NOTE: Mike alerted me in comments about this article he wrote along the lines of my story on Color and Temperature: Perception is everything. I thought this would be good…
Category: Science
Algal Fuels and Massive Scales
Guest post by John Goetz I keep an active watch of the news for progress being made in the areas of renewable and alternative energy sources. One area that has…
Surprise: Explosive volcanic eruption under the Arctic ice found
I posted on a similar story about volcanic eruptions under Antarctic ice earlier this year. What is unique about this situation is that it was a large eruption that went…
NASA's Jim Hansen calls for energy company execs to be put on trial
He’s got the whoooole woorld in his hands… This troubling news from the Guardian, UK “James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief…
If Global Warming was a company decision, how would you vote?
Lucia at Rank Exploits poses this thought: “I always think it’s best to ask yourself: Do I really think a particular method of looking at data is meaningful? Would I…
CBS News sinks to new low; publishes crackpot global warming story, attributes it to Associated Press, kills it with no retraction
Yesterday I posted a story from CBS News: Quake n’ Bake: Global Warming Causes More Energetic Earthquakes? The main headline was this: Seismic Activity 5 Times More Energetic Than 20 Years…
A Window on Water Vapor and Planetary Temperature
Here is some interesting news; according to data from NOAA’s Earth System Laboratory, atmospheric water vapor is on the decline globally. You’ve probably heard many times how water vapor is…
How Not To Measure Temperature, Part 64 – Estimating biases and comparing to GISS Homogeneity Adjustments
If you had the task of choosing where to put a climate monitoring thermometer here at the USHCN Climate station of record #469683 in Winfield, WV where would you choose…
More Signs Of The Sun Slowing Down
In my post from yesterday, I highlighted a paragraph from a NASA press release which touched on one of the final findings of the soon to be ended Ulysses spacecraft…
NASA to Probe Sun "in situ"
Until the SOHO satellite was launched, astronomers had to be content to look through earth bound telescopes at the sun. Now that the sun is key to “the biggest threat…
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.…
Some Planetary Perspective
Update 2: Reader Jesse Michael forwarded me this animated image above, which does a better job than the flawed NASA image or it’s replacement I found below. It takes about…
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 …
What we should be focusing on for power generation
While Jim Hansen lobbies states to get newly designed clean burning coal fired generation plants not built, California remains lukewarm still on an opportunity to extract geothermal heat for a variety of locations in…
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…
NASA sends "The Weather Rock" to Mars
When I made a post discussing the weather station on NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander titled “First Weather Station on the Surface of Mars“, I expressed some concern that there might…
The parking lot effect: temperature measurement bias of locations
NOTE: David Smith is doing experiments with the portable USB digital thermometers that are available here. This sort of experimentation is easy and inexpensive to do, and makes a great…
Weather Picture Of The Day – relaunched as a blog
Weather Picture Of The Day is a Website that I started back in the year 2000 as a way to provide interesting weather content for the public. Digital Photography was…
A little perspective
I found this image to be compelling because it shows our earth in perspective to some of the more mild activity occuring on the surface of the sun. www.Spaceweather.com writes:…
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