Quark Soup by David Appell

Did you catch this quote at the end of today's  NYT story on colony collapse disorder? But Mr. Adee, who said he had long scorned en...

Watching the Stossel show again, I have to say, I thought both scientists did a good job of explaining where they're coming from. Gav...

If you're looking for it, here is video of the Gavin Schmidt/Roy Spencer debate/not-a-debate on John Stossel's show. Stossel real...

Science Friday had some interesting segments today, including "The Secret Life of the Sonaran Desert." It was live before an aud...

This "haitus" business is really getting ridiculous. Graham Lloyd at The Australian has now put it at 20 years: DEBATE about...

Jerry Coyne has a nice story ( via Wikipedia ) about the primatologist Jane Goddall, and the (loved by many scientists) cartoonist Gary Lar...

Today the U.S. Energy Information Agency put out final energy numbers for 2012. U.S. CO2 emissions continued to drop, down 205 mil...

I keep seeing things that look to me like many are finally starting to take climate change seriously.  There was the letter from the Oregon ...

It's hard to imagine this happening even five years ago: the governors of Oregon and Washington have cited climate change as a reason fo...

In response to the budget sequester, NASA has suspended all education and public outreach programs. Not only can't the U.S. get back ...

Flowers on a Camellia Tree in my sister's backyard, Portland Oregon "Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a littl...

A paper just out in GRL by Balmaseda, Trenberth and Källén claims to have affirmed the location of the "missing energy" in the ...

Here's what you get for trying to comment at Watts: See how easy it is to enforce unanimity of thought? Stalin Lysenko would be p...

We are in trouble -- GISS just posted their new anomaly numbers for February -- +0.49°C. That makes the past 12 months 0.06°C warmer than ...

...and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a political scientist. (H/T/ Martin Niemöller ) Yesterday the U.S. Senate voted to...

Here's just one of the papers  containing the Planck results, with more authors than there stars in some globular clusters. Besides ...

The Universe just got 100 million years older -- or, rather, it's 100 Myr older than previously thought -- according to the Planck satel...

Here's a map from NASA that shows the amount of vegetative growth in the western hemisphere of the Arctic over the past 30 years. (The e...

Maybe we have entered an era where scientists have to write an op-ed or FAQ every time they are misrepresented by a journalist or blogger. (...