Discovery of Saturn’s auroral heartbeat An international team of scientists led by Dr Jonathan Nichols of the University of Leicester has discovered that Saturn’s aurora, an ethereal ultraviolet glow which illuminates Saturn’s upper atmosphere near the poles, pulses roughly once per Saturnian day. The length of a Saturnian day has been under much discussion since…
By Steve Goddard Over the last few weeks I have been tracking what is becoming a large discrepancy between various Arctic sea ice measurements. NSIDC graphs show almost no difference between 2010 and 2007. http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png By contrast, DMI graphs show nearly one million km² more ice in 2010.
Excerpts from: EPA left to pick up climate change where Congress dropped the debate By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin The Obama administration told Congress to find a way to regulate greenhouse gases — or else. Last month, Congress refused: Democratic leaders in the Senate declined to take up climate legislation before their August…
This seems like an interesting idea, the feasibility may drop with scale though. College Park, MD (August 3, 2010) — Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa say that the Leeward side of Hawaiian Islands may be ideal for future ocean-based renewable energy plants that would use seawater from the oceans’ depths to drive…
By Steve Goddard WUWT reader “Roy” astutely noted that the NOAA SST map shows a lot of hot yellow, in regions which are just barely above normal temperatures. So I tried an experiment to remove all colors between -0.5C and 0.5C anomaly (i.e normal.) The blink comparator below shows the difference. In the original map,…
From: The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com Senate Democrats on Tuesday abandoned all hopes of passing even a slimmed-down energy bill before they adjourn for the summer recess, saying that they did not have sufficient votes even for legislation tailored narrowly to respond to the Gulf oil spill. Although the majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of…