A House bill aiming to make research and data open to the public

Climategate demonstrated what can go wrong when a few misguided scientists take control of data and keep it from the public. Now there’s a movement afoot to make open access…

NOAA says – Hottest (Warmest) March on Record

I’m sure the press will make this into a much bigger story. This today from NOAA News. The choice of “hottest” in the title is interesting. We should ask our…

Ash Thursday – the day the UK was planeless

The eruption of a volcano in Iceland has the skies over the UK and Europe filled with ash. Like what happened on 9/11 in the USA, planes are landing everywhere…

Iceland's volcanic ash cloud – airports closed in UK, Europe

This image, acquired on 15 April 2010 by Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), shows the vast cloud of volcanic ash sweeping across the UK from the eruption in Iceland,…

Large fireball in the Midwest

From various sources. From the NWS in Milwaukee, video links and radar images follow. MANY REPORTS OF A BRIGHT FIREBALL HAVE BEEN FLOODING COUNTY SHERIFF DISPATCH CENTERS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN…

'Hockey stick' graph was exaggerated – McIntyre gets props

From the Telegraph: The ‘hockey stick’ that became emblematic of the threat posed by climate change exaggerated the rise in temperature because it was created using ‘inappropriate’ methods, according to…