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Land and sea temperatures have warmed much more than models forecast in the last year, and as of these articles various new factors being considered appear not enough to account for that spike. Relatively speaking it's quite large. --------------- Nature 9 March 2024 Climate models can’t...

Global warming pushes ocean temperatures off the charts: study In 2023, the world's oceans took up an enormous amount of excess heat, enough to "boil away billions of Olympic-sized swimming pools," according to an annual report published Thursday. ... In 2023, the oceans soaked up around 9 to...

For the past year, oceans around the world have been substantially warmer than usual. Last month was the hottest January on record in the world’s oceans, and temperatures have continued to rise since then. ... The heat wave has been especially pronounced in the North Atlantic...

"...no one can snatch them out of my hand." 27 My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out...

It's such an interesting time in astronomy/cosmology. While this has already been discussed a few times in the last year or so, here's a recent new observation. "massive quiescent galaxies have now been observed as early as one to two billion years after the Big Bang" "Galaxy formation is...

At times you may find a chance to talk with someone who has left a church, and isn't yet having returned to church somewhere, and so I think it helps to hear from some why, and there are different reasons of course, but some reasons are more common. So, becasue I heard a bit of this program...

To fully believe in God is so much more than just believing God is behind a few things... God is the creator of all things John chapter 1 tells us -- and that means (as the words say) everything 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with...

The Holy One of Israel is Isaiah’s main title for God. The phrase occurs 25 times in the book, but rarely elsewhere in the Bible. The word “holy” describes the Lord’s absolute moral purity and his being far greater than all that he has created...

"The world just had the hottest week on record, according to preliminary data. It follows the hottest June on record, with unprecedented sea surface temperatures and record low Antarctic sea ice extent. "The record-breaking temperatures on land and in the ocean have potentially devastating...

First an update: we recently learned about the 2nd nearest planet to the red dwarf star Trappist-1 (remember? It's the red dwarf star of breathless headlines in 2017 like "Earth like": Seven Earth-Like Planets Orbit One Nearby Star "Wonderful": Wonderful potentially habitable worlds around...

Posting this also here in the open to all news forum. In Texas, the Southern U.S. and Mexico, a three-week heat wave has gripped the region with temperature records falling for days in a row. Extreme heat has also hit India, China and Canada, where widespread wildfires are burning. "Most of...

In Texas, the Southern U.S. and Mexico, a three-week heat wave has gripped the region with temperature records falling for days in a row. Extreme heat has also hit India, China and Canada, where widespread wildfires are burning. "Most of the world's population has experienced record-breaking...

Our Lord teaches to us that no power can forcibly remove us from God's hand, against His will. Nothing in all heaven or Earth could do that... (John chapter 10) Which people cannot ever be lost?.... Christ tells us which people are secure: ---------------------------- 27 My sheep listen to my...

Alastair Begg is quite a capable preacher -- out of 100 or more preachers I've heard over time (about 2/3rds in a wide variety of churches we visited over the years in many cities and denominations, and the rest on radio or internet), I put him up there in the top 1 or 2 in my experience. So...

While varied views (see another near the end of this post) suggests it's not clear what stage in its evolution of burning increasingly heavier elements Betelgeuse is currently in, it might be later in the carbon burning stage is one idea modeled in one new paper "The evolutionary stage of...

Scientists have found a way to decode a stream of words in the brain using MRI scans and artificial intelligence. The system reconstructs the gist of what a person hears or imagines, rather than trying to replicate each word, a team reports in the journal Nature Neuroscience. "It's getting at...

3/29/24 Update: See new post #28 on 2nd page of posts _------------ Earlier post: Context (in blue) -- Context: in 2017 many popular science reports such as in newspapers and many websites use sensational headlines (jumping the gun in a big way) about the "7 Earth-like worlds" discovered...