Monthly Archives: September 2010

Hypochondria is an obsessive compulsive disorder where every real or imagined symptom is believed to be a sign of disease. Some people suffer a parallel condition with respect to the weather. Every hot,, cold, mild, sunny, cloudy, rainy, dry or … Continue reading →

Benjamin Franklin wrote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

When people have a stake in an unsupportable belief system, the only way to keep it going is to silence dissent. Communist governments do this because their system of governance defies human nature, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn documented.

The Cincinnati Area F5 tornado. April 3, 1974 A common fable of the AGW belief system is that global warming “increases the total energy in the climate system and causes more storms.” There are a number of things wrong with … Continue reading →

http://www.newciv.org/Synergetic_Geometry/current.htm A standard high school science problem is to estimate the volume of an irregular solid. There are two ways of doing this.

Brilliant goal by Scott Parker though.

The amazing amount of press coverage for one large iceberg this summer was indicative of how poorly educated the public is.

The modified NSIDC  image above shows the maximum possible amount of multi-year ice (MYI) we could have in spring 2011. It assumes that all of the 2+ year old ice from the end of July remained intact.

2007 was the summer of the record low ice extent. It also was the summer of …

The image above is an overlay of NSIDC’s end of July ice age map on their most recent extent map.