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The Historyscoper's Science and Technology Watch Blog Apr. 2, 2015

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Do Universities Believe in Climate Change?

https://medium.com/@evanwarfel/do-universities-believe-in-climate-change-41b9e597b70a

We Still Have No Idea How to Eliminate More Than a Quarter of Energy Emissions. Air travel, shipping, and manufacturing are huge sources of carbon that we lack good options for addressing

https://medium.com/mit-technology-review/we-still-have-no-idea-how-to-eliminate-more-than-a-quarter-of-energy-emissions-42c25fb7e2c0

Why did they launch Apollo 12 during a thunderstorm?

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-they-launch-Apollo-12-during-a-thunderstorm

Why is CO2 blamed for global warming when it has low heat capacity and low concentration in the atmosphere while water vapor, with much higher concentration and much higher heat capacity is the real cause?

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-CO2-blamed-for-global-warming-when-it-has-low-heat-capacity-and-low-concentration-in-the-atmosphere-while-water-vapor-with-much-higher-concentration-and-much-higher-heat-capacity-is-the-real-cause

Fraudulent Science Deserves No Place In Court

https://papundits.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/fraudulent-science-deserves-no-place-in-court/

NASA AWARDS COPPER 3D GRANT FOR 3D PRINTING ANTIBACTERIAL MEDICAL DEVICES IN SPACE

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/nasa-awards-copper-3d-grant-for-3d-printing-antibacterial-medical-devices-in-space-148338/

Transforming flat elastomers into 3D shapes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190204132539.htm

FAA PROPOSES REFINED DRONE REGULATIONS

https://hackaday.com/2019/02/04/faa-proposes-refined-drone-regulations/

Women's brains appear three years younger than men's. May explain why women more likely to stay mentally sharp in later years

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190204172217.htm

Supposedly "Fair" Algorithms Can Perpetuate Discrimination

https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-joi-ito-insurance-algorithms/

Physicists uncover the topological origin of surface electromagnetic waves

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-physicists-uncover-topological-surface-electromagnetic.html

Where do the best strawberries grow? Scientists investigate positive effects of hedgerows on pollination

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190204114529.htm

January Was Unusually Warm—Yes, Warm!—Despite That Cold Snap

https://www.wired.com/story/january-record-warmth-despite-the-polar-vortex/

Interesting Images Show U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Launching From USS Wasp In “Beast Mode”

https://theaviationist.com/2019/02/04/interesting-images-show-u-s-marine-corps-f-35b-launching-from-uss-wasp-in-beast-mode/

Researchers unearth an ice age in the African desert

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-unearth-ice-age-african.html

How Climate Change Threatens UK Fruit & Veg


https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/how-climate-change-threatens-uk-fruit-veg/

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

China’s Thermal Generation Rose 7.2% In 2018

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/chinas-thermal-generation-rose-7-2-in-2018/

Is Bill Nye correct that because of global warming America will have to grow its food in Canada?

https://www.quora.com/Is-Bill-Nye-correct-that-because-of-global-warming-America-will-have-to-grow-its-food-in-Canada

How long have we known about the greenhouse effect?

https://www.quora.com/How-long-have-we-known-about-the-greenhouse-effect

A Brutal Example Of Why 100% Renewables Can’t Work

https://papundits.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/a-brutal-example-of-why-100-renewables-cant-work/

Graphene in Play-Doh-like form can be molded into any shape

https://newatlas.com/graphene-play-go-doh-shapes-sizes/58306/

China Plans First Seaborne Rocket Launch in Mid-2019

https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/02/china-plans-first-seaborne-rocket.html

For The First Time Ever, Scientists Have Produced Fractal Light From Lasers

https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-scientists-have-produced-fractal-light-from-lasers

After 6.5 Years on Mars, Scientists Have Discovered a New Way to Use Curiosity

https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-has-just-measured-the-weight-of-the-mars-mountain-she-s-climbing

Floating Robots Spotted a Huge Plume of Magma Under the Galápagos

https://www.livescience.com/64680-galapagos-magma-plume-mermaids.html

Climate modeling illusions

http://www.cfact.org/2019/01/29/climate-modeling-illusions/

Most Scientific Research of Western Medicine Untrustable & Fraudulent, Say Insiders and Experts

http://humansarefree.com/2019/02/most-scientific-research-of-western.html

The Lancet’s Latest Far Left Propaganda–Obesity

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/the-lancets-latest-far-left-propaganda-obesity/

If the Earth's temperatures rose more before 1940 and carbon emissions exploded after 1940, how do carbon emissions cause global warming?

https://www.quora.com/If-the-Earths-temperatures-rose-more-before-1940-and-carbon-emissions-exploded-after-1940-how-do-carbon-emissions-cause-global-warming

If average temperatures will keep dropping around the globe the way they are, are we ever going to stop kidding ourselves about the global warming or AGW?

https://www.quora.com/If-average-temperatures-will-keep-dropping-around-the-globe-the-way-they-are-are-we-ever-going-to-stop-kidding-ourselves-about-the-global-warming-or-AGW

Why is CO2 blamed for climate change when ice core data does not back this up? The word has been colder with more CO2, and warmer with less.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-CO2-blamed-for-climate-change-when-ice-core-data-does-not-back-this-up-The-word-has-been-colder-with-more-CO2-and-warmer-with-less

What is the weather going to do to us?

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-weather-going-to-do-to-us

Is the recent cold snap in the United States an isolated incident or a sign of future extremes of cold weather?

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-recent-cold-snap-in-the-United-States-an-isolated-incident-or-a-sign-of-future-extremes-of-cold-weather

What’s in a Half a Degree? 2 Very Different Future Climates. A new IPCC report shows the impacts in the near future that can be avoided by limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius instead of 2 degrees C

https://medium.com/scientific-american/whats-in-a-half-a-degree-2-very-different-future-climates-862087235ce4

The Nuclear Option (video)

https://greenjihad.com/2019/02/03/the-nuclear-option/

WHY “Green” Energy Is Futile, In One Lesson

https://climatism.blog/2019/02/04/why-green-energy-is-futile-in-one-lesson/

Western Europe Power Mix In January

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/02/03/western-europe-power-mix-in-january/

This Man Is About to Blow Up Mathematics. Harvey Friedman is about to bring incompleteness and infinity out of quarantine

https://medium.com/s/nautilus-power/this-man-is-about-to-blow-up-mathematics-d8b2c50b85f6

Climate Change Is Conspicuously Absent From College Textbooks. Introductory textbooks scarcely mention climate or energy.

https://nexusmedianews.com/climate-change-is-conspicuously-absent-from-college-textbooks-94833d325823

Extreme weather is triggering climate despair. More people will become hopeless unless there’s radical change

https://medium.com/radical-urbanist/extreme-weather-is-triggering-climate-despair-84318777f6d1

New York Eco-Extremists Versus The Middle Class

https://papundits.wordpress.com/2019/02/03/new-york-eco-extremists-versus-the-middle-class/

Since the north United States was just hit with sub zero temperatures (-50) is that an effect of climate change?

https://www.quora.com/Since-the-north-United-States-was-just-hit-with-sub-zero-temperatures-50-is-that-an-effect-of-climate-change

As solar is becoming more common, why isn't wind power used more for residential applications?

How come golf ball-sized hailstones have battered Sydney? It this due to global warming?


https://www.quora.com/How-come-golf-ball-sized-hailstones-have-battered-Sydney-It-this-due-to-global-warming/

Monday, February 18, 2019

Is there a limit to the amount of CO2 the ocean can absorb? If so, are we in danger of reaching that limit? What would the consequences be if reached?

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-limit-to-the-amount-of-CO2-the-ocean-can-absorb-If-so-are-we-in-danger-of-reaching-that-limit-What-would-the-consequences-be-if-reached

The Burmese python and the fight for the Florida Everglades

https://www.dw.com/en/the-burmese-python-and-the-fight-for-the-florida-everglades/a-44599606

HEART of A Nation: Cockatoo Reef, Queensland

http://climatism.blog/2019/02/03/heart-of-a-nation-cockatoo-reef-queensland/

How stupid is a leader that does not understand the difference between climate and weather?

https://www.quora.com/How-stupid-is-a-leader-that-does-not-understand-the-difference-between-climate-and-weather

Who needs net neutrality when the Internet is working just fine?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/who-needs-net-neutrality-when-the-internet-is-working-just-fine

How widespread within NASA is the conviction that human activity is responsible for the extent of climate change?

https://www.quora.com/How-widespread-within-NASA-is-the-conviction-that-human-activity-is-responsible-for-the-extent-of-climate-change

The Earth is Dying No, global warming is not a hoax put on by the Chinese. *face palm*

https://metizamagazine.com/the-earth-is-dying-8e2515148bc5

Flashback to 2007: Snowdon will be snow-free in 13 years, scientists warn

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/flashback-to-2007-snowdon-will-be-snow-free-in-13-years-scientists-warn/

How Golf Is Polluting Our Oceans. 300 million golf balls are lost every year

https://medium.com/s/story/how-golf-is-polluting-our-oceans-eddb8b59ddc9

The Debate Is Over: The Oceans Are in Hot, Hot Water

https://medium.com/@grist/the-debate-is-over-the-oceans-are-in-hot-hot-water-614958bb7d6e

Monster Storm To Hit Los Angeles

https://patch.com/california/studiocity/s/glzaw/monster-storm-to-hit-los-angeles

Oil refiners get behind UN fuel rules that analysts say will drive up prices in 2020

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/oil-refiners-get-behind-un-fuel-rules-that-analysts-say-will-drive-up-prices-in-2020

The Polar Vortex and the Climate. When a warming planet gets very cold.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/opinion/polar-vortex-global-warming.html

Los Angeles Is the Face of Climate Change

https://medium.com/s/2069/los-angeles-is-burning-f9fab1c212cb

Inside the Experiment That Could End Infertility. In the future, we may be making eggs and sperm from our skin. A lot has to happen first.

https://medium.com/s/2069/inside-the-experiment-that-could-end-infertility-53a3fba5f89a

It’s time to ditch Google Analytics. In the last year, a swell of privacy-focused website analytics platforms have started to provide an alternative to Google’s tracking behemoth.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90300072/its-time-to-ditch-google-analytics

Polar melting: 'Methane time bomb' isn't actually a 'bomb' Researchers cast doubt on one of the scariest ideas in climate science.

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/01/methane-time-bomb-isnt-actually-a-bomb/

2018's most significant climate change reports. This month's bookshelf points to the past year's most significant and authoritative climate change reports.

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/01/significant-2018-climate-change-reports/

What's the best Space history textbook?

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-Space-history-textbook/answer/TL-Winslow

How Will Chicago’s Birds Weather the Polar Vortex?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-do-birds-survive-cold-winter

What theory is being proposed by global warming pundits regarding record low temperatures in northern states? Are they going to rename once global warming, than climate change, to now global cooling?

https://www.quora.com/What-theory-is-being-proposed-by-global-warming-pundits-regarding-record-low-temperatures-in-northern-states-Are-they-going-to-rename-once-global-warming-than-climate-change-to-now-global-cooling

Where in North America will climate change be most acutely experienced and why?

https://www.quora.com/Where-in-North-America-will-climate-change-be-most-acutely-experienced-and-why