Quark Soup by David Appell

(Hey, that rhymes, get it?) From my friend Jim D, a retired chemistry professor from Linfield College in Oregon who moved back east with his...

As with most things, Kevin McCarthy is confused: I heard the President gave a big speech about economics. Do you know what would be good e...

In the US, the murder rate in states that voted for Trump is 40% about higher than states that voted for Biden, and the gap is increasing: f...

I asked Bing Image Creator to create a picture using the text in the title of this post. These were the best two: Took about a minute, once ...

Here's an interesting graphic from the Washington Post  about the evolution of how people make and receive phone calls. I went wireless-...

Taken by NASA's rover Perseverance as the moon Phobos passes in front of the Sun, on  April 2, 2022 . The eclipse lasted 40 seconds.  Ph...

Link: https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1672085759694893058

Multnomah County in Oregon is suing several fossil fuel companies for causing the monster heat wave in Oregon in June 2021 . Multnomah Coun...

This tweet made me want to look at the latest sea surface temperatures at the U of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer, and they're somethi...

From William Ripple, a professor of ecology at Oregon State University. There is just too much money to be made in fossil fuels (~ $100T?)....

The writer Cormac McCarthy has died. But not before this bit of pessimism , from a 1992 interview with the New York Times : McCarthy wrote A...

People without any semblance of shame will be the downfall of this country.  -- -- David Appell, freelance science writer e: david.appell@gm...

Not much of a trend: Source: Canadian Broadcasting 5/25/2023. Corporation,  https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/canada-wildfire-data-change-1.68...

No progress in 15 years. The CO2 emissions from fossil fuel energy production won't follow the same curve because the mixture of fuels -...

The IRI at Columbia University is out with their latest monthly ENSO prediction , and the average predicts a strong El Nino beginning around...

Looks like something from Planet of the Apes. ... Hey, maybe that movie was set after global warming had destroyed mankind, and sea level ri...

America 2023. Jesus F... Christ. This is an actual ad from the FBI. pic.twitter.com/JNr5rCF392 — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) May ...

The record high for global average sea surface temperature (SST) is about 0.2°C. The orange line is 2022. Same for the North Atlantic: Plots...

"Mike Lindell’s firm told to pay $5 million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge," Chris Dehghanpoor, Emma Brown and Jo...