Quark Soup by David Appell

“If you can see a thing whole,” he said, “it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives…But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. An...

If you need an update on the latest sea surface temperatures, this is from Zack Labe on Bluesky :

2024 global energy-related CO2 emissions were a record high , at 37.8 Gt, according to the International Energy Administration (IEA). That...

Here's a graph from Skinner 2012 that I've never seen before and I'm surprised I've never seen it before--the climate sensi...

Lake Winnipesaukee is the largest lake in New Hampshire, US, at 185 km 2 (71.4 mi 2 ) (8.4 mi) 2 . I still find it interesting because for ...

Andreas Schleicher, the head of education and skills at the O.E.C.D., told The Financial Times , “Thirty percent of Americans read at a leve...

Sheesh. Via:  https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/global/time-series/globe/tavg/land_ocean/1/0/1850-2025

At least Elon Musk's popularity (in the US) is tanking. Or at least declining:   Imagine the richest person in the world getting to de...

“Suffering is a misunderstanding,” Shevek said, leaning forward, his eyes wide and light. He was still lanky, with big hands, protruding ...

Movie trailer , from an Australian director who posits that actor Henry Fonda was the embodiment of America itself.  "Caged and fighti...

Very cool:

Pardon me, I try to avoid blogging about hockey, but this is an amazing goal by Brian Rust of the [my] Pittsburgh Penguins.   Notice h...

The NSIDC says that Arctic sea ice just set a record for the lowest annual maximum. This is from their press release. I've abbreviated ...

from "The COSPAR planetary protection requirements for space missions to Venus," María Paz Zorzano et al, Life Sciences in Space ...

An article in the NY Times ( free link ) reports on a World Meteorological Organization report that says the 10 warmest years in the surfa...

The blogger Kevin Drum has died. He was one of the first bloggers I ever read regularly, way back in the early-to-mid aughts. The NY Times ...

Source: Tropicaltidbits.com

Roy Spencer continues to make some very sad, desperate arguments in the name of climate denial. Arguments are that beneath him as a professi...