Today (Saturday June 20th) is the first day of summer. That's when the sun's rays shine the highest in the sky and we get the maximum number of hours and minutes of sunlight in the northern hemisphere. Happy Summer Solstice!

It turns out that with all the things we've launched into orbit around the earth, a lot of it is now junk just circling the earth and getting in the way. And if we don't do something about it, this…

The heat goes on... May 2020 tied May 2016 for the warmest on record. And 2020 is on pace to be the warmest year on record. This is from yaleclimateconnections.org: "Global temperature records are more likely to be set during…

“I Don’t Need to Wear a Mask.” That’s what a friend of mine said last week when we were talking about coronavirus. He went on, “My employer and my government don’t have the right to take away my freedom like…

Greentechmedia.com has summarized a study recently released from UC Berkeley and GridLab. It states that not only is it possible to get to 90% renewable energy by 2035, but it would be cheaper. The cost of electricity would be 13%…

We are adding roughly 8 million tons of plastic to the oceans each year, according to https://www.fauna-flora.org/  Our survival is inextricably tied to the health of the ocean. We have to do better. "Plastic is accumulating in the world’s oceans…

Cristobal (a Tropical Storm at the time of this article) is now over open water in the Gulf of Mexico and it'll continue travelling to the north. As it does so, it'll pick up strength. The current forecast has the…

Tropical Storm Cristobal is expected to slowly pick up strength and move out into the Gulf - eventually making landfall somewhere along the Louisiana coast on Sunday. Stay tuned for updates.

Tropical Storm Cristobal has formed off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. There will be no significant winds to move or steer the storm over the next several days, so there's a lot of uncertainty about where it will go…

Tropical Depression 3 has formed just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. It's called a tropical depression because its wind speeds are not quite that of a tropical storms - sustained of at least 39 mph. So where is…

We could be looking at the 3rd tropical storm forming before June 1st. If that happens, that would be the first time in recorded history that the Atlantic Basin has seen 3 tropical storms before the start of Hurricane Season.…

From renwableengergyworld.com: "Thomas Brostrøm, President of Ørsted North America announced on LinkedIn that the first offshore wind turbine was installed in U.S. federal waters on Tuesday, May 26. He called it a “monumental day for the U.S. offshore wind industry.”…

From the NASA website: "NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:33 p.m. EDT May 27, from Launch Complex 39A in Florida, for an extended stay…

Columbia is getting warmer - just like the rest of the the world, the United States, and South Carolina. Below is the increase in the average temperature since 1970. You might be thinking to yourself that 2.7 degrees isn't all…

From earthsky.org The sun’s innermost planets, Mercury and Venus, will pair up in the west after sunset – their closest pairing for all of 2020 – on May 21 or 22. These two worlds will pass within only one degree on the…

That's the findings of a team of scientists led by James Kossin, a NOAA scientist based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Earthsky.org wrote a full article summarizing their findings. "This week, scientists at the University of Wisconsin weighed in with…