In an announcement sure to cause controversy over Svensmark’s theory of cosmic ray to cloud modulation, which is said to be affecting earth’s climate. Svensmark says this is now leading…
Category: Space
The Australian dust storm as seen from space – Dry lake Eyre not Global Warming?
There’s been quite a bit of buzz about the dust storm in Australia that hit Queensland, New South Wales, and NSW city Sydney on September 23rd. Pictures like the ones…
Antarctica to get surface based space weather monitoring network
Of course the big question is, will they be able to keep the stations from becoming buried in snow like weather stations in the flawed Steig et al paper that…
Burt Rutan: engineer, aviation/space pioneer, and now, active climate skeptic
Recently after some conversations with a former chemical engineer who provided me with some insight, I’ve come to the conclusion that many engineers have difficulty with many of the premises…
SOHO and Solar update
A couple of interesting tidbits from NASA’s Spaceweather.com First: Spotless Days Current Stretch: 31 days 2009 total: 173 days (78%) Since 2004: 684 days Typical Solar Min: 485 days Second:…
Which is the bigger threat: PHA's or GHG's ?
This makes a lot of sense if you are a rational thinking person. I thought I’d alert WUWT readers to it. Below is a table from the front page of…
Thanks Neil, Michael, and Buzz
America, and the world, is in your eternal debt. My fond memories from this time would not be complete without the mention of another person.
The Sun puts on some fireworks for the 4th of July
Leif Svalgaard has been saying for sometime now that Solar Cycle 24 seems to be getting underway. Seeing sunspot group 1024 today, I’m tending to agree. The magnetic polarity (seen…
Apollo moonwalker Dr. Buzz Aldrin announces his climate skepticism
How’d ya like the news in the paper, Mr. Potter? You just can’t keep those deniers down. From the UK Telegraph, yet another prominent NASA figure says “no” to AGW.…
ISS has best balcony seat for volcanic eruption
I can’t ever recall seeing a more stunning image of a volcanic eruption. The ash plume from it has spread quite a bit. What effect will it have?
Mars Today widget now on WUWT
In the discussion thread about CO2 and Antarctic cold, some references to CO2 ice in the ice caps of Mars were part of that discussion. WUWT reader Lou Mackenzie sends…
Another scientific consensus bites the dust
It has been said that “the science is settled” regarding what we know about Earth’s atmosphere and climate. But recently scientists discovered that something we had accepted as a basic…
Steig's Antarctic Peninsula Pac-mann
WUWT readers may recall a couple of weeks ago that I suggested that the weather stations with different climatic influences of the Antarctic peninsula, which might very well merit its…
Australian Antarctic Division: Can solar variability influence climate?
An interesting tidbit from the Australian Antarctic Division (h/t to Trevor Gunter) Scientists have long searched for linkages between solar variability and weather. The sun varies on a wide-range of…
Possible "habitable zone" planetary system discovered only 20 light years away
From RedOrbit and Science News Astronomers Discover Lightest Exoplanet Yet Astronomers claim to have discovered an exoplanet that is the most similar to Earth in terms of mass than any…
Using old NASA imagery to look at Antarctic Ice in the 1960’s
From Space.com: Old Moon Images Get Modern Makeover WOODLANDS, Texas — Think of it as a space age twist to that adage: Something old, something new…something borrowed, something blue. Back…
Galactic Cosmic Rays May Be Responsible For The Antarctic Ozone Hole
NOTE: It has been pointed out to me by an email from a regular WUWT reader that some people get a different conclusion from the headline other than what I…
Compared to the Sun's power, we are a fly speck on an elephant's butt
Note: A number of people sent this to me. This is a fictional account of what might happen if we get a large solar event, such as a Coronal Mass…
Cosmic Ray Flux and Neutron monitors suggest we may not have hit solar minimum yet
There’s some interesting information of the six month trend of neutrons being detected globally that I want to bring to discussion, but first I thought that a primer on cosmic…
Kepler blasts off in search of Earth-like planets
From the LA Times Email Picture Malcolm Denemark / Associated Press In a timed exposure, spectators watch from Cocoa Beach as the Kepler satellite launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force…
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