Monthly Archives: September 2010

Blame It On Bush

Unemployment has more than doubled since Harry Reid and the Democrats took over the US Senate four years ago, promising change.

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Hurricane Season Close To Average So Far

http://www.weatherstreet.com/hurricane/2010/Hurricane-Atlantic-2010.htm Not much change in the immediate forecast.

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Quantifying The Greenhouse Effect In The Tropics

Dr. Hansen has told us that the very survival of “life as we know it” depends on reducing CO2 levels to 350 ppm (parts per million.) http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/greenhouse-effect I calculated the greenhouse effect using the same radiative transfer model incorporated in … Continue reading

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September 5 Sea Ice News

The Arctic is getting rather chilly, with temperatures over the entire ice pack ranging from 0 to minus 15ºC. Over the last few days, a lot of the remaining low concentration ice in the East Siberian Sea has melted out. … Continue reading

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X-Ray Vision

Anthony reports on WUWT that geologists are being prosecuted in Italy for failing to forecast an earthquake. It is difficult to overstate how ludicrous this is. I can imagine that there would be many benefits to having superpowers, but geologists … Continue reading

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WMO : “Huge areas where information is not gathered”

They may be missing half the earth, but they can still measure the earth’s temperature accurately to within one hundredth of a degree. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/05/google-galaxy-zoo-climate-project Climate scientists meeting in Britain this week hope to build a database to predict natural disasters … Continue reading

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The Guardian Worries About The Dangers of Expecting The IPCC To Be Competent

Telegraph Image John Vidal writes in The Guardian : If Rajendra Pachauri goes, who on Earth would want to be IPCC chair? No future chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can ever feel safe if Dr Pachauri is … Continue reading

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How Fast Is Sea Level Rising?

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/07/03/a-sudden-change-of-state/ The IPCC predicts that sea levels could rise by as much as 59cm this century(2). Hansen’s  paper argues that the slow melting of ice sheets the panel expects doesn’t fit the data. The geological record suggests that ice at … Continue reading

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What if He Were a Different Religion?

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A well-known Australian Muslim cleric has called for the beheading of Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, a newspaper said on Friday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100903/wl_nm/us_dutch_wilders Any one of the rest of us would be arrested for soliciting murder. Why is … Continue reading

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Clean Air and Water

http://forcechange.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/smog-air-pollution-city.jpg The air and water quality in the US used to be awful. Cities were choked with smog. The plume from the Four Corners Power Plant in New Mexico was the most visible man made feature for Apollo astronauts. The … Continue reading

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