I wonder if Obama will create a new cabinet position for Gore? I’m sure he could find a staff, as you can now get a degree in Global Warming from…
Category: Climate_change
Temperature Stock Report
Interesting quote of the week: If Global Warming were a stock, and you bought it in 1979 at zero (par) and decided to sell it this month to buy a…
Anecdotal Climate & Weather Roundup
Seattle has coldest first week of June since 1891 Seattle just experienced the coldest first week of June, according to climate records dating to 1891, said Cliff Mass, University of…
Surprise: Earths' Biosphere is Booming, Satellite Data Suggests CO2 the Cause
Eco Worriers: “CO2 is a pollutant!” Gaia: “Tell that to the biosphere.” Biosphere: “Yumm, burp!” The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997.…
Jason-2 satellite set to launch June 15th from Vandenberg, will track sea level
Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM). Click for High resolution image (Credit: NOAA) Hopefully, this will put an end to tide gage data and it’s nuances (such as subsidence). From a …
NOAA reports on our cooler than normal spring
NOAA: U.S. Has 36th Coolest Spring on Record June 6, 2008 High resolution (Credit: NOAA) The March-May spring season was the 36th coolest on record for the contiguous United…
Leiberman-Warner cap and trade climate bill: unofficially defeated
UPDATE: This bill has been pulled by Senate Democrats see CBS News story Sources inside the U.S. Senate tell me that this cap and trade bill is “unofficially” defeated, based on a head…
Regarding the Lieberman-Warner Debate, Rep. Rohrabacher: "Do you really think the world is filled with morons?"
From the Congressional Record, this speech was given on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. It is worth reading and posting elsewhere. Lieberman-Warner Debate: Congressman Rohrabacher’s Floor Speech…
California Proclaims Drought – Governator demands action
Added humor above – click for original image Governor Schwarzenegger Proclaims Drought and Orders Immediate Action to Address Situation San Francisco’s Spring, driest on record: The rainfall for the months of…
UAH: Global Temperature Dives in May
Confirming what many of us have already noted from the anecdotal evidence coming in of a much cooler than normal May, such as late spring snows as far south as…
Livingston and Penn paper: "Sunspots may vanish by 2015".
From the “I hope to God they are flat wrong department”, here is the abstract of a short paper on recent solar trends by William Livingston and Matthew Penn of…
TV Network Tells Kids How Long Their Carbon Footprint Should Allow Them to Live
This is environmentalism jumping the shark: Click image above to play the game I don’t know where to begin, except to say that when we see things like this, we…
Lieberman-Warner Cap and Trade Bill Headed for Defeat
Looks like its support is splintering: Without widespread corporate support, passage of the bill – already a long shot at best – becomes even more unlikely this year. President Bush remains…
NASA Funds Toy Snowmobile Project at Georgia Tech to Monitor Climate Change Affecting Ice Shelves
The “SnoMote Remote Controlled Weather Station” At first, I though this must be a joke. But, it is not. They call it “an autonomous robot designed by Georgia Tech to…
How not to measure temperature, part 63
One of the strangest things I’ve learned in the past year about the US Historical Climatological Network is the propensity for placement of weather stations at sewage treatment plants. The…
Cold Irony: Arctic Sea Ice Traps Climate Tour Icebreaker
Stuck in the arctic ice that doesn’t exist. (file photo: EcoPhotoExplorers) Last year as arctic sea ice melted to record levels, panic set in for many. But then, as the…
San Francisco approves greenhouse emissions tax on business
From the “pay and your sins shall be forgiven” department… FROM KTVU-TV in Oakland: Officials Approve Controversial Greenhouse Gas Tax SAN FRANCISCO — Air pollution regulators in the San Francisco…
A review of the major global temperature metrics for April 2008: Still globally cooler than 1 year ago
Here is a review of the major global temperature metrics in tabular and graph form. There is a bit of disagreement this month. GISS still comes out the warmest, as it…
How not to measure temperature, part 62
One of the key criteria for placement of weather stations in the COOP, and by extension, the subset USHCN network is the requirement for a “warm body” (an observer) to read…
Chaitén volcano still going strong – more ash and aerosols
Click for larger image The Chaitén volcano is maintaining its eruptive activity unabated. Yesterday, the Oficina Nacional de Emergencia (ONEMI) reported that military personnel in Chaitén ‘perceived loud noises coming from the…
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