Quark Soup by David Appell

Are there butterflies who flap their wings and so prevent storms and hurricanes?

OHC numbers for the second quarter of 2018 are in, and they show some significant (but not seriously anomalous) drops: Numbers indicate...

A Scientific American article says , Just 66 percent of millennials firmly believe that the Earth is round,” read the summary from the po...

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/breaking-powerful-magnitude-82-earthquakes-strikes-near-fiji-no-tsunami-threat-expected/70005824

Near Fiji. An M8.2 EQ is pretty big. An M > 8 happens only about one and a fraction times per year.... -------- Forwarded Message ...

Drought is starting to look serious.  This is the first time I've seen "extreme drought" pop up in Oregon this year. In Salem ...

I don't believe evil is some universal substance or essence that infects certain people and causes them to do "evil" things. I...

California has it highest average July temperature since records started in 1895, and also its hottest month ever. In the last 30 years it ...

Naomi: "Is there a plan B?" Holden: "Yeah, make sure Plan A works." - The Expanse, S2 E13 , "Caliban...

Yesterday: "The Supreme Court Refuses to Halt a Climate Change Lawsuit Brought by Children and Teenages." ( Pacific Standard ) B...

Bill Nye. Marc Morano. No. There is a censorship trend starting up that I really hope doesn't catch on, but I'm afraid it migh...

With all the news of fires in the West, especially the Carr Fire in northern California, I thought I'd look at the statistics . This ye...

Here's a hoot: Oregon's leading climate change denier, Gordon Fulks, thinks the CO2 from human respiration contributes to climate ch...

Update next day : Turns out this was a permitted, controlled burn of 389 acres. (Permits for lung protection must be applied for separately...

You may have heard of the lawsuit filed by 21 children in 2015, many of them from Oregon, alleging that climate change violates the right...

Awhile ago I posted about the temperatures of different types of ENSO seasons -- La Ninas, El Ninos, and neutral seasons -- and said I woul...

If the first men on the moon had become stranded, President Nixon would have given this speech White House speechw...

Here's a really interesting video  from a fire in southern California, where the whirl intense fire creates a water spout in the neighbo...