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11 February 2010
Read This Before Asking A Meteorologist What Happened to Climate Change
Trust me on this. Don’t email your local meteorologist and say something like “What do you think of global warming now with all these blizzards?” You will come across rather silly if not down right ignorant. Why? Let’s think about it for a minute. Consider a few things before we jump to the keyboard. My grandmother always said you can’t say something silly if you keep your mouth shut. Something …
The Strangest Telescope On Earth- Ice Cube
I had a tour last month of the world’s strangest telescope. Not many have seen it, much less taken the tour. Why? It’s at the South Pole. Only about 4,000 people have ever been to the South Pole. Most were there before construction began! It’s called ICE CUBE. A telescope in the shape of (and made of in reality too) a giant ice cube. I mean a big cube too. …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.