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21 February 2010
The State of Science in America
I usually don’t link to magazines, but this cartoon by Tom Tomorrow in Salon is pretty much how most scientists see things now. You can’t blame them either. Thanks to Joe Romm at Climate Progress or the heads up on this.
20 February 2010
January Global Temps 4th Warmest On Record- NOAA
The National Climate Data Center (NOAA) has released the January global temperature data. January 2010 is the 4th warmest on record globally. What is more interesting is that looking at ocean temps. alone it was the second warmest on record. Only 1998, with it’s very strong El Nino, were the oceans warmer. As I mentioned in the previous post, the heavy snowfall events of the past 6 weeks along the …
17 February 2010
Thomas Friedman's Worth A Read and a Short Note
I’ve had no posts the last few days because my sister and I buried our mother yesterday. I am certain you will understand. It will be a few days before I get back up to speed. There’s a very good piece in today’s NYT on the climate science issue. It’s well worth a read. So instead of my writing you get to read a true professional at it. Click the …
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. …
7 February 2010
Some Context to The Historic East Coast Blizzard
If you live in the Northeastern USA or Western Europe you are living through a very historic winter. Same for those living ,where I write this tonight, in Tulsa Oklahoma. Snow, snow and a lot more snow. Baltimore is buried under at least two feet tonight. What’s causing it? The Arctic Oscillation. (AO) It also goes by other names. Older forecasters like myself prefer the NAO for North Atlantic Oscillation. …
6 February 2010
Yale Climate and Media Analysis of IPCC Glacier Mistake
The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media have a very good piece on the now famous IPCC error on how fast glaciers in the Himalayas are really melting. An interesting (perhaps) sidebar is that I saw this number of 2035 quoted, and assumed it to be a typo. I thought that what was really meant was 2135. I wonder how many others made the same assumption and thought …
4 February 2010
The weather question of the month- and the correct answer.
It’s been a cold and very snowy winter in the Eastern USA and in Western Europe. Very likely the worst in 30 years. All that snow and cold has resulted in a very common question to every meteorologist I know and that certainly includes me. Same for every person involved in climate change research too. WHAT HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING?? First of all most people in the climate and weather …
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.