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The Week in Climate Part 1: Remember When October Was the Start of Fall?
One of the hardest parts of writing about global warming — and there are lots and lots of hard parts — is simply keeping up with the news. Much of it comes in short newsy bits, worth knowing but difficult to write about as an individual full post. Since the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference is being held in Paris this week, I'm posting a week-long series of shorter articles about global warming and its fallout.
2015 has been a hot one. The hottest, in fact: It's a cinch to be the hottest year on record. Several months this year have been the hottest of those months on record — looking at each month since 1880, 2015 had the hottest February on record, as well as the hottest March, May, June, July, August, and September.
We can now add October to that list, with a vengeance: It blows any previous October over the past 135 years out of the water, about 0.2° C hotter than the previous record holder… which was October of last year, in 2014.
Note the trend in that graph: Up, up, and away. And October 2015 was about 0.4°C hotter than the trend. Note too that this comes from two different agencies; both the Japan Meteorological Agency's and NASA's numbers agree.
As Tamino points out in that post linked above, October 2015 was the hottest month ever seen. Hotter than any July, any August. Think on that.
Incidentally, the faux "pause" is in the news again, mostly because of Lamar Smith's (R-Texas) fanatical crusade against reality. To drive home just how embarrassingly wrong Smith is, a sixth study came out showing the "pause" doesn't exist — and that's the sixth study just this year. The Berkeley Earth group has chipped in as well, showing we're warming up right on schedule. Even Smith's hometown paper lambastes him for his overreach and abuse of power.
Smith is not just wrong, he's dangerous, pressuring scientists, sowing discord, and wasting great gobs of taxpayer money. Thanks to gerrymandering he's unlikely to be voted out of office in Texas, but if the Republicans lose their House majority, he will no longer be Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology… and the US will no longer be quite as big a global laughing stock when it comes to politics and science.
I'll add that Kathryn Sullivan, director of the NOAA, the environmental agency under attack by Smith, wrote a letter to Smith defending science and the scientists under her leadership, detailing his politically (and fossil fuel funded) shenanigans. In that letter, she writes (emphasis mine),
Finally, Mr. Chairman, let me assure you that I am not engaged in our associated with any "politically correct agenda". I and the entire NOAA team take seriously the charge to provide the best environmental science and reliable data to the nation and the world. Our work is relied upon every day to drive commerce and to protect public safety and national security. I proudly serve President Obama, as I proudly served President Reagan, President Bush, President Clinton, and President Bush before him. I am a life-long public servant profoundly dedicated to using science to inform decision-making in the best interested of the nation. I have not and will not allow anyone to manipulate the science or coerce the scientists who work for me.
Holy. WOW. I know she's defending the allegations about those scientists in that last line, but it also reads very much to me like an accusation directed at Smith.
Dr. Sullivan is a freakin' national hero. When Smith's comeuppance comes, and this long global nightmare is behind us, I hope she receives a medal for defending reality in this way.
Adam Savage, Still Untitled
My Close Personal Friend Adam Savage™ does a lot of fun stuff with the folks at Tested.com, including a podcast with Tested founders Will Smith and Norman Chan called "Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project". The three of them ostensibly have a topic to cover, but they always seem to wind up all over the place in the discussion, which is pretty much how all my conversations with Adam go.
It's pretty entertaining, as you'd expect; getting three smart, interesting people together to talk about stuff is generally a good listen. But their episode from Nov. 24, titled "So About That UFO", is especially good, for two reasons. One is that they talk about the Trident missile launch from early November that freaked so many people out in California.
The other reason is that they spend a full minute talking about what a great guy I am. Modesty prevents me from agreeing with them whole-heartedly and praising their obvious excellent taste, so instead why don't you just give it a watch?
The good part starts at 4:07. Seriously, it was very kind of them to say such wonderful things, and honestly, back atcha, gents. I got a chance to hang with all three of them for a while at San Diego Comic Con this past summer, and it was a lot of fun.
"Untitled" is great, and you can find it on the Tested site linked above, or the audio-only version is on iTunes. Subscribe! Enjoy!
Back in the olden days, when the Sun was slightly cooler and the Universe a fraction smaller, I lived in Virginia. At the time (and apparently still today), for a little extra money you could purchase a "vanity" car license plate, with up to seven letters on it. I like this idea, and it's sometimes fun to try to figure out what other people's plates mean.
As a bit of silliness, I decided to get UVULA, because why not? I happen to have one, and you probably do too, and I used to (and apparently still today) like to do things just because they're off-kilter and weird.
So I filled out the form at the DMV, submitted it, and waited. After a few days I got a letter in the mail telling me my request was denied. No reason was given. Now, I happen to know that if the plate you wanted was already taken, they'd tell you (that happened to me once). So why did they refuse me?
To this day, I don't know. But I have my suspicions. Despite its latitude, Virginia still thinks of itself as a southern state, and a genteel one. I strongly suspect someone at the DMV was confusing a uvula with a vulva, and denied me on the grounds of their own mistaken prurient metathesis.
Ah well. I went with another plate idea, and never looked back.
I'm reminded of all this because my friend, Hank Green — who himself, I presume, has a uvula — just made a SciShow episode about the dangly little throat projection. I have to admit I was never an expert on such things, but I was still surprised at the versatile little appendage and the multiple roles it plays in the back of the mouth.
So there you go. I suppose it's easy to belittle the uvula, but you do so at your own risk. I'll personally never downplay it again.
Oh — as for my license plate dilemma, I finally settled on one that befit my greenish streamlined Datsun B210: KLINGON. You can make fun of me if you want, but it was the envy of the Old Dominion. I stopped at a red light once, and a guy pulled up next to me. He caught my eye and said, "I wanted KLINGON but they told me it was taken!"
I laughed, yelled "Q'Plah!", and drove away. In my rear view window I could see his mouth hanging open, but sadly I couldn't see his uvula myself.
Black Friday… on Mars
Today is the day after American Thanksgiving, considered to be the first shopping day of the Christmas season. Due to the onslaught of eager shoppers to stores, it's been nicknamed Black Friday.
It's not restricted to the US, though. The Curiosity rover is having its own Black Friday on Mars — in this case, a bit more literally: It's reached the edge of the Bagnold Dunes, a windswept region in the vast Gale Crater with huge, towering dunes.
The image above was taken Nov. 25, 2015 (also called Sol 1174 — a "sol" is a day on Mars, which is about a half hour longer than an Earth day, and Curiosity has been on Mars for 1175 sols as I write this). Look at it! You can see the flat, grayish rocks in the foreground, and distant hills in the background, but the view is dominated by lush, gorgeous, rippling dunes (check out this mosaic of images showing a much wider angle, too, because wow).
The dunes are dark, likely due to the sand being basaltic — a dark rock created when lava cools. Over billions of years, the exposed Martian basalt has eroded, creating grains of sand that can be blown around by the wind. But not easily!
Mars has an atmosphere, but the pressure at the surface is less than one percent that of Earth. It has winds, but even though they can move rapidly, the air is so thin they don't have much force to them. Still, it's enough to blow around the ever-present Martian dust (made mostly of iron oxide, giving it a pinkish-red color… after all, it's rust!), and finer grained sand particles.
Dune fields litter the surface, but a lot of them are inactive; the wind there isn't enough to move the sand around. But some fields are active, and the dunes can be seen to move over time. At Bagnold, the dunes migrate at roughly 0.4 meters per year — a little over a foot annually. That's not much, but it's measurable.
These dunes are a juicy target for Curiosity. It's the first time an active extraterrestrial dune field has ever been examined in situ, for one. For another, examining the material will tell scientists on Earth what minerals are in the sand, of course. Measurements from orbit show that there appear to be some minerals located in some parts of the dune field but not in others. Why?
Also, as wind blows the grains it sorts them naturally by size. The distribution of grain sizes around the dunes will indicate how the winds blow, how the grains deposit onto the ground, and more.
The dune field is pretty big, kilometers across. It's right on the path of the rover, near the foothills on the northwest flank of Aeolis Mons, aka Mt. Sharp, Curiosity's eventual goal. It'll have to cross the dunes to get to the mountain.
I'm personally thrilled by this shot, and I've been waiting for this for a long time. I love dunes on Mars! They're spectacular, and fascinating.
But more than that, they're so Earth-like in so many ways. The shapes — horseshoe-shaped barchans dunes, or the more stereotypical transverse dunes in the picture above — look achingly like those on our own fair planet.
Mars was once wetter, warmer, and had thicker air. Now it's all gone. That's because of eons of pummeling by the solar wind, the flow of subatomic particles from the Sun. The Earth has a magnetic field, protecting us from that, so we're still warm and wet, even after 4.56 billion years.
If you want to be thankful for something, be thankful for that. And also that in some places, Black Friday is actually and truly a beautiful thing.
Happy Goatsgiving
There's a very long list of things I feel thankful for this holiday, far too many to actually itemize. But somewhere on that list, well above the median line, would be these goofy creatures:
We moved out to the country outside of Boulder a little while ago, and there was some extra space in the yard where the previous owners of the house had a small horse barn. We had no use for it, really, and couldn't decide what to do with it. Then one day we were watching adorable goat videos, and my wife got this look in her eye…
And that's how I became a goat person. We have two Nigerian Dwarfs and two pygmies. We picked up Clayton Forrester, one of the Nigerians*, when he was still being weaned, so we bottle-fed him goat milk for a week or so. He still likes to sit on our laps and cuddle while he chews his cud. It's ridiculously cute:
Seriously. C'mon. There's also this.
I post pictures and videos of these dorks all the time on Instagram; follow me there if you want to see them. And you do.
I love these silly animals, and I love to share their antics with people online. It may not save the world, but you know what? Every little bit of joy we share, no matter how small, incrementally makes the world a better place. If a million people do that, even once or twice a week, it would add up.
Happy Thanksgiving, folks. Make the world better, even just a little.
* The other goats are Jack, Batman, and Sam. Someone asked me if Jack and Sam were from Stargate SG-1, and I could've kicked myself for never seeing that. But no, Jack is actually Jack Burton, from the single greatest movie ever made. I like to think that Clayton is named after a character in another favorite movie, but my daughter named him, so it's probably for this guy.
On the Anniversary of Two Scientific Revolutions
This week marks the (very round number) anniversaries of two of the most important scientific papers ever published.
One you've heard of—or at least, you've heard of the author and its concepts. The other you probably haven't. Yet it is equally as important, and tells as great a tale.
First things first: On Nov. 25, 1915—100 years ago Wednesday—Albert Einstein submitted a paper to the Proceedings of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin titled, "Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation," or "The Field Equations of Gravitation."
If that doesn't sound familiar, maybe it would help if I said that this paper laid the groundwork for Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
Oh, right. That paper.
Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905. That groundbreaking work showed that space and time were relative, and that if you moved near the speed of light relative to another observer you'd see these two properties very differently. Since then, the Special Theory has since been experimentally verified countless times.
After publishing it, Einstein started working out how to add gravity to this mix. That's extraordinarily difficult, and the math fiercely complicated. It took him many years, but he submitted the paper in November 1915, and it was published in the next month. In it, he made a startling and fundamental claim: Gravity is not really a force as had been thought, but instead is a warping of space caused by matter.
Sound esoteric? Well, that's because it is, a bit. Centuries earlier, Isaac Newton had proposed his theory of universal gravitation, describing gravity as a force, attracting one object to another. It depended on their mutual masses and distance from each other. Newton's idea works pretty well, and in fact we still use it today to plot courses for spaceships!
The term "force" is difficult to accurately define in layman's terms,* but you can think of it as some sort of connection between objects, attracting them or repelling them. That's how Newtonian mechanics works out.
But Einstein's General Theory changed all that. He found that gravity is not a force between two objects, but a property of space itself, a geometric bending or warping of it. It's usually described this way: Matter tells space how to bend, and space tells matter how to move.
It was a fundamental shift in how we thought of space and matter, and fit right in with Einstein's previous Special Theory work in showing that space and time were connected. Their implications are wide-ranging as well; for example, the solutions to these General Theory field equations describe the structure of space, and naturally predict the existence of black holes. They also predict the existence of gravitational lensing (which we've seen, and which led to a confirmation of the existence of dark matter), gravitational radiation (which we've detected indirectly), and gravitational time dilation (which we've also seen).
An even more profound impact of these equations is that they lead the way to understanding how the Universe itself formed and evolves, and even of its ultimate fate.
Heck, without the General Theory your map app wouldn't work!
So, yeah. It's kind of a big deal.
The second anniversary we're celebrating now is no less in stature, and has an equally deep practical impact on the world.
One hundred fifty years ago, in late November 1865, James Clerk Maxwell published his paper called "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field," and in it he wrote down a set of equations we now call Maxwell's equations, which should hint at their importance. Why? They describe how electricity and magnetism are two sides of the same coin, actually the effects of a single force called electromagnetism. Up to that point they were treated separately. Maxwell united them.
The importance of this can't be overstated! His equations show that electricity can be used to induce magnetism, and vice-versa. We generate electrical power based on this.† He showed that light is itself a wave, traveling through space as an oscillating electromagnetic field. Ever heard of the electromagnetic spectrum? Yeah. That's from Maxwell. His equations show how light behaves, and in fact you can derive the speed of light from these equations if you can measure some other fundamental properties of space.
It is no exaggeration to say that Maxwell's equations are at the very foundation of our modern civilization: computers, electrical systems, global communication—all of this comes straight out of these equations. Einstein's ideas about relativity derive from them as well.
But there's more to this story. Maxwell wasn't a university scientist, working under a research grant to investigate the disparate fields of electricity and magnetism. Nor did he set out to revolutionize the entire planet's civilization. He was just a curious person, someone who delighted in nature, who was puzzled by how it works, and who wanted to understand it.
And this led to the economic basis of a world.
This story is lovely and wonderful, and was best told by Carl Sagan in his opus, The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. I strongly urge you to buy and read that book; it's magnificent, and many (including me) consider it Sagan's best work. In one chapter, he talks about Maxwell and his equations, and it's a paean to allowing scientists to study the Universe unfettered by politics (academic or governmental), allowing their imaginations to guide them.
In many fields of science there must be moral and ethical guidance, of course, but in theoretical physics it is the math and physics themselves that are the guide. Maxwell followed them and revolutionized a world. Einstein followed them and revolutionized our thinking about the Universe.
And today we celebrate the anniversary of both.
For science!
* Although, in this case, one could quote Kenobi et al., 1977: "[A force] surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together." While widely admired and quoted, many find Kenobi's dabbling in mysticism a bit off-putting.
† To be fair, scientists before Maxwell knew that electricity and magnetism influenced each other, but Maxwell quantified it, defined it, and it's from there that our modern power systems are derived.
Blue Origin Milestone: Rocket Lands Safely After Trip to Space
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin just surprised everyone by revealing its New Shepard* rocket reached an incredible milestone on Monday: In a test run, the rocket took off vertically, reached space, then landed again vertically minutes later.
The rocket launched from their site in west Texas, accelerating to a top speed of about 4,600 kph, and achieving an altitude of more than 100 kilometers, the technical height defined to be the start of space (called the Kármán line). They also deployed the crew capsule at a height of about 6 km above ground, which parachuted safely back to Earth.
Blue Origin put together a nice—if somewhat misleading—video of the event. I say that because in the middle of the real footage they inserted CGI animation of a crew inside the rocket's capsule; this was an uncrewed flight. Still, the video is cool:
I like the shots of the landing from various angles at the video's end; it looks more like a Hollywood sci-fi movie than reality! But real it is. The descent is unnerving; the rocket engines don't reignite until it's only about 1,600 meters above the ground, and it decelerates pretty hard. That saves a lot of fuel and makes perfect sense, but it's a little scary to see it! Still, the rocket performed extremely well, and landed only a little over a meter from the center of the launch pad. Amazing.
Blue Origin attempted a similar test flight in April, but the landing system hydraulics failed and the booster crashed. Apparently, and happily, this issue has been addressed.
So congratulations to Jeff Bezos and his team on this incredible test! This is very exciting to see.
However, I'm seeing some confused coverage of this event, and I want to clear a couple of things up.
First, yes, this launch is a big deal! It shows that Blue Origin is making excellent strides towards commercial space launches, a field currently dominated by SpaceX. Getting up to the Kármán line is a major achievement at all, let alone successfully deploying the capsule and then landing the rocket again. SpaceX itself is based on the idea of competing against big government contractors, so competition for them is good.
Bezos himself took to Twitter to announce the success, and made a subtle dig at Elon Musk and SpaceX at the same time:
The rarest of beasts - a used rocket. Controlled landing not easy, but done right, can look easy. Check out video: https://t.co/9OypFoxZk3— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 24, 2015
I smiled, but I have to point out that, as great a technical achievement as this was, what Bezos has accomplished here is quite different than what Musk has been attempting.
The Blue Origin New Shepard is a suborbital rocket, designed to go straight up into space and back down again. The SpaceX Falcon 9 is an orbital rocket, which takes vastly more energy (in other words, much higher speed) to achieve its goal.
Musk responded on Twitter pointing this out:
It is, however, important to clear up the difference between "space" and "orbit", as described well by https://t.co/7PD42m37fZ— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2015
He's right. Landing a booster from an orbital flight is hugely harder than from a suborbital one. For orbital flights, the booster not only has to move far faster, it also will have a large horizontal speed relative to the ground to get to orbit, so slowing it is more difficult as well. SpaceX has not yet achieved a successful landing this way, but what they're doing is literally an order of magnitude more difficult than what Blue Origin did.
Then, in my opinion, Musk made something of an unfair comparison himself. He tweeted:
@JeffBezos Not quite "rarest". SpaceX Grasshopper rocket did 6 suborbital flights 3 years ago & is still around. pic.twitter.com/6j9ERKCNZl— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2015
True, but Grasshopper (a test vehicle designed to launch and land vertically) only got 744 meters above the ground, wasn't designed for high-altitude flights (it's a testbed for the F9 landing tech), and didn't deploy a capsule. The later F9R tests based on Grasshopper were very successful as well, but only got a kilometer off the ground. What Bezos did yesterday was far more technically difficult.
Update, Nov 24, 2015, at 18:00 UTC: Musk has continued to tweet about this, correctly pointing out that suborbital flight and landing has been done before by SpaceShipOne and arguably the X-15 rocketplane. Musk also noted the series of water landing attempts using the F9 booster.
Mind you, suborbital flights are important. It's more than just a tourist attraction (though a pricy one); real science can be done on such flights, even though weightlessness only lasts a few minutes. Blue Origin looks to be getting quite close to having the ability for these kinds of launches.
The company is known for secrecy, tending to announce achievements only after they've been reached. That's understandable, and it can work to Blue Origin's advantage in the media as a tortoise-and-hare story (one I think Bezos is happy with). That means details about their future goals are unclear, but the goal itself is obvious: getting in on the lucrative orbital satellite market as well. As I pointed out, the physics of this is quite different, and it's a long journey there … but they just took a solid step in the right direction. Up. And back down again.
Correction, Nov. 24, 2015: I originally misspelled the rocket as New Shepherd; but it's punningly named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space.
Just Another Day on Pluto
Pluto is an odd little beast.
You knew this, if you've been paying attention at all these past few months. But one thing that struck me recently is its 6.4-day rotation rate. That's weird; most free bodies in the solar system spin either much faster than Earth or much slower. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have days that are shorter than Earth's, ranging from 10 to 17 or so hours. But Mercury takes 60 days, Venus a whopping 243 days. Mars spins at almost the same rate as Earth, with a day 24 hours 37 minutes long.
So Pluto's weeklong spin is an oddity. If you could watch it, what would it look like?
Well, it would look like the photo at the top of this post. Those images were taken by the New Horizons probe as it passed Pluto in July. As the spacecraft approached, it took a lot of snapshots of the little world, and over time was able to see it at various points in its day. These were collected, scaled to the same size, and arrayed to show a day in the life of the frozen ice ball.
Each shot shows the highest-resolution image taken for that particular point in the day. The shot at the 3 o'clock position was taken from farthest away (about 8 million kilometers), and the one at the 6 o'clock position was the hemisphere seen by the probe when it passed a mere 12,500 km over the surface.
You can see the familiar heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio, a flatter region that is covered in nitrogen ice (the left lobe, Sputnik Planum, is much smoother than the right lobe). I like how you can see different resolutions blurring the features at different times; it is physically showing you what can and cannot be seen clearly during various points in the flyby.
Charon, Pluto's outsized biggest moon, orbits the world in that same 6.4-day period, and also spins at the same rate (this is not a coincidence). The New Horizons team also put together a similar mosaic for Charon:
I'll be honest: Despite the somewhat lower contrast and details, I like this one better. I think it's because the north pole of Charon is so clearly marked by the dark spot nicknamed Mordor Macula. It's not clear why Mordor is dark (and red), but it may have to do with organic molecules from Pluto raining down on it.
Geez. Pluto and Charon are weird.
Which brings me back to the length of the day/month there. Charon and the littler moons may have formed by a huge impact; a big chunk of ice and rock smacked Pluto hard long ago, and the debris coalesced to form those moons. The impact could have changed Pluto's rotation rate, and then tidal interactions with the newly born Charon would have modified it as well. Once everything locked into place, we got this weeklong spin of the three systems (Pluto itself, Charon itself, and the two together orbiting each other).
Most small objects in the solar system have had their spin rate modified. Earth spun much faster before our own Moon formed in much the same way as Charon. Venus spins slowly and backward, so it may have been flipped over by an impact (or some other process we haven't quite figured out). Mercury's proximity to the Sun played havoc with its spin. Asteroids spin up due to sunlight.
So perhaps Pluto isn't all that odd after all. It's actually quite normal in its weirdness … or, at least, that's my spin on it.
Rep. Lamar Smith Continues His Harassment of Scientists
The saga of The Man in Congress in Charge of Science but Who Doesn't Understand It continues.
For those new to this, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas—chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee—doesn't think global warming is real. He thinks it's a huge conspiracy by climate scientists who fudge the data to make it look like the planet is heating up, because Obama.
I wish I were being hyperbolic. But this is literally true.
In Part 1 of our tale, Smith subpoenaed Kathryn Sullivan, the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, claiming that scientists in her agency were "altering the data." Smith got this idea after a paper was published in Science showing that the global warming "pause" so lauded by climate change deniers didn't, in fact, exist. This research was done by a team of NOAA scientists and, I'll note, is correct. The "pause" isn't real.
That didn't stop Smith. He also demanded the data, methodology, and emails of NOAA scientists be released (despite the first two already being publicly available). We also learned that Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas—who is the senior Democrat on the committee—sent Smith a letter accusing him of harassing and second-guessing scientists, and also pointed out he's not qualified to assess the data or methods. This, too, is correct.
In Part 2, Smith made public his conspiracy theories about scientists fiddling with the data (they did this, Smith claims, "to advance this administration's extreme climate change agenda", in case you were wondering just how far removed from reality Smith is on this), and I showed why these ideas are nonsense (to be very very very very polite). In Part 3 I went into more detail, showing that Smith doesn't understand even the most basic principles of scientific data measurement.
And now here we are, at Part 4 of a presumably infinite series. His new claim? That the NOAA Science paper in question was rushed into publication, and that Smith has "whistleblowers" who will attest to it.
However, that's at odds with the facts. Rep. Johnson wrote yet another letter to Smith, outlining where his claims are clearly wrong. She lays out a timeline, showing that the paper was submitted to the journal in late 2014, and took months to publish. Not only that, it relied on data from papers submitted to the journal in 2013—hardly a rush job.
I'll note that these alleged whistleblowers had ample opportunity to file a complaint with NOAA itself. Yet no complaints have been registered (even though NOAA has an obvious and easy-to-find scientific integrity policy).
Update, Nov. 23, 2015: A Washington Post article makes the case that not only was this paper not rushed, it actually underwent more scrutiny than usual.
On top of all this, Smith has sent several letters to NOAA and other groups—seven in total—with his demands, but only just now, in his most recent one, did he mention whistleblowers. That's curious; Johnson has asked him repeatedly why he thinks the scientists have fiddled with the data, but he's been silent on that.
It's also curious, as Johnson notes, that Smith has declined to share any of the information about his alleged whistleblowers with any of the Democratic minority on the committee. If he's not purely politically motivated, why wouldn't he give this information to them? Who are these whistleblowers? What are their specific claims? Why has Smith waited so long to mention them?
I strongly urge you to read Johnson's letter; it really shows that Smith's actions are the results of political grandstanding. NOAA had been complying with his requests, as silly and wasteful as those requests were, but Smith ignored this and kept making more and more unreasonable demands. Finally, NOAA put its foot down; NOAA Administrator Sullivan has refused to comply any further.
I've been saying that Smith is harassing scientists, and he's abusing his power of congressional subpoena. Now we have even more evidence: He's been pressuring Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker over all this, trying to get her to in turn pressure NOAA to turn over the scientists' emails.* If NOAA doesn't comply, he's threatened to subpoena the secretary herself.
Not only that, but his threats of Sullivan are atrocious. As Johnson points out, in what may be my favorite part of her letter:
I think it might be informative to take note of whom you are threatening. Dr. Kathryn Sullivan is PhD [sic] geologist, former naval reserve officer, former three-time NASA astronaut, former chief scientist of NOAA, and former member of the National Science Board. As an astronaut, Dr. Sullivan became the first American woman to ever "walk" in space. Dr. Sullivan is the very definition of service to country, and she is a role model for us all. I highly doubt Dr. Sullivan is intimidated by your threats, but it is an indication of how low the Majority is willing to stoop to perpetuate their anti-science agenda when a legitimate American icon is dragged through the mud in furtherance of an ideological crusade.
Smith is out of control. I earlier likened him to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who, in the 1950s, went on a huge and reckless witch hunt, looking for Communists in government, ruining people's careers and lives in the process. That likeness grows ever clearer into focus.
I don't see any reason to change my assessment of Smith now. He is a demagogue, using and abusing his power to stifle scientific research, to create a climate of fear and pressure for those scientists, and to obfuscate and further cast doubt in the public's mind about the reality of climate change and its effects (an effort that has of course found purchase with the usual right-wing media suspects).
This behavior is as appalling as it is damaging and clearly based on falsehoods. The world is warming up. We are seeing the effects of that now. And we know that it's because of the damage humans are doing, pumping billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the air every year. These are facts.
But the majority of Republican senators and Congress members in charge of critical committees reject these facts, replacing them with their own fantasies of conspiratorial scientists. These people are putting our nation's security at risk. It's good news that some of the GOP in Congress are willing to be swayed by facts, but the sad and embarrassing truth is the ones in key positions are not. And while they fiddle, the world burns.
*Correction, Nov. 23, 2015: This post originally misspelled Penny Pritzker's last name.
The Milky Way, in 46 Billion Pixels
Well, this is cool: Astronomers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany have created a ridiculously huge 46 billion pixel map of the sky! According to the press release, it's the largest astronomical picture ever created in terms of pixel size (I have not heard of any larger, for what it's worth).
Even better? It's interactive. You can pan around, zoom in and out, and fiddle with the colors, too.
Here's the link to the map. But, a couple of caveats. It's not lightning-fast; I had to wait many times for it to load (I checked; my download speeds are around 20 Mbps). Also, without instructions it's a little tricky to use, but if you play with it for a while you'll get the hang of it. You can also type the name of an object into the finder box on the lower left; try "M 20" (the Trifid Nebula, screenshot shown below), "eta car" (for the bright star embedded in the Carina Nebula), or "M 16" (the Eagle Nebula, shown at the top of this post). By the way, nebulae appear green due to the filters they used to make the map.
The map isn't of the whole sky; it's actually a series of fields located along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Still, the numbers are impressive:
- Total number of fields making up the mosaic: 268
- Area of sky covered: 6° x 220° for a total of 1,323 square degrees (that's more than 6,500 times the area of the full Moon on the sky!)
- Total file size: 194 Gigabytes
- Total number of stars: About 16 million
- Number of variable sources: 64,151
That last one was part of the reason why they did the survey. Here's the scoop: The observations were made with a pair of small, 15 cm (6 inch) robotic telescopes located in Chile. Each 'scope has a very wide 2.7° field of view, and they observe each of the 268 fields roughly once per month. They can detect stars down to about 18th magnitude, which is pretty faint: The dimmest star you can see with your naked eye is about 60,000 times brighter!
Many surveys go fainter, but then bright stars tend to blow those observations out. This survey was done specifically to reach middle brightness stars at high enough resolution to distinguish tightly spaced objects well.
By spreading out the observations over time, they can detect objects that change brightness. Some stars are variable, getting brighter and dimmer with time. Others are in binaries where one star blocks the other every orbit (called eclipsing binaries). Stars explode, asteroids fly by, and so on.
Analyzing this new dataset for his Ph.D. work, Moritz Hackstein found a total of 64,151 stars that changed their brightness, and nearly 57,000 of them were previously unknown! That's pretty astonishing.
Surveys like this are precious and valuable. If an object changes catastrophically, we only get one chance to observe that event. This survey keeps a record of everything that happened in that section of the sky for nearly five years.
It's also just fun to play with. I enjoyed scanning along its length, trying to see how many objects like nebulae I could identify. Only one big one stumped me (the Running Chicken Nebula, yes, seriously), but a couple of bright stars got past me, like Alpha Centauri.
It also gives you a sense of just how flippin' huge the sky is. Zoom in, zoom out, pan around, but bear in mind: The total sky is about 40,000 square degrees. This map is therefore only about 3 percent of it.
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We accept submissions of the following:
Shorts, Feature, Documentary, Spiritual/Religious, Political, PSA, Community, Sports, Educational, Arts/Animation, Entertainment, Children/Youth.
Two special categories, Student Filmmaker and Best of VCAT, will be offered to highlight local filmmakers and producers.
Submission must be received by Friday, May 1, 2015.
Each entry requires a separate online entry form and fee.
$25 per submission
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Features, Feature Documentaries: 50 minutes or more in length
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Animation: No limitations
Running time is calculated by timing the head frame to the last frame on the end credits.
Independent Film Entries may have had a limited theatrical run (commercial release) or broadcast (TV) in the greater bay area, including previous screenings at other film festivals, as well as private, industry, and press screenings are OK.
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Films produced, financed, or initiated by a major motion picture studio are not eligible for the competition.
The appropriate entry fee must accompany each entry. This nonrefundable fee covers screening and handling costs.
Specify only ONE CATEGORY (Feature, Short Documentary, Animation, etc) on submission form.
Films or videos using non-licensed, copyrighted musical or literary properties without legal permission are not eligible.
DVD screeners are the only Eligible finished formats accepted in the standard American NTSC format.
Two DVD preview screener DVDs must be technically fit for projection and should be placed in sturdy shipping cases.
Two DVD Preview Screener Copies labeled with Title, Duration, Name, Address, and Phone Number of Submitter. Preview copy must be submitted on DVD.
Only NTSC system is accepted. DVD Preview copies will be retained by the Festival. We do not return DVD screeners.
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All payments must be in US Dollars, or be drawn on a bank in the USA. Checks and Money Orders must be made payable to: Vallejo Community Access Television. Entry payments are also accepted by PayPal on www.vcat.tv.
Entry fees are not refundable.
Filmmakers selected for the competition will be notified by Friday, May 15, 2015.
Submit Entry Fees, DVD screeners, and applicable submission applications to:
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To reduce the festival's carbon footprint, we will not accept Promotional Materials, Press Kits or Photos with initial submissions.
For all materials, shipping and handling costs to the festival office will be covered by the entrant.
Selected projects may be promoted through all media types and outlets for promotional purposes. In addition, The Ursula Awards Film Festival and Vallejo Community Access Television (VCAT) reserve the right to re-screen the accepted projects at events and on VCAT, the local community access station.
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Can Seahawks Take a Lead in the Mild West?
When: Today, 1:15 p.m.
Where: University of Phoenix Stadium
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Key matchup
Seattle's offensive line vs. Arizona's front seven
The Seahawks rank 29th in the league in rushing offense, and have had almost no production on the ground the past two weeks. The good news for the Seahawks is that their best rushing output of the year came against the Cardinals. For an offense that has been pretty bad in the past two games, getting the run game established is a must, and doing so will have to start up front.
"We need balance," Pete Carroll said. "We need to get this running game going again. We've had two down weeks and we have to fix this thing. . . It's a big deal for us."
Important Injuries
Seahawks: DT Brandon Mebane and WR Golden Tate have been ruled out with ankle injuries, and FB Michael Robinson (hamstring) and backup G Mike Gibson (ankle) are listed as doubtful. LT Russell Okung is listed as questionable, but Carroll didn't sound optimistic Friday that he would be able to play. Several other starters are nursing injuries, but should be able to play, including LB Lofa Tatupu (knee) and WR Mike Williams (knee).
Cardinals: No one has been ruled out or is listed as doubtful for Arizona, but RB Beanie Wells sat out Wednesday and Thursday with swelling in his surgically repaired knee. He is listed as questionable along with LB Clark Haggens (groin), LB Paris Lenon (ankle) and DT Darnell Dockett (shoulder). Dockett, a two-time Pro Bowler, was limited in practice all week, but expect him to play.
Series History
Arizona leads the all-time series 13-10, and had won four in a row before Seattle won last month. The Seahawks have not won in four games in Arizona's new stadium.
Key Number
324: Yards gained by the Seahawks in their past two games combined.
Break Down
The Seahawks will win if they: Protect the passer. Matt Hasselbeck was sacked eight times in his last game, leading to a concussion and day on the sideline last week. ... Run, run, run. As noted above, getting a ground game going this week is a big priority for the offense. ... Eliminate the big plays. Seattle's defense has allowed more than 1,000 yards in its past two games, and a lot of that has come via the big play. ... Find that road magic. The Seahawks thought they got a monkey off their back with a win in Chicago, but the next road game resulted in a 30-point beating.
The Cardinals will win if they: Find Fitz. Larry Fitzgerald has been a Seahawk killer throughout his career, but he was held to just three catches for 30 yards earlier this season. Not surprisingly, the offense struggled. ... Air it out. Derek Anderson replaced a beat-up Max Hall in last month's loss in Seattle, and had some success throwing the ball. Seattle's secondary has struggled of late, and the Cardinals would be wise to test it early. ... Take care of the ball. The Cardinals have a minus-seven turnover ratio, one of the worst in the league, and are facing a team that force five turnovers against them earlier this season.
The Pick: Cardinals 20, Seahawks 16
Aside from their game in Chicago, the Seahawks have not shown the ability to play well on the road, and while they won't get blown out for a third-straight week, their road struggles will continue.
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When the Seattle Seahawks take the field, they'll be a .500 team looking for answers after a pair of blowout losses. They'll also be looking to extend their lead in first place.
The Cardinals are reeling after a third straight loss. Oh, and they can move into a first-place tie depending on how the weekend shakes out.
Wait, what?
Welcome to the wild world of the NFC West, where a bye week is often times the best way to climb in the division standings. Meanwhile in San Francisco, the 49ers (2-6) are favored over St. Louis, which like Seattle has a 4-4 record. So if home favorites win this weekend like the odds makers are predicting, every team in the division will have a losing record nine games into the season.
"I'll let you guys use any word you want," Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald said with a laugh when asked for a word to describe the division. "But I'm thinking the same thing you're probably thinking."
But while the NFC West has become a national punch line, the mediocrity — and that's a kind description — has created some intrigue. In any other division, the 49ers would be way out of the race, and while they're still a long shot to recover from their 0-5 start, they can cling to hope. For the Cardinals, three straight losses represent a setback, but not a death sentence. And the Seahawks, despite being outscored by 64 points in their past two games, still have a very realistic shot at their first playoff birth since 2007.
"The one thing about the midway pointing the season is that, no matter how bad it looked the last two weeks, we're still in first place," safety Lawyer Milloy said.
The Seahawks will be in danger of losing their grip on first place unless they can find a way to win in Arizona, something they haven't done since 2005. Up until that season, the Seahawks had dominated the Cardinals, winning four in a row and seven of eight, but once Arizona beat the Seahawks, the tables turned. Before Seattle beat the Cardinals at Qwest Field last month, Arizona had won four in a row and six of the past seven.
The rivalry became so lopsided that Matt Hasselbeck accidentally congratulated Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt when they met at midfield for a postgame handshake after a Seahawks win.
"I think I said, 'Congratulations,'" Hasselbeck said. "It was like a programmed response. It was like I was used to saying that to him. ... He was kind about it, but I just felt stupid. They've done a nice job."
But if Arizona's win over Seattle in 2006 ended up being a passing of the torch, this game is more of a chance for somebody, anybody, to stake their claim on division that lacks a favorite.
"We feel like now there's really no clear-cut leader in the division and we can affect that," Hasselbeck said. "We have an opportunity to take it back and I'm sure everybody in our division feels like they're in the hunt. So it's just one of those things where it's a championship game in a way for us."
And while this game features the two teams that have dominated the division in recent years, it is hardly the only important game. St. Louis, one of the league's worst teams over the past three years, is suddenly rejuvenated under rookie quarterback Sam Bradford. Despite their recent struggles, the Rams believe they can make the playoffs. San Francisco has a big hole to dig out of, but also has a team talented enough to rattle off a few wins in a row if things go the 49ers' way. Halfway through the season, the NFC West is a four-team race.
"I think all four teams in the division could say the same thing," Fitzgerald said. "I don't think any of us could say that we played the kind of football that we would want to play, that we expected to play, but I think it's nice that everybody is within one game of each other in our division and it's going to be a battle down to the end."
The Seahawks are a long way from accomplishing any goals, but in a division like the NFC West, those goals are very much there for the taking.
"That definitely is something we can look at," linebacker Lofa Tatupu said. "We still haven't done anything, but we've got a chance to do something."
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CNC Torch Table
The CNC Torch Table (aka RepTab) is an enabling machine for any workshop. This machine enables creation of custom parts for fabrication or replacement of broken components.
Current team goals[edit]
Current team goals as of June 5 2014 for the end of June 2014.
- Have the torch cutting steel, up to 1" thick, to a tolerance of 1/16" over 10 inches on all dimensions, and within 1/16 of a straight line re the waviness of the line. It is ok if it takes some manual intervention, or hand holding.
- The machine should be reasonably durable and not finicky or prone to breakage, or absurdly high wear and tear. For example, the wiring is currently prone to breakage. Also the arduino on the z control would probably stop working pretty fast from the stuff splattering on it.
This entails meeting milestone 1 in the torch table prototype 2 requirements document (see dev board through dozuki, overall module, requirements document).
- for the short term, make sure the documentation is at the point that someone can easily step in to Anthony's role in getting things working, and to operate the table for cutting.
- record why we made the system the way we have so far, rather than some other way. This is important to avoid the need to go over the same ground too many times.
Version 2[edit]
See the dev board linked to on the dozuki (the way to go as of June 5 2014)
Click here to access set-up instructions (in-progress)
Version 1[edit]
There's a little bit of info at CNC Torch Table 1.
The CNC Torch Table allows workshops to create replacement parts on the fly for many of the components used in the GVCS. Additionally, the Torch Table gives workshops the ability to create many of the custom components used in the GVCS Machines. Many parts that make up the 50 GVCS Tools can be cut on the CNC Torch Table, making this machine valuable for replication.
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4:46 PM, Jan 20, 2014 • By MARK HEMINGWAY
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Here's Wiles accusing Israel of "robbing" land from Palestinians:
Here's Wiles accusing Israel of practicing apartheid:
Here's Wiles accusing the Israeli government of murdering innocents and children (be warned: one of the photos below is graphic):
And here's the tweet that Wiles is linking to in that last screen capture of his Facebook page:
It is clear that any opinions Wiles may have about what goes on in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish neighborhood—which has deep ties to the state of Israel—is colored by Wiles's animosity toward Israel. New York's human rights commission's prosecution of these Jewish business owners is groundless, and it is further shameful and embarrassing that they can't find a witness who isn't irrationally prejudiced to make their case.
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The Importance of Kegel Exercises
What's the name of the game with Kegel exercises? Little pain and lots of gain! Also known as pelvic floor exercises, Kegel workouts strengthen the muscles that support the bladder, uterus, and bowels. Toning your Kegel muscles will also help minimize urinary incontinence, hemorrhoids, and tearing during delivery.
Strong pelvic floor muscles also help make childbirth, specifically pushing, easier. Other benefits include preventing incontinence later in life, enhancing sexual pleasure, and toning stretched out vaginal muscles. The Kegel workout is named after its inventor, Dr. Arnold Kegel, who created the exercise for his female patients in the 1940s. Mothers will be glad to know that these easy exercises can be done anywhere - at anytime - without anyone noticing.
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- Step 1: contract your muscles as if you are trying to stop the flow of urine.
- Step 2: hold this contraction for roughly five seconds.
- Step 3: Slowly release and relax for five seconds.
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A group of US national security professionals have issued a report, suggesting that the US sanctions on Iran should ease as they do not offer a way forward. The report, titled "Weighing Benefits and Costs of International Sanctions Against Iran", was published by more than three dozen former US foreign-policy makers, military officers, and independent experts. "It is not clear that these sanctions alone will result in agreements or changes in Iranian policies," the report said.
It added that Iran is unlikely to curb its nuclear program if Washington and its Western allies do not ease economic sanctions.The 38 signatories include three Republican former cabinet secretaries, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, and some retired Army and Marine Corps generals. The report said the sanctions have decreased the quality of life for average Iranians, creating new international patterns of trade, which has resulted in increased market share for Chinese and Indian goods in Iran. "So far, neither the United States nor the UN Security Council has stipulated the precise criteria that Iran must meet to trigger the lifting of sanctions, or the sanctions that would be lifted in exchange for Iran's actions," the 86-page report said. On November 30, the US Senate approved a new round of sanctions against Iran's energy, port, shipping, and shipbuilding sectors. On December 1, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said her country is ready to hold bilateral talks with Iran over Tehran's nuclear energy program. "We are working on the P5+1 (Britain, China, France, Russia, and the US plus Germany) and making our willingness known that we are ready to have a bilateral discussion if they are...ready to engage," she stated. The illegal US-engineered sanctions against Iran were imposed based on the unfounded accusation that the Islamic Republic is pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program. Iran rejects the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. In addition, the IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence showing that Iran's civilian nuclear program has been diverted to nuclear weapons production. NT/AS