Monthly Archives: January 2012

Atmospheric CO2 levels rise during the southern hemisphere summer, and fall during the southern hemisphere winter. Explain why. http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

Periods of low sunspot counts correlated with high wheat prices. ……. http://books.google.com/books

Someone named Dikran Marsupial has been posting massive amounts of FUD on this site in the last few days. He has dragged a discussion of atmospheric physics to the planet Mercury, which does not have an atmosphere. On another thread he … Continue reading →

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CLIMATE & ENERGY The heat trapped by global warming equals 1 million Hiroshima bombs a day 1 “The radiative forcing of the CO2 we have already put in the atmosphere in the last century is … the equivalent in energy … Continue reading →

For years now, our clueless friends from the other side have been complaining about me using the ideal gas law to explain temperatures on Venus. Had they ever actually taken a course in atmospheric physics, they would realize that they are completely … Continue reading →

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl According to HadCRUT, temperatures are about half a degree warmer now than they were 160 years ago. I think the data set is nonsense, but or the sake of argument, let’s assume that it is correct. How does it compare to … Continue reading →

Climate change presents us with a pressing challenge. A global consensus accepts that human activity is responsible for climate change and its associated dangers. http://oilprice.com/ If humans are responsible for climate change, that means that the climate didn’t change before … Continue reading →

Climate change may shrink wheat crops Tuesday, January 31, 2012 » 06:20am Wheat crop yields could shrink as a result of more intense heat waves due to global warming, scientists say. Current projections based on computer models underestimate the extent … Continue reading →

Ronald Reagan said “Tear down this wall.” That was the good old days.  Bill McKibben’s band of Bolsheviks is back – purging people who don’t share their psychotic, delusional self-serving belief system. The hallmark behavior of Soviet and Chinese communists. The Forecast the … Continue reading →