Many people that have have an interest in the interaction between the Sun and Earth have been keeping a watchful eye on several metrics of solar activity recently. The most…
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The Sun remains in a magnetic funk
While sunspots are often cited as the main proxy indicator of solar activity, there is another indicator which I view as equally (if not more) important. The Average Planetary Magnetic index…
Skeptical Article on Climate in the Old Farmer's Almanac – cooler times ahead?
My friend, Joe D’Aleo who runs ICECAP, had the opportunity this year to write an article for the 2009 Old Farmer’s Almanac. While I’m normally “skeptical” of the long term…
Noctilucent clouds and the Earth's interface with space
This story about noctilucent clouds on NASA’s Science website made me think about a few things. What I wonder is this: could noctilucent clouds be a proxy for cosmic ray interactions?…
Greenland Ice Core Reveals History Of Pollution In The Arctic – But there's a twist, it was worse 100 years ago
From: ScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2008) Coal burning, primarily in North America and Europe, contaminated the Arctic and potentially affected human health and ecosystems in and around Earth’s polar regions, according…
Thanks to Nature, a Large Atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide Experiment is Now Underway in the Pacific
Last June, WIRED magazine wrote an in depth article that asked: Can a Million Tons of Sulfur Dioxide Combat Climate Change? The question arose from research from research at Lawrence Livermore National…
Nutty story of the day #5, One more thing to worry about: The Oxygen Crisis!
Trend of atmospheric oxygen (O2) from Cape Grim, Tasmania. This looks serious, right? Read on. FOREWORD: I had to chuckle at this. This is the sort of story I would expect in…
Arctic Ice Extent Discrepancy: NSIDC versus Cryosphere Today
Foreword: I had originally planned to post a story on this, but Steven Goddard of the UK Register sends word that he has already done a comparison. It mirrors much…
Hadley Climate Center HadAT2 Data shows global cooling in the last year
Overall long term trend remains positive in lower troposphere. Most often on this forum we have looked at either surface temperature data from surface observations or lower tropospheric temperature data derived…
The tale of the hockey stick
Or as an alternate title: “Why we find it difficult to trust certain climate scientists.” This posting by Bishop Hill, telling the tale of the nefarious temperature reconstruction known as…
Spotless days: 400 and counting
The sun on 08/12/2008 just before midnight UTC – spotless As many of you know, the sun has been very quiet, especially in the last month. In a NASA news…
NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face
NOTE: You may recall a story I posted some months ago titled: “NASA: It’s the wind” regarding Arctic wind circulation patterns and the way it drove sea ice further south…
Mauna Loa to improve CO2 data reporting
Regular readers may recall our conversations this week on the hiccup in CO2 data from the Mauna Loa Observatory. I’m pleased to announce that I received this encouraging email today from Dr.…
RSS July Global Temperature Anomaly – up a bit
RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA) RSS Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for July 2008 was published today and has moved a bit above the…
Post mortem on the Mauna Loa CO2 data eruption
As most readers of this blog already know, there has been a posting and revision of CO2 data on the Mauna Loa observatory website in the past day that has…
One day later: Mauna Loa CO2 graph changes
UPDATE: 08/07 2:PM PST MLO responds with improvements to the CO2 data reporting Approximately 24 hours after I published my story on the January to July trend reversal of CO2 at…
Presidential Science Advisor Briefed On Potential For Mars Life
This in an interesting story from Aviation Week They say “the data relate to habitability” But it makes you wonder why they had to brief the Presidential Science Advisor on…
Mauna Loa CO2 January to July trend goes negative first time in history
UPDATE5: MLO responds with improvements to the CO2 data reporting UPDATE4 August 4th 11:45PST the Mauna Loa graph (but not data) has changed, see this new post Back on April…
CONFIRMED: Water on Mars
TUCSON, July 31 (UPI) — Scientists confirmed Thursday that water, considered an essential building block of life, does indeed exist on the planet Mars.An analysis of a soil sample collected…
An encouraging response on satellite CO2 measurement from the AIRS Team
Recently we’ve been discussing products from the AIRS satellite instrument (Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder) onboard the Aqua satellite. There has been quite a bit of interest in this because unlike the…
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