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Solar cycles to blame for jellyfish plagues (not coal fired plants)

Image Erin Silversmith Three amazing things in this story. One that solar cycles might influence the oceans to such an extent that jellyfish plagues are cycling in tune with the sun. Second is that the...

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Climate change is real because we are snowflake couch potatoes, addicted to...

Welcome to the DroneAge, where people act like robots and share dumb ideas at light speed! Episode #601: Climate change makes you lonely and fat. Feeling friendless, floppy and like a loser? It’s not...

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The Anthropocene: all that CO2 and the only mammal extinction is a brown rat...

Where’s the apocalypse: With all the forecasts of doom, is this it? Global Lament is rising for the small brown rat (Melomys rubicola) lost off a desert island no one heard of til morning tea today....

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Koalas extinct? Hardly. “Nearly everything you have read or heard about...

Since Europeans arrived Koalas have been booming and busting The calls were out this week saying that koalas will be extinct in New South Wales in 30 years. But they didn’t mention that Koalas thrive...

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Extinction level event? 42,000 years ago Earths magnetic field shrank to nothing

Don’t look now, it’s a climate disaster of massive proportions and it has nothing to do with CO2. Scientists have just discovered what they say was a wild era 42,000 years ago — where the Earth’s...

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Nine o’clock horror: Climate change causes shape shifting animals

A postmodern coal-powered Cockatoo is larger, meaner and nastier than any bird photographed in the paleolithic. | Photo by Photoholgic on Unsplash It’s a new horror to scare the kiddies: Animals...

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Supercomputer prophesy of the Sixth Mass Extinction coming “like an asteroid”...

Art by NoName_13 By Jo Nova The prophesy of the Sixth Mass extinction has popped up again with hyperbolic modelling to scare us out of our money and just in time for a UN convention. As Steve Milloy...

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Despite all that CO2, the world’s corals are doing OK

By Jo Nova Dr Peter Ridd compiled the statistics on coral reefs around the world, and even though China has installed a million megawatts of coal fired power in the last twenty years, there’s no...

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A map that might change the way you think about the world

By Jo Nova Where do people live? These marvelous spike maps mark out a 3D representation of the population density on each two-kilometer-square pixel of Earth’s surface. There are no outlines for...

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