The title was from a comment in the London Times on this story about Carbon Taxes on air travel to/from Britain. h/t to Leif Svalgaard. Passengers face new tax to halt rise in air travel Tens of billions of pounds will have to be raised through flight taxes to compensate developing countries for the damage…
Fred has become a Cat1 hurricane about 445 miles WSW of the Cape Verde Islands. The Cape Verde Islands are a breeding ground for tropical storms. This is where hot tropical waves from the Sahara collide with moist air and get some uplift going. From there the convection engine takes over. Animate this image: >>>…
WUWT commenter Ray tips us to a new video from NASA “The Tour of the Cryosphere 2009”. With all the interest in sea ice right now, it seems like a good item to review. I found one thing about it really interesting though, the zoom in of the Larsen B ice shelf saying: “After twelve…
Global Oceanic Climate Update for August 2009 Dr. Roy Spencer September 1st, 2009 This is the first of what might turn into a series of monthly updates of some maritime climate parameters monitored by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite. All monthly statistics have been computed by me from daily global gridpoint data produced…