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How To Search the Chemical Make-up of Exoplanet Atmospheres for Hints at Their Historical past
Author’s note – this article was written with Dr. Vincent Kofman, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), working in the Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC), and the lead author on the research it…
Drought – Carried out With It?
Originally tweeted by Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) on June 14, 2021.
I was curiousSo I graphed the percentage of CONUS in drought according to the US drought monitor, the data is weekly from 1/2000…
Astronomers have discovered the proper exoplanet to review one other world’s environment
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has found a new planet, and the discovery of this sub-Neptune exoplanet is exciting scientists to atmospheres. The combination of the planet's size, its thick atmosphere, and its orbit around a…
Swiss voters reject new local weather taxes – agree?
Guest contribution by Eric Worrall
According to the BBC, “the rejection of voters undermines Switzerland’s overall strategy to comply with the Paris Agreement. Today's results are a devastating blow to environmentalists. "
Swiss…
What’s the relationship between the chemistry of a star and the formation of its planets?
Scientists seem to have come up with a new parlor game - how many ways can we potentially discover exoplanets? The two most common methods, the transit method and the Doppler method, each have their own problems. Alternative methods are…
Weekly Local weather and Vitality Information Roundup #458 – Watts Up With That?
The Week That Was: 2021-06-12 (June 12, 2021)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project
Quote of the Week: “There are but two ways of forming an opinion in science. One is the scientific method;…
It is time for perseverance to get to work
With all the news about the landing and the first few months of operation of the Perseverance rover on Mars, it may come as a surprise that its actual scientific mission has not even begun. That changed on June 1, when the rover…
Betrayers of the Reality – Watts Up With That?
By Jim Steele
On May 5, 2021, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published Nicholas Wade’s article “The Origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?” After detailing all evidence the article suggested…
Asteroid 16 Psyche May Not be a Stable Chunk of Metallic After All, however One other Rubble Pile
Asteroid 16 Psyche, often sensationally dubbed the $10 quadrillion dollar asteroid due to its composition of valuable metals, may not be entirely what it seems. A new paper out of the University of Arizona suggests that the asteroid is…
Results of the drought within the western United States – Watts with it?
From Rud Istvan,
The mainstream media (MSM) are enthusiastic about the current drought in the West, which is supposedly caused by "anthropogenic climate change". Lots of "we're going to die" things. Charles has a way of provoking…