Daily Archives: December 22, 2014

I will be in Colorado and New Mexico over New Years. Look what your SUV did to my holiday. Mann-made polar vortex.  

If you are a government or academic climate scientist, you can (and will) use a variant of this trend line for graphing any and all climate phenomena.

One of my relatives was a top lawyer in Havana, when the Castro Taliban took over. He fled with his family and barely got out with his life, then spent the rest of his life working as a librarian at an … Continue reading →

At the summer solstice, Antarctic sea ice extent is near a record maximum, for the second year in a row.  The excess ice is by definition at low latitudes, meaning that it is reflecting a lot of sunlight back into … Continue reading →

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut Leading government experts say that the Arctic has been ice-free for over a year BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’

With a record blast of cold air forecast for the US on New Years, look for hucksters like John Holdren to try to blame the cold on non-existent “missing Arctic ice” Arctic sea ice extent is almost exactly at the 1981-2010 … Continue reading →

I wrote an app this weekend for visual, interactive image processing on a computer GPU. It took about 60 seconds to do all of the manual work to turn the image on the left into the image on the right. … Continue reading →