Month: March 2021

Reposted from the Climate Depot

Foreword by Mark Steyn!

By: Admin – Climate Depot March 21, 2021 3:10 p.m.

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The book’s release date is March 23rd: Green Scam: Why the Green New Deal is Worse Than You Think. Here is a promotional video from the editor for the book: https://twitter.com/Regnery/status/1370512451322716160

“If you’re interested in America’s future, read this book.” – Mark Levin

“A must-read book to show that the Green New Deal is a dangerous, impractical, misguided and guaranteed failure with catastrophic consequences for the American people.” – Sean Hannity

A new barrier to “save” the climate

This is what awaits us when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democrats adopt their radical climate plan – the Green New Deal.

It is full of guarantees that are so completely irrelevant to the problem it claims to be “solving” (such as “free college” and income for those who “can’t or don’t want to work”) that even its boosters have admitted that it’s not really about the climate.

Intrepid Marc Morano, author of the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, is breaking down science and politics to uncover the truth about the Green New Deal:

• The science has been clarified: numerous pieces of evidence – and prominent deviations from the “climate consensus” – make it clear that we are not facing a man-made climate catastrophe

• “Climate change” is the perfect Trojan horse for the left’s socialist agenda

• Fossil fuels lifted the West out of poverty – but our elites now want to deny them to the world’s poor

• The Green New Deal is on a collision course with self-government and our fundamental rights

Climate change has been “resolved” several times over the past two decades – with much-noticed international agreements – and yet it is never an excuse for left-wing politics that will cripple our economy, impoverish the world and impair our freedoms.

Green Fraud is your source for all of the facts you need to understand and face the threat.

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Green Fraud: Why The Green New Deal Is Even Worse Than You Think is the ultimate guide to uncovering and combating this Marxist plot disguised as environmental policy. . . . If you are interested in America’s future, read this book. “- Mark R. Levin, writer and nationally syndicated television and radio station

“This is a must-read book to show how dangerous, impractical, misguided, and guaranteed to fail with the catastrophic outcome for the American people, the Green New Deal.” – Sean Hannity, host of Hannity on Fox News and the nationally syndicated radio show The Sean Hannity Show

“In Green Fraud, Morano shows that the growing movement of the left is not about climate at all – it is about controlling every aspect of American life and implementing broad socialist policies.” – Senator James Inhofe

“The Green New Deal is one of the greatest threats to America. This indispensable book is the most comprehensive plan abolitionist you will ever read. “- Brent Bozell, Founder of the Media Research Center

“Don’t be climatic, read this book.” Kevin Sorbo, actor and narrator of the film Climate Hustle 2

“Marc Morano’s book Green Fraud provides a factual, academic and political account of the Green New Deal and other misanthropic and selfish plans of the global elite and their opportunistic or deceived acolytes.” – Will Happer, Cyrus Fogg Brackett, Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University

“Morano is really Pete Rose and Hank Aaron from Climate Conflict.” – Steven Hayward of Power Line

“Morano is probably the type (apart from me, of course) in a civilian sense who’s better off ringing the bells and alerting people to what’s going on here.” – Rush Limbaugh, nationally syndicated radio host and best-selling author

About the author

MARC MORANO is a former senior executive on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, editor of ClimateDepot.com, author of the politically incorrect guide to climate change, and producer of Climate Hustle (2016) and Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy (2020).

Product details

• Editor: Regnery Publishing (March 23, 2021)
• Language: English
• Hardcover: 256 pages
• ISBN-10: 1684510856
• ISBN-13: 978-1684510856
• Item Weight: 1.35 pounds
• Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches

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“Morano is the world’s leading climate skeptic in many ways.”

“So you can really find out where different information and quotations come from. He’s great at this stuff, and I actually think he remembers a lot of those things too. “

“I certainly recommend that you pre-order and read the book, especially if you think you depend on the political decisions that are shaped by the climate arguments.”

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A ‘new star’ became visible last weekend and is getting brighter and brighter.

It started, as all modern astronomical warnings seem, with one tweet, then two. In the early morning of March 19, we saw that a nova was discovered in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen near the border with Cepheus. At the time, the nova was +10 ‘with a bullet’ strength and was still glowing. That same night came a formal notice from the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) with the 735 warning about the discovery of the first Nova in Cassiopeia for 2021, Nova Cassiopeiae 2021 or N Cas 2021.

The discovery was made by the Japanese observer Yuji Nakamura on the night of March 18, 2021, and the newly visible star had an initial magnitude of +9.6.

Current Visibility: Will Nova Cassiopeiae Brighten Further In 2021?

At the time of writing, N Cas 2021 is still shining with a power of +7. That puts it within easy reach of binoculars, and when it gets much brighter, it’s visible to the naked eye from a dark-sky location.

In late March, Cassiopeia is low at dusk to observers in the northern hemisphere in the northwest and descends towards a lower peak around midnight before ascending northeast in the early hours of the morning. The moon is now growing towards full on March 28th, after which it will fade and begin to leave the twilight scene.

The + 5 Magnitude Star 4 Cassiopeiae is nearby and is a good guide star. Another well-known deep sky target is just over half a degree from Nova Cas 2021, the open cluster Messier 52 with a magnitude of +6.9. Nova Cas 2021 is roughly equidistant between the stars Beta Cassiopeiae and Iota Cephei to the naked eye.

A wide field finder diagram for Nova Cas 2021. The red inset is the field for the close-in diagram (below). Photo credit: Dave Dickinson / Stellarium.

The coordinates for Nova Cas 2021 are Right Ascension (RA) 23 hours 24 minutes and 48 seconds, declination +61 degrees 11 minutes and 15 seconds. Stars hop through the field and compare the nova with nearby stars of known brightness to find the nova and measure its size. You can make your own custom finder charts for Nova Cas 2021 on the AAVSO website.

A 10 degree finder diagram with “true view” (versus inverted), centered on Nova Cas 2021. Photo credit: Das AAVSO

This particular nova is located approximately one degree outside the galactic plane, a standard region along which novae normally occur. Classical novas occur when a white dwarf orbits a main sequence star in a tight hug and draws in material that then accumulates or concentrates around the white dwarf. The material then compresses around the white dwarf, warms up, and eventually ignites in an out of control fusion process. A sub-category of repeating eruptive variable stars is known as cataclysmic, or recurring novae. T Pyxidis and U Scorpii are good examples of this subclass.

An artist’s idea of ​​a nova in the act of formation. NASA / CXC / M. Weiss

The exact distance to Nova Cas 2021 is not yet known, but most of them peak around an absolute magnitude of -8 and – like extragalactic supernovae – hold great promise for use as standard distance measuring candles. ‘If’ + 7th magnitude is the high point for Nova Cas 2021, that would mean it’s about 30,000 to 32,000 light years away, on the edge of the outer arm of the Milky Way galaxy, just beyond the Perseus arm … but if so it brightens it can be considerably closer.

Received another spectrum from Nova Cas 2021. Strong emission lines for hydrogen balmer. Multiple helium emission lines and possibly nitrogen (N III). Much clearer conditions than last night! Meade LX10 8 “, ZWO ASI178MM, 50 × 5 seconds. Pic.twitter.com/LRritCUPBP

– Dr. Adrian Jannetta ??????? (@AdrianJannetta) March 21, 2021

The last good nova with the naked eye for the northern hemisphere was Nova Delphini 2013 in the tiny whale constellation of Delphinus the dolphin about eight years ago. On average, we get a good galactic nova with the naked eye about once every decade.

Here is our list of novae observed over the past century:

Novas of the 20th and 21st centuries with the naked eye. Adapted to our latest deep-sky field guide. Photo credit: Dave Dickinson

If the patch of sky where Nova Cas 2021 is currently located seems familiar, it could be because it is only six degrees away from Tycho’s supernova, as astronomer Tycho Brahe noted in 1572.

Tycho’s star, seen in 1572. Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain.

Unfortunately, galactic supernovae are much rarer cosmic beasts. Although we see several per year in distant galaxies, we haven’t had any good ones in our own galactic neighborhood since the advent of telescopic astronomy four centuries ago. Spica (Alpha Virginis) and Betelgeuse are good candidates around, though both are well above the 50 light year kill zone and will simply put on a good show. Betelgeuse gave us all a break in late 2019 to early 2020 when it clearly subsided, but seems to be returning to its old self for the time being.

If the skies are clear, be sure to find Nova Cas 2021 tonight. It could be the “cosmic nova show” for this decade.

Main Image: Now You See It … Nova Cas 2021. Photo Credit and Copyright: Mary McIntyre

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IMAGE: MICROSCOPIC CROSS SECTION OF THE NEW TYPE OF BASALT. Show more CREDIT: EXP 351 SCIENCE TEAM

A new type of rock has been discovered under the Pacific, formed by large and extraordinarily hot volcanic eruptions.

An international team of researchers, including the University of Leeds, discovered the previously unknown form of basalt after it pierced the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

The discovery suggests that the eruptions of the sea floor in the Earth’s mantle were even hotter and more voluminous than previously thought. The report is co-authored by Dr. Ivan Savov from the Leeds Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics at the University’s School of Earth and Environment.

He said: “At a time when we are right to admire discoveries made through space exploration, our results show that there are still many discoveries to be made on our own planet.

“The rocks that we have extracted are very different from rocks of this type that we already know. In fact, they can differ from the well-known seabed basalts of the earth as well as the basalts of the earth from the basalts of the moon.

“Now that we know where and how this type of rock is formed, we anticipate that many other rocks that we know were originally formed by seabed eruptions will be re-examined and potentially alter our broader understanding of basalt formation . “

The newly discovered basalt differs from known rocks in both its chemical and mineral composition.

Its existence was previously unknown as no new examples have emerged in millions of years. As a result, the new type of basalt was buried deep under the sediment on the sea floor.

To find the new rock, the research team on board the Research Vessel (RV) JOIDES “Resolution” sank its drilling equipment 6 km to the seabed of the Amami Sankaku Basin – about 1,000 km southwest of the Japanese volcano Mount Fuji.

They then drilled another 1.5 km into the ocean floor and extracted samples that had never been examined by scientists before.

The research area was part of the birth of the “Ring of Fire” – a horseshoe-shaped belt known for regular volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. It extends about 40,000 km around the Pacific and is believed to have formed at least 50 million years ago.

Dr. Savov stated, “This was one of the deepest bodies of water ever considered for drilling. A research ship was used that was specially developed for such challenging deep-sea environments.

“Basalt is one of the most common types of rock on earth. We looked for basalt that was formed during the early volcanic eruptions of the Ring of Fire. “

The eruptions that created the newly discovered basalt were very widespread (in areas the size of Western Europe) and occurred over a relatively short geological span of between 1 and 2 million years.

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The results of the research team were published in Nature Communications. The team consisted of scientists from Australia, Japan, the USA, Germany, Great Britain, China and Switzerland.

Further information

Basalt extracted from high refractory mantle sources during the early Izu Bonin Mariana arc development is published by Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038 / s41467-021-21980-0

The research was part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP).

Dr. Savov was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.

The research team also included: Deep Sea Research Center, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China; Marine Mineral Resource Laboratory, Qingdao National Marine Science and Technology Laboratory, Qingdao, China; Ocean Mega Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China; Geosciences Research School, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Geological Survey of Japan / AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Department of Earth and Environment, AHC5-394, Florida International University, Miami, USA; Institute of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA; Institute for Geosciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK; GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany; College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, USA.

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On February 18, 2021, after six months in transit, the Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero crater on Mars. On March 4, the company began driving short distances and calibrating its instruments in preparation for any scientific operations it will perform. Most recently, Perseverance began investigating its first scientific target, a rock called “Máaz” – the Navajo word for “Mars”.

This feature is one of many objects of scientific interest in the Jezero crater that is given names from the Navajo language. The process is overseen by the Perseverance Mission Team in collaboration with the Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President. This is in line with NASA’s tradition of nicknames for features so that the mission team (which can number in the thousands) have a common name for them.

Recently, the Perseverance team named the rover’s landing site the “Octavia E. Butler Landing” in honor of the late and respected science fiction writer who died in 2006. Likewise, the Curiosity rover landing site at Gale Crater Bradbury Landing was named in honor of Ray Bradbury, the famous science fiction writer perhaps best known for writing The Martian Chronicles.

Chelly Canyon National Monument (Tséyi ‘in Navajo) in Arizona is located in the heart of the Navajo Nation. Photo credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech

In this case, the decision is part of a larger effort that has divided the rover’s landing pad into four squares (or “quads”). Each quad is approximately 2.6 km2 and is named after a national park or nature reserve on earth with a similar geology. The quad bike that Perseverance landed in is named for Arizona’s Tséyi National Monument (Canyon de Chelly), located in the heart of the Navajo nation.

One of the engineers on the mission team is Aaron Yazzie from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who is himself a Navajo (or Diné). Via Yazzie, NASA in the south has given the Navajo Nation permission and collaboration to designate new functions on Mars. In response, Jonathan Nez and Myron Lizer (the President and Vice President, respectively, of the Navajo Nation) and their advisors compiled a list of words and made them available to the rover team.

For example, Perseverance’s name was translated to “Ha’anhóni” while words like bidziil (“strength”) and ho? Zero?? (“Respect”) were also highlighted as possible names for traits. Other terms were inspired by terrain already mapped by the rover, such as: B. tséwózí bee hazhmeezh, which translates as “rolling rows of pebbles like waves”. As the President of the Navajo Nation Jonathan Nez said in a NASA press release:

“The partnership that the Nez Lizer administration has established with NASA will help revitalize our Navajo language. We hope that using our language in the Perseverance Mission will inspire more young Navajo people to understand the meaning and importance of learning our language. Our words were used to win World War II and now we are helping you navigate and learn more about the planet Mars. “

After 5 years and 60 candidates, NASA has selected Jezero crater as the landing site for the Mars 2020 rover. Photo credit: NASA / JPL / JHUAPL / MSSS / Brown University

Currently the Perseverance team has a list of 50 names to start, but the team will continue to work with the Navajo Nation to include more names for functions if the rover continues to identify them. “This fateful landing on Mars created a special opportunity to inspire the Navajo youth not only through amazing scientific and technical feats, but also through such meaningful use of our language,” added Yazzle.

One of the biggest challenges was adapting the Navajo script so that Perseverance’s systems could recognize it. To convey the unique pronunciation of Navajo words, special accents are included (which the rover’s computer language does not recognize). For now, the team is avoiding complications by simply using English letters with no special accents or punctuation.

However, Yazzie also stated that the team will continue to work on ways to get the right intonations across. Said Nez:

“We are very proud of one of our own, Aaron Yazzie, who plays an important role in NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission. We are very excited about the NASA team and Aaron and see him as a great role model who will generate more interest in the STEM fields of study and hopefully inspire more young people to pursue STEM careers for even greater impact and contributions to achieve just like Aaron. As the mission goes on, we offer our prayers for continued success. “

Unlabeled image of the Maaz feature in the Jezero crater. Photo credit: NASA-JPL

Katie Stack Morgan, assistant project scientist for the PerseveranceI mission at JPL, added that scientists on the team took the opportunity to learn Navajo words and their meanings. “This partnership encourages the rover’s science team to ponder the names being considered for features on Mars – what they mean both geologically and to the people of Earth,” she said.

In the near future, the rover will run further tests to calibrate its advanced suite of instruments. This will be relied on when Perseverance examines Máaz’s composition and what it can say about the history of the Jezero crater. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will also conduct another experimental test flight to test its systems and capabilities.

The Kinds of Discoveries Persistence will allow scientists around the world to eagerly await the rovers’ scientific results!

Further reading: NASA

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