New Chaitén Volcano Satellite Imagery

The Chaitén volcano in Chile has produced quite a bit of ash and aersols. Two new satellite images of Chaitén in eruption have been made available at the NASA Earth…

Interesting commentary

My radio station www.kpay.com  has an opinion commentator named Bruce Sessions. He does a daily radio vignette called “Tidbits from the BS Notebook” which is a fun twist on his…

Climate Models Fail at Antarctic Warming Predictions

Note: this is a NASA illustration for the purpose of this story, it is not from the peer reviewed paper. There is a a peer-reviewed study in the April 5th issue…

The Weather Channel – they're not just about global warming anymore

According to The Smoking Gun: the cable network seeks cloak on anchor harassment details: Weather Channel In Sexual Harrasment Storm As The Weather Channel’s owner negotiates a multibillion-dollar sale of…

A reminder to us flyspecks on an elephant's butt

This article from NASA’s Science portal is a sobering reminder of the power of our nearest star. Given that we are in a deep solar minimum now, I thought I’d…

Chaitén Volcano Blows Again

More ash and aerosols headed for the stratosphere. Click to watch the Video from TVN: (h/t to Jet Stream) Here is the satellite image view of the first eruption: Click…

RSS MSU LT Global Temperature Anomaly for April 2008 – flat

I’ve plotted the results of the RSS Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) global temperature anomaly data by RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA). For April 2008 it has moved…

An open letter to environmentalists

  A guest post by John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel, and Chief Meteorologist of KUSI-TV in San Diego. ( Note from Anthony: I know John from way back.…

What spot?

Here today, gone tomorrow. Sunspot 993, the first cycle 24 spot of the southern hemisphere, appeared late Saturday, and by Monday morning, the Tiny Tim spot was gone. Which is…

New Sunspot emerging – looks to be cycle 24

Alert reader Andrew writes: “I was just looking at the SOHO images and is it just me or does it look like there’s a sunspot developing in the lower left…

Now comes the volcano

In addition to the other observed factors such as a long sunspot cycle and minima and PDO flip, now we’ll add some aerosols to the mix. Volcanism has been quiet…

A Tale of Two Thermometers

This story in the UK register today outlines some of the modification that has occurred in climate data. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/a_tale_of_two_thermometers/ Climate Audit and Steve McIntyre figure in greatly. They gave me…

IPCC Annoyance

Reader Dave Andrews offers this in comments: Here’s an interesting comment from Willem de Lange over on Climate Audit ‘Ice Ages#2′ thread: “One of the reasons I got annoyed with…

More Carbon Dioxide, Please

From the National Review I don’t don’t know about you, but I’m going to crack open a lovely carbonated beverage and raise it in salute to Roy for having the courage…