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Tag: Earth
Pheesiks? We don't need no steenkin' pheesiks!
With apologies to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, here’s a a comment worth repeating from the Hit and Misses thread. Dennis Ray Wingo says: November 26, 2011 at 10:44…
Linked: aerosol pollutants and rainfall patterns
From the University of Maryland Rising air pollution worsens drought, flooding, UMD-led study shows COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Increases in air pollution and other particulate matter in the atmosphere can…
Shifting Sun-Earth-Moon Harmonies, Beats, & Biases
Paul L. Vaughan, M.Sc. – October 2011 This post has no introduction, per the author’s request, start with the graphs. A PDF of a more complete paper is linked at…
High level clouds and surface temperature
Guest post by Erl Happ The orbit of the Earth’s around the sun is slightly eccentric. The closest point is called the perihelion. On January 4th the Earth is just…
What did you do for Earth Hour? The (yawn) reality
Here’s a collection of thoughts, quotes, and of course the result of our WUWT poll on “what did you do for Earth Hour? First, my own experience: Being keenly aware…
The Earth's biosphere is booming, data suggests that CO2 is the cause, part 2
The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life…
Does solar activity have to KEEP going up to cause warming? Mike Lockwood responds
Guest post by Alec Rawls My first post on this subject remarked on the number of scientists who assert that late 20th century global warming cannot have been driven by…
The Perigee Moon aka "Supermoon"
Perigee Moon left, Apogee Moon, right. Picture Credit: Galileo Project, NASA Thanks to WUWT regular “justthefacts” for assembling this story. – Anthony There has been a lot in the news about,…
JPL: Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis
From NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab: The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis. But don’t worry-you won’t…
3 CME's headed our way – geomagnetic storminess set for earth
From the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, word that our recent X-class (and lesser magnitude) solar flares have released three Coronal Mass Ejections (CME’s) toward Earth: The calm before the…
Normal Seasons of the Sun (GW Tiger)
Guest post by Ira Glickstein PhD. We had joy, we had fun, we had Seasons of the Sun. But the mountains we climbed were but whimsies of our minds. That…
Earth's changing atmosphere
Guest Post by Erl Happ This article investigates the sources of natural climate variation. This is a long post but it’s a big subject. Before you get half way through,…
Climate Craziness of the week: a basic science question for NYT reporter Justin Gillis
Readers please note the story I ran earlier: NOAA: “the atmosphere’s self-cleaning capacity is rather stable” This story talks about the ability of hydroxyl radicals in the free atmosphere to break…
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…
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…
NASA climate model shows plants slow Global Warming by creating a new negative feedback in response to increased CO2
From NASA Earth Science news: A new NASA computer modeling effort has found that additional growth of plants and trees in a world with doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide levels…
Massive solar filament eruption captured by SDO
The Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite captured this image yesterday. A massive filament on the Sun erupted in a stunning display as seen here in the videos below. The giant solar…
Environmentalist marries Gaia in E-ceremony
From the Huffington Post, a tale of bliss. WUWT Readers may remember Mr. Bloom from a previous story where he did something outlandish, but it appears he was simply protecting…
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