Quark Soup by David Appell

WaPo calculated that Elon Musk flew 150,000 miles last year in his private jet. Let's calculate estimate his carbon footprint. Mu...

A letter to the editor of the American Journal of Physics in 1989: Mermin is both quite a character and quite a good scientist -- I ...

Wild horses at a dried up watering hole near Alice Springs ( BBC ). Temperatures reached as high as 49.5°C (121°F). This must be a very terr...

Greta Thunberg, the (now) 16-year old who spoke truth to power at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December, is at the World...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists declined to change the time on their Doomsday Clock -- it's still 11:58:00 pm. "As dangerous ...

“It is generally foolish to bet against the judgements of science, and in this case, when the planet is at stake, it is insane.” - Stev...

Eric Steig put this graph on Twitter: Remember that quaint time when folks thought Antarctica was cooling? The last 10 years at South ...

I didn't realize that China's energy consumption had flatlined. From the EIA : Per capita, these data imply that the average ...

Is it OK to have a business model that depends on actively exploiting scientific illiteracy? Please, @WholeFoods , we need to educate, not...

The Doomsday Clock, set every year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board, will be reset this January 24th...

There's important climate news in the last week -- ocean warming has been found to be 40% higher than was given five years ago by the I...

Pacific Island Represent! ( @PIrepresent ) 1/8/19, 1:48 PM We had the honour of meeting . ⁦‪@GretaThunberg‬⁩ , 15 year-old Swedish cli...

Who? Roy Spencer . I'm not sure where it comes from, but it doesn't matter -- he needs to retake an undergraduate course in the...

Here's an admirable case of bookkeeping: " Global Carbon Budget 2018 " in the journal Earth System Science Data by Le Quéré a...

Merry Christmas, whatever you are (or aren't).

Recently I realized why I don't get many comments on this blog -- I don't blog about open-ended issues. I certainly appreciate the...

Here's a nice comparison of Arctic warming -- north of 80 deg north latitude -- comparing 1958's average temperature to 2018's. ...

"Two hours from his office, her car crests the cliff road and the church steeple juts into view. The rest of town follows, hunched in ...