Category Archives: weather

Computer Climate Models — A Masochist’s Best Friend

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

A new paper out of Duke, Stanford, and the Environmental Defense Fund, promises that California will have a hard time fulfilling its carbon sequestration targets if climate keeps changing at the terrifying pace it has of late. Using computer models … Continue reading →

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I, Al Gore, Will Control Your Mind … Errr, Gimme a Minute, Just a Minute More, Wait!

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

Al Gore’s Current TV is not having an easy go of it. With its Italian version shuttered in 2011, it now appears a virtual certainty that Current will also go off the air in the UK early this spring. Spun … Continue reading →

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Al Gore, Nowhere to be Found

Posted on January 8, 2012 by

Among the curiosities to be found in the Climategate e-mails: Not one is addressed to or from Al Gore. One would imagine that someone with his finger on the pulse of climate science would occasionally communicate with a climate scientist. … Continue reading →

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Stone Cold Irony

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

The post below appeared in The Providence Journal of February 8, 2012. In putting together my book on manmade global warming, I found myself bathing in irony more or less continuously. Below is a list of climate ironies in 2012: … Continue reading →

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Will the Ponds Freeze in Rhody This Year?

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

I originally started this blog to discuss “climate change” and local weather and hoped that people would join me on both topics. Truthfully, I have neglected local weather stories, so here is a little one. Entering winter every year in … Continue reading →

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Giving Shape to Phantoms

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

What follows is the second excerpt from my new book, Don’t Sell Your Coat, which can be purchased as a paperback on Amazon here. It will be available on Kindle, iPad, and Nook by New Years. The excerpt is from … Continue reading →

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Introducing: Don’t Sell Your Coat

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

What follows is an excerpt from my new book Don’t Sell Your Coat, available here: I want to examine the moral component of meteorological journalism. As I mentioned near the beginning of this book, I used to be an avid watcher … Continue reading →

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Gimme Shelter

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

1. Among the most powerful human urges is to seek shelter. 2. The belief that human beings can, or soon will, control the weather emanates from this urge. 3. With every year that passes, more people and a higher percentage … Continue reading →

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The Good Old Days Are Right Now

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

A major strain of global warming theology looks back on a colder, snowier past with misty eyes. Some of this comes from the fact that those looking back, including RFK Jr., are simply remembering being outdoors enough to appreciate nature, … Continue reading →

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Carbon Profits Inc. – Errr, Reuters!

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

Anyone looking at the state of carbon trading, which is collapsing, who comes away with the sense that this is just a growing pain on the way to a meaningful global system has to be suffering from a form of … Continue reading →

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