Life On Mars…Maybe

Earth, you are my wishing star. Here’s how you look from my home on the surface of Mars.

A Martian Sunset

The 34mm eye of the Mastcam aboard Curiosity took this view of the sun setting over Gale Crater on sol 956 of the mission (April 15, 2015).

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / Damia Bouic

As NASA’s Juno mission approaches its historic arrival on Jupiter tomorrow, a visual timeline of Jupiter exploration by designer Kim Orr for NASA’s JPL. 

Complement with Primo Levi’s timelessly beautiful words on how space exploration brings humanity closer together. 

Global warming 'hiatus' never happened, say climate scientists

New study says 2013 report suggesting pause in warming was incorrect

Three years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported a 15-year-long plateau in ocean surface temperature changes. The report was controversial, sparking worries that it would fuel climate change skepticism and prompting other scientists to question the IPCC’s results.

Now, a new report says there’s evidence that the data the IPCC was using in 2013 was incorrect and that the ocean has continued to grow warmer.  

Ocean surface temperatures are a good place to look for global trends because ocean temperatures don’t change much daily, making it easier to measure long-term trends.

Over more than a decade, American scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were collecting data on ocean surface temperatures that became part of the controversial IPCC report.

But in 2015, the NOAA published an update that said the previous measurements suggesting a warming hiatus were wrong. The data now suggests there was never a warming hiatus and that the Earth has been warming faster than ever.

The about-face sent climate change skeptics into a frenzy. The U.S. House of Representatives science and technology committee began an investigation and some accused the scientists of politicizing their data.

Since then, the data has been analyzed and re-analyzed, and yesterday’s report confirms what most scientists have said: there was never a hiatus in the warming of ocean temperatures.

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Izzard Truth

Planet Series - Beau Wright

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The innermost D ring of Saturn.

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute