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24 September 2008
The Oregon Institute of Silly Poppycock
We started a series of on air stories on common climate chnage myths tonight. I submitted the idea to my News Director in late August and gave her several ideas. She thought the one about the Oregon Institue of Science and Medicine would be a good start. I work with some very, very talented journalists, and photo editors. They are very good at taking the Science I write, and repackaging …
23 September 2008
I Expect A Thank You for This!
If you read this journal often, then you must have the same fascination with Science as I do. Trust me when I tell you that the mathematical beauty and wonder of the universe is just as wondrous as the part we can see. There has been and still is a revolution going on in Physics. It is a difficult subject with a firm knowledge of Calculus required to grasp the …
17 September 2008
2008 Now Second Lowest for Arctic Ice
I mentioned a few weeks back that we were very close to matching last year’s record low in Arctic ice. The ice usually reaches it’s greatest melt back the first week in September. The data is in ,and we just barely missed breaking another record. 2006 is now the second lowest on record. More, and more of the ice researchers believe we have reached the tipping point. Once we pass …
13 September 2008
All This on a Cat 2. Houston Was Just Another Warning
Something has certainly messed with Texas. Everyone knows who- Ike. Ike was only a category two hurricane, but the flooding was, and still is, significant. Hobby airport in South Houston had gusts to 96 mph. Over 2.8 Million are without power. In an area where everyone lives in air conditioning, there may be quite a few casualties of the heat over the next few days. Imagine if this had been …
10 September 2008
So Long Little Red Corsica
About 5 years ago the TV station I work for decided to auction off some of it’s older vehicles. One car in particular had a very troubled past. A 1995 red Corsica. It seems that one time the steering wheel came off in a reporters hand while driving down the road. Then the transmission fell out of it as well. All those things were fixed and with 120,000 miles it …
3 September 2008
Two Must Read Articles In The NY Times
Andy Revkin the science writer at the New York Times has an interesting article on Arctic sea ice today. The ice reached a new record low last September and is approaching the same level again this year. You should realize that the ice cover is disappearing at a much faster rate than the IPCC models have been forecasting. Now, a majority of scientists who study the ice, feel that we …
1 September 2008
More Trouble Brewing In The Mid-Atlantic
Looking at the satellite imagery this evening is a scary prospect. Hannah is now a hurricane east of the Bahamas. The numerical weather prediction (NWP) guidance brings it into Savannah or S. Carolina as a minimal hurricane by Friday afternoon. A new tropical storm has formed in the middle of the Tropical Atlantic. This system looks very healthy, and is now named Tropical Storm Ike. I suspect it will become …
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.