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Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy's blog June 25, 2021 by admin Does the principle of academic freedom protect Australian academics who publicly criticize their academic colleagues and university management? A case in the High Court…

The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating continuously in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for over thirty years, revealing unprecedented aspects of the universe. Not only did Hubble capture stunning images of our solar system and discover…

By Rud Istvan This post was motivated by May’s second here on paleoclimate, by comments to  Bradley Jr’s  climate models repost from AIER, and my previous posts and comments about climate models and equivalent (observational) or…

For future colonists on Mars, there will be all sorts of risks, such as extreme weather and temperature conditions, radiation, and the human physiological problems associated with life under reduced gravity. But another problem means that…

Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog June 24, 2021 Incredible temperatures are predicted and now there is high confidence that they will occur There are two possibilities: The northwest is about to experience one of the…

It’s good to remember how little we know about the outer solar system.  Humans only really began observing it within the past 100 years, and given the constraints on that observations there are still plenty of things we don’t know about. …

Reposted by AIER Robert L. Bradley Jr. - June 23, 2021 "Climate modeling is central to climate science ..." (Stephen Koonin, below) If the history of climate modeling is written in the distant future, the main story could be…

At the beginning of 2020, the red giant star Betelgeuse started to dim significantly. Betelgeuse has been known to vary in brightness, but this one was unusual. It grew much dimmer than usual, and for a longer period. Since Betelgeuse is a…

Guest contribution by Eric Worrall According to the Institute of Public Policy Research, even electric vehicles are not green enough to allow car ownership to grow unhindered. Climate change: Set a goal to reduce car use, the…

Florida-based Space Perspective is opening its ticket window for 20-mile-high balloon flights that provide an astronaut’s-eye view of Earth. The list price for a six-hour trip up into the stratosphere and back is $125,000. Flights are…