Archive for March, 2007

2007 Hurricane Season Forecast: Media Frenzy »

Here we go again…another forecast for an “exceptionally active” hurricane season. Last spring, similar forecasts were touted following the horrific 2005 hurricane season. But what went largely unreported regarding last year’s hurricane season was how quiet it ended up being and how horribly incorrect those forecasts were. Obviously we have yet to […]

Crazy Ideas to Combat Global Warming? »

Crazy indeed. This AP report (Crazy ideas to combat global warming) needs to be saved so that people can laugh even harder when they look back at how bonkos this country has become for global warming:
Crazy-sounding ideas for saving the planet are getting a serious look from top scientists, a sign of their fears […]

On Solar Variability and Global Warming »

It appears as though solar variability is gaining some mainstream media attention in being cited as a likely impetus for terrestrial climate change. But for confirmation of this, scientists have now begun to look beyond the Earth to other areas of our solar system. Most recently, research on the climate of Mars has […]

Study: India, China polluting US weather »

As the economies of India and China boom at a much faster rate than that of the US (with more technology and higher populations than the US had during it’s industrialization), the pollution they are producing is unparalleled:
Silicon Valley, Mar 7: Pollution from China and India is affecting the weather in America, especially the […]

Mount Washington: A Meteorologist’s Paradise »

150 to 200-mph winds … snowfall accumulations measured in feet not inches … high temperatures below zero … all in a day’s work for meteorologists atop New Hampshire’s Mount Washington observatory. Peak’s extreme weather could blow you away is the headline of a recent wire story on the fascinating conditions encountered atop this peak […]