Daily Archives: September 4, 2010

Failure to forecast morphs to criminal investigation

Posted on September 4, 2010 by

From an AGU press release, potential charges for failure to forecast an earthquake. h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard. Scientists May Face Manslaughter Charges After Earthquake 22 June 2010 AGU Science Policy Alert 10-18 Seven Italian scientists and government officials are … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disaster, Politics | 107 Comments

The gusto that wasn’t

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I heard on my car radio a news report interviewing hotel and resort property owners on the East Coast that lost virtually all their bookings this holiday weekend due to warnings for hurricane Earl. A direct quote from one of … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, media | 81 Comments

The North Pacific & Solar Cycle Change

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Guest post by Paul Vaughan, M.Sc. Awhile back I drew attention to temporal patterns shared by the <i>rate of change</i> of solar cycle length (SCL’) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). (See here.) Correspondence I received later alerted me to … Continue reading →

Posted in PDO, Sea Surface Temperature | 100 Comments

We Talk About Politics Because The Science Is Uncertain

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Guest Post by Thomas Fuller You readers here at Watts Up With That have been very kind to me during my guest-blogging stint here, and I’d like to express my thanks for the cordial reception I have found, especially since … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 211 Comments

In Search of Cooling Trends

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by Verity Jones and Tony Brown (Tonyb) Back in October Tony asked me to help with a big idea. Searching Norwegian climate site Rimfrost (www.rimfrost.no) Tony had found many climate stations all over the world with a cooling trend in … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Climate_change, measurement | 122 Comments