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15 June 2010

Nashville, Arkansas and Oklahoma Floods- Climate Connection?

I wrote a post awhile back (See TENNESSEE FLOODS- CLIMATE RELATED?) on the possible climate connections to the Nashville flood. Since then we have had another two major events.  One in Arkansas that killed 20 and just this week a deluge in Oklahoma City that caused all three major interstates to be closed and a day of rescues. As I said in the previous post, you cannot blame any one …

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Hottest May On Record- NOAA and NASA

NOAA and NASA both do an independent global temp analysis. NASA released their data a couple of days ago for May. The National Climate Data Center released their May data today. The extreme warmth in the northern latitudes is expected with warming from increased greenhouse gases. Northern areas will warm faster than areas further south for several reasons, among them the ice albedo feedback. Both indicate that May 2010 was …

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12 June 2010

Brian Cox on Exploration

Brian Cox was host of Wonders Of The Solar System on the BBC earlier this year. As I wrote in a previous post, the series was the first I have seen that surpassed Carl Sagan’s COSMOS. TED (Ideas Worth Spreading) invited Cox to make a talk on exploration. I do not even have to watch it to know that I should post it here. I cannot imagine that I’ll disagree …

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11 June 2010

The Noisy 11%

There was an article in the New York Times this week that surprised a lot of people. I was happy to see it but not really that surprised. It was a poll that asked the following questions: Yup, 75% of the scientific sample believe that the planet is getting warmer and humans are the cause. Considering what you hear on TV and especially on talk radio in America, that may …

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16 Dead in Arkansas Flash Flood (Updated)

There are many similarities to the flash flood that hit Montgomery County, Arkansas last night and the Big Thompson Canyon flood in Colorado in 1976. Both were National Forest campgrounds near streams. 145 campers died on 31 July in 1976 in the Colorado flood. The death toll now stands at 16 in Arkansas.  Some are still missing. What Caused It The flood was caused by what meteorologists call an MCS. …

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9 June 2010

New Images From Space Show a LOT of Oil

The images from the NASA Terra and Aqua satellites have at times shown the oil slick in the Gulf very dramatically. Today’s is one of the best I have seen. The sun angle was just right. You can also see a smoke plume at the very bottom. This is where they are burning the oil off the top of the ocean. (That seems very strange to have to write.) How …

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How Much Oil Is Really Leaking? Ask These Two People.

Ira Leifer and Steve Wereley. That’s who to ask. Leifer is a scientist at the Marine Sciences Institute at the Univ. of California Santa Barbara. He is an acknowledged expert on oil in the ocean. President Obama appointed both to the Department of Interior’s Flow Rate Technical Group. (Charged with accurately estimating the leaks magnitude.) Steve Werley is a coauthor of a text book about a scientific technique to estimate …

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7 June 2010

Scientific Literacy by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

A HUGE bow to Dr. Michael Tobis of Only In It For The Gold. He found this video and posted it. I am posting it too and EVERY person who blogs about science should post it as well. (Maybe I can start something here!) I have several heroes (Everyone should have heroes). Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman and Neil DeGrasse Tyson are all near the top. Sagan and Feynman are no …

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6 June 2010

The Most Polluted City On Earth and The Pacific Garbage Dump

A link on the CNN website lead me to a couple of must see videos. Both are by vbs.tv. The first is on the most polluted city on Earth. Linfen, China. You may not know it but about 1% of all air pollution in the United States is estimated to originate in China. It takes a lot of coal to make the electricity to run the factories that make all …

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5 June 2010

BP: No Subsurface Oil Plumes In Gulf- Wrong

There’s been a lot of talk about plumes of oil beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico. I haven’t said anything here or on air about it because  I wasn’t sure who was right. BP says there are not. Several sources in the media say they’ve been told there are. The evidence now seems pretty conclusive that there are indeed subsurface plumes of oil. Here is the evidence. Exhibit …

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