February 2006

…For a human connection to climate change. This time, we caused the little ice age!

The Little Ice Age Linked to Black Death?

So maybe we just need to knock off a few more humans to bring about some cooling (and thus offset global warming). Since the left normally purports to be the leaders in such “progressive” movements, maybe we can track down some volunteers?

Wondering what is going on with the NAM and what the heck the WRF is? Well, some big changes are coming next month and clicking the image above will give you the lowdown.

Thanks for the link, JHC.

A new comet has appeared in the morning sky: Comet Pojmanski. It will be visible for several more days, including tomorrow morning. A sky map detailing it’s Monday morning position can be found here . Full details can be found at www.spaceweather.com

Michael Crichton has published what I believe to be an excellent critique of the religion of global warming in a speech given before the National Press Club in Washington, DC back on January 25, 2005 titled The Impossibility of Prediction.

Remember this graph?

It is probably the most frequently cited source for global warming data…yet is now largely disputed, as explained by Crichton.

Crichton brings into the discussion many variables which the mainstream media likes to neglect: solar variability, the urban heat island effect; to say nothing of the immense variability in the calculations and predictions of these long term forecasts.

Before we spend trillions on policy shifts as a result of these forecasts, I’d like to see a model, when set back 100 years, come close to accurately predicting the current state of the Earth’s climate. I’m not holding my breath.

Another new item that I discovered via Roger Edwards’ Blog which appears to be a great improvement on the old hardcopy met journals system: the Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology. This website offers faster publication and virtually immediate availability, while still meeting high standards via the traditional refereeing process of peer review. As put forth in their mission statement:

EJSSM offers open access… high standards for published manuscripts… active participation and debate of published manuscripts… and rapid dissemination of research results

See more at: http://www.ejssm.org/