Saturday, October 8, 2016

There Is No Good Way To Explain Donald Trump's Climate Change Tweet and other top stories.

  • There Is No Good Way To Explain Donald Trump's Climate Change Tweet

    There Is No Good Way To Explain Donald Trump's Climate Change Tweet
    HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. ― A number of fairly mendacious statements were made during Monday night’s first presidential debate. But arguably the most brazen involved Donald Trump’s views on climate change. The GOP nominee was called to task for claiming that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government. In response, he completely denied ever saying that. Rarely are there moments when you can definitively state, with zero reservation, that a presidential candidate is lying. But this was o..
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  • Did your zodiac sign change? Don't worry, NASA says astrology is still fake

    Did your zodiac sign change? Don't worry, NASA says astrology is still fake
    All over the world, people check their horoscopes to see what's in store for them for the day. For most, it is an entertaining, meaningless diversion, but a few genuinely believe in their predictions based on their astrological signs sign. But NASA is causing waves in the astrological community for its recent suggestion that the astrological signs – constellations that are at a certain point in the sky for certain point in the year – have changed as the Earth's axis has shifted over the centuri..
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  • Mercury Second 'Tectonically Active' Planet in the Solar System, More Earth-Like than Previously Thought

    Mercury Second 'Tectonically Active' Planet in the Solar System, More Earth-Like than Previously Thought
    Sep 28, 2016 05:23 AM EDT Earth was first believed to be the only tectonically active planet in the Solar System, but a recent discovery added another one in the roster. As NASA's MESSENGER observed, Mercury has active geological activities as well. Mercury is less likely to host human life when compared to Mars. But it also has its own Earth-like properties, like the tectonic activities underground. Scientists confirmed this after signs of fault lines were discovered on the surface of Mercur..
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  • Controversial 3-parent baby technique produces a boy

    Controversial 3-parent baby technique produces a boy
    The mother previously had four pregnancy losses and had given birth to two children, one who survived less than a year, another who lived only 6 years due to the syndrome. For religious reasons, the mother wanted to use a technique that would not require the destruction of fertilized eggs, which an approved treatment in the United Kingdom would require.Led by Dr. John Zhang, founder of the New Hope Fertility Center in New York City, her doctors left the US, where the technique has not been appro..
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  • Billionaire Elon Musk outlines plans for humans to colonize Mars

    Billionaire Elon Musk outlines plans for humans to colonize Mars
    By Irene Klotz | GUADALAJARA, Mexico GUADALAJARA, Mexico SpaceX is developing a massive rocket and capsule to transport large numbers of people and cargo to Mars with the ultimate goal of colonizing the planet, company chief and tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday. Musk outlined his plans for the Mars rocket, capable of carrying 100 passengers plus cargo per voyage, even as SpaceX is still investigating why a different rocket carrying a $200 million Israeli satellite blew up on a l..
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  • A black moon will rise Friday night, but you aren't going to see it

    A black moon will rise Friday night, but you aren't going to see it
    A black moon is invisible since it occurs when the dark side of the moon faces the Earth. This photo shows a slight sliver of a crescent moon.(Photo: NASA)First we had a supermoon to be on the lookout for, then a blood moon and now a black moon. What's going on?Yes, Friday night, we've got the seemingly new phenomenon of a black moon to enthrall sky-watchers. But try as you might, this time you can be assured you won't see anything.Black moon + black sky = invisible.Similar to a blue moon — the ..
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  • Cabinet approves India's move to ratify Paris Agreement on climate change

    Cabinet approves India's move to ratify Paris Agreement on climate change
    NEW DELHI: The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved the country's move to formally join the Paris Agreement on climate change by giving its green signal for its ratification. As announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last Sunday, the country will submit its instrument of ratification to the United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon on October 2 -- the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Cabinet approved the India's ratification to the Paris Agreement in its meeting,..
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  • Study: Earth's roughly warmest in about 100000 years

    Study: Earth's roughly warmest in about 100000 years
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study paints a picture of an Earth that is warmer than it has been in about 120,000 years, and is locked into eventually hitting its hottest mark in more than 2 million years.As part of her doctoral dissertation at Stanford University, Carolyn Snyder, now a climate policy official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, created a continuous 2 million year temperature record, much longer than a previous 22,000 year record. Snyder’s temperature reconstruction, publish..
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  • Indonesia evacuates tourists after Mount Barujari eruption

    Jakarta — Indonesian authorities are searching for several hundred tourists after Mount Barujari on Lombok island spewed a massive column of ash into the atmosphere and have evacuated more than 1,100 others, the country's disaster agency said Wednesday. The volcano, also known as the Child of Rinjani because it sits within the Mount Rinjani caldera, erupted without warning on Tuesday afternoon, delaying flights from airports on the islands of Lombok and Bali. The ash column reached 2,000 met..
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