Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (This is Part 3 of an ongoing digression … see Part 1 and Part 2. We rolled out of Tonopah in the morning, and straight on through Nevada. Mostly what Nevada has are long valleys separated by a single ridge of mountains, and very straight roads. At some point we…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Media giant Rupert Murdoch has just purchased the National Geographic. According to the Washington Post, Murdoch has provided the non profit organisation with a desperately needed financial lifeline; National Geographic gets financial lifeline from Fox in $725 million deal … Under the terms announced Wednesday, Fox will control 73 percent…
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen When I wrote “Ocean Acidification: Trying to Get the Science Right” , I sent Dr. Christopher Cornwall, lead author of Cornwall & Hurd 2015, a courtesy advanced copy of the essay, inviting him to comment. Dr. Cornwall was away doing field work at the time, but on his return has…
via Eurekalert today… The study emphasises that this trend came to an end with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and the resulting global warming caused by human activity. From the UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA The Industrial Revolution put an end to 1,800 years of ocean cooling The high frequency and magnitude of volcanic eruptions…
Apologies to singer Tony Bennett for the title. Our own “Charles the moderator” writes in with this curious picture from Weather Underground showing downtown San Francisco at about 2:15PM September 8th, 2015. The disparity of temperature just a few blocks away is quite stunning. In the two temperatures circled in the downtown area yesterday there is…
Guest essay by Leo Goldstein As WUWT readers have probably noticed, using Google or other general search engines to find reliable information on anything related to climate change has become almost impossible. The search results are dominated by alarmist sites and blogs, while dissenting voices are simply drowned out. The main reason for this imbalance…