2010-05-28

Latest GRACE data on Greenland ice mass

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As a companion to my concerns about polar amplification, see this blog post about Greenland's increasing mass deficit. I don't want ...
2010-05-27

News from the Arctic, and it's bad

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I was just directed to a recent paper in Nature called "The central role of diminishing sea ice in recent Arctic temperature amplificat...
2010-05-24

Bacterial origin of clouds and rain

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From Evernote: Bacterial origin of clouds and rain Ok, there is a lot to say and I don't h...
2010-05-10

Al Gore: The Crisis Comes Ashore

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Message from sender: A cogent discussion linking the Gulf of Mexico oil spill with global warming by Al Gore. He makes a lot of critical...

Climate debate gets ugly as world moves to curb CO2

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A general overview of the current environment for climate scientists trying to communicate the science to the general public. http://r.reute...
2010-05-07

On prospects for energy/climate legislation

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From Evernote: On prospects for energy/climate legislation I just read that Sen. Lindsey Graha...
2010-05-03

Maybe attaching lasers to baby birds will make it rain

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From Evernote: Maybe attaching lasers to baby birds will make it rain There appears to be a la...

A few issues regarding the oil accident in the Gulf

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From Evernote: A few issues regarding the oil accident in the Gulf I have not been following the coverage of this gulf oil ...
2010-04-19

Iceland Eruption and risk to airplanes

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If you are looking for the best pictures of the ash plume flowing away from Iceland, then check out the NASA page [ LINK ]. Air traffic ha...
2010-04-18

US Federal Budget & Science

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A great graphical breakdown thanks to Jorge at PHD Comics: LINK
2010-03-27

Joanne Simpson

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This news is now several weeks old, but somehow I forgot to mention it here. Joanne Simpson, a pioneer of tropical meteorology, and specific...
2010-03-19

Streamlining your workflow

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Just watched this video showing how one guy keeps his references organized. It's included below, and worth watching. My own citation org...
2010-03-15

Impact in North America?

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There's been a lot of talk about an extraterrestrial impact in North America about 11,000 years ago. The idea is that such an event coul...
2010-03-01

News from the paper of record

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Al Gore wrote an Op-Ed piece in the NYTimes on 27 February, and I think it is worth reading [ LINK ]. He covers a little science and a lot o...
2010-02-23

The deniers grasp at straws

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I just saw this great post on ClimateSafety [ LINK ], and had to direct others to it. Some conclusions about sea-level rise have been retrac...
2010-02-22

"This is not your father's quark-gluon plasma."

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It's awesome when you actually do get to break the laws of physics: [ NYTimes ][ via Kottke ]
2010-02-21

Arguments about how to smooth a timeseries

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When considering the arguments of climate change deniers, my preferred approach is give the benefit of the doubt first, try to understand wh...
2010-02-16

Further craziness about Jonathan Leake

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Stunningly bad journalism seems to be this guy's modus operandi: [ LINK ]

The Donald

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Essentially a validation of many of the things I posted yesterday: Donald Trump: 'With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow set...
2010-02-15

an overuse of the '-gate' suffix

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There have been a lot of 'gates' flying around, on both sides of the climate "debate." By "debate," of course, I...