Guest post by Bob Tisdale In this post, I divide the globe (60S-60N) into two subsets and remove the linear effects of ENSO and volcanic eruptions from GISS Land-Ocean Temperature…
Month: January 2011
UK Parliamentary Committee Asked To Probe Winter Transport Fiasco
Met Office on the hot seat. From the GWPF: Liverpool Echo, 10 January 2011 by Ian Hernon A LIVERPOOL MP is set to head a Parliamentary probe into this winter’s…
Abandon all hope, ye who read this
Climate change to continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios New paper in Nature Geoscience examines inertia of carbon dioxide emissions New research indicates the impact of rising CO2…
Snow hits the south – air travel woes coming
Expect a really ugly day for air travel on Monday as Atlanta’s forecast is not one of encouragement, and we all know just how important Atlanta is an a regional…
The Met Office 'secret' prediction and the political implications
Guest Post by Barry Woods In The Telegraph (UK newspaper), it was reported that Roger Harrabin, an environment analyst at the BBC, told the Radio Times: “The trouble is that…
My best computer upgrade, evah
The solid state hard drive comes of age I spend a lot of time at my PC, and I use quite a number of programs in my tasks at keeping…
Met office: you want fries with that freeze?
The Met Office fries while the rest of the world freezes By Christopher Booker (excerpt from his Telegraph column) First it was a national joke. Then its professional failings…
Poo Gloo Gaia Pans
Sorry for the title, I couldn’t resist. This article is calling to Mike Rowe, of “Dirty Jobs” fame, who makes “poo” his specialty. While this brown, er green, story isn’t…
Monckton skewers Steketee
2010 WAS THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Michael Steketee, writing in The Australian in January 2011, echoed the BBC (whose journalists’ pension fund is…
College students lack scientific literacy, study finds
After reading this I asked myself: Is it any wonder college students get sucked in to emotionally based eco-causes/NGO’s that spout claims based on questionable science? This troubling press release…
Moon revealed to have an Earth-like core
NASA Research Team Reveals Moon Has Earth-Like Core WASHINGTON – State-of-the-art seismological techniques applied to Apollo-era data suggest our moon has a core similar to Earth’s. Uncovering details about the…
New rate of stratospheric photolysis questions ozone hole
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow Dr. Will Happer of Princeton wrote “The Montreal Protocol to ban freons was the warm-up exercise for the IPCC. Many current IPCC players…
Putting the Brakes on Acceleration
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Various pundits and scientists keep talking about a threatened acceleration in the sea level rise. Here’s the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Anthropogenic forcing is also…
Most energetic particles ever from a celestial object
Our last story was about crabs, so is this one. I’m sure we’ll figure out a way to work in lobsters soon too. From the Stanford Linear ACcellerator Lab (SLAC):…
Deadliest Catch-22
You can’t make this stuff up, really. Crab deaths due to cold according to one authority are now being blamed on….drum roll….climate change aka global warming, by another. “Thousands…
The "next big thing": a carbon swap bank
Via Eurekalert: Carbon swap bank to beat climate change Could swapping carbon emissions rather than trading them reduce climate change? Australian researchers have suggested that nations should abandon the concept…
Climate Craziness of the week: a basic science question for NYT reporter Justin Gillis
Readers please note the story I ran earlier: NOAA: “the atmosphere’s self-cleaning capacity is rather stable” This story talks about the ability of hydroxyl radicals in the free atmosphere to break…
Longstanding Mystery of Sun's Hot Outer Atmosphere Solved
From the National Science Foundation: Answer lies in jets of plasma One of the most enduring mysteries in solar physics is why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, is millions…
One more thing that is "better than we thought" – NOAA: "the atmosphere’s self-cleaning capacity is rather stable"
Yesterday we learned that the great Pacific Garbage Patch really isn’t as big as hyped by media, today we learn that the “atmosphere’s ability to rid itself of many pollutants…
Friday Funnies
We have double plus good selection today. One from Josh who apologizes to the Bard. Another via Alan Caruba, who thinks Al Gore has gone missing.
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