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30 November 2009

Watch This Video Before Saying Something Silly On Twitter.

Potholer54 is his handle on you tube. He’s a Geologist who also worked as a science correspondent for two decades. Recently he  has produced some truly great videos (based on real peer reviewed science) about climate change. They illustrate  just how silly and ridiculous some of the online “climate change is a- hoax!/conspiracy!/ one world government/communist plot” web sites are. Potholer  released another one this weekend. This one covers yet …

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28 November 2009

My First Post on Biology-Dedicated to Matilda June Hinklemeyer

The Wild Wild Science Journal concentrates on Earth Science. Some very good reasons for this. 1. I know enough about it to not make a total fool of myself. (most days and I have an MS in Earth Sciences). 2. I like the field, and run across interesting “stuff” often enough to write a fair amount of posts. 3. Meteorology, which I have the most training in (BS Meteorology 1981 …

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27 November 2009

Top Climate Science Course- Online and FREE!

David Archer at the University of Chicago teaches an excellent course based on his book UNDERSTANDING THE FORECAST. If you read this site regularly, you will know that I have highly recommended that book several times. The course is for NON science majors who want an understanding of the science behind the IPCC reports. Basic math only (and that’s really enough to have a very good understanding of what is …

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26 November 2009

Who Do you Believe: Thieves or Peer Review?

Note: The images in this post are not related to it. They are from a new update on Climate Science published jointly by a large group of climate experts. It’s based on the most recent published papers and is an unofficial, but peer reviewed update of the last IPCC report. I think they match well with the subject of this post. Hopefully they will make the point I’m trying to …

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25 November 2009

I'm Heading To The Bottom of The World!

I’ve been keeping a big secret. Way back in August I had a call from a friend  who works at the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) in Washington, DC. She asked if I’d heard that the National Science Foundation was opening up applications for science reporters to visit Antarctica. In case you have never looked into the logistics of going to the South Pole, let me educate you! I have. Oh, have …

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150 Years Ago Today- The Book That Changed Science

It was an idea that did nothing less than revolutionise Science. It all started 150 ears ago today when Charles Darwin published the famous book “On The Origin of The Species”. It’s always amazed me how few people have read it. I suspect that very few of those who still criticise it have. Almost everyone who has read it, thinks it’s genius and wonders why no one thought of it …

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23 November 2009

Kudos to Meteorologist/Professor Scott Mandia

Sometimes it takes someone not in the forest to make the best sense of it. Most of the climate researchers ignore the junk those of us who work in media hear everyday. The widespread dissemination of this pseudo science is why I and several of my friends in meteorology have decided to blog on Climate Science on a frequent basis. Scott Mandia has produced an excellent presentation he takes to …

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The Polar Pumpkin

Every pilot, me included, has often wondered the same thing. It usually happens when flying on one of those beautiful autumn days when you can see the end of world from the cockpit, and the sky is a deep blue. What we wonder is this. Just how far could I go if I had the money to buy the fuel. How far could I go, if I got some extra …

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19 November 2009

Yet Another Independent Confirmation of Warming

In Science, one piece of data, even if it’s conclusive is never the whole story. A consensus is not likely unless there are multiple independent sets of data that all point to the same thing. The age of the Earth is a good example. There are dozens of independent methods of estimating the age of our small spinning fragment of solar driftwood. (I stole that line from Orson Welles by …

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18 November 2009

Where The Clouds Are…

Nasa has released an interesting image of Earth. It’s a composite of hundreds of images of the Earths clouds. No borders have been added. Just clouds. Where there are clouds most of the time you see gray. In places where the satellite saw clouds some of the time, but not often, you get a blue gray and areas where the satellite saw almost no cloud in any of the satellite …

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