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Energy flow is driven by differences in energy, not absolute energy. If you have two objects at 100C, no energy flows between them. If you have two locations with equal pressure, no wind flows between them. A rock will not … Continue reading →

http://arstechnica.com/ If you run broken code on a million machines, does that make it any less broken? Logically, a warming climate would be expected to increase the rate of extreme weather events. Ahh. That explains why the climate is so … Continue reading →

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist18512009.txt The graph above plots number of hurricanes per decade (since 1851) vs. CO2 levels at the end of the decade. Like with tornadoes, as CO2 has increased hurricane activity has decreased.

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/tornado/tornadotrend.jpg

The worst years for tornadoes in the US were those where the GISS anomaly was between -0.3 and +0.2. http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/tornado/tornadotrend.jpg

How much does the use of markets as a decentralized social planning mechanism for economic life matter? How much richer are we because we live in a market economy rather than in a command-and-control bureaucratic economy? We are fortunate–if that … Continue reading →

After setting record lows last week, we set a record high yesterday. I blame both the bitter cold and yesterday’s Chinook down slope warming, on excess heat trapped in the atmosphere by emissions from your incandescent light bulb and pickup … Continue reading →

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzSuP_TMFtk] h/t to Scarlet Pumpernickel

http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/ So I followed their link to “some of the worst flooding in British history” http://www.pupilvision.com/yeareleven/rivers1.htm Apparently Time Magazine thinks British history began in 1970, which can’t be true. The Beatles and Rolling Stones were popular in the 1960s, so … Continue reading →

http://www.guardian.co.uk Apparently the Guardian prefers strip mining coal at Black Mesa and burning it at the Navajo Generating Station.