Quark Soup by David Appell

I haven't written anything about the fires in Los Angeles, particularly with respect to climate change, because, well, the causes and pr...

Perhaps you remember this vomitous piece of feculence .   In an article published two days ago by the Western Standard ( whoever they are)...

Paul Dirac's comment on Robert Oppenheimer's interest in poetry: "The aim of science is to make difficult things understandabl...

Here's a "dolphin stampede" off the coast of Dana Point in Southern California, posted two weeks ago on YouTube .   I don'...

I had higher ambitions, but this started to become tedious. As always, click the image for a clearer view.

From Nature magazine . (Might be paywalled, I get free access so I'm not sure what permissions are set for me.) "Earth sha...

Note added: Oh, yeah--Trump says he want to ban all construction of new wind turbines, because they're "ugly" and somethin...

 Here's NOAA's 12-month average temperature as a function of the ENSO category of that season: El Nino seasons keep getting hotter,...

Land subsidence in Florida has been in the news lately, as a study  from the University of Miami came out last month. From El Futbolero : Th...

Seems Musk is mostly a narcissistic drug addict. Maybe he thinks he's doing his part by impregnating any woman who will put up with hi...

Last month was the lowest Arctic sea ice extent (among Decembers) in the record. [it's an Excel file] For the year, Arctic SIE ranked a...

Data sources: monthly national health care spending from the Altarum Institute Medicare and Medicaid US government spending via FRED M...

I hadn't checked the Nino3.4 sea surface temperature in several weeks, and was surprised to see this: This is from tropicaltidbits.com ...

I didn't know that Kevin Trenberth, the long-time climate scientist at NOAA in Boulder, published an autobiography in 2023. It's tit...

Gore turns it on at about 4:30 into the video , with the word "but." This is from the World Economic Forum December 9, 2023 .   ...

* once you buy the boat. via The New York Post .

This is from a paper in Science last week, "Recent global temperature surge intensified by record-low planetary albedo," Goesslin...

Methane concentration in the atmosphere. Eyeballing, it looks be accelerating since 2010. I'm not going to do a calculation based on jus...

Price of chicken breast in the US. November 2024 is a reference value of 100. (The Nov-2024 price is $4.01/pound.) Prices adjusted via...

Here's a long story by CBS News on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay , a tiny island that is shrinking due to erosion and sea level ri...