Daily Archives: June 20, 2009

Getting crabby – another missing NASA GISS station found, thanks to a TV show

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A couple of days ago, I located the “long lost” Honolulu Observatory GISS weather station on the Island of Oahu with just a couple of hours of digging. That one apparently got “lost” because the station name changed, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff, weather_stations | 145 Comments

Interesting times at the “North Pole”

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There is a webcam at the “North Pole” (at least it starts out very near there) that reports via satellite data uplink at regular intervals. They also have a weather station with a once weekly data plot.  Note it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 67 Comments

Historic parallels in our time: the killing of cattle -vs- carbon

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From our perspective as a modern society, the actions of the Xhosa would seem foolhardy, even insane. First let me say, I’m not at all against alternate energy, or improved or even different technology. Heck, I drive an electric car … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 126 Comments

Hansen’s at it again

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No longer content to be a scientist, and apparently now a full time protesting advocate, Dr. James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies joins forces with deep thinker Darryl Hannah. From commondreams.org Following this protest, on June … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, ridiculae | 84 Comments

Historic Variation in Arctic Ice

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Historic Variation in Arctic Ice Guest post from the Air Vent by Tony B The following is a guest post by Tony B on the history of Arctic ice. I nominated him Arctic ice historian on WUWT when I noticed … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 40 Comments

The Met Office brings doom to a place near you

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The Met Office brings doom to a place near you Guest post By Tony Newbery, Harmless Sky On Thursday, the Met Office launched its new report on global warming, UK Climate Predictions 2009 otherwise known as UKCP09. This is based … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting | 56 Comments