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16 October 2009

September Heat- What an Image!

Thanks to my friend Joe Witte at NBC for the heads up on this picture. It’s a view of the September temperature anomalies worldwide. As my previous post pointed out, September was the second warmest on the instrumental record. The redder the image, the more it was above normal. The climate models have all predicted the Arctic will warm fastest. The reason for this is the ICE ALBEDO FEEDBACK . …

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15 October 2009

September Temperatures Second Warmest On Record

The global temperatures for September are out today from the National Climate Data Center in Ashville NC. The trend of very warm temps. world wide continues. The Summer of 2009 will go down as one of the warmest on the instrument record and on the proxy record going back over a thousand years. With the growing El Nino adding more heat to that being trapped by the record high levels …

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California Mud- It's just getting Started

This past week has brought some serious flooding to California. This could not come at a worse time with so many hills and mountains denuded of ground cover by the Summer fires. No ground cover means nothing to hold the soaked soil in place, and it will take even less rain than normal to start the famous mud slide season. Here in my part of the world, it’s almost as …

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13 October 2009

Happy Earth Science Week (and Canadian Thanksgiving!)

This week is Earth Science Week as the title of this post seems to suggest. Monday was also Canadian Thanksgiving Day, but a honey dipped from Tim Horton’s would be a lot better than turkey! NASA has released 6 videos in support of it. The theme this year is understanding climate. Based on some of the junk I have seen online recently, a lot of people don’t! For those who …

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11 October 2009

How To Interpret Weather Radar (A short course with no math!)

A SHORT HISTORY FIRST Weather radar is now a common site on any TV weathercast, and radar images are all over the Internet. It wasn’t really meant to be that way though…. Apparently, the first weather radar image of a dangerous storm shown on TV live was back in 1961. A Houston TV station sent a young reporter to Galveston to cover the approach of Hurricane Carla. It was a mean …

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8 October 2009

Rare Asperatus Clouds Over Osage County Oklahoma

I wrote a post awhile back about ASPERATUS clouds and the Cloud Appreciation Society trying to get them officially added as a cloud type by the World Meteorological Organization. Well, sometimes you run into some luck. Read on.. While visiting my Mother in Oklahoma on Wednesday, I decided to drive up to Woolaroc Museum near Bartlesville. It’s a truly beautiful drive across the prairie from Tulsa. Near the museum is …

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7 October 2009

What Do Climate Scientists Think About Senator Laughing Stock?

First of all, I write this from my hometown of Tulsa Oklahoma. I’m home because of a sudden illness in my family, and though I have not lived in Oklahoma in 25 years, it will always be home in my mind. That said, the national joke about Oklahoma used to be, and by all rights should still be, the roads. As my great uncle once put it after driving from …

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6 October 2009

Opportunity Knocks and A Meteorite Answers!

The Mars Rover Opportunity was designed to last 6 months. It’s still driving around Mars 5 years later! Both Spirit and the Opportunity Rover are still functioning, although Spirit is stuck right now in martian quicksand! In the last few weeks, Opportunity has spotted a couple of meteorites on Mars. Take a look at the pictures! This looks like an iron meteorite and seems to have the thumb prints that are common …

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5 October 2009

Is Climate Change Affecting Your Weather Now?? Yes

I have mentioned before the strange weather patterns recently and that a friend of mine at the Weather Channel has been looking into it in depth. It was Stu Ostro who first got me to looking at it from a climate perspective, and once he told me what to look for, I saw it showing up all over the place. You have to be careful about ascribing any weather event …

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4 October 2009

What Colour Is Mercury??

That sounds like a silly question, doesn’t it?. Just look through a telescope right? Actually if you think about it. Colours look different in different light, and when you are nearer or further for the sun than we are on earth, the light is definitely not the same. We also have an atmosphere of Nitrogen and Oxygen. This thin layer of gas  scatters out the blue light from the sun. …

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