Earth’s internal dynamo generates average field in outer core 50 times that at surface A University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist has made the first-ever measurement of the strength of the…
Year: 2010
Friday Funny
This video has been making the rounds, and the most encouraging thing about it is: it ran on the BBC. The fact that is did speaks to the growing skeptical…
Chicago Climate Exchange = FAIL, Now California opens "Pacific Carbon Exchange"
UPDATE: related story shows what can happen when emissions trading doesn’t have proper checks and balances – Carbon trading tempts firms to make greenhouse gas California hasn’t learned from the…
UAH and UHI
Note: clearly satellites can see urban heat, as demonstrated by this recent paper unveiled at the 2010 AGU meeting by NASA. See: Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast.…
Preliminary results for the CERN CLOUD cosmic ray experiment
From Nature blog: Sunny days for CLOUD experiment An experiment designed to investigate the link between solar activity and the climate has its first results in the bag. At the…
Craven Attention
Steve Mosher reports that things got a bit bizarre at the 2010 American Geophysical Union convention in San Francisco Guest post by Steven Mosher At AGU today I was witness…
Arctic Oscillation spoiling NASA GISS party
Note: I want to thank everyone who commented here and elsewhere regarding my last post about GISS that sent everyone into a tizzy. All that is very helpful. Here’s more…
Clueless bloggers attack Fox News for memo that says "show both sides" of the global warming/cooling story
Joe Romm and Al Gore share one thing in common besides being paid for blogging, writing, and making opinions on climate to scare the dickens out of people: they don’t…
The periodic table becomes a weight watcher
From the “not etched in stone department”, via Eurekalert we learn that Atomic weights of 10 elements on periodic table about to make an historic change showing that everything we…
Software tip: How to save yourself at least $250
Yesterday I had a request from a client for a network diagram for a system I’m designing, and normally I create such drawings as a PNG file. But this client…
Hump Day Hilarity: songs for round up day
This is amusing: We sing at events supporting peace and social justice around Oxfordshire. That description from their web page seems nice, until you listen to what they are singing.
Global tropical cyclone activity still in the tank
Even with the expected active 2010 North Atlantic hurricane season, which accounts on average for about 1/5 of global annual hurricane output, the rest of the global tropics has been…
"Sustainability" continues to run amok in my town
I’ve written about this before. We have a group of citizens here in town called the “sustainability task force” which is highly influenced by the eco-zealotry of Chico State University…
Global Eruption Rocks the Sun
I should point out that thanks to the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we can see things that we’ve never seen before. So while this event is unprecedented in the history…
Voyager1 – so far out, there's no solar wind anymore
What is really amazing is that the probe still operates after over 3 decades, which is a testament to the design team. It’s a SNAP to keep powered up though.…
Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast
Gee where have we seen something like this before? Dads/Moms and Grandparents: if you’d like your children/grandchildren to be able to do something on UHI for the spring science fair,…
Dueling press releases – which is it: dead or weakened?
It’s AGU week in San Francisco, of course that means the annual barrage of science by press release. I was struck by this juxtaposition of two press releases at Eurekalert…
Quote Of The Week – AGW statistical futility
Here’s a quote related to the McShane and Wyner discussion brought to light thanks to Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann at RealClimate that I happen to agree with. Yes I…
NASA's Terra Satellite Images Minnesota's Blizzard Aftermath
From Science @ NASA.gov The upper Midwest was hit by a powerful winter storm this past weekend as more than 17 inches of snow brought down the roof to the…
The Details Are In The Devil
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I love thought experiments. They allow us to understand complex systems that don’t fit into the laboratory. They have been an invaluable tool in the…
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