Daily Archives: May 8, 2009

Global Warming clause won’t be used to protect polar bears, ecos plan to sue

On one hand, we have a sensible decision, on the other, no good deed goes unpunished. – Anthony From the Los Angeles Times U.S. global warming rules won’t change to help polar bears Excerpts from the LA Times story The … Continue reading

Posted in Arctic, politics | 74 Comments

Our Current Minimum is More Maunder than Dalton

Guest Post by David Archibald This is a plot of three year windows on the Maunder and Dalton Minimum and the current minimum: What it is showing is how the start of the current minimum compares with the starts of … Continue reading

Posted in solar | 235 Comments

NOAA SWPC Solar Cycle 24 Prediction: “weakest since 1928″

The new cycle 24 solar forecast is hot off the press from noon today, published at 12:03 PM from the Space Weather Prediction Center.  It looks like a peak of 90 spots/month in May of 2013 now. SWPC has dropped … Continue reading

Posted in forecasting, solar | 265 Comments

A note on ICECAP

Many have inquired in comments what’s happened to the ICECAP website. My query to Joe D’Aleo was answered this morning, looks like servicide. I noticed the outage yesterday, AM.  I had emailed and spoke to the hosting customer at [my] … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 35 Comments