Monthly Archives: April 2011

Three years ago a massive tornado struck Windsor, Colorado – destroying several miles of the city. The morning started with the dew point in the 70s, which never happens in Colorado. I grabbed the kids out of school and we … Continue reading →

Paul picked the World Cup perfectly, but he was alive at the time. Global warming to melt all ice in Arctic Ocean every summer: study LOS ANGELES, April 17 (Xinhua) — Global warming will melt all the ice in the … Continue reading →

Attributed to von Neumann by Enrico Fermi, as quoted by Freeman Dyson in “A meeting with Enrico Fermi” in Nature 427 (22 January 2004) p. 297 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann What did Von Neumann mean by this? He meant that by using enough input variables, you can get any … Continue reading →

The vast majority of glacial retreat occurred before humans started burning coal. One  might expect the world’s greatest climatologist to have a grasp of basic science before he talks to the press. “Tibet’s glaciers are retreating at an alarming rate,” … Continue reading →

She turned me into a newt. One of the more colorful cases was filed by a native Alaskan village with a population of 400 suing two dozen utility, energy, and oil companies for $400 million in damages to compensate the … Continue reading →

Former AGW poster child Lake Powell water levels have been rising rapidly over the last few years. http://lakepowell.water-data.com/ There is well above average snowpack across most of the Colorado/Green River drainage. Inflows into Lake Powell will be very large, so … Continue reading →

http://geology.com/meteorites/impactites.shtml Here is one on the snow in Siberia [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NRA_Ej2zZU]

In some countries, viewing “An Inconvenient Truth” has actually become a required part of the science curriculum, and with good justification, we think. http://www.realclimate.org/ How well does the film handle the science? Admirably, I thought. It is remarkably up to … Continue reading →

Is climate change causing earthquakes? Extreme weather is moving tectonic plates, scientists claim People who are ridiculed for saying that earthquakes are a result of global warming could actually be right, scientists claim. Long-term climate change has the potential to … Continue reading →

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