It goes without saying that the Earth looks nothing like this at all.
Tag: Earth
Novel NASA Instrument Sets Sights on Earth-bound Solar Radiation
A very small instrument has a big job ahead of it: measuring all Earth-directed energy coming from the Sun and helping scientists understand how that energy influences our planet’s severe…
NASA Uses Moonlight to Improve Satellite Accuracy
The results will compliment ground-based sites such as Railroad Valley Playa in Nevada, and together will provide orbiting satellites with a robust calibration dataset.
Behold a Winter Solstice
The Earth’s solstices come twice a year. For the Northern Hemisphere, the summer (June) solstice occurs around June 20-21, and the winter (December) solstice happens around Dec. 21-22.
Claim: Direct Observations Confirm that Humans are Throwing Earth’s Energy Budget off Balance
The new technique is computationally faster than previous model-based methods, allowing researchers to monitor radiative forcing in almost real time. The method could be used to track how human emissions…
Morocco’s Anti-Atlas Mountains
Dec. 26, 2019 The Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco formed as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates about 80 million years ago. This collision destroyed…
Aug. 2, 2017 Space Station Flyover of Super Typhoon Noru
Just a fantastic viewpoint~ctm From NASA NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik photographed Super Typhoon Noru in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on August 1, 2017, as the International Space Station passed overhead.…
New paper: Clouds blown by the solar wind
This paper suggests a terrestrial impact on cloud cover from the interplanetary electric field (IEF) via the global electric circuit. A primer video on the GEC is below. Clouds blown…
On the Futility of Long-Range Numerical Climate Prediction
Note: two events at AGU13 this morning dovetail in with this essay. The first, a slide from Dr. Judith Lean which says: “There are no operational forecasts of global climate…
Geoengineering approaches to reduce climate change unlikely to succeed
From the EGU: Heavy rainfall events can be more common in a warmer world (Credit: Annett Junginger, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu) Reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the planet’s surface by…
Study predicts the sun is headed for a Dalton-like solar minimum around 2050
Method uses the Ap geomagnetic index, which has been in a slump since October 2005: The Hockey Schtick tips us to a paper published today in Advances in Space Research…
Study: lack of cloud physics biased climate models high
The Hockey Schtick brings this to our attention. It seems Dr. Roy Spencer was prescient with his observation: “The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for…
New paper: climate models short on 'physics required for realistic simulation of the Earth system'
I’m pleased to have had a chance to to review this new paper just published in the Journal of Climate: An Evaluation of Decadal Probability Forecasts from State-of-the-Art Climate Models…
Spectacular video: Comet ISON imaged from a Langrange point in space
NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, is monitoring Comet ISON as it approaches the sun. NASA’s twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft are parked in Langrange zones, known…
The 'worse than we thought' model
From ETH Zurich: Underestimated future climate change? 25.11.2013 | Fabio Bergamin New model calculations by ETH researcher Thomas Frölicher show that global warming may continue after a stoppage of CO…
New Book by Bob Tisdale: “Climate Models Fail”
THANK YOU Many thanks to everyone who has purchased a copy of Climate Models Fail — and to those who are considering it. And thank you, Anthony, for posting this…
Retro 3D climate model applied to faint young sun paradox
From the AGU weekly highlights: Evaluating solutions to the faint young Sun problem During the Archean eon, between about 3.8 billion years ago and 2.5 billion years ago, the Sun…
National Academy of Sciences: climate models still 'decades away' from being useful
From the National Academy of Sciences report A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling: Computer models that simulate the climate are an integral part of providing climate information, in particular…
Svensmark's cosmic ray theory of clouds and global warming looks to be confirmed
Note: Between flaccid climate sensitivity, ENSO driving “the pause”, and now this, it looks like the upcoming IPCC AR5 report will be obsolete the day it is released. From a…
An illustration that CO2 won't roast the Earth in a runaway tipping point…
…because the Earth has experienced massive CO2 pulses and recovered before. From the something you don’t see every day department comes this graph:
Short Meteorological Memories
Guest essay by Alan Caruba I am giving thanks this week, despite the heat wave, that I have not read, nor heard, a single claim that it is proof that…
Length of day governed by Earth's core processes
From the University of Liverpool , something I found interesting because a few years ago, former State Climatologist Jame Goodridge said he saw correlations between length of day and other…
Call for essays: The 2013 Matt Ridley Prize
The Matt Ridley prize for exposing environmental pseudoscience was inspired by Matt’s discovery that a Ridley family trust was making money from a wind farm company. All too often, hysterical groupthink, based…
Transient Van Allen radiation belt discovered
From the University of California – Los Angeles How did a third radiation belt appear in the Earth’s upper atmosphere? Since the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in…
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