Below is the image from my weather station in Chico, CA looking SE at the Humboldt Fire which is engulfing a good portion of the southern and eastern outskirts of…
Month: June 2008
A bit chilly for June
Still lots of cold air coming in from the Arctic. Looks like the heat wave in NYC is coming down too. Only 8 days until the summer solstice, the sunlight distribution…
Temperature Stock Report
Interesting quote of the week: If Global Warming were a stock, and you bought it in 1979 at zero (par) and decided to sell it this month to buy a…
NASA to Probe Sun "in situ"
Until the SOHO satellite was launched, astronomers had to be content to look through earth bound telescopes at the sun. Now that the sun is key to “the biggest threat…
GLAST Blasts Off
GLAST Blast – click for larger image Today, NASA launched into space a new telescope to explore high-energy cosmic events in distant galaxies. The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, known…
Waiting for HadCRUT
I’m waiting for May global land + ocean temperature data to be published from Hadley Climate Research Unit, at which time I’ll also show a comparison to GISS. Since I…
Bees and Sunspots
Here is some interesting reading linking solar magnetic activity to Bees. Bees use the sun to navigate, so it is not a surprise that they’d be in tune with the…
NOAA: Them's fightin' words
Bureaucracy at work UPDATE: Today, June 11th, NOAA issued a new updated press release, which you can read here: NOAA Proposes Rule to Require Saltwater Angler Registration They say the…
Scientists not sure why Sun 'continues to be dead'
The sun today. There appears to be an emerging Cycle 23 spot at the left, but still no new Cycle 24 spots. Click for large image That’s never a good…
Anecdotal Climate & Weather Roundup
Seattle has coldest first week of June since 1891 Seattle just experienced the coldest first week of June, according to climate records dating to 1891, said Cliff Mass, University of…
Blogging Now Good for You, Still Bad for Some
From Slashdot: Several users have alerted us to a May Scientific American article that has been getting some attention more recently. Apparently, blogging is now good for you and, at…
Surprise: Earths' Biosphere is Booming, Satellite Data Suggests CO2 the Cause
Eco Worriers: “CO2 is a pollutant!” Gaia: “Tell that to the biosphere.” Biosphere: “Yumm, burp!” The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997.…
JunkScience.com back up and running
After nearly a two week hiatus, www.junkscience.com is back online. Give Barry Hearn and Steve Milloy a visit, and maybe help out by buying a book or t-shirt or hit…
Some Planetary Perspective
Update 2: Reader Jesse Michael forwarded me this animated image above, which does a better job than the flawed NASA image or it’s replacement I found below. It takes about…
Jason-2 satellite set to launch June 15th from Vandenberg, will track sea level
Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM). Click for High resolution image (Credit: NOAA) Hopefully, this will put an end to tide gage data and it’s nuances (such as subsidence). From a …
Open Thread #2
Behave yourselves. Just remember that some comments with links might end up in the spam filter and may take some time before I notice them.
The Hockey Stick returns as web karma
Looks like a tipping point has been reached. Click graph for details.
RSS: Global Temperature Also Cooler in May
A few days ago I highlighted the drop in global temperatures as measured by satellite from UAH, the University of Alabama, Huntsville. They published their satellite derived Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit…
NOAA reports on our cooler than normal spring
NOAA: U.S. Has 36th Coolest Spring on Record June 6, 2008 High resolution (Credit: NOAA) The March-May spring season was the 36th coolest on record for the contiguous United…
No More Singing Around the Campfire: Too Much C02
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, word of insanity afoot in local government there. I wonder if the board members at Parks and Recreation will give up their cars, or maybe their…
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