Quark Soup by David Appell

Here's a rather stunning chart from the US National Climate Assessment 2018, Chapter 25 . It shows that since 1984, climate change has...

I don't know what "Bitcoin territory" means here -- perhaps the same level of CO2 being produced by Bitcoin mining -- but the ...

Some people complain that this is the hottest summer in the last 125 years, but I like to think of it as the coolest summer of the next 1...

There's another hockey stick in the scientific literature, this one from the PAGES 2k Consortium in Nature Geoscience . It used over 700...

I wonder if this will become a thing. Researchers are going to put a plaque in Iceland memorializing the first lost glacier in that country...

You've probably heard by now that June 2019's global mean surface temperature (GMST) was the warmest June in the records , according...

I am seeing lots of citations to the Kauppinen and Malmi preprint that came out two weeks ago: "NO EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR THE SIG...

It's hard to believe that New Orleans could be inundated again just 14 years after Hurricane Katrina and subsequent fixes. If it's a...

Rosanna Xia wrote in the Los Angeles Times : In the last 100 years, the sea rose less than 9 inches in California. By the end of this cen...

Of course, we all know this, but it's good to see the Trump administration admit that cutting pollution is not incompatible with econom...

This is a remarkable video of someone I found completely captivating. It speaks for itself. Eva Kor just died at the age of 85.

Job gains during Trump's first 28 months: 5.61 M. During Obama's last 28 months: 6.42 M. Sources: FRED USPRIV , FRED USGOVT

This is interesting, but it's not really a surprise that shadowy Russians/Eastern Europeans would be the hackers. I hope the journalist...

As we've been discussing US coal production under Trump, here's the larger picture, since 2002. ( Same source. )

US coal production under Trump:

Here's my second article for Physics World on the Astrobiology Science Conference 2019 in Bellevue: "How to look for signs o...

I'm at the 2019 Astrobiology science conference in Bellevue, Washington. I wrote about my first day and a half here for Physics World...

End of the day wrap-up on actions surrounding Oregon's cap-and-trade bill, HB 2020. The Oregon Republican senators are still hiding. T...

Naturally one of Oregon's state senators presented this argument : After numerous unsuccessful attempts to kill the bill on Monday, Ho...