For those of us that hate having Winnie the pig presented to us as part of our local weather report, I’d like to offer this solution that cuts all of…
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Daylight Saving Time snafu lands kid in jail
From the “spring forward fall back” department: A fifteen-year old boy in Pennsylvania was incarcerated for twelve days, wrongly accused of making a hoax bomb threat – because his school…
Panic of the Day: Cell Phones Kill Bees
There’s an article on UK’s The Independent website about a most unusual scientific theory. “Cell Phones kill bees.” From the article: Some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile…
The "D" Word (Drought) may be premature
With the “D” word a headline in just about every Bay Area newspaper this morning it bears some examination of "drought" definitions. The word drought does not have a universal…
Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high
Here’s more inconvenient news from solar researchers. Even though our sun is quiet at the moment while we are in between peaks in the 11 year sunspot cycles, scientists based…
Calculating Easter
Did you ever wonder why the date of Easter is not fixed like Christmas, or St Patrick’s Day? Well its because there is a series of complex and somewhat inane…
It's the Sun, stupid
The The United Nations’s IPCC Report comes out today so I thought I’d make a report too. James Carville used to remind Clinton during the ’92 campaign that “its the…
The Sun may disrupt GPS system, banks, hi-tech during next solar max
As previously mentioned on this blog, sunspot 930 released a masive solar flare in December, even though we are in the solar minimum between 11 year sunspot cycle peaks. Now…
Guest Blogger: William F. Buckley on Climate Change
From RealClearPolitics April 03, 2007 Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition By William F. Buckley The heavy condemnatory breathing on the subject of global warming outdoes anything…
In search of the perfect thermometer.
Lon Glazner, a fellow blogger and local electronics engineer made some comments about my post on the NASA/CSU study on California temperatures. Well that got me started…so below are Lon’s…
California Heating Up, a new NASA/CSU study finds, but data questionable
Image: Average temperatures warmed in nearly all parts of California between 1950 to 2000. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cal State L.A Click for Larger Image Average temperatures in California rose almost one…
This week in Global Warming
Whew! It has been a busy week, with lots of things to report. So rather than making a blog entry for each one I thought I’d condense them all into…
The Red 40 Menace
I’m not usually a fan of food additive scares, as I find a lot of the "science" driving them to be somewhat emotionally based rather than factually based. For example,…
My 100th entry – some other views on Global Warming
I figured for my 100th entry, I’d make it a big one. Especially in light of the fact that a recent editorial in the ChicoBeat said that I’m completely wrong.…
The sun is blank – welcome to the solar minimum
No I’m not asking you to fill in the blank, but I am asking you to notice that at this time, there are no sunspots on the sun at all.…
Beat Up
There’s an article in this issue of the Chico Beat about my views on global warming. You can read it here: http://www.chicobeat.com/?q=in_denial I knew going into it that they’d probably…
Internal Combustion Engine could get new lease on life
Ok, everybody’s favorite modern boogeyman, the Internal Combustion Engine, has been blamed for everything from global warming, to wars over oil, to baby booms caused by backseats in 57 Chevy’s.…
YouTube sued for 1bil$, are local bloggers at risk?
Viacom has filed a $1,000,000,000.00 lawsuit for ‘massive intentional copyright infringement’ against Google over YouTube video clips. ‘”YouTube’s strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the infringement…
Can outing an anonymous blogger be justified?
Ok I’ll bet the first word that went through your mind was “Tasker” right? Even though our own local and vocal anonymous blog commenter can sometimes raise some ire, this…
Got SLAC?
As a kid, science was my big deal. Science fairs were even bigger. In my senior year of high school, I made my grand project, a 10MEV cyclotron. It weighed…
10 Laws of Physics That Don't Apply in Hollywood
In general, Hollywood filmmakers follow the laws of physics because they have no other choice. It’s just when they cheat with special effects that we seem to forget how the…
Dieting? Buy Calorie Credits !
Recently it was revealed that Al Gore has a large “carbon footprint” and that he setup a corporation and as CEO that allows him to assuage guilt over that large…
Huh, imagine that!
National Geographic reports that simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet’s recent climate changes might have a natural — and not a human-induced — cause. Mars, it…
ER Outlook- Sustainability – My missing article
A “computer glitch” when the reporter sent my story to copy editing added an extra “o” to the word “Outlook” in the title, sending my entry into “etherland”. You can…
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