Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
clipped from www.reuters.com
Czech President Vaclav Klaus sharply criticized a U.N. meeting on climate change on Tuesday at which U.S. President Barack Obama was among the top speakers, describing it as propagandistic and undignified.
“It was sad and it was frustrating,” said Klaus
“It’s a propagandistic exercise where 13-year-old girls from some far-away country perform a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
clipped from climatesci.org
he fact that trends in thermometer-estimated surface warming over land areas have been larger than trends in the lower troposphere estimated from satellites and radiosondes is most parsimoniously explained by the first possible explanation offered by Santer et al. [2000]. Specifically, the characteristics of the divergence across the datasets are strongly [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
clipped from www.noaanews.noaa.gov
NOAA: Summer Temperature Below Average for U.S.
The average June-August 2009 summer temperature for the contiguous United States was below average – the 34th coolest on record, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. August was also below the long-term average. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
clipped from wattsupwiththat.com
we’ve reached a 30 year low in Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) which is a measure of global hurricane activity.
The actual number of tornadoes so far this year is only 850 compared to the previous three years, all above 1000. 2008 saw 1691 tornadoes in the USA, almost double. The three year [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s tough finding outlets when you are censored.
clipped from media.www.vainformer.com
Dr. James Hansen, NASA climatologist and major figure in the debate on global climate change, recently refused a paid invitation to speak and debate at the College about his positions on global warming. Braum Katz (‘09) — secretary for the College’s Department of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Paging Al Gore…
clipped from arxiv.org
The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the
traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which
is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious
mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an
environment that is radiatively interacting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mine’s down.
clipped from www.tennesseepolicy.org
Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month
Gore’s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite “energy-efficient” home renovations
“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
clipped from www.foxnews.com
Sarah Edwards worries about the gasoline she burns, the paper towels she throws out, the litter on the beach, water pollution. She worries so much, it literally makes her sick.
“Fear, grief, anger, confusion and depression,” Edwards says, pointing to the negativity that has manifested itself in real-life symptoms such as neck and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
clipped from www.aei.org
Listing the polar bear as a threatened species would have significant public policy consequences. It would set a new precedent, representing the first linkage of species endangerment with global warming. Such a listing would basically wall off the entire Arctic region to exploration, resource extraction, and development–at least by U.S. companies–and a threatened [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
clipped from www.ncdc.noaa.gov
UNITED STATES
Climate Summary
April 2008
The average temperature in April
2008 was 51.0
F. This was -1.0
F cooler
than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the
29th coolest
April in 114
years.
The temperature trend for
the period [...]
