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Adding Up Superstorm Sandy
Superstorm Sandy shows how climate change can add up. Climate change warms the oceans, evaporates more water vapour and raises the air temperature. All these conditions separately and together power stronger storms and also stronger storm surges, and the increase in water vapour increases the amount of precipitation that the storms drop. Climate change also […]
Climate Reality [video]
November 18, 2012
The folks who earlier auto-tuned Isaac Asimov and Bill Nye, the Symphony of Science and the Climate Reality Project, have now come back with an auto-tuned Al Gore. Couldn’t happen to a better guy. This video is not only musical. It also has some good advice and some good points to make. Well worth your three minutes. […]
Solar Microscopes and Phials Innumerable
November 17, 2012
Scientific Curios in the Chambers of the Poet Scientist Really I was thinking about Frankenstein, which has a good claim to be the very first science fiction novel. Mary Shelley who wrote it was the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. I was interested in Shelley’s own reputation as the scientific poet and came […]
Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility – In One Pie Chart
November 15, 2012
The following is a repost of an article from DeSmogBlog. The original may be found here: http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/11/15/why-climate-deniers-have-no-credibility-science-one-pie-chart Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility – In One Pie Chart By James Lawrence Powell. Polls show that many members of the public believe that scientists substantially disagree about human-caused global warming. The gold standard of science is […]
Mocha Dick, or the White Whale of the Pacific
November 12, 2012
A Tale of the Original Moby Dick From the era when whales were monsters, and their hunters were heroes. As they thought. The original story as presented below is not for the tender-hearted. It was a brutal era. Of course everybody is familiar, in one way or other, with the most famous of whaling stories, […]
The Hockey Stick Goes to Congress
November 5, 2012
The so-called “hockey stick” graph, displaying dramatic rises in the Earth’s temperatures over the last century, has been a major bugaboo for climate change deniers ever since it took a starring role in Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” As Mann points out in the following testimony before Congress, the focus on the original 1999 graph […]
November 29, 2012
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