The picture below is from Radio station KQEN in Roseburg, OR. It is the official climate observing site for Roseburg. This picture is courtesy of Oregon State University Climatologist, George…
How not to measure temperature, part 7
I found this when I visited the old Army Airfield (Derby Field) in Lovelock, Nevada. The official airport for the city also has a NOAA weather station that has been…
Snow in June
Yesterday I had to drive up California State highway 88 doing another series of weather station surveys. I ran into a snowstorm between 6500 and 8000 feet. Big flakes, with…
My summer project – a national weather station audit
You may remember a couple of weeks ago I got sideswiped by Ms, Sherri Quammen, who in a letter to the editor called me a “weapon of mass destruction” because…
The Junk Science Life Cycle
I found this very interesting, so I decided to repost it here. Below is the life cycle of junk science, from the web blog Daily Dollop It shows the history…
How not to measure temperature, part 6
Ok folks, just when you think I could not possibly post any worse pictures of official climate stations, I yet again have more. I’d like to point out that I’ve…
How not to measure temperature, part 5
Today I visited the City of Lodi, California, since they have a USHCN weather station that produces data used in the climate record and also in climate change computer modeling.…
How not to measure temperature, part 4, at the Royal Observatory
This is a Google Earth satellite photo of the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. The weather station, at 55°55′22.71″N 3°11′17.69″W is the white box in the middle of the grass circle.…
How not to measure temperature, part 3
The picture below is from Oregon State Climatologist George Taylor. You may have heard of him, the Governor of Oregon tried to get him fired for not jumping on to…
Draw your own conclusion from this map
Today I visited my friend Jim Goodridge, former California State Climatologist and the man with a garage full of data going back to before the Gold Rush. He’s been quietly…
Restaurant Inspections tell a different story
Tuesday on page 7A of the Enterprise Record there was a full page ad for the Oriental Buffet at the corner of East Avenue and Esplande that touted a copy…
How not to measure temperature, part 2
I decided I’d drop some more fun with entropy your way. Here is the USHCN station of climate record in Redding, CA GISS number # 425725920010 and used in the…
Memorial Day
This morning, I took my children out front, and we placed three flags in our front yard. Each child got one little flag on a wooden stick to plant in…
The Meriam Park Cell Pickle – SOLVED
There’s an interesting thorn in the side of the recent planning commission approval of Meriam Park that nobody seems to have brought up or discussed. Maybe there are plans I’m…
How not to measure temperature
I’m surveying climate stations of record around California and documenting their condition as part of a larger project I’m doing. You’ll see more about it here in the near future.…
Dihydrogen Monoxide
It appears that in the quest to save our planet from dangerous chemicals, people will blindly sign anything. Read more about this dangerous chemical here: http://www.dhmo.org/ It’s “an odorless, tasteless…
Fine Me
My friends at coffee this morning got a huge laugh out of Chico Peace and Justice Center member Sherri Quammen’s claim in a vitriol filled letter to the editor that…
Gravel Mine proponents take different approach
I found the full page color advertisement on page 5E of the Sunday Enterprise Record quite interesting. It lists a number of environmental reasons why the M&T Baldwin Gravel mine…
Internet TV finally taking hold
I don’t know what they are watching in Tunisia as shown above, but if places like that can be going to net TV it begs the question; Will 2008 be…
Computers for Classrooms offers nuke your hard drive service.
I swung by the new offices of Computers for Classrooms today to get a quick tour of what they are doing with their brand new facility. Pat Furr, the director,…
Bad Paint Job = Rising Surface Temperatures Part2
A test of wood surface temperatures related to paint NOTE: This is not research quality experiment, but a simple test to point me towards others tests and experiments. IR thermometers…
The Nation slams Global Warming
Here’s something that took me completely by surprise. In the most recent edition of The Nation, columnist Alexander Cockburn did a left wing smack down of Gore and the entire…
Global Warming on Neptune
I covered global warming on Mars previously, but many climate change proponents shrug that off as being a “regional effect” that only affects Mars south pole as they say its…
Chico's soon to be Pine Tree Cell Tower ?
As I drove through Grass Valley today, the cell phone tower disguised as a pine tree reminded me that Tuesday night, the City Council will consider once again the cell…
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