You know, for as much as we humans think we really have control over our planet, nature tends to remind us from time to time that we are just flyspecks in the vastness of space and energy. Take for example the amount of energy we get from the sun: 174.0 …

A new USC study shows that Deep-sea temperatures rose 1,300 years before atmospheric CO2 rose, ruling out the greenhouse gas as driver of meltdown, says a study in Science.
Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past …

Above: Earth in comparison, size wise to common sunspots
The Christion Science Monitor had a detailed article recently that brought in a surprisng source – NASA GISS – an entity that seems firmly entrenched in the AGW- CO2 theory of climate change. Here are some excerpts from the article:
Researchers say they’ve …

I’m working on porting over to a new blogging platform. So there may be a delay in new content here. I’m trying out some ideas and themes, and it is looking promising.
When it’s all done, the URL will be announced. Stay tuned. Thanks to all who gave me feedback.

As you may or may not know, this blog has taken off with big traffic increases as of late.
While the traffic has been an indicator of success, unfortunately, keeping that success gets to be more and more time consuming. This blog platform is hosted on Moveable Type version 3.2, which …

It’s been awhile since I updated this series, and its not for lack of material. But I got busy with the UCAR conference, publishing a slide show, and other things. But this morning, ber volunteer Don Kostuch sent me a note on his latest survey in Titusville, FL near Cape …

From Slashdot.org The Wall Street Journal has a sobering piece describing the research of
medical scholar John Ioannidis, who showed that in many peer-reviewed research
papers ‘most
published research findings are wrong.’ The article continues: ‘These flawed
findings, for the most part, stem not from fraud or formal misconduct, but from
more mundane misbehavior: miscalculation, …

9/29/07 UPDATE: We are still waiting on Mr. Steve Bloom to answer this question: “Why is positive bias imparted in USHCN adjustments?”
He incorrectly asserts that he has been “banned” from this blog. Not true. Once he answers this question, that answer along with whatever else he has to say …

An odd twist has developed in the past week regarding some data sets that surfacestations.org volunteers have been using to look at individual stations. The data has changed on NASA’s GISS website with no notice whatsoever.
My first indication that something changed came from surfacestations.org volunteer Chris Dunn who wrote to …

With 33% of the USHCN weather station network now surveyed, the site quality rating is now applied, see the USHCN Station Master List file in HTML and XLS format.
The rating system for site quality was borrowed verbatim from the new Climate Reference Network being put into operation by …