Guest post by David Middleton From the U.S. Government Occasionally Does Something Useful Department: A 1.4-Billion-Pixel Map of the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management…
Category: Fun_stuff
Friday Funny: praying polar bear caption contest
A Canadian photographer was stunned when she went back through the photos she snapped of a polar bear in her backyard to find it praying in front of a cross.…
Why did the buffalo cross the land bridge?
To get to the other side… Guest post by David Middleton “There has long been a controversy about the timing of bison arrival in North America,” said Shapiro. Bison arrival…
Sunday Silly – Please don't talk to the bus driver
Like Anthony, I get mail. Only he gets much, much more. A few days ago, a Canadian reader sent me this photo and asked how he could display it on…
February 1998 Global Temperatures Reach Unprecedented Levels
Guest Post The satellite-measured temperature of the lower troposphere—the layer of Earth’s atmosphere that’s closest to the surface—has risen about 0.75 deg C (more than 1.3 deg F) in less…
Fun video: fire in ultra slo-mo
From The American Chemical Society To fire up the grill or the gas stove, we often reach for a match. It turns out there’s a lot of chemistry going on…
Twas The Fright Before Christmas
Poetry, by Davis Swan (h/t to Dr. Judith Curry) T’was the night before Christmas and all through the town The temperature was dropping, going down, down, down, down The weatherman…
Awesome time-lapse video: Undulatus Asperatus clouds
Unique clouds like you’ve never seen them before! I just thought I’d pass these along due to the unique “catch the wave” appearance of these. Time lapse video follows. This…
Fun video: A bowling ball and feather fall in world's biggest vacuum chamber
NASA’s Space Power Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, is the biggest vacuum chamber in the world, measuring 30.5 meters by 37.2 meters, and has a volume of 22,653 cubic meters. If…
WUWT, filling in knowledge holes since 2006
People send me stuff. This made my day, so I thought it was worth sharing. Remember this? New pictures of the hole in Yamal – and Pingo was its name-o Matt…
'Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.'
That headline is attributed to physicist Niels Bohr, but a later more popular version is attributed to Yogi Berra. But. like predicting the future, it seems that the true provenence…
Friday Funny – 'Giant sucking sound' over siphoning definition
Physicist demonstrates dictionary definition was dodgy It is the defining moment that demonstrates a QUT physicist was correct in pointing out a 99-year-old mistake to one of the world’s most…
DIY Climate Psychology Lewpaper Generator
Delusional psychopophagy is the mere result of the power of Climate Denial Guest essay by Eric Worrall As a homage to the amount of attention cast in our direction by…
Your chance to predict future El Niño headlines
Bob Tisdale recently took some of the early wailers to task over the expected El Niño this year, saying: I knew it wouldn’t take long. The 2014/15 El Niño has…
'Correcting' Trenberth et al.
(See the note below before taking this post seriously – Anthony) Guest essay by Steven Wilde Here we see the classic energy budget analysis supporting the hypothesis that the surface…
Josh scales the climate personas
Josh writes: I have been musing for some time about a way to show the range of sceptic views compared to non-sceptic views and I think I have come up…
Watch what happens when a squirt gun hits the air at -42ºF
In case you haven’t noticed, it is as cold in Canada (and soon some parts of the USA) as it gets at the South Pole at times: The video author…
How to keep your kids entertained for hours for just a dollar each
My lovely wife is out doing last minute Christmas shopping and I’m home with the kids. While it would certainly be easy to just let them play video games all…
Dave's Top Ten Reasons Why the Oil Industry Doesn't Spend its Billions on Disproving the Junk Science of AGW
Guest post by David Middleton In my Internet “debates” with warmists, I occasionally encounter challenges like this… We don’t yet not know the real global impact man has on the…
Timelapse video of 2013 Nenana Ice Classic breakup
This is a 5 frames per second timelapse taken from the webcam at 30 second intervals of the Nenana Ice Classic on May 20th, 2013 from 4PM to 5PM PDT…
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