Ok folks, just when you think I could not possibly post any worse pictures of official climate stations, I yet again have more. I’d like to point out that I’ve…
Category: Climate_change
Draw your own conclusion from this map
Today I visited my friend Jim Goodridge, former California State Climatologist and the man with a garage full of data going back to before the Gold Rush. He’s been quietly…
Bad Paint Job = Rising Surface Temperatures Part2
A test of wood surface temperatures related to paint NOTE: This is not research quality experiment, but a simple test to point me towards others tests and experiments. IR thermometers…
The Nation slams Global Warming
Here’s something that took me completely by surprise. In the most recent edition of The Nation, columnist Alexander Cockburn did a left wing smack down of Gore and the entire…
Global Warming on Neptune
I covered global warming on Mars previously, but many climate change proponents shrug that off as being a “regional effect” that only affects Mars south pole as they say its…
Site survey: Weather Station of Climate Record at CSUC
To get an idea of the measurement environment that exists today at stations used to gather climate data, I visited the Chico State University Fram on Hegan Lane, south of…
Bad Paint Job = Rising Surface Temperatures?
Stevenson Screen at the NWS office in Monterey – good paint but right next to asphalt parking lot and concrete walk – a definite no-no! After reading an excellent paper…
Galactic Perspective
Often we lose sight of our place in the universe, some never knew at all just how miniscule we humans are compared to everything else. There’s a tendency to view…
Free Carbon Offsets now available for the monetarily challenged
It’s nice to see social equality kick in from time to time. For example, not everyone can afford to buy carbon offsets like Al Gore to assuage our guilt for…
My New Toy: Global Climate Modeling on my PC
I have a new toy. Its one of the Global Climate Models that is being used to predict the future of Earth’s climate and the effects of global warming. Originally…
Earth's Climate is see-sawing
Lund University in Sweden has just released a very interesting research summary titled: “The Earth’s climate is seesawing”. Here is the short opening summary: “During the last 10,000 years climate…
Sun getting bubbly: Coronal Mass Ejection may hit Earth
We had "yellow" level geomagnetic activity on the sun last night, and more may come tonight and tomorrow night. Its coming from Sunspot 953, which is about 3 times the…
NEWSFLASH: Cause for Global Warming Found
An astute letter to the editor writer in Arkansas has found the reason for global warming: This actually happened, as attested to on the rumor/urban legend verifcation website Snopes.com
The Carbonica Card – don't heat home without it
A recent investigation by the Financial Times says that the new Carbon Credit Industry may already be rife with fraud. Hmmm…now where have we heard that before? Among the findings:…
Ultimate lunacy: Dell says plant "virtual trees" for Earth Day
From the "you’ve GOT to be freaking kidding me" department: Dell’s Virtual Plant a Tree for Me program into the computer game Second Life has many tech savvy people wondering…
Delta Airlines says: A sucker born every minute
Recently I received this email from Delta Airlines with the offer that now I could pay extra money for my airline ticket so that Delta could contribute to global warming…
What if Global Warming Melted All Ice Worldwide?
Picture: Get ready to Panic! Oroville, Willows, Marysville, and Sacramento will be underwater – the Sutter Buttes will be the only landmass in the very center of the valley. “What…
Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high
Here’s more inconvenient news from solar researchers. Even though our sun is quiet at the moment while we are in between peaks in the 11 year sunspot cycles, scientists based…
The adapability of man to his climate
Yesterday, the IPCC Climate Change Report was released. Now the hand wringing starts. I’ve made a lot of entries on climate change here, I’ve given newspaper interviews, radio interviews, written…
It's the Sun, stupid
The The United Nations’s IPCC Report comes out today so I thought I’d make a report too. James Carville used to remind Clinton during the ’92 campaign that “its the…
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