ASOS station in Greenville, Alabama, Mac Crenshaw Memorial Airport Photo by: Howard Wiseman You’d think either the FAA or NOAA would get this cleaned up before surfcaestations.org volunteers have the…
Category: Fun_stuff
Nevada USHCN Station Surveys are done
Thanks to the work of dedicated volunteers, we continue to complete surveys of the 1221 USHCN climate stations in the USA. Last week thanks to a business trip, I was…
I'm featured in this book
The title screams “Red Hot Lies” and will indeed make some “see red”. While it initially made me a bit uncomfortable, it is fairly straightforward and compelling. Having been written…
A look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Sunspots
This paper appeared in the journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change: Sunspots, GDP and the stock market (View paper PDF) by: Theodore Modis Abstract A correlation has been observed between…
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Mock Global Warming
I saw this tonight on TV during commercial break for an episode of The Simpson’s and looked it up, just to make sure it wasn’t a joke. It isn’t. Here’s…
Scotch Tape emits X-Rays: film at 11
Now here’s a science story you don’t hear every day. Simple scotch tape pulled off it’s reel in a vacuum makes x-rays powerful enough to image this finger. NEW YORK…
Can Oyster Art Curb Global Warming?
by John Goetz Here is an fun press release I ran across on prweb.com. If Ms. Haseltine is successful in her project, we might see more local produce on the…
Here's the problem with the sun
Newly discovered evidence that polar bears, CO2, climate change, and the sun are intimately connected in ways never envisioned. No wonder the sun seems to be slowing down.
Wind power
I was in a conversation today at lunch with a fellow who told me that “wind power is better than anything we’ve ever done for generating electricity”. That made me…
Rubber Duckie
by John Goetz Rubber Duckie, you’re the one, You make bathtime lots of fun, Rubber Duckie, I’m awfully fond of you; Woo woo be doo From the Sydney (Australia) Morning…
Global Warming to Shake Up Big Ten
Posted by John Goetz Jim Nichols of the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote an article this past Tuesday (September 16) that has gotten the attention of Ohio State and Michigan fans…
Public Invited to Submit Essays, Photos for Online Global Warming Book
Posted by John Goetz I ran across the following announcement this morning: September 4, 2008 at The Union of Concerned Scientists website: Penguin Classics Joins the Union of Concerned Scientists…
The importance of measuring temperature away from human influence
Many of you have followed my “how not to measure temperature” series showing many examples of the folly of thermometer placement in the USHCN network. But what about the rest…
Penn Jillette on skepticism
From half of the same team that brought you this classic video of di-hydrogen monoxide: Climate change? Once more, ‘I don’t know’ Being honest about not knowing enough of the…
RIP George Carlin – whoosh!
Since George has been “acted upon by nature”,and we’ll miss him, I thought this video of his “saving the planet” sketch might be a fitting epitaph. My favorite line of…
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…
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…
Signs of the times
While I was on my week long road trip to survey weather stations and visit the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC last week, I encountered lots of signs. Restaurant…
The newest green slogan
No Food for Oil! The new green biofuels slogan. A friend of mine, Lon Glazner, runs a blog about things in my hometown. We joke around a lot, the image above…
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