As a confessed bug man (see Gut Check for a recent example) I couldn't pass on this one. Microbes, it is safe to say, are sadly neglected in most discussions of climate science. . . All our food is produced in alliance with complex communities of the organisms, as are many other life-sustaining mate...

2008 - A TIPPING POINT? An email from David Whitehouse [me@davidwhitehouse.com] In a few weeks the data will be in on the global average temperature for 2008. Although one should always be wary about assumptions regarding data (the December data hasn1t been measured yet) it does seem highly likely t...

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NASA'S Hansen "adjusts" temperatures to promote warming alarmism By Meteorologist Art Horn Recently I was looking at some graphical temperature data from NASA. I was able to find a graph of United States temperature from 1880 up to 1999. I then went to the NASA GISS site and found the most recent pl...

CALLING THE WEST'S GREEN BLUFF An email from Richard S. Lindzen [rlindzen@MIT.EDU], Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA The developing world early realized that carbon control was a ploy to constrain their development into meaningful competitors. Now they ...

I posted this in the What's Your Purpose section as well, but I thought it would reach a wider audience over here.  When actually submitting the essay, I'd include a paragraph tailored to the school I was applying.   Feel free to let loose . . .no hard feelings.  I am interested in st...

UPDATE: Pielke pretends this argument is about science (Scroll to bottom of post for corrective.)   Hurricanes respond to their immediate environment, not a global average increase in heat! - Roger A. Pielke Sr. You can tell that science and good judgment are going out the window when writers s...

Desperation time: Forget Global Warming -- The Oxygen Crisis Threatens human survival A brand new scare. The lack of warming and the collapse of the agw fear machine is leading to new causes. We may soon see the creation of a new UN IPOC - Intergovernmental Panel on Oxygen Crisis. The author of the ...

9pm, i'm still in the lab, sitting in front of my laptop. working. last night i got home around 1.30am, took a shower, drank a cup of hot chocolate, took out formal clothes for today's meeting with UN's secretary general. and went to bed around 2.30am. i woke up at 8.15am. had breakfast and headed t...

Most media attention may be on Mars these days, but luckily for us (and the species as a whole) NASA is smarter than the average news network, and can actually look at more than one thing at a time.  As well as the "red planet" they've got a probe surveying the "insanely roasted ...