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The Arctic is getting rather chilly, with temperatures over the entire ice pack ranging from 0 to minus 15ºC. Over the last few days, a lot of the remaining low concentration ice in the East Siberian Sea has melted out. … Continue reading →

Anthony reports on WUWT that geologists are being prosecuted in Italy for failing to forecast an earthquake. It is difficult to overstate how ludicrous this is. I can imagine that there would be many benefits to having superpowers, but geologists … Continue reading →

They may be missing half the earth, but they can still measure the earth’s temperature accurately to within one hundredth of a degree. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/05/google-galaxy-zoo-climate-project Climate scientists meeting in Britain this week hope to build a database to predict natural disasters … Continue reading →

Telegraph Image John Vidal writes in The Guardian : If Rajendra Pachauri goes, who on Earth would want to be IPCC chair? No future chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can ever feel safe if Dr Pachauri is … Continue reading →

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/07/03/a-sudden-change-of-state/ The IPCC predicts that sea levels could rise by as much as 59cm this century(2). Hansen’s  paper argues that the slow melting of ice sheets the panel expects doesn’t fit the data. The geological record suggests that ice at … Continue reading →

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A well-known Australian Muslim cleric has called for the beheading of Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, a newspaper said on Friday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100903/wl_nm/us_dutch_wilders Any one of the rest of us would be arrested for soliciting murder. Why is … Continue reading →

http://forcechange.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/smog-air-pollution-city.jpg The air and water quality in the US used to be awful. Cities were choked with smog. The plume from the Four Corners Power Plant in New Mexico was the most visible man made feature for Apollo astronauts. The … Continue reading →

The clock is ticking. Here are the current standings. Each ring represents 100,000 km² error. Place your bets.

Guardian Photo England 4 Bulgaria 0 Unfortunately, the match isn’t shown in the US until later today.

The 1990 Galveston Hurricane was the deadliest natural disaster to ever strike the US. It came on shore September 8, 1900 and killed somewhere between 6,000 and 12,000 people. http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/bigs/wea00589.jpg The storm surge was 15 feet high, which flooded the … Continue reading →