Daily Archives: September 3, 2009

NOAA Internal Newsletter Reveals NOAA’s Arctic Plans

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People send me stuff. Sometimes it is stuff I’m not expected to see. It seems NOAA is getting hot and bothered about the Arctic. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke recently approved a plan to prohibit the expansion of commercial fishing in … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Science | 128 Comments

NASA: Are Sunspots Disappearing?

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From NASA News: Are Sunspots Disappearing? September 3, 2009: The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century. Weeks and sometimes whole months go by without even a single tiny sunspot. The quiet has … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 191 Comments

Satellite imagery gauges economic growth and land use change

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I got an email tip on this article from voxeu.org which has some relevance to the work done by the surfacestations.org project in that it shows clearly the impact of urbanization. While Hansen et al (GISS) uses “nightlights” in the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Land use land cover change | 48 Comments

California Wildfires caused by cooler Pacific, La Niña

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California’s Fires Result of a Cooling Pacific, Two Years of La Niña and Environmental Mismanagement Guest Post By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, ICECAP While environmentalists and clueless politicans like CA Representative Linda Sanchez and not surprisingly Climate Progress’ Joe Romm sought … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, oceans, PDO | 85 Comments