assemblies of persons across the globe to celebrate our planet and fight for its continued wellbeing +727 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 MMS scientists discovered the ways energy is transferred via magnetic reconnection and at what rate, in part because of the spacecrafts’ tight flying formation — just 4.5 miles between them, the closest of any spacecraft ever flown — which allows scientists to study small-scale details unobservable by previous missions +728 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 It was emitted in addition to the organic carbon baked from the sediments +729 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/pale-blue-dot-revisited -1 "For the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic views from the Voyager mission, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is publishing a new version of the image known as the ""Pale Blue Dot.""" +730 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 The plasma — that is, the hot, charged gases — used in nuclear experiments is the same state of matter that MMS flies through as it travels through space +731 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 There is nothing inherent to renewable energy that makes gas compulsory +732 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 Scientists should always challenge themselves to improve their understanding +733 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 This is not a documentary about the environmental damage that had to occur for Gibbs to go on his drive – it is not mentioned +734 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/rocket-borne-telescope-detects-super-fine-strands-on-the-sun/ -1 It’s the first direct observation of the strands thought to combine and make up larger loops on the Sun +735 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 The team's accomplishments have captured the world's attention as well +736 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Scientists suspect these waves are driven by coronal mass ejections, which spew clouds of plasma off the surface of the Sun into the solar system. +737 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 The planned upgrades will not only reduce that risk, but will also add state-of-the art technology upgrades that will benefit future missions. +738 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Before MMS, computer simulations were the best tool scientists had to understand magnetic reconnection +739 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 Nixon and his January 1 declaration of “the environmental decade.” +740 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 To someone watching from far away as a spaceship fell into the event horizon, the vehicle would appear to slow down more the closer it got — and never quite get there +741 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/field-projects -1 But the benefits that people receive from nature are concentrated in certain places +742 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 Although new car sales decreased overall, sales of electric vehicles continued to grow, and in March reached an all-time high market share of 10% for the average of all manufacturers +743 0 https://skepticalscience.com/EGU2020-sharing-geoscience-online-citizens-science-session.html -1 Due to the Corona pandemic and subsequent efforts to slow its spread, this year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) with around 16,000 participants obviously couldn't take place in Vienna, Austria +744 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/pale-blue-dot-revisited -1 The Pale Blue Dot view was created using the color images Voyager took of Earth. +745 0 https://theicct.org/publications/light-commercial-vehicles-india-2014-15-technology-assessment-and-international -1 The fleet average CO2 emissions for LCVs were 157.6 g/km in FY 2014-15 +746 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 On April 22, barely a month after the project began, the ventilator passed critical tests in the center's high-fidelity human simulation lab, performing under a wide variety of simulated patient conditions. +747 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/field-projects -1 Where more than 99% of their home is ocean, government and traditional leaders recognize that healthy waters mean healthy people and stable livelihoods +748 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 The decrease was strongest for PSA-Opel (-66%), Renault (-66%), and FCA-Tesla (-65%) +749 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 The standard applies to light-duty vehicles and is scheduled to be implemented at the national level in two phases, China 6a starting on July 1, 2020 and China 6b starting on July 1, 2023 +750 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 “Those compact, standardized units became the model for developing the larger, more efficient racks we employ today,” Glasgow said. +751 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 Volvo was second, selling 22% plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in March 2020 +752 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 About 50% of the electric vehicles newly registered in Germany are battery electric +753 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/pale-blue-dot-revisited -1 14, 1990, just minutes before Voyager 1's cameras were intentionally powered off to conserve power and because the probe — along with its sibling, Voyager 2 — would not make close flybys of any other objects during their lifetimes +754 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 In February, he'd given a lecture on pandemics in relation to COVID-19 for his physics course at Cal State Los Angeles, and he saw clear signs of a developing pandemic. +755 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 “How much variable energy can a grid accept? Around ten percent, twenty percent tops it appears”, he wrote back then +756 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 They’d need to bring along their own oxygen, since Jupiter’s atmosphere is made mostly of hydrogen and helium (same as our Sun), with clouds of mostly ammonia +757 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 24 hours), a skydiver would tumble 2.5 times faster than they would on Earth, while getting knocked around by winds raging between 270 and 425 miles per hour (430 to 680 kilometers per hour) +758 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Most team members worked 14-hour days, seven days a week, and mandatory telework restrictions established on March 17 put unique strains on an already daunting task +759 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 “The interesting thing about sills is that they are emplaced really, really fast, and even a thick sill can be fully emplaced within a timescale of a hundred years,” Svensen told me in 2016 +760 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 We channel funding from our donors into the hands of local organizations — groups that have the knowledge and the power to find solutions from the bottom up +761 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 If you’re bummed out by cloudy days on Earth, consider that one side of Kepler-7b always has thick, unmoving clouds, and those clouds may even be made of evaporated rock and iron +762 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 “A timescale of a few thousand years includes emplacement, metamorphism, and also gas generation… we know that some of the sills … intruded into organic-rich sediments and so carbon gases must have been generated, and that’s a fact.” +763 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Theses waves, named EIT waves after an instrument of the same name on the Solar and Heliophysics Observatory spacecraft that first discovered them, were imaged at high resolution by SDO in 2010 +764 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 The DSN is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the agency's Human Exploration and Operations' Space Communication and Navigation program. +765 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 A final example of that innovative spirit is ready to get to work. +766 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 With a decade of observations, SDO has now seen nearly a complete 11-year solar cycle +767 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 And we help finance work that protects regions rich with life — all to secure a future for Earth’s most critical life support systems. +768 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Currently, ventilator usage remains below critical levels in the United States, but that doesn't mean VITAL won't be needed if coronavirus cases spike again in the future. +769 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 “The sheer volume of science that’s been conducted using the racks up til now is just overwhelming,” said Shaun Glasgow, project manager for the EXPRESS Racks at Marshall +770 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 At any given time, up to 80 experiments can be in process, controlled by station crew members or from the ground +771 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 The network will play a critical role in ensuring communication and navigation support for both the precursor Moon and Mars missions and the crewed Artemis missions +772 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/human-rights -1 The free exchange of ideas and sharing of lessons between different sectors of society is imperative to the success of a “rights-based approach.” For this reason, Conservation International has created diverse training materials on key conservation topics — so everyone has the information they need to be part of the solution. +773 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 It’s amazing to learn about how different exoplanets can be from Earth, but we’re glad we don’t live on Kepler-7b +774 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 The loans, extended by Conservation International’s Global Conservation Fund, helped Althelia raise over US$ 120 million in investment capital — making it the largest private investor in natural capital +775 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 The Sun’s outpouring of material from coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, and the solar wind speed across the solar system +776 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 "“Since our earliest ventures into space, we’ve sought more efficient, longer-term ways to conduct cutting-edge science in low-Earth orbit and beyond,"" said Bobby Watkins, manager of the Human Exploration Development and Operations Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama" +777 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Matthew Levin at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York +778 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Between all the lava, a thin sulfur dioxide atmosphere and intense radiation from nearby Jupiter, Io doesn’t offer much of a beach vacation for humans +779 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Conservation International works to find the funding to ensure that the most critical areas on Earth — places that provide us with our food, our water and more — remain intact +780 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/field-projects -1 Oftentimes, the most remarkable science is done by people with their feet in the proverbial mud. +781 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 If someone builds a battery storage installation, he can visit the site and monotone sadly about its presence +782 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 “It’s allowed us to see things no one had been able to measure before MMS.” +783 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 SDO’s observations revealed that these circulations are much more complex than scientists initially thought and are linked to sunspot production +784 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Over the past decade the spacecraft has kept a constant eye on the Sun, studying how the Sun creates solar activity and drives space weather — the dynamic conditions in space that impact the entire solar system, including Earth. +785 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 This special type — called spontaneous magnetic reconnection (versus previously observed more general forms of magnetic reconnection) — helped confirm a decades-old theory +786 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 Since March 2020, auto sales have shown strong evidence of rebounding +787 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 It has also observed magnetic reconnection in magnetic flux ropes — giant magnetic tubes, which can form in the wake of previous magnetic reconnection events, and in Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices, the same phenomenon that are created when wind blows over water to create waves on the surface. +788 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 As a revolving fund, CI Ventures will continuously reinvest the returned capital into conservation efforts. +789 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 They noticed that around 15% of the flares had a “late phase flare” that would follow minutes to hours after the initial flare +790 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 And at more than 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit (1,316 degrees Celsius), Kepler-7b would be a real roaster to visit, especially on the dayside +791 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 and Marshall, which jointly built and tested the racks at Marshall in the late 1990s. +792 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 This year’s Earth Day will be observed throughout much of the U.S +793 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 But you wouldn’t float, because you’d be crushed by the pressure there: 4.5 million times stronger than the deepest point in the ocean +794 0 https://theicct.org/publications/engines-and-tires-technology-areas-efficiency-improvements-trucks-and-buses-india -1 The paper is narrowly focused on two research questions: +795 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 Remember days of “headlights at noon” ranging from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles? No thank you. +796 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 I went back to my desk after talking with Rob, and the question was still nagging me, Van Buren said +797 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 The unique dances electrons made in this region allowed them to gain additional energy and accelerate the reconnection process. +798 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Since 2001, the GCF has protected more than 80 million hectares (197 million acres) around the world and contributed more than US$ 1 million in wages to local economies +799 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 In early 2015, Althelia repaid its loans totaling US$ 1.05 million, bringing Conservation International’s largest and most successful monetary investment in a private sector partner to a close +800 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 Starting in early March, NASA's Voyager 2 will quietly coast through interstellar space without receiving commands from Earth +801 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 At the end of the decade in December 2019, SDO observations enabled scientists to discover a whole new type of magnetic explosion +802 0 https://theicct.org/publications/transparency-data-regulation-vehicle-emissions-european-union-and-united-states -1 But available evidence refutes that claim +803 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 As the equipment in the antenna ages, the risk of unplanned outages will increase, which adds more risk to the Voyager mission +804 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 It may harbor more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined +805 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 In the personal confines sequestering many of us this April 22, it will be important to acknowledge some inarguable conclusions: +806 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 Toyota-Mazda complies with its target despite selling hardly any electric vehicles to date +807 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 Solar developers are figuring out more sustainable pathways than the boom and bust of government subsidies +808 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 Renewable companies are taking waste removal seriously. +809 0 https://theicct.org/publications/engines-and-tires-technology-areas-efficiency-improvements-trucks-and-buses-india -1 For this analysis, the authors developed vehicle simulation models for three representative HDV types based on popular models in the Indian market: a tractor truck, rigid truck, and transit bus +810 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 During this time, the Voyager team will still be able to receive science data from Voyager 2 on its mission to explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain and beyond. +811 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 The first astronauts to look from space back at Earth, a “pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known,” as scientist Carl Sagan once wrote, saw a beautiful, delicate world that is perfectly suited to the bounty of life it supports. +812 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Over the years, SDO has watched two comets fly by the Sun +813 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Thirty-seven days later, a team of more than 50 — some working on-site at JPL, but most from home — had designed, built and tested VITAL, a breathing aid that would help critically ill COVID-19 patients and bolster scarce stocks of traditional hospital ventilators. +814 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 Created as they were by fallible beings, working always in a political and imperfect system, valid criticisms apply across the board +815 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 FCA-Tesla was the manufacturer pool with the highest share of electric vehicles (39%) +816 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 The UK has a similar thing too, where both renewables and gas are squeezing out coal +817 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 The extreme oldness of this documentary stands out +818 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 In a red flag for any veteran of the wind farm debate, Gibbs then uses footage of a collection of old wind turbines – rusted, gross and horrible – to illustrate the short life and lasting damage of these huge spiky bastards. +819 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 With the prototypes built, Leon Alkalai connected the team with Dr +820 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Michael Gurevitch had access to a supply of ventilators, circuits, valves and filters he could bring to the Lab to give a crash course on what was needed to make a COVID-19-fighting device. +821 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 We work with governments and the private sector to develop, and invest in, business models that generate jobs — while reducing pressure on nature and supporting balanced economic growth. +822 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Nature provides vital, unmatchable and ongoing returns to all of humanity +823 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Additionally, when the satellites are closest to Earth, they move at up to 22,000 miles per hour, making them the fastest known operational use of a GPS receiver. +824 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 Endangered species? Wild and scenic rivers? Endless strip mining and “mountain top removal” (a euphemism for sure), “Right to know,” pervasive and random application of all sorts of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and more? Major federal laws on each were enacted in that first decade of Earth Days. +825 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 To date, MMS data has been used in over 580 scientific papers +826 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 But scroll back up to Denmark, above, where a combination of interconnection with other countries, massive wind build-out and coal and gas shutdown has cleaned up the grid +827 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/field-projects -1 Many communities around the world depend directly on nature for the food, water and livelihoods that sustain them +828 0 https://theicct.org/publications/engines-and-tires-technology-areas-efficiency-improvements-trucks-and-buses-india -1 The HDV models analyzed were designed in simulation to resemble the top-selling models in their respective vehicle segments. +829 0 https://theicct.org/publications/light-commercial-vehicles-india-2014-15-technology-assessment-and-international -1 BEE’s star-rating bands for passenger cars would be effective for measurement of LCVs, and could easily be implemented. +830 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 They were removed in 2012, by the owner of the facility +831 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 The difference is the purpose, Van Buren said +832 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 It’s like doing a documentary on the uselessness of mobile phones but only examining the Motorola Ultrasleek. +833 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Like Earth, Titan also has clouds, rain, lakes and rivers, and even a subsurface ocean of salty water +834 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 China 6 cars already dominate the new vehicle market and the vast majority of car manufacturers are well prepared +835 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 Poland was among the markets with the lowest share of electric vehicles (1%). +836 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 Science News staff members have reviewed several books published this year to guide you to which ones you might like +837 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 The churring sea of plasma on the solar surface can create giant waves that travel around the Sun at up to 3 million miles per hour +838 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Conservation International is one of seven donors in the CEPF +839 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 In JPL terms, the team would say they crammed an entire planetary flight mission — from formulation to launch to landing — in a little more than a month +840 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 None of that this year, please, other than digitally and with all due respect for the critical need for physical and social distancing +841 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Magnetic reconnection, which happens often within plasma, poses a challenge for scientists wanting to confine plasma in nuclear experiments +842 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 The ICCT believes that this delay is neither needed nor wise +843 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 Sales remained fairly strong in Sweden (-8%) +844 0 https://theicct.org/publications/understanding-options-iluc-mitigation -1 Indirect land use change (ILUC) is land use change that occurs when existing cropland is used to cover the feedstock demand of additional biofuel or bioenergy production +845 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Some erupt lava fountains dozens of miles (or kilometers) high +846 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/rocket-borne-telescope-detects-super-fine-strands-on-the-sun/ -1 The Hi-C mission is led by principal investigator Amy Winebarger of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama +847 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 The team had turned the room into a ventilator learning station +848 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Under “conservation agreements,” for example, Conservation International works with communities that agree to patrol protected areas, stop illegal hunting and more +849 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 Kentucky’s best bourbons couldn’t have sufficed to make it worth tasting. +850 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 Moreover, a special S-band transmitter is required to send commands to Voyager 2 — one both powerful enough to reach interstellar space and on a frequency that can communicate with Voyager's dated technology +851 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 The observations showed for the first time how the waves move across the surface +852 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 Without knowing when the footage was taken, the only likely explanation for this is the pair of dudes visited the site midway through the point at which one of the fields was being removed and replaced with newer models, something which has happened several times over the past few decades. +853 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 (Think Andrea Bocelli singing “Amazing Grace” in an empty courtyard in front of Milan’s Duomo Cathedral this past Easter Day.) +854 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/human-rights -1 Conservation International has trained, worked with and learned from indigenous peoples for more than 30 years +855 0 https://theicct.org/publications/transparency-data-regulation-vehicle-emissions-european-union-and-united-states -1 With this in mind, the ICCT commissioned Défense Terre to produce a legal brief summarizing access to vehicle emissions data in the EU and US, detailing what data are available and how. +856 0 https://theicct.org/publications/engines-and-tires-technology-areas-efficiency-improvements-trucks-and-buses-india -1 While technology advancements are possible in other areas, such as aerodynamics, transmissions, and accessories, compared to engines and tires the marginal benefits will be quite small. +857 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 When they form at the top and the bottom on the Sun they’re called polar coronal holes and SDO scientists were able to use their disappearance to determine when the Sun’s magnetic field reversed — a key indicator of when the Sun reaches solar maximum. +858 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 Year-to-date, the 2020 market share of electric vehicles was 7%, more than twice as high as during the same time period in 2019 +859 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 They repeatedly claim that shutting down coal plants results in replacement with gas +860 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 By studying this special class, scientists gained a better understanding of just how much energy is produced when the Sun erupts. +861 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/pale-blue-dot-revisited -1 The Voyager spacecraft were built by JPL, which continues to operate both +862 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 The information garnered by MMS is helping scientists better understand and potentially control magnetic reconnection, which may lead to improved nuclear fusion techniques to generate energy more efficiently. +863 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 While Titan sounds promising, it has major flaws +864 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 That means you can celebrate your birthday every day on Venus! —Lonnie Shekhtman, science writer, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center +865 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Jupiter’s winds make Earth’s highest category hurricane feel like a breeze, and its lightning strikes are up to 1,000 times more powerful than ours +866 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 Any delay would simply penalize these early technology adopters and reward technology laggards. +867 0 https://theicct.org/publications/engines-and-tires-technology-areas-efficiency-improvements-trucks-and-buses-india -1 How do engine efficiency improvements—as measured over an engine dynamometer—translate to fuel consumption reductions in full vehicles over a range of different drive cycles? +868 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/field-projects -1 Conservation International works closely with these communities +869 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 This no doubt will be the strangest Earth Day: Each day since the start of the global coronavirus pandemic took hold may qualify as the strangest … until tomorrow comes. +870 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Determining the details of how magnetic reconnection works was one of the key jobs MMS was tasked with — and the mission soon delivered +871 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 And we’re lucky that Earth has just the right amount of gravity — enough so we don’t go flying away, but not so much that we can’t stand up and run around +872 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/pale-blue-dot-revisited -1 Shutting down instruments and other systems on the two Voyager spacecraft has been a gradual and ongoing process that has helped enable their longevity. +873 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 I’d include examples of grids with higher percentages operating without a hitch today, but it feels almost cruel. +874 0 https://theicct.org/publications/comparing-real-world-cycle-nox-emissions-control-euro-iv-v-and-vi -1 The Euro VI vehicles showed a much smaller range, 0.01 to 0.50 gNOx/kWh, with an average of 0.13 g/kWh. +875 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 And we channel funds to partner organizations around the world — so they can find innovative ways to make conservation happen. +876 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 What VITAL will mean to the world is yet unknown +877 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 This theory, first proposed in 1996 based on data from the ESA/NASA Ulysses mission, could unify these two aspects Parker Solar Probe's early observations +878 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 It is flying in a downward direction relative to Earth's orbital plane, where it can be seen only from the southern hemisphere and thus can communicate only with the Australian site. +879 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 The mission's future solar encounters, progressively closer to the Sun, will help scientists further investigate the switchbacks' origins and test the predictions of this theory. +880 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 "The Canberra 70-meter antenna (called ""DSS43"") is the only such antenna in the southern hemisphere" +881 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Before MMS, scientists didn’t truly understand the specifics of how magnetic reconnection works, they only had general ideas +882 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 Their conclusion was that a “very large release of mostly volcanic carbon” drove the event +883 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 The first EXPRESS rack was successfully tested aboard the space shuttle in 1997 +884 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 These conditions would have even the most intrepid adventurers longing for the comforts of home +885 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 “He is currently working on a film about the state of the planet and the fate of humanity”, read his bio, in 2012 +886 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 “Don’t come in, the water’s foul!” we’d be urging. +887 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Known as the Red Planet because of the rust particles in its soil that give it a reddish hue, Mars has always fascinated the human mind +888 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 For those who want to join the discussions, there is no shortage of books that give detailed background and context on the subject +889 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 This satellite of Saturn is the second largest moon in our solar system after Ganymede +890 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 In the five years after launch, MMS made over a thousand trips around Earth, passing through countless magnetic reconnection events +891 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Fortunately, there are no known black holes in the vicinity of Earth or anywhere in the solar system, so we’re safe for now +892 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Seasons come from a planet’s tilt on its axis (Earth’s is 23.5 degrees), which tips each hemisphere either toward or away from the heat of the Sun throughout the year +893 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Not only is Titan much farther from the Sun than is Earth, its hazy atmosphere dims the sunlight, making daytime appear like twilight on Earth +894 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Van Buren canvassed JPL for experts, and the team — now about a dozen or so strong — held its kickoff meeting Monday, March 16 in Left Field, a whiteboard-lined space typically used for brainstorming early mission concepts +895 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 If there is one place in the universe we know of that could compete with Earth as a home for humans, Titan is it +896 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 Animation of igneous sills progressively intruding sediments during the onset of the PETM +897 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Despite the early growing pains, the team found their groove, designing, building and testing two different prototype models — one powered by a blower and another by a pneumatic system +898 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 On top of that, the thin Martian atmosphere (100 times thinner than Earth’s) and lack of a global magnetic field would leave us vulnerable to harmful radiation that damages cells and DNA; the low gravity (38% of Earth’s) would weaken our bones +899 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 Efficiency gains in solar have been so rapid that by leaving the dates off his footage he is very actively deceiving the audience +900 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 We were considering the FDA approval process on top of making sure each part we choose is available for mass production, and not just available, but available right now, Easter said +901 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 As a result, the purchase premium for electric vehicles was increased to a maximum of 6,000 EUR, with half of the amount to be provided by the government and the other half by the car manufacturer +902 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 In March 2019, at a crowded happy hour in Boulder, Colorado, I sat listening to Matt Shupe, an atmospheric scientist, describing his decades-long dream that was about to come true. +903 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 It's been amazing to be a part of such a grassroots project, and watching it just explode in an organic way from those first meetings into these working prototypes, Easter said +904 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Through observations such as these, SDO has provided scientists with new information about how the Sun interacts with comets. +905 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 “The EXPRESS Racks have been a cornerstone of science on the space station, and a vital part of our mission to make space exploration safer and more comfortable for our crews, and also reap untold scientific benefits back home on Earth.” +906 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 Think here of a New Delhi resident’s for the first time seeing the majesty of the Himalayas, the smog temporarily abated +907 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 “MMS’s measurements are critical because we can understand how magnetic reconnection happens in other places, even though we can’t get there,” said Kevin Genestreti, MMS research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute’s Earth, Oceans and Space Department at the University of New Hampshire in Durham +908 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Johnson, turned Gurevitch's lecture into requirements as they developed a working concept, design and prototype. +909 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 These multiyear observations help scientists understand signs that signal the decline of one solar cycle and the onset of the next. +910 0 https://skepticalscience.com/extraordinary-50th-earth-day.html -1 Idealistically ambitious in some cases (think “zero discharge” by 1977 under the Water Act)? True +911 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Its license is being offered free to manufacturers through the Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships at Caltech, which manages JPL for NASA. +912 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 The repairs will benefit far more than Voyager 2, including future missions like the Mars 2020 rover and Moon to Mars exploration efforts +913 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 In its first year and a half, SDO saw nearly 200 solar flares, which allowed scientists to spot a pattern +914 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/field-projects -1 Our scientists are getting their hands dirty to prove our belief that human prosperity, now and in the future, depends on nature +915 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 About the size of a 20-story office building, the dish has been in service for 48 years +916 0 https://theicct.org/publications/engines-and-tires-technology-areas-efficiency-improvements-trucks-and-buses-india -1 Each of these representative vehicles is modeled using data on vehicle characteristics for fiscal year 2013–2014 +917 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Just picture yourself standing on a warm, sandy beach, admiring the sunlight glimmering on an ocean that reaches from horizon to horizon +918 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 Conservation International will continue to partner with Althelia through our participation on its expert board and specific on-the-ground collaboration. +919 0 https://skepticalscience.com/climate-models.htm -1 Modern scientists, not anti-science skeptics, follow in Galileo’s footsteps +920 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 The switchbacks —essentially S-shaped kinks in the magnetic field lines streaming from the Sun — seem to arise from a reconfiguration of open and looped magnetic field lines already in the Sun's atmosphere +921 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/pale-blue-dot-revisited -1 "This celebrated Voyager 1 view was part of a series of 60 images designed to produce what the mission called the ""Family Portrait of the Solar System."" This sequence of camera-pointing commands returned images of six of the solar system's planets, as well as the Sun" +922 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Io, which from space looks like a moldy cheese pizza, has hundreds of volcanoes +923 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 The work on the Canberra DSN station is expected to be completed by January 2021 +924 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 In December 2011, scientist watched as Comet Lovejoy managed to survive the intense heating as it passed 516,000 miles above the solar surface +925 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 This is the 3rd part in a 3-part series on the PETM expanded from an article I originally wrote for Quanta Magazine and features quotes from interviews that appeared in that piece +926 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 In the meantime, said Dodd, the Voyager team will put the spacecraft into a quiescent state, which will still allow it to send back science data during the 11-month downtime. +927 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 A new paper by scientists Justin Kasper and Lennard Fisk of the University of Michigan suggests the origin of switchbacks are related to the way the Sun maintains and moves magnetic field lines that stretch out into the solar system, tied to a theory first proposed more than two decades ago. +928 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 Later, he presents the work of a researcher named Richard York, who claims that the addition of renewable energy has no impact on fossil fuel output +929 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Completely surprising scientists, MMS has seen events in turbulent regions in front of Earth that were previously expected to be too tumultuous for magnetic reconnection +930 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 The maintenance is needed to support the missions that NASA is developing and launching in the future, as well as supporting the missions that are operating right now, said Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager and JPL Director for the Interplanetary Network. +931 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 Van Buren said the obstacles discouraged no one. +932 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Using a statistical analysis of the large number of events seen with SDO, scientists were able to calculate the mass and velocity of Earth-directed CMEs — the most dangerous type +933 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/field-projects -1 Population growth, economic development and the region’s hydropower potential and mineral deposits have put new pressures on this crucial watershed. +934 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/human-rights -1 Every person on Earth has the right to food, water and a healthy environment — and to participate in decisions that affect their lives. +935 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Two coronal hole, the two dark areas, on the sun as seen by SDO. +936 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 While India is a different context and therefore not totally comparable, the only concession made was short—after the Coronavirus lockdown is lifted, car dealers will be given an extra 10 days to sell BS IV vehicles +937 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Earth has grassy fields, rugged mountains and icy glaciers +938 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 If the power plant generates less electricity, it uses less coal +939 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 When conservation offers concrete benefits to rural farmers and local communities, protecting the environment becomes an increasingly viable and attractive choice +940 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 And while there were a lot of different points of view to try to reconcile, a sense of purpose prevailed +941 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 The Sun is a giant ball of plasma, or super-heated gas +942 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 But the advantage is that when we come back, the Canberra antenna will be much more reliable. +943 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/field-projects -1 Our projects aren’t just designed to help people responsibly care for their natural wealth; we’re also working to deliver tangible benefits to communities, keeping them healthy and prosperous +944 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/rocket-borne-telescope-detects-super-fine-strands-on-the-sun/ -1 Hi-C is a solar telescope mounted on a sounding rocket, a sub-orbital rocket that makes brief flights into space before falling back to Earth +945 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Comet ISON in 2013 didn’t survive its encounter +946 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 Having such detailed data has allowed theoretical physicists to further refine their models and understand the specific mechanisms behind magnetic reconnection better than ever before. +947 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/pale-blue-dot-revisited -1 The popular name of this view is traced to the title of the 1994 book by Voyager imaging scientist Carl Sagan, who originated the idea of using Voyager's cameras to image the distant Earth and played a critical role in enabling the family portrait images to be taken. +948 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 If you only look at global annual electricity – the field in which batteries play – it’s around 20,000 TWh (they use a similar deception for Germany’s biomass share) +949 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 The selection process for which companies would be granted a free license was underway. +950 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 MMS has made pivotal scientific discoveries that are helping scientists understand the Earth’s magnetic environment — its magnetosphere — and magnetic reconnection, which powers magnetic storms around Earth and sparks the auroras +951 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 This, the authors suggest, is the expression of the plasma’s and magnetic field’s flow pattern deeper in the solar corona. +952 0 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2020/last-of-nasa-s-vital-versatile-science-express-racks-heads-to-space-station.html -1 The first two completed racks were delivered to the space station on STS-100 in 2001 and have been in continuous operation ever since -- as have all the subsequent added racks. +953 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 It has the potential to save lives, but all who helped build it hope coronavirus numbers never swell to a place where hospital ventilator capacities are exhausted. +954 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 MMS scientists are confident the spacecraft’s data will continue to fuel new discoveries for decades to come. +955 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Another thing you’d miss on Titan is seeing the Sun above your head, dazzling against an azure sky +956 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/field-projects -1 Their work is serving as an example for everyone, from businesses to governments to other scientists, who must protect nature for the benefit of us all. +957 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 Gutjahr et al based their estimate on boron isotopes as a proxy for ocean pH +958 0 https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/MarketMonitor-EU-Fact%20Sheet-20200428.pdf -1 Due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis, in March 2020 new car registrations dropped by 52% across Europe, compared to March 2019 +959 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 The connection between volcanic activity and the release of organic carbon was first spotted in 2004 by Henrik Svensen of the University of Oslo, and colleagues +960 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 They showed that ocean pH stayed low (more acidic) for around 50,000 years, which is very hard to achieve because ocean carbonate chemistry works to neutralize ocean acidification on timescales of around 10,000 years +961 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 More than 100 manufacturers from around the world applied for a free license to build VITAL, and licensees will be announced later this month. +962 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 There is sufficient time for the industry to sell the China 5 and transitional China 6-PN12 vehicle inventories and for a complete shift to the China 6 standard, including the final PN limit, on July 1, 2020. +963 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 It is clear, digging into these early posts, that he very passionately loathes the burning of trees to generate energy – a wildly controversial and genuinely problematic thing, for sure. +964 0 https://theicct.org/publications/light-commercial-vehicles-india-2014-15-technology-assessment-and-international -1 This reduction can be accomplished by introducing more fuel-efficient technologies to the LCV segment +965 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 That's because the Voyager's primary means of communication, the Deep Space Network's 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) radio antenna in Canberra, Australia, will be undergoing critical upgrades for about 11 months +966 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations -1 The Sun's less-common open field lines migrate between the Sun's north and south poles over the course of the approximately 11-year solar cycle, during which the overall magnetic field reverses in polarity +967 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 But the fact is the more we learn about out there the more we realize how special it is here +968 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 The site generates 64-64 MWh a year, according to the owner – a more recent installation in the same area generates around 436 +969 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 The volcanic portion of that carbon - as distinct from the carbon baked from sediments by sills - had very little carbon-12, and so it does not show-up in the shift of carbon isotopes recorded in sediments, even as it suppresses ocean pH +970 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Here are a few highlights of SDO’s accomplishments over the years. +971 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/human-rights -1 From mapping protected areas to implementing land restoration plans, all conservation decisions must be made with nothing less than the full participation of the communities affected by these decisions +972 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 We set up trust funds for protected areas +973 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/mms-marks-its-5th-year-breaking-records-in-space -1 MMS was originally launched for a two-year prime mission, and after its early successes it was extended an additional three years +974 0 https://theicct.org/publications/China6-position-brief-202004 -1 This could be an encouraging example for China. +975 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 Having no solid surface, the entire Sun is continually flowing due to the intense heat trying to escape and the rotation of the Sun +976 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 One side always faces the star, just like one side of the Moon always faces Earth +977 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/rocket-borne-telescope-detects-super-fine-strands-on-the-sun/ -1 New images from a NASA sounding rocket provide the highest-resolution views ever captured of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, revealing fine strands of million-degree solar material. +978 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 “Then Ozzie and I discovered that the giant solar arrays had been razed to the ground”, he moans +979 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Besides the hardships our bodies would endure, it would simply be less fun to live on Mars +980 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/field-projects -1 At Conservation International, we work on the ground with partners in more than 30 countries +981 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 On April 30, the Food and Drug Administration approved VITAL for a ventilator Emergency Use Authorization +982 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 In one instance, he tours a solar farm in Lansing, Michigan, in which a bemused official states that a large farm can only power ten homes in a year. +983 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Sunlight doesn’t glimmer on the water and there are no waves because Europa’s ocean is hidden beneath miles — perhaps tens of miles — of ice that encases the entire moon +984 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 But as early as 2010, Gibbs was posting HuffPost blogs extending that into wind and solar, too. +985 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 This moon of Jupiter is caught in a tug-of-war between the planet’s massive gravity and the pulling of two neighboring moons, Europa and Ganymede +986 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 The atmosphere would defend humans against harmful radiation +987 0 https://www.conservation.org/priorities/investing-in-nature -1 An investment in our planet is an investment in our future. +988 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Venus, barely tilted on its axis, has no seasons, though there are hints that it may have once looked and behaved much like Earth, including having oceans covering its rocky surface +989 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 At times the Sun’s surface is marked by large dark patches called coronal holes where extreme ultraviolet emission is low +990 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Earth can sometimes feel like the last place you’d want to be +991 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-deep-space-antenna-upgrades-to-affect-voyager-communications -1 The network operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and is spread over three sites around the world, in California, Spain and Australia +992 0 https://skepticalscience.com/ -1 Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say? +993 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/ten-things-we-ve-learned-about-the-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo-this-decade -1 When they interact with Earth’s magnetic environment, they can induce space weather, which can be hazardous to spacecraft and astronauts +994 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 On Mars, there’s plenty of sand, but not a single swimming hole, much less a lake or ocean, and the average temperature is around minus 81 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 63 degrees Celsius) +995 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/rocket-borne-telescope-detects-super-fine-strands-on-the-sun/ -1 Hi-C captured these images on its third flight from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on May 29, 2018 +996 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-engineers-at-nasa-jpl-persevered-to-develop-a-ventilator -1 On April 23, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine held a media briefing where JPL Associate Director of Strategic Integration Dave Gallagher discussed the development of VITAL +997 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/rocket-borne-telescope-detects-super-fine-strands-on-the-sun/ -1 The images show loops as thin as 125 miles across in areas that appear dim and fuzzy in other Sun-watching telescopes +998 0 https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=4742 -1 Or Germany, where gas output remains unchanged as coal plants shut down. +999 0 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/9-reasons-we-re-grateful-to-live-on-earth -1 Jupiter’s breathtaking swirls of colorful cloud bands might make this planet an appealing vacation destination … for skydivers