Category Archives: Radiation

What We Don’t Know

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Back in August 2010, WUWT ran an article wherein it was claimed that variations in the sun changed the rate of radioactive decay. This, of course, flew in the face of years and years of … Continue reading →

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The Forcing Conundrum

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. For all of its faults, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) lays out their idea of the climate paradigm pretty clearly. A fundamental part of this paradigm is that the long-term change in global … Continue reading →

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Climate science and nuclear weapons research: Another conflation of weather and climate

Posted on July 13, 2012 by

From The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists via SAGE Publications  comes this press release claiming that because nuclear fallout was tracked by meteorological instrumentation and synoptic scale models, it somehow relates to climate science. I think it’s a stretch. About … Continue reading →

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Global warming – splodeified

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

Via Tom Nelson, no wonder they hate nuclear power so much, they don’t see any difference! Global warming increasing by 400,000 atomic bombs every day | The Vancouver Observer The amazing persistence of CO2 in the air has allowed billions … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, FUG, GLOC, James Hansen, Radiation, Ridiculae | Tagged , , , , , , , | 173 Comments

Recent solar flare seen bombarding Earth with gamma rays

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

From the “Oh noes it’s Radiation” department, Dr. Leif Svalgaard points out we all got a gamma ray bath on that recent big solar flare. I wonder how many Banana Equivalent Doses we all got?

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A controversial look at Blackbody radiation and Earth minus GHG’s

Posted on December 26, 2011 by

Guest Post by Reed Coray On Dec. 6, 2011 12:12 am Lord Monckton posted a comment on a thread entitled Monckton on sensitivity training at Durban that appeared on this blog on Dec. 5, 2011. In that comment he wrote: … Continue reading →

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Quantifying the Fukushima reactor leak with atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide

Posted on August 15, 2011 by

From the University of California – San Diego  via Eurekalert First quantitative measure of radiation leaked from Fukushima reactor Observations of radioactive sulfur that formed when seawater was used to cool reactors and spent fuel ponds reveal the amount of … Continue reading →

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Don’t try nuclear energy experiments at home

Posted on August 4, 2011 by

As WUWT readers know, I’m an advocate of do it yourself, amateur science, that what the surfacestations.org project was. This however, in our hypersensitive world, was a recipe for trouble: Swedish Man Arrested For Building a Nuclear Reactor In His … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Citizen science, Radiation, Ridiculae, Science | Tagged , | 70 Comments

20 trillion watts is not even Trenberth’s missing heat

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes: News Article On The Earth’s Heat From Radioactive Decay An intriguing news article has appeared by Charles Q. Choi titled Radioactive decay fuels Earth’s inner fires The article includes the text “Extraordinary amount of heat remains from … Continue reading →

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Earth’s Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary driver of Earth’s temperature and make … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, Cosmic rays, Earth, Education, ENSO, Modeling, Oceans, Radiation, Rainfall, Sea ice | Tagged , , , , | 332 Comments

Visualizing the “Greenhouse Effect” – Light and Heat

Posted on May 7, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein Solar “light” radiation in = Earth “heat” radiation to Space out! That’s old news to those of us who understand all energy is fungible (may be converted to different forms of energy) and energy/mass is … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Climate sensitivity, Earth, measurement, Modeling, Radiation, Science, Solar, Uncategorized | Tagged , | 958 Comments

Visualizing the “Greenhouse Effect” – Molecules and Photons

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein This series began with a mechanical analogy for the Atmospheric “Greenhouse Effect” and progressed a bit more deeply into Atmospheric Windows and Emission Spectra. In this posting, we consider the interaction between air molecules, including … Continue reading →

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Live real-time monitoring map of radiation counts in the USA

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

As many know, I’m a big fan of citizen science. There’s much that can be contributed by the layman that the government often cannot or will not do. Since many people seem to be worried about nuclear fallout from Japan’s … Continue reading →

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