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Class – here is what you need to know about climate models for your final exam next week. They can’t model future solar activity They can’t model future ocean cycles (ENSO/PDO/AMO etc.) They can’t model clouds They can’t model sea … Continue reading →

March 10, 2006: This week researchers announced that a storm is coming–the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “The next sunspot … Continue reading →

Temperatures are plummeting across the globe, but the models are heating up. They probably sense a threat to their funding with the new Congress, and are responding by generating even more nonsensical scenarios. http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=4052

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/tornado/tornadotrend.jpg Another bit of alarmist nonsense gets flushed. Violent (F3-F5) tornadoes peaked during the ice age scare of the 1970s, and have been declining ever since. The graph below plots the ten year running mean in red.

From The Korea Times, 18 months ago 04-08-2009 Although the new U.S. administration reportedly has yet to finalize its North Korea policy, its response is more than just puzzling. President Barack Obama handled what he termed the test-fire of a … Continue reading →

Joe Romm would be hysterical. http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-03-c1.pdf

Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail By Theodore Roosevelt we could not pull the boat up over the steep banks of rotten ice

UAH Channel 5 is reporting a temperature of 0K today. http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/ http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/

We don’t know what caused yesterday’s headache, but we do know that whatever it was did not cause today’s headache. If you don’t know what caused yesterday’s headache, how do you know it didn’t cause today’s headache? The consensus of … Continue reading →

Durant les années 1990, j’ai réussi une équipe d’ingénieurs à Meylan (Grenoble) qui m’a dit qu’ils ne pouvaient plus de ski dans les lieux où Jean-Claude Killy a gagné son hat-trick, due au réchauffement climatique. Peut-être que le climat est … Continue reading →