Monthly Archives: September 2010

The clock is ticking. Here are the current standings. Each ring represents 100,000 km² error. Place your bets.

Guardian Photo England 4 Bulgaria 0 Unfortunately, the match isn’t shown in the US until later today.

The 1990 Galveston Hurricane was the deadliest natural disaster to ever strike the US. It came on shore September 8, 1900 and killed somewhere between 6,000 and 12,000 people. http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/bigs/wea00589.jpg The storm surge was 15 feet high, which flooded the … Continue reading →

The Labor Day, 1935 hurricane was the most intense hurricane to ever make landfall in the US. It came on shore with an unbelievably low atmospheric pressure of 892 mbar (Katrina was 920 mbar.) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1lSVcYM2WE] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Labor_Day_hurricane Atmospheric CO2 was 309 … Continue reading →

Why Is the Media Ignoring Discovery Channel Gunman’s Radical Views? http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2010/9/3/Why-Is-the-Media-Ignoring-Discovery-Channel-Gunmans-Radical-Views.html By PETER ROFF Posted: September 3, 2010 James Lee, who walked into the headquarters of the Discovery Channel Wednesday, taking hostages, was an environmental radical who believed people were … Continue reading →

Chris Landsea at the National Hurricane Center wrote an excellent piece a few years ago, explaining why they name more storms than they used to. http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/landsea-eos-may012007.pdf It basically comes down to better monitoring techniques. With satellites, they find more storms … Continue reading →

http://postcardparadise.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html h/t to K~Bob Michigan man finds alligator in cornfield A Burr Oak man simply wanted to gather some sweet corn for the family freezer. He didn’t expect to have to deal with an alligator rushing at him. Jeff Adamski was … Continue reading →

? Joe Romm has an interesting post today Captain’s log from the Chukchi Sea: “The water temperature is 7.5 degrees. If we weren’t sailing, it would be a great temperature for a swim!” Then Joe goes on : And that’s … Continue reading →

This blog has been live for four days, and is averaging over 2,500 page views per day. That works out to nearly a million page views per year. Yet we are only averaging 40 comments per day. i.e only one … Continue reading →

http://math.nyu.edu/~gladish/teaching/eao/water-phase-diagram.jpg Fresh water freezes at 0ºC on the surface of the earth (mp on the diagram.) It doesn’t matter if you are in Arizona or Ireland.  It doesn’t matter what the partial pressure of water is in the air (i.e … Continue reading →