Lon Glazner, a fellow blogger and local electronics engineer made some comments about my post on the NASA/CSU study on California temperatures. Well that got me started…so below are Lon’s comments and my reply along with a fun technical challenge. For those of you that read this blog, but disagree …

I don’t know why I’m posting this other than its how I feel today.

An airliner traveling from Chile to New Zealand early today was in for an near miss from something you wouldn’t expect.

Flaming space debris the remains of a Russian satellite came hurtling
back to Earth not far from a passenger jet on its way to Auckland, New Zealand.
Here’s further proof …

Image: Average temperatures warmed in nearly all parts of California between 1950 to 2000. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cal State L.A Click for Larger Image
Average temperatures in California rose almost one degree Celsius (nearly two degrees Fahrenheit) during the second half of the 20th century, with urban areas leading the trend to …

For all those folks worried that a cell phone tower at the Elks Lodge or Hooker Oak Park is going to give rise to a legion of cancer ridden mutants, here’s another study that says “not likely”
March 26, 2007 (Reuters) —
Cell phone use does not appear to be associated …

I just completed my first meeting of the City of Chico Sustainability Task Force today and here are a few observations.
First, it seemed to be pretty well rounded, we had public and private sector, business, building industry, CSUC, and regular citizens represented by the 15 appointees.
Second, so far the focus …

Image above: Dubbed the “Swan” this X-ray image shows massive energy releases from the sun’s magnetic field, even while we are at the solar minimum in between sunspots cycles.
Last week, on the same day Al Gore was giving testimony to congress on made-made CO2 being the sole cause of Global …

Whew! It has been a busy week, with lots of things to report. So rather than
making a blog entry for each one I thought I’d condense them all into one entry
with links.
The emphasis this week seems to be on the sun, and the fact that maybe its
really the sun which …

In the UK Channel 4 produced a new documentary titled:
The Great Global Warming Swindle This is well worth watching, especially if you’ve ever doubted the veracity of such claims, no matter which side you find yourself on.
Through interviews with prize-winning climate experts and others, this masterful documentary explains …

Today I had to do a round trip drive to San Jose to inspect some video transmission equipment and back to Chico all in a few hours. Coming back, I was in stop and go traffic coming across the Benicia-Martinez Bridge (which is being rebuilt)which carries I-680 across Suisun Bay …