Never mind that in 2006 it was reported that levels of the second most important greenhouse gas, methane, have stabilized. Scientists are now working to create a new “tootless” grass for bovine…
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Your tax dollars at work – money down the carbon hole
Graphic: Lawrence Berkeley Labs The Department of Energy awarded $126.6 million in grants today to projects that will pump 1 million tons of CO2 into underground caverns at sites in…
Interesting commentary
My radio station www.kpay.com has an opinion commentator named Bruce Sessions. He does a daily radio vignette called “Tidbits from the BS Notebook” which is a fun twist on his…
More Carbon Dioxide, Please
From the National Review I don’t don’t know about you, but I’m going to crack open a lovely carbonated beverage and raise it in salute to Roy for having the courage…
More on the PDO shift cited by NASA
For now, we have about 1 year of significant cold phase tendency in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), here is the last 108 years of the PDO index, plotted from…
Road trip update: 5 stations, 376 miles
I surveyed 5 NOAA USHCN stations today, 2 water plants, 1 sewage treatment plant, and two private observers. Total distance traveled: 376 miles. All stations had MMTS, and were CRN…
Scavenger Hunt: find the lump of coal
In comments, Anna V reminded me of something I’ve been looking for for awhile, but forgotten about in the busy work of the surfacestations.org project. With this blog having a…
CNN's View of Climate History
Some of you might notice that some other items of interest were left out… feel free to fill in the gaps. A timeline of climate change science By Matthew Knight for…
Gore to throw insults on 60 minutes
There will be a story featuring Al Gore and his climate views on CBS 60 minutes this weekend. Normally I don’t pay much heed to this program, but Gore is…
Evidence of a Significant Solar Imprint in Annual Globally Averaged Temperature Trends – Part 1
NEW An update to this has been made here: evidence of a lunisolar influence on decadal and bidecadal oscillations in globally averaged temperature trends NOTE: This essay represents a collaboration over…
Deja Vu all over again: climate worries of today also happened in the 20's and 30's
Two days ago I highlighted a news story from the Washington Post Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt dated from November 2nd 1922. That brought a flood…
Another Global Temp Index Dives in Jan08, this time HadCRUT
The global surface temperature anomaly data from the UK Hadley Climate Research Unit (Temp anomaly is plotted below) has just been released, and it shows a significant drop in the…
Glossary
There are lots of confusing terms in the world of climate science, meteorology, and the world of NOAA and the National Weather Service. Often somebody new to the arena can…
RSS Satellite data for Jan08: 2nd coldest January for the planet in 15 years
UPDATE – see new graph of global ∆T for the past year below. There has been a global drop in temperature of 0.63 degrees Centigrade in the past 12 months.…
How to tell a good scientist from a bad scientist
Below is an article from TheStatsBlog that I found interesting. Here is what they say about the organization behind it. Since its founding in 1994, the non-profit, non-partisan Statistical Assessment Service (STATS)…
Surprise! There's an active volcano under Antarctic ice
Above: Mt Erebus, which was previously the only active volcano in Antarctica picture by Sean Brocklesby It seems that we still don’t know everything there is to know about our earth-climate…
Solar Cycle 24 has officially started
What a day! First a major storm whacks the west coast, now we have the official start of solar cycle 24. Solar physicists have been waiting for the appearance of…
Helio, La Niña, and bad winters, awww nuts!!
While doom and gloom predictions continue about CO2 induced global warming, saying that it now is the largest driver of climate, overwhelming any influences of the suns variation, there appear…
My Surfacestations.org project "down under"
This was forwarded to me by Russ Steele over at NCWatch. Titled: Climate Change – Is CO2 the cause? It’s a compelling presentation by Bob Carter of the facts of…
Et tu, Gorus?
Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and even more surprising, the IPCC also shares the award. Why? Why would a committee award such a prestigious prize right on the heels…
Carbon dioxide did not end the last Ice Age
A new USC study shows that Deep-sea temperatures rose 1,300 years before atmospheric CO2 rose, ruling out the greenhouse gas as driver of meltdown, says a study in Science. Carbon…
NASA GISS and "pesky sunspot correlations continue"
Above: Earth in comparison, size wise to common sunspots The Christion Science Monitor had a detailed article recently that brought in a surprisng source – NASA GISS – an entity…
Grilling the Data
9/29/07 UPDATE: We are still waiting on Mr. Steve Bloom to answer this question: “Why is positive bias imparted in USHCN adjustments?” He incorrectly asserts that he has been “banned”…
Closed Minds of the herd
Spot the free thinker in this photo (photo courtesy ZombieTime) Russell Steele over at NCWatch has an interesting post about “going against the herd”. He says “Bob Prechter, an expert…
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