Daily Archives: April 29, 2011

Climate change could spawn more tornadoes As with any major weather disaster these days — from floods and hurricanes to wildfires and this week’s tornado outbreak in the South — people ask questions about its relation to the huge elephant … Continue reading →

One of my kids said that on the way to school this morning.

Drewski says : Steve Goddard: “The Arctic Ocean is smaller than the US.” Actually the Arctic Ocean occupies a roughly circular basin and covers an area of about 14,056,000 km2 (5,427,000 sq mi), almost the size of Russia — the … Continue reading →

12 Mar 2009 Prince Charles told 200 business leaders in Rio de Janeiro that the world has “less than 100 months” to save the planet http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ We are 1/5 of the way to the end of the world.

Golf, basketball, bankrupting the country, marginalizing people who disagree with him, getting public money to his banker friends ….. “He’s almost 50 years old and he’s president of the United States and I don’t think anybody would debate his intelligence … Continue reading →

They were cheered by 500,000 well-wishers who gathered outside the palace, as RAF planes flew past in honour of the new royal couple. Police estimate a million people lined the procession route from the abbey to the palace. The bride … Continue reading →

Michaels refers to greenhouse gas scenarios A, B, C in our 1988 paper, failing to note that precisely measured greenhouse gas climate forcing since 1988 fall almost exactly on our scenario B, which we had described as the most likely … Continue reading →

I was just out cycling towards the mountains in cool air, and was suddenly hit by a blast of heat from downslope winds. West of College Ave temperatures are 15 degrees warmer. This remarkable transition occurs over just a few … Continue reading →

Cook published this graph purporting to show that Hansen is better than Lindzen at forecasting temperatures. There are so many things wrong with this graph, it is difficult to know where to start. 1. Hansen made three forecasts, Cook picked … Continue reading →

Climate change may give America’s venomous brown recluse spiders a choice: Move to a more northern state or face dramatic losses in range and possible extinction, a new theoretical study suggests. Currently, brown recluse spiders are found in the interior … Continue reading →