Dr. Michael Mann gives a lecture on his work at the University of Rhode Island. People send me stuff, and for that I’m always grateful, and happy to oblige posting…
Month: October 2008
Kids Against Anthropongenic Global Warming
There’s been some discussion about the “indoctrination” of AGW theory in school systems worldwide, mostly by teachers showing Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, in schools. As a former school…
Speck spotted – looks to be cycle 23
Not much time for a full report, as it is very late for me, but I’ll pass this along from comments. Looks to be cycle 23 due to low latitude. –…
Sea ice extent recovering quickly
As many readers know, the predictions for record low sea ice minimums in 2008 were not met, and 2008 ended up about 9% higher than in 2007 at the end…
Haggis at risk from global warming
From the Now I’ve Heard Everything department. First it was polar bears, now it is sheep guts. The Telegraph.co.uk By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Haggis is at risk of dying…
Aussie astronomers call for more funding in wake of asteroid explosion
From ABC News, Australia Astronomers are calling for more funding to watch southern skies, after an asteroid took sky-gazers by surprise and entered the earth’s atmosphere over Africa yesterday. Yesterday…
GISS Releases September 2008 Data
GISS (Goddard Institute of Space Studies) Surface Temperature Analysis (GISSTemp) released their monthly global temperature anomaly data for September 2008. Following is the monthly global ∆T from January to September 2008:…
UAH Global Temperature Anomaly Jumps in September
UAH (University of Alabama, Huntsville) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for September 2008 was published this week and unlike August, which moved a bit below the zero…
Dr. Roy Spencer evaporates Tamino's critique
Dr. Roy W. Spencer replies to “Tamino”‘s latest angry missive. As one commenter in my email list put it: It is absolutely hilarious that Tamino’s lengthy, time-consuming, chest-puffing critique can…
Sudan hit by Apollo Asteroid
Posted by Dee Norris A recently discovered Apollo Asteroid, 2008 TC3, exploded over Sudan at about 1046 EDT on October 7, 2008. 2008 TC3 was discovered on Monday by an…
Some raw answers about Gore and Hansen
There’s an eye-opening interview on Grist of Richard A. Muller about the current state of science understanding by presidential candidates, global warming, and alternate energy tech. Some of the answers are…
Web 2.0 tools are beginning to change the shape of scientific debate
As readers of this blog and others such as Climate Audit know, reviewing new ideas, essays, and papers can often progress very quickly with the help of a widely varied…
NASA moves the goalposts on Solar Cycle 24 again
Animation courtesy Michael Ronayne. Click for larger, slower speed animation NASA’s David Hathaway just recently updated his solar cycle prediction and has pushed cycle 24 into the future a little…
New Solar Cycle Not Packing Much Punch
I found a reference to this article while looking at Leif Svalgaard’s website, and since I missed it the first time around, and because the message is still valid, I thought…
Gore demonstrates he doesn't understand basic meteorology, much less climate
Gore links Iowa floods and tornadoes to climate change, but makes a basic error on global temperature to evaporation linkage, plus he misses the real reason behind imagined tornado increases. [Excerpt:…
How not to measure temperature part 72: Italian Style
People send me things, its always interesting to see what comes in the inbox daily: Dear Mr. Watts, I have followed your blog and surface station project with great interest.…
Speckwatch
There’s been a little discussion about the plage area that came around the solar rim in the last two days, and now it appears that it has formed a spot.…
Winds are Dominant Cause of Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheet Losses
From Climate Research News Two new studies summarized in a news article in Science magazine point to wind-induced circulation changes in the ocean as the dominant cause of the recent ice losses…
House passes $700B "bailout bill" – CO2 Tax issues included –
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED CARBON TAX House passes “bailout bill”, with Carbon Tax credits and an entire buffet of pork attached. See Yahoo News See who voted…
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