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2 May 2010
Amazing Flood Event In Tennessee. Climate Related??
Mobile homes floating down I-24 in Tennessee on Saturday. That is something you don’t see every day. It was an amazing and tragic event. Five deaths and many people are homeless and many more have flooded homes and businesses. This was a lot more than a 100 year flood. Nashville weather records go back over 120 years and there has been nothing like this before. (Update: Chris Darden of the …
3 April 2010
TV Weather People and Climate Change
A lot of TV weather people avoid talking about climate change on air. There are multiple reasons for this. Among them are the fact that the person you see doing the weather on TV in many cases does not know that much about science. (Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to stop some from saying some really silly things.) The number one reason is the political overtones involved in it. This is …
31 March 2010
Summer Time Blizzard Hits the UK
Just last Sunday the UK switched their clocks ahead one hour for “Summer Time”. North America went to Daylight Time two weeks ago. So imagine the surprise when heavy snow warnings were issued from the Met. Office and snow began to fall across much of Scotland and Northern England. It’s just been a crazy winter. Unseasonably cold in the UK and the Northeast USA.You can blame El Nino for much …
22 March 2010
NASA & NOAA- Despite what you heard, it's still getting warmer.
I spent the weekend reading a new paper that is about to be published by 4 of NASA’s top climate researchers. If you follow climate research closely, then it is no surprise. The planet continues to warm and no, it has not stopped. Hansen et.al point out that this recent warming occurs at a time when the sun has been very quiet and in a phase that should be causing …
17 March 2010
A Selection of Good Science Online This Week
There are some fabulously well written blogs and excellent science sites online. I have never done a post of the best that I have come across before, until now! So below is a sampling of sound science writing that got my attention this week. I love astronomical time lapses and Amanda Bauer in the UK has a great one. Tavie Greiner and Rob Keown have a post on International Sidewalk …
5 March 2010
A Potent Reminder That Scientific Facts Live Independent of Public Opinion
Two very notable publications in the clmate science world as we head into the first weekend of meteorological spring here in the Northern Hemisphere. One is a surprise to just about every climate researcher and not in a good way. The other may surprise some in the public but is not at all surprising to those who follow the real science closely. The big surprise first. A major finding is …
28 February 2010
The Two Most Powerful Images of Climate Change
Almost EVERY email I get from those who think climate change is a hoax or a conspiracy to take their gun has a mention of Al Gore in the first paragraph. Usually in the first sentence! It’s actually helpful. Nothing I say or write will make any difference, so I can use my time to better purposes. Has Al Gore helped or hurt getting the message out? Without doubt he …
28 January 2010
What May Be The World's Most Important Science Project – A First Hand Account
Chaz Firestone accompanied Ann Posegate and I to Antarctica. He is a native of Toronto, and was part of our group the NSF took to Antarctica. Weather prevented Ann and I from getting to the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet drill site named WAIS Divide. Chaz and Lee Hotz from our group did make it. They were caught there by weather too. Chaz is former editor of the Brown University newspaper. …
27 January 2010
Last 10 years Warmest Decade on Record-NASA GISS
It comes as no surprise to those who follow climate science but NASA announces this week that the first decade of the new millennium was the warmest on the instrumental record. Gavin Schmidt of NASA GISS is one of the worlds top climate experts. He has the answers to some common questions about the temperature record here. The National Climate Data Center in Ashville, NC and the Hadley Centre in …
16 December 2009
What would you ask a polar scientist?
Earth Gauge has a nice press release out today about my trip to Antarctica with Ann Posegate of the National Environmental Foundation (NEEF). We would love to hear what questions readers would like to ask the scientists working at the bottom of the world. You can email me at [email protected] Students of any age are especially encouraged to ask, and I will be taking an experiment on hydroponics with me …
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.