science

Coastal Carolina officials not willing to prepare for #climate change

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A rather obvious threat facing the costal region of the Carolinas is sea level rise. So how are government officials within the impacted areas preparing their communities? Brian Bulla, a researcher based at Appalachian State University, conducted a survey of official in 20 coastal counties. He then published the results in Ocean & Coastal Management within a paper entitled … Read more

Future #Climate change could cause ocean current collapse

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Wei Liu and colleagues from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have published a new paper that outlines something that most of the current climate models are not considering when projecting the potential impact of climate change. Ocean currents, or to be a tad more precise, the distinct possibility … Read more

What the heck is a TOR Exit Node?

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When writing about an analysis of the report on the Russian Hacking the other day, the following was mentioned … …What we’re seeing in this IP data is a wide range of countries and hosting providers. 15% of the IP addresses are Tor exit nodes. These exit nodes are used by anyone who wants to be anonymous online, … Read more

Russian Hacking … an analysis of the evidence

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Because I use WordPress to host this site, I also use a well-known WordPress security plugin called wordfence. If you have a wordpress site, you probably should look into ramping up your security with wordfence or similar. I have the free version, and no this is not an ad. The price for having their free version is that … Read more

The rather strange Scott Adams challenge – #Climate

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Recently Scott Adams, (yes the Dilbert guy), issued the following challenge … Climate Science Challenge. Find a scientist — just one — who says the climate prediction models are credible: https://t.co/SpJcVPcHmJ — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 28, 2016 It was not just a tweet, he also blogged a far longer version of this “challenge”. There he expresses … Read more