NOAA Internal Newsletter Reveals NOAA's Arctic Plans

People send me stuff. Sometimes it is stuff I’m not expected to see. It seems NOAA is getting hot and bothered about the Arctic. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke recently approved…

NASA: Are Sunspots Disappearing?

From NASA News: Are Sunspots Disappearing? September 3, 2009: The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century. Weeks and sometimes whole months go…

Satellite imagery gauges economic growth and land use change

I got an email tip on this article from voxeu.org which has some relevance to the work done by the surfacestations.org project in that it shows clearly the impact of…

California Wildfires caused by cooler Pacific, La Niña

California’s Fires Result of a Cooling Pacific, Two Years of La Niña and Environmental Mismanagement Guest Post By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, ICECAP While environmentalists and clueless politicans like CA Representative…