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24 April 2012
Burning The Future- On PBS
I watched this documentary on PBS last night. It was very good. The trailer is below: The air-dates on local PBS stations is here. The science is overwhelming that we must quit burning coal, but as Upton Sinclair was right when he said that it is nearly impossible to convince someone of anything if their paycheck depends on it not being true.
East Coast Soaked By Nor-Easter
The 4km NOAA WRF Model did a pretty good job of forecasting the totals. The image below is from the Friday 00Z model run. Central PA. had 2-10 inches of snow out of this storm!
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.