Virtue signaling is a problem in politics
This article Scott would like no-doubt:
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But someone could say the authors had an axe to grind.
The only proper response to this claim for now is...I don't know.
Same here--although--it is more prima facie
Abstract. Past theories have linked science denial to religiosity but have not explained its geographic variability. We hypothesize that it springs not onl
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Newton was likely a religious zealot--yet did good work---at times.
In terms of climate change, phys.org had two stories that seem contradictory:
"Last year's snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above, a new study found."
Last year's snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above, a new study found.
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But then, we hear this:
"Prior research has suggested that atmospheric rivers used to be more common in the region, and may have resulted in more rain than has been seen in modern times. Such studies have suggested that if certain conditions develop, more atmospheric rivers could form in the future, and that they could be bigger, leading to more rainfall than has been seen thus far."
A team of paleoclimatologists with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA Ames Research Park, has found that atmospheric rivers in the past have dumped far more rain on California than those that have occurred over the past two years.
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And of course---both scenarios are proof of GCC.
If the temperatures go up--that's AGW...even though we saw a spike across the solar system
If the temps go down--well, more evaporation makes more precip'--that falls as newer white snow...so---that's global warming too.
If we have extremes (nothing new) but overall conditions don't change--that also is AGW.
So, which of those stories are correct? I don't know.
But I digress.
In terms of woo-drives, we are told there can be no truck between gravity and, say, the electroweak force.
And yet, we have this:
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity is a landmark in our understanding of the universe. It gave rise to the notion of a spacetime continuum against which all physical phenomena play out. But over the decades, it has inspired many questions that have yet to be answered: How can...
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To support the consistency between spacetime and electromagnetism, the author describes how the cosmological constant in Einstein's theory, which is believed to be responsible for dark energy is actually a description of an electromagnetic field.
Others seem to think some coupling is going on:
A new study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and reported in the journal Physical Review D, suggests that some unexplained results from the XENON1T experiment in Italy may have been caused by dark energy, and not the dark matter the experiment was designed to detect.
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The researchers used their model to show what would happen in the detector if the dark energy was produced in a particular region of the Sun, called the tachocline, where the magnetic fields are particularly strong.
"It was really surprising that this excess could in principle have been caused by dark energy rather than dark matter," said Vagnozzi.
But maybe I want (too badly) for there to be at least some hint that not everything going to space must do so atop a pillar of flame---to idle to orbit peacefully.
I don't know.
Some interesting news in terms of research into gravity
A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia have discovered a potential "cosmic glitch" in the universe's gravity, explaining its strange behavior on a cosmic scale.
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Gravity is part of our everyday life. Still, the gravitational force remains mysterious: to this day we do not understand whether its ultimate nature is geometrical, as Einstein envisaged, or governed by the laws of quantum mechanics.
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The general theory of relativity is based on the concept of curved space–time. To describe how the energy and momentum of fields are distributed in space–time, as well as how they interact with the gravitational field, a special mathematical construct is used—the energy–momentum tensor. This is...
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However, in any case, the law of conservation of energy-momentum can be violated at
high energy levels," Hamidreza Fazlollahi, a graduate student at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Gravity and Cosmology of RUDN University said.