
Missouri Scientists Counter Royal Academy on Moon Temps
Remember “Two Weeks to Slow the Spread”?...and that it kept expanding for weeks afterward? While the world stopped for a hot minute, the moon apparently noticed. Well, that’s what The Royal Astronomical Society said in a published article last year.
Up stepped scientists from Missouri S&T, who teamed up with the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago to refute the “Royal” study.
The RAS perspective was that the lack of activity on the planet affected lunar temperatures. The Americans questioned the science by digging in deeper to the data the RAS used, which was NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Radiometer.

Agreeing that lunar surface temperature did dip during the global Covid lockdown time window, the university team theorized that human activity was not the primary cause. There was agreement that global activity could affect lunar temps, it wouldn’t affect them to the degree that NASA’s LRO-Radiometer readings showed. Pointing out that human activities on our planet would have minimal effect.
Does the Royal Astronomical Society mean to imply that human activity is responsible for lunar warming? Or cooling?
Sorry, just trying to stay out in front of the narrative.
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