From the University of Hawai’i’s International Pacific Research Center at Mānoa, comes this proxy reconstruction that does some similar things the infamous hockey stick reconstruction, but doesn’t need to pull…
Month: May 2011
How a leftover from the cold war turned into a weather and climate tool
This trapezoid shaped clearing in Modoc county, CA, has an interesting purpose. See image below:
Intel's new revolutionary Tri-Gate 3D transistors
Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr showed off the company’s revolutionary new 3D transistors in an announcement this week in San Francisco. The power, performance, and real estate gains are impressive.…
Pielke Jr: Joe Romm Lies
Dr. Roger Pielke writes in with an update: [UPDATE 5/7: Joe Romm offers 3,300 wacky words in response to this short post. Crazy. Anyway, the simple response is, did Gore…
Top Secret NOFORN Restricted Access Climate Model Results
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Y’know, some of these climate games are getting kind of boring. I’m tired of people who are paid with my taxes hiding their data, results,…
The "Taxing your car by the mile" plan
Or in other words, we’ll all drive “taxis”, except for the chosen exempt few. Yesterday on “The Hill” they reported this story: Obama admin. floats draft plan to tax cars…
Stanford claims farmers "dodged impacts of global warming" in the USA, but you have to find it first.
But it looks to me as if corn doesn’t care. Check out U.S. corn yield. Corn seems to be doing well. I used corn yield because in the Stanford Press…
A Modest Proposal for Nuclear Waste Disposal
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For many people the sticking point for nuclear power is, what do we do with the waste? We can “vitrify” the waste, but what do…
New sea level page from University of Colorado now up
As we surmised in earlier posts, the crozon.colorado.edu website was a test run. Here’s the newest graph from the revised http://sealevel.colorado.edu/ Updated: 2011-05-05 They write about the update:
A new perspective on climate science and wind power
Reposted from Dr. Roger Pielke Senior’s blog: A New Perspective On Climate Science By L. Miller, F. Gans and A. Kleidon It is not often that a new perspective is proposed in climate…
Back to basics: "Green Electric" becomes "General Electric" again
The president of General Electric slams his previous company green policy as being “too elitist”, vows to get back to “working”. Maybe this will mean no more “green sin week”…
One word: "plastics"
With apologies to Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate” I can’t wait to hear the fish stories that will be told to the EU trying to scam money from this latest…
Desperate Measures, Indeed
Guest post by Roger E. Sowell, Esq. With climate change regulation dead or nearly dead (except in kooky California with AB 32), the desperation of adherents of man-made climate catastrophe…
Monbiot smacks head first into reality
George Monbiot has published a story in the Guardian with a strong dose of reality: He goes on to say that maybe it’s time to give up “magical thinking”. I…
Einstein proven right, again
Stanford’s Gravity Probe B confirms two Einstein theories After 52 years of conceiving, testing and waiting, marked by scientific advances and disappointments, one of Stanford’s and NASA’s longest-running projects comes…
More Arctic & sea level "worse than we thought" scare stories
Yet, still the data doesn’t support it. As I reported two days ago, the sea level threat just isn’t there. Oh noes! Sea level rising three times faster than expected (again)…
"Ant colony optimisation" for wind farms
I’m not sure where this is going, but the first thing I thought of was this old sci-fi movie “Them“: Via Eurekalert: Evolutionary lessons for wind farm efficiency Evolution is…
NOAA tornado outbreak update: 305 tornadoes
NOAA’s preliminary estimate is that there were 305 tornadoes during the entire outbreak from 8:00 a.m. EDT April 25 to 8:00 a.m. April 28, 2011. NWS created a table to…
Australia's carbon tax losing public opinion big time
It seems Australians are waking up to the folly of a carbon tax. I’m sure Mr. Flannery’s quote of the millenium helped bunches. However the sheer pig-headedness of PM Julia…
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