Daily Archives: September 12, 2010

Following up on some work done by Roger Pielke Sr., I downloaded the UIUC Arctic data set and calculated the length of the melt season (date of minimum area minus date of maximum area) for each year of the satellite … Continue reading →

New ice is forming around the iceberg which broke off the Petermann Glacier last month. The entire region is also covered with fresh snow. Temperatures in the region are running below -5ºC.

Santa’s Workshop is looking cold and dark After a month of above normal temperatures, the weather has turned cold in the high Arctic again. Temperatures north of 80N have dropped to about -5ºC, which is near normal.

I’m betting on Spain to continue their unprecedented dominance of international sport this afternoon.

Hypochondria is an obsessive compulsive disorder where every real or imagined symptom is believed to be a sign of disease. Some people suffer a parallel condition with respect to the weather. Every hot,, cold, mild, sunny, cloudy, rainy, dry or … Continue reading →

Benjamin Franklin wrote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

When people have a stake in an unsupportable belief system, the only way to keep it going is to silence dissent. Communist governments do this because their system of governance defies human nature, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn documented.

The Cincinnati Area F5 tornado. April 3, 1974 A common fable of the AGW belief system is that global warming “increases the total energy in the climate system and causes more storms.“ There are a number of things wrong with … Continue reading →

http://www.newciv.org/Synergetic_Geometry/current.htm A standard high school science problem is to estimate the volume of an irregular solid. There are two ways of doing this.