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16 May 2011
NOAA- 35th consecutive April with Temps. Above 20th Century Average
NASA GISS has this April as the 4th warmest. The oldest continous instrumental record in the world is that from a station in Central England. This past April was the warmest April in the entire 353 years of that record! (That record started in 1659!) Image below courtesy UK MET Office and Tamino at Open Mind. and up in the North… Happy Monday!
26 April 2011
We Don’t Want To Believe What We Know
This TED talk is a must watch. It speaks for itself.
10 April 2011
Weekend Climate Tid Bits
It’s been an interesting week or so in the climate science arena with papers on climate change in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters and Nature. Then there’s that study put together by Dr. Richard Muller to “check” the temperature rise that NOAA/NASA and the Hadley Centre (UK Met. Office) have reported. If you’re still in the rapidly dwindling group of those who think we are not facing a very …
29 March 2011
When Dealing with Climate, Perception and Reality are Sometimes Very Different
Was it a bad winter? Ask someone what kind of winter we have had here in the Eastern USA and you will probably be told it was brutal. Same for last winter as well, with the record breaking snow storms in Washington DC and the heavy snowfalls in the UK as well. Scientific reality, however, can be quite different from perception. Dr. James Hansen at NASA has put together a …
4 March 2011
Glory Not To Be- It Crashes into the Pacific.
The failure of the Glory launch today is not just bad news. It’s a catastrophe for earth science; Especially American earth science. The failure of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, (OCO-on the same type of launch vehicle) and now this are going to set back critical research into the the Earth’s energy balance severely. I went over to REAL CLIMATE written by NASA Climate Scientist Gavin Schmidt and he has a …
3 March 2011
February Arctic Ice Ties 2005 for Lowest On Record
The decline in Arctic sea ice continues. Image from NOAA-NSIDC. The National Snow Ice Data Center released updated ice data today and the decline continues. The average ice cover in February was 14.36 million sq. km. This ties with February 2005 for lowest recorded in the month. The ice over the last year has continued to track at, or below, the all time record low year in 2007. The …
16 February 2011
Despite What You Saw on Twitter- January 2011 was 17th Warmest.
The National Climate Data Center released the January temp. anomalies today. In spite of the cold and snowy January in the Eastern USA, it was the 17th warmest on record. The global sea temps. were the 11th warmest on record. What is really eye catching is the intense cold in Central and East Asia. The weakening La Nina, in the Pacific, is also to be seen along with the intense …
15 February 2011
What is it about climate change that makes smart people say silly things?
I am constantly amazed at the number of smart people who make a right turn into a brick wall when it comes to climate change. There are plenty examples and they all have one thing in common. They usually come from well educated people, (with a science background) who repeat myths about climate change that they’ve read or heard. If they took the time to research the claim they are …
28 January 2011
Far off Galaxies and Hockey Sticks of Arctic Plankton-Lots of wild science this week.
It’s Friday, and there has been some really fascinating science news this week. So here is a quick summary of what caught my eye (and links to find out more about it). In A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY First, is the announcement in NATURE that the most distant galaxy known has been detected. It’s 13.2 billion light years away, and since the Universe itself is 13.7 billion years old, we …
26 January 2011
While The U.S. Shivered- Amazing Arctic Warmth
NASA released an image today that shows just how strong the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) was in January. The warmth in the Canadian Arctic and parts of Greenland was amazing. (So was the snow in the Southeast USA!) Also, notice that extreme East Russia seems to have the highest anomalies. This is also typical of a strongly negative NAO. The negative phase of the NAO was …
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.