OK, given the apocalyptic hype over global warming climate change climate fluctuations, this is downright funny: Lloyd’s of London warned yesterday that an absence last year of natural disasters or man-made accidents was putting pressure on firms to reduce premiums in 2008. The world’s oldest and biggest insurance market said that though the lack of […]
[UPDATED 03/27/08 — some additions and a few corrections] Of course, I’m talking specifically about “anthropogenic [human-caused] global warming” (AGW), the cause célèbre of the Environmental Left. Here’s the short answer: because I have a degree in computer science, I’ve done professional work in simulations and modeling, and I’ve had classes in numerical analysis (not […]
(graphic from Wikipedia showing normal sunspot activity) Our wonderful local star, the sun, is a active middle age star. Stars are unimaginably huge, and live billions of years. They are in essence gigantic nuclear furnaces, in essence a continuous hydrogen explosion kept in check by the massive size of the star. Sunspots are areas on […]
Yes — we are having a full-blown thundersnow storm even as I type this. Mind you, no snow at all was forecast for tonight, at least not here in the front range (the plains east of the Rockies here in the Denver area). But we’ve had a full inch or so of snow fall in […]
From What Bubba Knows: If only the anthropogenic global warming data looked half this convincing… ..bruce w..
A few weeks ago, a British newspaper — the Newquay Guardian — carried a story about a Great White shark being sighted off the coast of England. This report, of course, was immediately cited a further evidence of global warming, as these 15,000 Google hits demonstrate. Turns out that the picture was a hoax, or […]
Our house faces Pikes Peak, some 50 miles to the south, so I can personally attest as to the significant amount of snow on it as we approach June. But here’s the article: Last May, Teresa Taylor was watching climbers pad up to the summit of Pikes Peak in shorts and sneakers. This year, she’s […]
Of course, I blame Bush: As seen in Figure 1, Neptune has been getting brighter since around 1980; furthermore, infrared measurements of the planet since 1980 show that the planet has been warming steadily from 1980 to 2004. As they say on Neptune, global warming has become an inconvenient truth. But with no one to […]
You think I’m kidding? Snow is falling, with wind gusts >30 mph. Nothing is sticking so far, but if I can trust the weather forecasters (who don’t have the best track record, frankly), we could see 6″ to 12″ of snow by tomorrow morning. Personally, I blame Bush. ..bruce..
Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Global Warming Global warming – one of the great questions of the year, and maybe of our generation. The press is giving the topic a wide amount of coverage, and most of the headlines are grabbed by modern day prophets of doom. People proclaiming to be […]
