Article: Secret sanctions revealed against university hosting $1.25 billion biolab

Kansas State University — where a controversial $1.25 billion biosecurity lab facility is under construction — secretly faced federal sanctions last year after repeatedly violating safety regulations during its research with bioterror pathogens, records obtained by USA TODAY show. 

Kansas State’s “history of non-compliance” during four consecutive inspections over two years shows a “systemic problem” and has “raised serious concerns” about the university’s ability to put safeguards in place to ensure safety and containment of dangerous pathogens, according to a March 2014 letter to the university from federal lab regulators.

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Global Warming Science Links - 8/4/15

Article: A (Not Quite) Complete List Of Things Supposedly Caused By Global Warming

"And all on 0.006 deg C per year!"

Article: EPA: We don't need to justify our regulations to avert warming .01 degrees

EPA head McCarthy refuses to release the science behind proposed new regulations.

"McCarthy stressed that the science is generated through the peer-reviewed process," which shows she has no idea how science operates.

Article: All This for .01 Degrees Celsius?

By Joe Bastardi, Penn State graduate in meteorology, and co-founder of Accu-Weather.

A reminder of three things that are true about the climate that conveniently gets forgotten.

Article: And Now, The Co-Founder of Greenpeace Explains Why Climate Change is a Sham`

Video clip of Patrick Moore.

Article: Two new studies show that global warming is not behind California drought

Summary of the two studies.

Additionally a quoted geologist, posits that the "blob" of warm water off of California's coast may be due to volcanic activity.

The blob also has all the characteristics of another less-known phenomena termed megaplumes: massive underwater vents that spew out vast amounts of heat, which in turn warm the waters above. According to geologist James Kamis, “An ongoing very large megaplume is responsible for generating a cell of unusually warm seawater that extends across a vast region of the Pacific Ocean, including much of North America’s west coast. This sub-sea volcanically induced giant warmed cell is acting to alter normal California climate patterns and inducing a long term draught.

Science Links 7/25/2015

Article: Mystery beach blast in Rhode Island blamed on hydrogen gas

Abandoned and corroded copper cable releases hydrogen gas; catastrophically combines with oxygen creating a blast.

Article: Exploring deep microbial life in coal-bearing sediment down to ~2.5 km below the ocean floor

Lignite coal bed, about 2 miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean off of Japan. Buried for "tens of million of years." Still has an active bacterial ecosystem.

Article: New Horizons: Pluto may have 'nitrogen glaciers'

Scientists believe they see evidence of surface material having flowed around mountains and even ponding in craters. 

The activity is certainly recent, they say, and may even be current.

I love bizarre geology (or "plutology").

The other key detection was of hazes in the atmosphere. These are likely the consequence of high-up methane being broken apart and processed by sunlight into simple hydrocarbons like ethylene and acetylene, which then fall, cool and condense to form a mist of ice particles.

And bizzare meteorology.