… the immediate thought might be, “that would never happen in real life.†Yet is does, as you can see in this article… How tank car implosions work – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks. Why does the can implode? When water turns to steam, it expands by a factor of about 1,600. When the steam cools, […]
This excerpt from Pat Sajak’s essay on Ricochet.com yesterday, h/t to Planet Gore Manmade global warming, like so many other social and economic issues, has become hopelessly politicized. Each side has dug in its heels and has accused the other of acting irresponsibly and dishonestly. For the believers, the other side has become the equivalent […]
Here’s a snipet…. Largest Oil Spill Of All Time: Really, this list could be mostly oil spills. There have been so many. You only have to look at the Wikipedia page to see that enough oil has been splashed in the water to keep all our cars running for decades. The largest, in terms of […]
This is from Watts Up With That? A detailed look at what happened at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, that we have been hearing so much about lately… Jimmy Haigh, a geologist by trade, sends along a PDF that is a compilation of on the scene photos taken right after the explosion and in the […]
Here’s the original article: Mother Jones notes that in private interviews, Glenn Beck, fiery loon of the right, privately seems to believe in anthropogenic climate change. Last week he mocked climate scientists for being ‘alarmists’ who believe that ‘we’re all going to die in a fiery flood.’ Not long ago he touted the global warming […]
News Flash…. News Flash…. Researchers on Wednesday published a technical paper in the journal Advanced Materials that describes a solar cell made of abundant materials with relatively high efficiency. The cell can convert 9.6 percent of solar energy into electrical energy, a 40 percent boost over current methods. What makes this more remarkable is that […]
I went through the CRU code below, and while I try to stay out of politics, this appears to be a programming issue with Politics embedded in it. I would hazzard a guess that this started as a cover-up from issues arising from bad programming choices, and unvetted data being used for a while…. Â And […]
Well, I guess that’s one myth debunked…? I wonder if we can get The Mythbusters on the case?