Update: HORRAY: Tropical Storm Omeka was named! Dec 20, 2010 If it looks like a duck…well, if this bird were in the Atlantic, it would have been named a while…
How Germany's weather team views the "hottest year ever"
Translation via the GWPF Speculation Alert: “New Little Ice Age Cannot Be Ruled Out” Wednesday, 15 December 2010 09:16 Rickmer Flor, wetter.info Everybody is talking about global warming – but…
Cosmically, Heliospherically, and Terrestrially, FYI
Last night I decided to have a look at the Space Weather Prediction Center solar charts to see how the geoplanetary magnetic index (Ap) was doing, and decided since I…
Climate debate rages in The Australian
I’m pleased to offer some essays and letters with links that have recently appeared in The Australian newspaper. One of them is an essay from my friend and fellow skeptic,…
Coldest December ever in Britain as snow piles up, Europe freezes
Breaking news! December can still be cold and snowy over parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Don’t look to the American media for much information about European weather; it’s about as…
Lunar eclipse and winter solstice to coincide, first time since the year 1378
How often do you get to witness an event that has not been seen since the year 1378, over half a millennium, 632 years ago? Of course, weather will make…
Climate Central confuses weather and climate – you help write the rebuttal
Here’s an opportunity for crowd-sourcing a rebuttal to Climate Central’s Top Ten Climate Events of 2010. I think it is mistitled, and should be Climate Central’s Top Ten Weather Events…
Warming skeptic gets key Science post – may do "mean things"
From Politico Leading House climate skeptic Jim Sensenbrenner appears to have landed a perch to lead investigations into global warming science. The Wisconsin Republican is set to become the vice…
First measurement of magnetic field in Earth's core
Earth’s internal dynamo generates average field in outer core 50 times that at surface A University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist has made the first-ever measurement of the strength of the…
Friday Funny
This video has been making the rounds, and the most encouraging thing about it is: it ran on the BBC. The fact that is did speaks to the growing skeptical…
Chicago Climate Exchange = FAIL, Now California opens "Pacific Carbon Exchange"
UPDATE: related story shows what can happen when emissions trading doesn’t have proper checks and balances – Carbon trading tempts firms to make greenhouse gas California hasn’t learned from the…
UAH and UHI
Note: clearly satellites can see urban heat, as demonstrated by this recent paper unveiled at the 2010 AGU meeting by NASA. See: Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast.…
Preliminary results for the CERN CLOUD cosmic ray experiment
From Nature blog: Sunny days for CLOUD experiment An experiment designed to investigate the link between solar activity and the climate has its first results in the bag. At the…
Craven Attention
Steve Mosher reports that things got a bit bizarre at the 2010 American Geophysical Union convention in San Francisco Guest post by Steven Mosher At AGU today I was witness…
Arctic Oscillation spoiling NASA GISS party
Note: I want to thank everyone who commented here and elsewhere regarding my last post about GISS that sent everyone into a tizzy. All that is very helpful. Here’s more…
Clueless bloggers attack Fox News for memo that says "show both sides" of the global warming/cooling story
Joe Romm and Al Gore share one thing in common besides being paid for blogging, writing, and making opinions on climate to scare the dickens out of people: they don’t…
The periodic table becomes a weight watcher
From the “not etched in stone department”, via Eurekalert we learn that Atomic weights of 10 elements on periodic table about to make an historic change showing that everything we…
Software tip: How to save yourself at least $250
Yesterday I had a request from a client for a network diagram for a system I’m designing, and normally I create such drawings as a PNG file. But this client…
Hump Day Hilarity: songs for round up day
This is amusing: We sing at events supporting peace and social justice around Oxfordshire. That description from their web page seems nice, until you listen to what they are singing.
Global tropical cyclone activity still in the tank
Even with the expected active 2010 North Atlantic hurricane season, which accounts on average for about 1/5 of global annual hurricane output, the rest of the global tropics has been…
"Sustainability" continues to run amok in my town
I’ve written about this before. We have a group of citizens here in town called the “sustainability task force” which is highly influenced by the eco-zealotry of Chico State University…
Global Eruption Rocks the Sun
I should point out that thanks to the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we can see things that we’ve never seen before. So while this event is unprecedented in the history…
Voyager1 – so far out, there's no solar wind anymore
What is really amazing is that the probe still operates after over 3 decades, which is a testament to the design team. It’s a SNAP to keep powered up though.…
Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast
Gee where have we seen something like this before? Dads/Moms and Grandparents: if you’d like your children/grandchildren to be able to do something on UHI for the spring science fair,…
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