Monthly Archives: September 2014

Climate experts really thought they were on to something for a few weeks in 2012. In a few years they will be mumbling incoherently to themselves  in the retirement home, something about deniers just don’t understand long-term trends.

NEWPORT, Wales — The United States and key allies agreed Friday to take on the marauding Islamic State militant group by squeezing its financial resources and going after it with military might. President Barack Obama outlined a coordinated military strategy … Continue reading →

Cuba’s communist-led intelligence services are aggressively recruiting leftist American academics and university professors as spies and influence agents, according to an internal FBI report published this week. FBI: Cuban Intelligence Aggressively Recruiting Leftist American Academics as Spies, Influence Agents | … Continue reading →

The station at Nhill, Australia is in farm country on the edge of town – about 50 metres from a road. It shows temperatures were hotter during some years in the early 20th century, and no general trend in maximum … Continue reading →

Streaky Bay, SA shows warming over the past century. And like most other Australia stations, the GHCN data prior to 1957 is missing.   ASN00018079 -32.7963  134.2116   13.0    STREAKY BAY The thermometer is close to the Bay. And Google … Continue reading →

Narrogin, WA shows some warming over the past century. ASN00010614 -32.9342  117.1797  338.0    NARROGIN The station is sandwiched between two roads in an urban area.  

A few days ago I noted that the GHCN database for Australia has very little data prior to 1957, and wondered if the jump was due to Sputnik. Well it turns out that lack of data prior to 1957 is due … Continue reading →

Today is Freddie Mercury’s 68th birthday. Check out Adam Lambert, who has replaced him. Not the same presence on stage, but his voice is almost a carbon copy. Check out Marc Martel, whose voice is almost a carbon copy. I heard … Continue reading →

If there were few greenhouse gases (like Antarctica) LW radiation would easily escape the earth’s atmosphere and temperatures would be much colder. The presence of greenhouse gases makes it more difficult for LW radiation to escape, which forces the atmosphere to … Continue reading →

  The RCGS/La SGRC on Twitter: The #VSExpedition team rescued a trapped boat from ice & lurking polar bears!