Why should I care? Other than a pass time, a passing interest, a means by which to comprehend our position in the cosmos, what is the purpose of...

Chile Poised to Host Biggest Telescope in the World The largest astronomical instrument in the world, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), will...

On Mar 4, 11:35*pm, Sam Wormley wrote: Bubble, Bubble, Warming and Trouble Vast quantities of methane are stored in ocean...

Europe's system for industrial carbon quotas has enriched the continent's biggest polluters, with ten firms together reaping permits for 2008 alone worth 500...

Go to: http://www.theastropost.com/smf/index.php?topic=946.0 -- Martin R. Howell

Early Origin of Earth's Magnetic Field Earth's magnetic field protects us from stellar winds and radiation from the Sun. Understanding when, during the...

Aging Snowball Earth Earth's glacial cycles have varied dramatically over time; at one point glaciers may have covered nearly the entire planet. Correlating...

2009: Second warmest year on record; end of warmest decade http://climate.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?NewsID=249 By Adam Voiland, NASA’s Earth Science News...

Does CO2 have a big role in why Mars heats up to -20C in daytime? It seems to me that it would even though it is a thin atmosphere there but full of CO2.

"Q1. Is it legitimate to use CRU TS 2.0 to 'detect anthropogenic climate change' (IPCC language)? A1. No. CRU TS 2.0 is specifically not designed for climate...

Whenever you read about astronomers never having witnessed unexplained aerial events..this is very wrong. In the 50's reputible PROFESSIONAL astronomers did...

Days are a bit shorter since Chile earthquake 1 • Article rank • 3 Mar 2010 • The Washington Post • Associated Press Days are a bit shorter since Chile...

Using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon's north pole. NASA's...

"The following plot shows that the monthly U.S. temperature anomalies from the two datasets are very similar (anomalies in both datasets are relative to the...

Bot, person, or both? That is the question. I had been away from this group for some time, but the Sam I used to know always posted astro only topics. This...

On 2/19/10 6:56 PM, Marvin the Martian wrote: On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:24:17 -0600, Sam Wormley wrote: NATU Setting the climate record straight A...

Having once argued in Wikipedia that the rapid transition to darkness at the equator compared to longer twilights towards the poles is due to rotational speeds...

In a discussion on The Outdoor Lighting Forum it was brought to my attention that James Benya, an IDA Board member, had penned some very outrageous remarks...

Killer Quake Leaves Chilean Telescopes Undamaged The European Southern Observatory, which is headquartered in Germany but has a number of telescopes in Chile,...

NATU A CoGeNT result in the hunt for dark matter An underground experiment may have detected a type of dark-matter particle ...