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6 February 2017
The Graph The Daily Mail Does Not Want You To See
The Daily Mail says that NOAA is manipulating the climate data! No, really? That’s certainly a first for them. NOT. Here is a graph they published as proof. Now, there is just one tiny problem, well actually, there are a bunch of them. The Hadley (UK) data is based on an average from 1961-1990 while the NOAA data they plotted is based on 1901-2000. The baseline choice does not make …
A Whole Lot of Honkin Going On!
While driving near Snow Hill, Maryland today, I came across a real spectacle; thousands of Snow Geese. Were they loud you ask? Let’s just say there was a whole lotta honking going on! I had my Canon 5D with me, so I jumped out and grabbed the pictures above/below. The Eastern Shore of Maryland and all of Delaware are an east coast birders paradise, so we’re used to seeing a wide variety of birds. The …
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.