Author Archives: Tony Heller

(KITTREDGE)  As spring flirts with our eager spirits, it’s sobering to realize that we’re still deep in Lent. Lent starts 40 days before Easter, which this year is April 24, almost as late as possible. Easter is dictated by a … Continue reading →

http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/ People used to understand that before the age of global warming enlightenment.

Cool. Sea ice is now part of the tundra! http://www.metro.co.uk/ NASA explains how these cracks form. Lots of people think of the Arctic as just a flat expanse of white. This couldn’t be further from the truth. There are all … Continue reading →

Wind power’s impact on wildlife has long been a sticking point when it comes to the renewable resource’s development. Ever since the Altamont, California turbines went up in the late 1970s, bird kills have been highlighted as the best reason … Continue reading →

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ More on Clarinda, Iowa. The blue line is the measured thermometer data. As you can see, the 1930s was very hot there. The red line shows temperatures after USHCN adjustments. The Dust Bowl is gone, through the magic of … Continue reading →

How do you reduce the debt? Stop spending. If you lined up that many dollar bills end to end, they would make it well past Jupiter and Saturn.

We keep hearing from leading experts that spring snow cover is on the decline. The graph above plots week 13 (the most recent published) since the start of records in 1968. What is clear is that there was a sharp … Continue reading →

April 7 – heavy snow in the forecast. http://www.weatherstreet.com/data/SPC_012.jpg

The webcam view from this morning. Salon reported that Hansen predicted Manhattan would submerge by 2008, but reader Tony Duncan claims that was a mistake and that Manhattan won’t actually be flooded for another 18 years.

We know we want to bomb someone, we just aren’t sure who yet. Last week we were bombing civilians in Pakistan. Probably Bush’s fault. http://www.voanews.com/