2012-05-01

Wind turbines and warming

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The Christian Science Monitor [ LINK ] does a decent job in smacking the media coverage of a new Nature Climate Change paper by Zhou et al...
2012-04-24

ENVISAT likely dead in the sky

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More bad satellite news: ENVISAT seems to have stopped phoning home. ENVISAT is a giant satellite managed by the European Space Agency, and ...
2012-03-02

What's the difference between the Maunder Minimum and the late twentieth century?

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Somehow I became distracted by an online "discussion" in which someone was confused about the connections between solar variabilit...
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2012-01-29

The WSJ op-ed page again

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The Wall Street Journal has published an op-ed by 16 "scientists" claiming that global warming isn't a big deal, and probably ...
2011-12-16

Ralph Hall, chair of the House of Representatives science committee

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I have not read such incoherent drivel from such a highly placed official since George W. Bush was in the whitehouse. Please read this story...
2011-10-06

Sherwood's dredging up history

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Steve Sherwood has an outstanding piece in Physics Today that compares climate "denialism" to historical precedent. In particular,...
2011-10-04

The American ‘allergy’ to global warming: Why?

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"Climate change has already provoked debate in a U.S. presidential campaign barely begun. An Associated Press journalist draws on decad...
2011-09-16

Start pre-gaming, only two years to the next IPCC report

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The last IPCC report on the physical science of climate change, called the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), was published in 2007. Since that...
2011-09-06

Remote Sensing shakeup

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The editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Remote Sensing has resigned. An editorial in the journal explains the situation. The short ve...
2011-09-01

The big balloon and the garden hose

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I'm uncomfortable with this real-life test of geoengineering:  http://www.grist.org/climate-change/2011-08-31-is-planet-cooling-balloon-...
2011-08-31

CLOUD experiments

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The first results from the CLOUD experiments have been getting a lot of media attention. The focus of the attention is the Nature paper that...
2011-08-08

Reactions to the Spencer paper

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It's a very bad paper. That is the short story. I haven't thought through all my criticisms of it yet (maybe I'll write somethin...
2011-07-26

A peer-review recipe

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Eos is on a hot streak, at least compared to the usual Eos status quo. There's another useful article in the 12 July issue. It is an ove...
2011-07-19

News Corp behind Climategate?

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Was Rupert Murdoch's right-wing-leaning News Corp behind the illegal hacking of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Un...
2011-06-24

Comparing volcanic CO2 emissions to human-made emissions

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There's a terrific article by T. Gerlach in last week's issue of AGU's EOS newspaper [ PDF ]. Gerlach is apparently a volcanolog...
2011-05-28

It pays to go to college

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So this guy Peter Thiel is starting a fellowship program that will give students $100,000 to start a new business. He thinks it will encoura...
2011-03-27

African biomass burning (part 1?)

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The amount of area and material that is burned each year in tropical Africa is staggering. The series of maps shown here is from NASA, showi...
2011-03-04

Glory of the sea?

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I recently wrote about the Glory satellite mission [ LINK ]. Early this morning, the rocket carrying Glory to orbit was launched from Vanden...
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George Will want(ed) high speed rail

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I've said it before, and I say it again: George Will is an ass. [ LINK ]
2011-03-01

Taking the conserve out of conservative

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Today I heard a story on NPR that I think makes plain the GOP position on all matters environmental: LISTEN ON NPR They won't even co...