People send me stuff. Tonight I got an email that contained a link to a paper that takes on the wonky claims related to barycentrism and Earth’s climate, specifically as…
Day: March 11, 2014
The Future of Models
Guest essay by Nancy Green At the close of the 19th century physics was settled science. The major questions had been answered and what remained was considered window dressing. Our…
Observing water vapor feedback during 'the pause'
From AGU highlights, measurements from 2002 to 2009 show short term feedback still subject to short-term climate variability, long term feedback still in the realm of models. Measuring the effect…
National Wildlife Federation 'jumps the shark' – claims school animal mascots are at risk for climate change
Egads! The stupid, it burns like magnesium. And I thought the cannibal lobsters were bad. This is what I call parasitic messaging, they are hoping they will get some sort…
LED's rule, twisty bulbs drool
Readers might recall I was an early adopter of LED lighting technology. Now it is getting even better. New LED light design offers less energy, more light LEDs are durable…
The Shindell climate sensitivity paper: another 'GISS miss'
There was lots of breathless anticipation last week over the Drew Shindell paper on climate sensitivity, which was embargoed until 1800GMT on Sunday (see the embargoed PR from Nature here),…
Climate Craziness of the Week: 'warming causing lobster cannibalism'
Most idiotic climate claim ever? I’m pretty sure some people lay awake at night trying to come up with new ways to demonstrate that planet is going to hell in…