Quark Soup by David Appell

Did you know there is no simple formula for the circumference of an ellipse? Earlier I wanted to calculate (don't ask) the average spe...

This upcoming TV series looks good, unless all the jokes are in the trailer. Due September 10th. There's a new Star Trek series co...

Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) just demonstrated why private health insurance cannot provide necessary care to all Americans -- and, what's ...

I like this, from Scott Denning's Twitter profile ( @airscottdenning ): "Tweeting about the 3 S's of Climate Change: Simple. ...

Admittedly, it wasn't very difficult. All Perry could do was just dumbly deny what the science says : I think Franken might be th...

Deniers like to believe there are reasons why a decline in the Sun's irradiance will lead to another ice age -- it's not true -- a...

From Bloomberg News : However, US coal production is was on a bit of an upswing in recent months. Temporary, surely. And I don...

Here's a great picture of tribal salmon fishing at Celilo Falls, on the Columbia River, once the fourth largest waterfall in the world  ...

He wrote: "...too much carbon dioxide is dangerous." From the Evening Standard  on February 2, 1988. Via Ed Hawkins on ...

I received the sad news today that one of my officemates in graduate school, Con Beausang, passed away the other day. Con was an experime...

So, most of the US's recent reductions in CO2 emissions are due to fracking, which has produced enough natural gas at a low enough price...

"Let These Cartoonists Illustrate The Horror Of Trump's Climate Change Stance" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-cha...

An interesting through from The World in 2050: Four Forces shaping Civilization's Northern Future , by Laurence C. Smith (2009):

At least, per capita, from 1850-2005. This result is from a 2014 paper by Damon Matthews et al, "National contributions to observed ...

That Larsen C ice shelf is now said to be in its last days.... "The crack has spread 17 miles over the past six days." http:/...

I noticed that US CO2 emissions for Feb 2017 were 8% below those of a year ago, Feb 2016. Ignoring the notion that Trump, in his first fu...

Hey, it's just a cartoon. And some of us aren't afraid to be specks -- I think, in a way, it makes the universe all that more glo...

Here are FY 2018 funding levels for several key federal R&D agencies, according to the American Chemical Society: $9.4 million for t...

Today NOAA announced that April was the 2nd-warmest year in their records. The monthly calculations of JMO and GISS found the same. I tho...