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Skip the fireworks this record-dry 4th of July – Watts Up With That?
Fireworks
Philip Higuera, The University of Montana; Alexander L. Metcalf, The University of Montana; Dave McWethy, Montana State University, and Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado Boulder
The heat wave hitting the…
Astronomers Detected a Black Gap-Neutron Star Merger, and Then One other Simply 10 Days Later
The interior of a neutron star is perhaps the strangest state of matter in the universe. The material is squeezed so tightly that atoms collapse into a sea of nuclear material. We still aren’t sure whether nucleons maintain their integrity…
As US and Europe push local weather insurance policies, Center East and Russian state oil producers…
Reposted from the South China Morning Post
The View by Tilak K. Doshi
In the long term, US and EU green policies to reduce fossil fuel investments will increase the market share of Middle Eastern and Russian oil and gas…
To get the perfect direct photographs of exoplanets with house telescopes, we are going to search…
The James Webb (JWST) and Nancy Grace Roman (RST) space telescopes will be launched into space between 2021 and 2024. Successor to several observatories (such as Hubble, Kepler, Spitzer, and others), these missions will carry out some of…
Was 2020 a File-Breaking Hurricane Season? Sure, However. . . – Watts Up With That?
Reposted from Inside the Eye, Official Blog of the National Hurricane Center
POSTED ON JUNE 30, 2021 UPDATED ON JUNE 30, 2021
Chris Landsea and Eric Blake
An Incredibly Busy Hurricane Season
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane…
Criticize the media to disclaim that local weather revolutionaries have orchestrated an rebellion…
Guest contribution by Eric Worrall
The other day WUWT published a satirical article suggesting that self-described climate revolutionaries who sat on their backs in front of the White House demanding money were a "riot". We seem to…
China releases sound and video of its rover touchdown
Do you remember the stunning video of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars? The Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) has now released similar video footage from their Zhurong rover, including the sounds recorded as they plunged through…
Main Media FAIL on Reporting the Pacific Northwest Heatwave – Watts Up With That?
The headline in E&E News, WOWT-TV, Scientific American, WorldNewsNetwork, and other media outlets this week, “Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Climate Change” couldn’t possibly be more unscientific. With…
33rd anniversary of world warming – a celebration of failure – so?
Guest contribution by Larry Hamlin
Climate alarmists celebrate the 33 years since the June 23, 1988 hearing of the Democratic Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee that opened the door to global warming climate alarmism with…
Astronomers Spy a CME Throughout Totality
There's an old adage that says there is 'nothing new under the Sun ...' but that doesn't apply when it comes to solar eclipse science.
Beyond just providing an awesome celestial spectacle, astronomers have often taken advantage of the…