A Home That Heats and Cools Itself

Let’s all go back and do the Time Warp…. While cleaning out my email store, I found and recalled this article by David Pogue… A Home That Heats and Cools Itself Which discusses eco-friendly, and very literally green housing with relatively high tech designed log homes…. The grand prize ($25,000) went to something called the […]

Are Record Temperatures Abnormal?

Consider a hypothetical country with 1,000 top notch weather stations and the perfect unchanging climate (which our AGW friends imagine used to exist before they were born.)   During the first year of operations, every station will necessarily set a high and a low temperature record on every day of the year.   That is […]

Why Is The Sun Getting Dimmer? – No sunspots?

“The sun seems to have broken out of its traditional 11-year cycle, and in the process, made scientists suspicious by being just a little too relaxed and uneventful recently. What’s going on?” (View the rest of the article at io9 – Why Is The Sun Getting Dimmer? – No sunspots)

Are the ice caps melting?

Are the ice caps melting? • The Register: “PBEM The headlines last week brought us terrifying news: The North Pole will be ice-free this summer ‘for the first time in human history,’ wrote Steve Connor in The Independent. Or so the experts at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado predict. […]

New Milepost for Arctic Sea Ice Extent

Evidently the IJIS Arctic ice records are showing the highest levels since the last 7 years…. Two of the Arctic ice sites show April 16 ice at recent record levels.  The Japanese site IJIS has a seven year April record going back to 2003, and reports 2009 levels at the highest extent on record for […]