Daily Archives: September 21, 2009

Global ozone layer depletion leveling off – rising slightly

From the European Space Agency. By merging more than a decade of atmospheric data from European satellites, scientists have compiled a homogeneous long-term ozone record that allows them to monitor total ozone trends on a global scale – and the … Continue reading

Posted in earth, measurement, ozone | 60 Comments

MIT develops a plan for carbon sequestration coal fired power plant

Prediction – greens still won’t be able to get past the word “coal”. From MIT News: David L. Chandler, MIT News Office, September 17, 2009 Researchers at MIT have shown the benefits of a new approach toward eliminating carbon-dioxide (CO2) … Continue reading

Posted in Carbon dioxide, energy | 91 Comments

Climate Alarmists stoop to new low – create “fake” newspaper and website to push climate agenda

UPDATE: From Daily Finance Activists behind NY Post parody detained by police The New York Post does not have a sense of humor about itself, it would seem. Early this morning, some 2,000 activists affiliated with a group called The … Continue reading

Posted in climate_change, media, politics, ridiculae | 115 Comments

JPL’s Patzert: “It’s actually eroding the credibility of long-range forecasters and climatologists”

The 2009 “super El Nino” predicted by some may be a “fizzle” according reports attributed to NASA JPL’s Climatologist Bill Patzert. I wonder who he might be referring to when he says “eroding the credibility”? Hansen’s prediction perhaps? Excerpts from … Continue reading

Posted in ENSO, forecasting, oceans | 95 Comments

2009 Arctic Sea Ice Extent exceeds 2005 for this date

Those that have been watching the IARC-JAXA Arctic sea ice plot, and noting the slope of gain, rather expected this to happen. Today it did. Here’s the current IARC-JAXA Sea Ice Extent plot: source:  http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm And here is the plot … Continue reading

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 180 Comments