Last year, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson feuded with rapper B.o.B. over his belief that the world is flat. About a year later, Tyson’s friend and science educator Bill Nye is contesting professional basketball player Kyrie Irving’s own “Flat Earth” claims. Neil deGrasse Tyson Schools Rapper B.o.B. Who Believes the Earth Is Flat https://t.co/82TxQ8g4e0 @bbcscitech @DiscoverMag […]
What’s one of the most insidious myths we’ve bought into, when it comes to climate change? It has nothing to do with the science: It’s the simple idea that we have to be a certain type of person to care about climate change. If I’m a liberal, if I bike to work and call myself […]
One megawatt of solar power was installed every 32 minutes in the U.S. from July to September, for a record total of 4,143 megawatts of new, clean energy, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and GTM Research’s U.S. Solar Market Insight report. That brings total installed solar capacity in the U.S. to 35.8 […]
Wildfires have devastated eastern Tennessee. The blaze has claimed 11 lives, forced about 14,000 people to evacuate and destroyed hundreds of buildings in Sevier County. Due to continued erratic winds, the fires are very unpredictable and more fire growth is expected. pic.twitter.com/BYd9ANQeT4 — GreatSmokyNPS (@GreatSmokyNPS) November 29, 2016 The wildfires started Sunday from the Great […]
By Nika Knight President-elect Donald Trump plans to entirely eliminate all climate research at NASA, a move that climate scientists warn will send us back to the “dark ages.” Trump instead plans to devote more funds toward exploring deep space. NASA launched its Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, or AIRS, project in 2002. It was designed to […]
Ta’u, an island in American Samoa, has turned its nose at fossil fuels and is now almost 100 percent powered with solar panels and batteries thanks to technology from the newly combined Tesla and SolarCity. The microgrid is operated by American Samoa Power Authority and was funded by the American Samoa Economic Development Authority, the […]
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is one of the most intelligent individuals on the planet, which is why his assertion that humanity has only 1,000 years left on Earth and must find another place to colonize is incredibly frightening. “[W]e must … continue to go into space for the future of humanity,” professor Hawking said in […]
Here’s another thing that Elon Musk is on the verge of disrupting: Ride-sharing. The Tesla CEO is already shaking up the global automobile industry with his fleet of electric cars, but now he’s taking aim at ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft by creating his own car-sharing network—the so-called “Tesla Network.” Elon Musk’s new […]
Climate-denying arguments by Ted Cruz at a Senate committee hearing last year have been soundly debunked by a new study published in the Journal of Climate. Testimony at the hearing attacked climate change by using cherry-picked satellite temperature data allegedly inconsistent with global warming. The paper found errors in this analysis that refutes the bogus […]
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