December 31, 2020

These are all the stories from the morning news show:

Dec1
Superbolts: https://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2020/November/1112-superbolt.php
New Field Model: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-020-01295-y
Solar Cycles: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.14564.pdf
Vera Rubin Targets Via Spitzer: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.15030.pdf
Interstellar Objects: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.14900.pdf
Killer Electrons: http://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/research/activities/news/2020/11/killer-electrons-in-strumming-sky-lights.html
Vancouver Quake Risk: https://news.ubc.ca/2020/11/30/seismic-guidelines-underestimate-impact-of-the-big-one-on-metro-vancouver-buildings/
Fast Solar System: https://www.llnl.gov/news/solar-system-formed-less-200000-years
A Boring Phobos Mystery: https://www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news/news-articles/news/laboratory-experiments-could-unravel-the-mystery-of-the-mars-moon-phobos/
Cologne Quake Risk: https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/media-and-communication/news/details/article/earthquake-scenario-for-large-german-city/

Dec2
Our Place in the Galaxy: https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2020/20201126-mizusawa.html
Galactic Extinctions: https://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/1644224
Solar Storm Satellite Risk: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/solar-superstorms-past-help-nasa-scientists-understand-risks-for-satellites-orbital-drag
Mars is Lethal: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.00568.pdf
Dark Energy Probe: https://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/20201201
New Zealand Fault: https://www.seismosoc.org/news/seismic-activity-of-new-zealands-alpine-fault-more-complex-than-suspected/
Chandra Sonification: https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2020/sonify2/

Dec3
Cool CGM Not From Nova: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.00770.pdf
Rock Art: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest
Proxima C: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/su202044
ESA SOHO: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/SOHO_s_pioneering_25_years_in_orbit
NASA SOHO: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/esanasa-s-sun-observing-soho-mission-celebrates-a-quarter-century-in-space/
Cosmic Tricks: https://www.ipmu.jp/en/20201124-CosmicBirefringence
Galactic Gamma Binary: https://www.ipmu.jp/en/20201126-Gamma-rayBinary_system
Next Supercontinent: https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/12/01/climate-supercontinent-deep-future/
Laughing at Greenland: https://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR852158.aspx
OMG No Way… Sunspots = Eruptions: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.01210.pdf
Other Stars Flaring: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.00786.pdf

Dec4
New Alaskan Supervolcano: https://news.agu.org/press-release/cluster-of-alaskan-islands-could-be-single-interconnected-giant-volcano/
Supernova Elemental Mystery: https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2020/supernova-surprise-creates-elemental-mystery
ESA GAIA: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_s_new_data_takes_us_to_the_Milky_Way_s_anticentre_and_beyond
Hubble Stingray: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-55
China’s Scary Fast Computing: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03434-7
3d Galaxy Mapping: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2481774-scientists-peer-into-the-3d-structure-of-the-milky-way

Dec5
Blake Excursion and More: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031920120303757
OLD Excursions: https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gji/ggaa564/5998230
Magnetic Anomalies & Quakes: https://nhess.copernicus.org/preprints/nhess-2020-354/
2017 Beaufort Mini-Reversal: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JC016796
Voltage Controlled Magnetic Reversal: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.227702
Life 2 Space: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/ames-sends-rodents-cells-and-microbes-to-space-station-on-spacex-mission
“The Snail” https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw2048a.jpg
Mars Underground Best for Life: https://www.rutgers.edu/news/best-region-life-mars-was-far-below-surface
Amazing Life Underground on Earth: https://today.uri.edu/news/researchers-discover-life-in-deep-ocean-sediments-at-or-above-waters-boiling-point/

Dec6
Climate Confusion: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-00943-1
Solar Radiation Peaked in 2000: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/34/1/jcliD200257.xml
Ionized Galactic Outflows; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01255-2
Auroral Substorms: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA028009
Nobel Winner Cites Dr. Robitaille: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/CP/D0CP05301E#!divAbstract

Dec7
GAIA Recurrent Nova: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa39132-20/aa39132-20.html
Galaxy Alignments: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.02254.pdf
Extended Halo: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.02309.pdf
Feeding Filament: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.02648.pdf
Rotating Filament: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.02442.pdf
Cosmic Jets: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/12/aa39327-20/aa39327-20.html
Shot at MMS: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA028619
Particle Penetration/Effect Range: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA028487
More Climate Confusion: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JD033447

Dec8
Solar Space Missions: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4805
Huge Solar Cycle? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-020-01723-y/
Ryugu is Here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/asteroid-ryugu-dust-delivered-to-earth-nasa-astrobiologists-prepare-to-probe-it

Dec9
Proxima Flare: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.04642.pdf
Accretion = Action: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.04073.pdf
Rotation-Oriented Innermost Core: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JB020545
Ice Age Hit Fast and Hard: https://www.utu.fi/en/news/press-release/new-geological-findings-from-eastern-fennoscandia-add-new-dimensions-to-the
Coral Mysteriously Recover: https://www.uvic.ca/news/media/2020+coral-recovery-juliabaum+media-release
Pre-Seismic Signals: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9264695

Dec10
Even MORE Climate Confusion… with Pollution: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/4734/hard_and_fast_emission_cuts_will_slow_warming_sooner_than_expected
Two Liquid Waters: https://www.su.se/english/news/two-liquids-of-water-exist-1.528339
Massive Blow to LCDM: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.03950.pdf

Dec11
Weather Channel Space Weather Video: https://weather.com/science/space/video/strong-solar-storm-dec-10-heres-what-to-expect
Arches of Chaos: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/space_superhighway
Sun’s Dusty Environment: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/12/09/researchers-get-look-suns-dusty-environment
ESA Solar Orbiter Article: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Solar_Orbiter_turning_pictures_into_physics
Sea Level Data: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-6/Sea-level_monitoring_satellite_first_results_surpass_expectations
Far-Flung Planet: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-53

Dec12
LOOONG Extinction Cycle: https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/december/mass-extinctions-of-land-animals.html
Jupiter Mysteries: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7798
Hubble Collection: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/for-30th-anniversary-hubble-releases-images-of-30-celestial-gems
Geminids: https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/Geminids
Galactic Fields I: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.05252.pdf
Galactic Fields II: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.04889.pdf
X-Ray Buubbles: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.05840.pdf

Dec13
Solar Variability: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aba7e6
Climate Bias: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/34/1/JCLI-D-20-0338.1.xml
Climate Uncertainty: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abaf1b
Superflares: http://solar.physics.montana.edu/cgi-bin/eprint/index.pl?entry=49864
Solar Storm Currents: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9241698/figures#figures

Dec14
2010 Secular Variation Video: https://youtu.be/1SOSmHPTods
AGU Laschamp Animation: https://youtu.be/aL4UEcY_DOA
Quakes are Predictable: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.06013.pdf
Campi Flegrei: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.615178/full
Solar Nuclear Conundrum: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2020.618356/abstract

Dec15
Cosmic Dawn Uncertainty: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.06588.pdf
November Global Climate: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/global-maps/202011#global-maps-select
Habitable By Chance: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2020/12/earth-habitability.page
The Moon and Methane: https://cage.uit.no/2020/12/11/the-moon-controls-the-release-of-methane-in-arctic-ocean/
Swedish Solar Scope: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07394.pdf
GCR in Multiphase ISM: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.06585.pdf

Dec16
Farthest Galaxy: https://keckobservatory.org/farthest-galaxy/
Typhoon Trami: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4859
Neptune: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/dark-storm-on-neptune-reverses-direction-possibly-shedding-a-fragment
Ocean Uncertainty, Bias, and Decadal Pattern: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.08025.pdf

Dec17
Satellite Galaxies Challenge LCDM: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.08138.pdf
Sun Hampers COVID: https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2020/12/covid-19-spread-increases-when-uv-levels-decrease
Electric Geology: https://source.wustl.edu/2020/12/powerful-electrical-events-quickly-alter-surface-chemistry-on-mars-and-other-planetary-bodies/
Enceladus, Habitable: https://www.swri.org/press-release/enceladus-metabolic-menu-subsurface-ocean-cassini?utm_source=EurekAlert!&utm_medium=Distribution&utm_campaign=Metabolic-Menu-PR
Exoplanet Magnetic Field: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/12/cornell-postdoc-detects-possible-exoplanet-radio-emission
Nova Distances Challenge LCDM: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.08534.pdf

Dec18
Abell 2261: https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2020/a2261/
Arctic Lightning: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03561-1
HeartMan on Mars: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Dreaming_of_a_red_Christmas_Festive_features_spotted_near_Mars_south_pole
Longest Filament: https://www.uni-bonn.de/news/307-2020?set_language=en
AGU Kelvin-Helmholtz Cloud Video: https://youtu.be/bxm2_JyaBmQ

Dec19
External Field Effect: https://thedaily.case.edu/unique-prediction-of-modified-gravity-challenges-dark-matter/
Radio Signal from Proxima: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/18/scientists-looking-for-aliens-investigate-radio-beam-from-nearby-star
Solar System Formation: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/detailing-the-formation-of-distant-solar-systems-with-nasas-webb-telescope
Planets Born Rogue: https://www.unibe.ch/news/media_news/media_relations_e/media_releases/2020/media_releases_2020/a_pair_of_lonely_planet_like_objects_born_like_stars/index_eng.html
Hubble’s Molten Ring: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw2050a.jpg

Dec20
IceSat2: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL090550
Vortex Currents: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136468262030314X
Sun Can Be More Powerful: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2020SW002489
Magnetic Pole Study: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA028513

Dec21
New Recurrent Nova: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.10356.pdf
Geomagnetic Risk to China: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eng2.12340
CMIP6 is Not Skillful: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL091152
WTF, Cyclones? https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/51/eabd5109

Dec22
Middle Atmosphere Solar Forcing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364682620303060
BS Climate Scare Article: https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/climate-change-threshold-dangerous-warming-will-likely-be-crossed-between-2027-2042-327290
Van Allen Belt Punctures: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA028679
Colorado River: https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-research-team-solves-ancient-colorado-river-mystery

Dec23:
GRACE in the Deep: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.10964.pdf
Ceres-Sized Object: https://www.swri.org/press-release/mineralogy-composition-asteroid-carbonaceous-chondrite-meteorite-almahata-sitta?utm_source=EurekAlert!&utm_medium=Distribution&utm_campaign=New-Astroid-PR
The “COVID” Observing Fleet: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4880
Brightest Distant Blazar: https://public.nrao.edu/news/blazar-in-the-early-universe/
Russian Ship Stuck in Ice: https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/russian-freighter-caught-in-the-ice-in-siberian-arctic
At the Heart of Photomagnetism: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2020-12-17-physicists-solve-chicken-and-egg-question-heart-photomagnetism.aspx
Sun & Tree Rings: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/abc063/meta

Dec24
Iceberg: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/CryoSat/A-68A_iceberg_thinning_at_2.5_cm_per_day
Pulsar X-ray Nova: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=14282
Nova Dust: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=14272
Ancient Israel Tsunami: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243619
La Nina: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147703/the-cooler-sister-returns
The Crazy Beast: https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/the-crazy-beast-that-lived-among-the-dinosaurs/

Dec25
Solar Current Sheet Forcing, and More: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspa.2020.0164
Electric Space Bubble: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/12/Space_bauble
Sperm Whales Beach: https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/24/group-of-whales-washed-up-on-east-yorkshire-beach

Dec26
Last Night’s Video – THE NEXT DISASTER | Part 1: https://youtu.be/V2decDcEJqo
Solar Climate Forcing: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prof_Ashok_Singh/publication/346971205_Ascendancy_of_Solar_Variability_on_Terrestrial_Climate_A_Review/links/5fd64e10a6fdccdcb8c20f52/Ascendancy-of-Solar-Variability-on-Terrestrial-Climate-A-Review.pdf
Worst Solar Climate Forcing Article of 2020: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL090243
Rocks Didn’t Eat the CO2: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/muddying-the-waters-rock-breakdown-may-play-less-of-a-role-in-regulating-climate-than-previously
Deep Slow Slip: https://news.psu.edu/story/643027/2020/12/21/research/deep-slow-slip-action-may-direct-largest-earthquakes-and-their

Dec27
Solar Wind and Clouds: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JD034201
Models Struggle in Tropics: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JD033657
Vertical Winds During Geomagnetic Storm: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA028915
Solar CO2 Forcing: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA028607
Solar Flare Coupling: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA028569

Dec28
CAPE: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.13383.pdf
Binaries: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.12997.pdf

Dec29
Superflare: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.14126.pdf
Atmospheric Biology Ontology: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00484-020-02051-3
Ionosphere Projects to Surface: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0016793220060080
Space Charge at Atmospheric Boundary Layer: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809520312928

Dec30
ULF Geoelectric: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper716618.html
Calculating Atmospheric Ionization: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper739965.html
Electron Penetration: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper713224.html
Solar Wind and SST: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper722043.html
Solar Climate Forcing: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper733207.html
Solar Forcing Asian. Monsoon: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper713415.html
Space Tornados & Geomagnetic Induced Current Bursts: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper663531.html
Dr. Robitaille, Nuclear Solar Power: https://youtu.be/shLjbO7pmFw

Dec31
Newfoundland Lightning: https://vocm.com/2020/12/30/rare-december-thunderstorm-strikes-metro/
Reversal, Quakes, Liquifaction, Sedimentation, and Glass: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper694945.html
MB Reversal Model: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper680008.html
US Geoelectric: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper755513.html
Confirming Excursions:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper694199.html
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper693792.html
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/Paper732472.html

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  • Caroline5765
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    Thank you for the compilation Ben. I appreciate everything over all of these years. Fro0m the 2/3 minute news days to now.

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