Daily Archives: August 31, 2009

Climate bill delayed and in “disarray”

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From the U.S. Senate Committe on Environment and Public Works Democrats Delay Global Warming Bill – Again Obama Agenda In “Disarray” Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment & Public Works Committee, today said … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | 118 Comments

An odd day in solar science, it’s mostly a waiting game

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It has been a strange day. Fires have evacuated the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, and SOHO images have not been updating all day. Power is down at the mountain and the webcam has gone offline. See status here. Mt. … Continue reading →

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Spencer: Always question your results

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Spurious SST Warming Revisited Dr. Roy Spencer August 31st, 2009 My previous post described what I called “smoking gun” evidence of a spurious drift in the NOAA sea surface temperature (SST) product when compared to SSTs from the TRMM satellite … Continue reading →

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Royal Society wants man-made volcanoes to fight climate change

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Here’s an interesting story from the Times. One wonders if the Royal Society is ready to deal with all the unintended and unmodeled consequences of such actions? The last man-made volcano didn’t go over so well. – Anthony From The … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, climate_change, vulcanism | 135 Comments

New Ice Core Project in Greenland looks at Eemian period

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From EurekAlert International Greenland ice coring effort sets new drilling record in 2009 Ancient ice cores expected to help scientists assess risks of abrupt climate change in future IMAGE: Atmospheric gases trapped in ancient ice recovered during the international North … Continue reading →

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Slump shows up in USA CO2 output for 2008 and 2009 – economy driven?

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The Monthly Energy Review for August 2009 has been published by the US Energy Information Administration and it has some interesting CO2 production data which you can see here in tabular form. I’ve graphed the data of interest in two … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, energy | 81 Comments