Daily Archives: April 18, 2011

I hate this feeling that we are degenerating into a dark ages mentality, but that seems to be where we are headed. Plate tectonics really has nothing to do with liberal neuroses. The mantle couldn’t care less how stupid the … Continue reading →

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ h/t Marc Morano

Mars has huge erosional features formed by water. How could this be? It is far too cold for there to be liquid water on Mars. You can’t blame it on the Sun, because according to astronomers the Sun used to … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/sports/19marathon.html

Steig reminds that a short term trend on a tiny portion of Antarctica, can be extrapolated to represent long term trends across the entire continent. http://summitcountyvoice.com/

Mars has a mean surface pressure of 600 pascals, compared with Earth’s 100,000 pascals. In other words, the atmospheric pressure on Earth is about 150 times higher than Mars. Mars has 0.95 mole fraction CO2, compared to 0.0004 on earth. … Continue reading →

It may be record cold in Australia, India, Canada and Greenland, but Chicago is heating up with record snow. This is what Hansen was trying to show us with his GISS temperatures that nearly tied the hottest year ever last … Continue reading →

http://www.eol.ucar.edu/ Yesterday at NCAR in Boulder, temperatures shot up 15 degrees in a matter of a few minutes. This was due to the arrival of Chinook winds. When the wind blows out of the west, the air compresses as it … Continue reading →

NPR says beetles are investing in trees. Sophisticated little buggers – first they invest, then they destroy – driving the price up. Sick the SEC on them. National Parks Week kicks off Saturday, but the celebration comes at a rough … Continue reading →

Scientists with the Carnegie Institutions’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University and the University of Montana analyzed temperature, reflectivity, and evapotranspiration from satellite data across 733,000 square miles—an area larger than the state of Alaska. They found converting from … Continue reading →