Monthly Archives: December 2007

Giving thanks

Posted on December 31, 2007 by

As this year draws to a close, I think back about what I’ve accomplished on this blog in the last year, and it occurs to me that I have a lot of people to thank. It truly has been a … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 19 Comments

Weathering and Thermometer Shelters

Posted on December 27, 2007 by

Former Virginia State Climatologist Patrick J. Michaels wrote an op-ed about his paper with Ross McKitrick from Canada’s University of Guelph in an American Spectator column today about the surface temperature record. This paragraph really caught my eye: “Weather equipment … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, weather_stations | 17 Comments

Blogging Holiday – please drive/bike/walk safely

Posted on December 23, 2007 by

I’m taking a few days off blogging for friends and family. Seeing the pandemonium that has gripped the streets of my town while people scurry about trying to pull off that last minute shopping, and seeing my in-laws already getting into … Continue reading →

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Moon and Mars show tonight, Sunday Dec 23rd

Posted on December 23, 2007 by

Sky note:  After sunset on Sunday, Dec. 23rd, the full Moon and Mars will rise in the east less than 2 degrees apart. They’ll be two brightest objects in the evening sky, as Mars is very near it’s closest approach (opposition) … Continue reading →

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Don’t send Coal for Christmas, send Carbon Credits!

Posted on December 21, 2007 by

Got a person on your christmas list that is fully deserving but can’t find that lump of coal at K-Mart at the last minute? Thanks to the good folks at Free Carbon Offsets, you too can join the ranks of … Continue reading →

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Record cold events around the world in 2007

Posted on December 21, 2007 by

Below is an opinion from the Washington Times by Geophysicist David Denning, to which I’ve added photos and links to the events he’s written about.   A caveat: I caution the reader that annual weather does not equate to long term climate. Yes … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 16 Comments

U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007

Posted on December 20, 2007 by

U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007  from this link: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport The variety and reach of this is quite large. This is a report gathered from many independent publications, it is not one … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change | Tagged , , | 16 Comments

The Best Christmas Present Anybody Could Ever Have

Posted on December 19, 2007 by

My coffee buddy, Butte County Sheriff Perry Reniff helps Alexis Dominguez exit the helicopter (Photo: Bill Husa, Chico Enterprise Record)  Today was a good day. No, strike that, today was a GREAT day! The saga of the Dominguez family lost … Continue reading →

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Study: Greenland prior eras as warm or warmer than today

Posted on December 18, 2007 by

I was forwarded a slide show presentation done by Thomas Lowell et al of the University of Cincinnati titled: Organic Remains from the Istorvet Ice Cap, Liverpool Land, East Greenland: A Record of Late Holocene Climate Change It was presented … Continue reading →

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Update: GOES12 is back online!

Posted on December 18, 2007 by

After a near brush with death, GOES 12 is back up and running, our full disk image  is now 100% The loop may take some time to get synced but images are being produced from GOES 12 correctly now.

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Told Ya So!

Posted on December 18, 2007 by

As I blogged about earlier this year, Vista sucks. Now comes vindication of my views from PC World’s The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007 unsurprisingly, Windows Vista has been rated the most disappointing product of 2007.  It’s delicious irony that … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | 14 Comments

One more thing to worry about

Posted on December 18, 2007 by

While we are all recovering from the news of the terrible fate that awaits us as outlined recently in Bali, astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a super-massive black hole hitting a nearby galaxy with a “death-star-like” beam of energy. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

Climate Audit back up soon

Posted on December 17, 2007 by

I’m getting lots of emails from worried folks about the status of the Climate Audit website.  It’s a DNS snafu caused by closing a billing for hosting service that isn’t used anymore. I’ve already cured the problem but the trickle … Continue reading →

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Significant Storms Headed to Northern California

Posted on December 16, 2007 by

You can click the image to see an animation that shows the current data at the time you are viewing, which depending on when you click, may not match the image above. Looks like after the midwest and east coast got heavy … Continue reading →

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Spotting Weather Stations in SFO

Posted on December 16, 2007 by

San Francisco’s official weather stations, new and old locations are in this photo – can you find them? Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of meeting up with Steve McIntyre, Steve Mosher, and “jeez” (who lives in San Francisco, … Continue reading →

Posted in weather_stations | 7 Comments

Now that’s a big snowstorm

Posted on December 15, 2007 by

From my own www.IntelliWeather.com image service, here’s the composite radar image for Saturday 12/15/07. You can click the image to see an animation that shows the current data at the time you are viewing, which depending on when you click, … Continue reading →

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From AGU – the cause of Aurora Borealis and TSI questions

Posted on December 15, 2007 by

Scientists think they have discovered the energy source of auroras borealis and australis, the spectacular upper atmospheric color displays seen in the highest latitudes of the our planet. At the same time, this discovery raises questions about our understanding of Total … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science | 20 Comments

Signs of a new solar cycle?

Posted on December 14, 2007 by

From NASA: The solar physics community is abuzz this week. No, there haven’t been any great eruptions or solar storms. The source of the excitement is a modest knot of magnetism that popped over the sun’s eastern limb on Dec. … Continue reading →

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Off to AGU

Posted on December 13, 2007 by

I’m off to San Francisco to the AGU meeting and to meetup with Steve McIntyre and others. So I won’t be posting for awhile. I’ll have some new material over the weekend.

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How not to measure temperature, part 45

Posted on December 10, 2007 by

I’ve covered California’s temperature stations and their exposure problems extensively, now it’s time to head north to Alaska. When you think of Alaska, you think of cold, snowy, pristine remote wilderness, right? Surely there are no worries about urbanization affecting … Continue reading →

Posted in weather_stations | 24 Comments

Spot the thermometer in this photo

Posted on December 9, 2007 by

I have a new tool for evaluation of the micro-site measurement environment near thermometers. The first site I’ve surveyed has not one but two potential biases. Can you spot them? Can you guess what they are? This may be the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, weather_stations | 23 Comments

USHCN National Weather Station Quality Plot

Posted on December 6, 2007 by

Early in the project, one of the criticisms heard against the surfacestations.org effort was that there had been “cherry picking” going on in the selections of stations to survey, and that the project wasn’t reaching a wide area. In this first … Continue reading →

Posted in weather_stations | 37 Comments

How not to measure temperature, part 44

Posted on December 5, 2007 by

I’ve seen a couple of weather stations mounted on rooftops before, for example the station in Eureka, CA was on the roof of the post office for many years. This station in downtown Oakland, CA is unique because not only … Continue reading →

Posted in weather_stations | 9 Comments

NASA/NOAA may have lost GOES East satellite

Posted on December 5, 2007 by

  The GOES East satellite (GOES 12) went through a station keeping maneuver (used to maintain orbit and attitude) yesterday, and then shortly afterwards communications ceased. GOES 12 is no longer delivering satellite imagery. This satellite is used for most … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Science | 9 Comments

How not to measure temperature, part 43

Posted on December 4, 2007 by

 Continuiung our tour of California climate monitoring stations, we visit the Portola train yard, where they not only switch freight, but measure the temperature too. This station is # 04-7085 and is part of the COOP climate monitoring network operated by … Continue reading →

Posted in weather_stations | 8 Comments