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Get NASA Back On Track

Posted on May 2, 2015 | Leave a comment

A House of Representatives Committee approved a bill designed to make NASA the only governmental body doing space research and development.

“Today’s bill is a step in the right direction to ensure that NASA will continue to innovate and inspire,” stated Chairman Lamar Smith. “The Authorization levels for FY16 and FY17 included in this bill provide NASA with the resources necessary to remain a leader in space exploration in a time of tight budget realities. For more than 50 years, the U.S. has led the world in space exploration. We must restore balance to NASA’s budget if we want to ensure the U.S. continues to lead in space for the next 50 years. And we must continue to invest in NASA as the only government agency responsible for space exploration.

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Solar Cycle 24—Ending February At Low Activity

Posted on February 28, 2015 | 1 comment

Solar Cycle 24 activity is relatively low as the month of February comes to a close. On February 27, only three visible Sunspot clusters could be seen. Solar Cycle 24 International Sunspot smoothed number for February 2015 looks like it will be about 65.

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CO2 Causes What? Part 3–Greenhouse Effect

Posted on January 28, 2015 | Leave a comment

The Sun generates the energy that warms the Earth. The Sun’s extreme surface temperature (In the range of 9900 F (5500 C) results in the emission of electromagnetic radiation. (ER) The ER most obvious to us is sunlight. But in addition, gamma rays, X-rays, and Ultraviolet are emitted and reach the Earth. This ER is called short wave because the wave length (crest to crest) is in meters 0.0000007 or shorter.

The above illustration shows the range of ER. All the way from Gamma rays to Radio waves. The most energetic are those from the Sun. In one second, light can travel 299,792kms (186,000 miles). All ER travel that same distance in a second. The difference between x-rays and radio waves is the amount of energy each contains. The shorter the wave length, the more energetic it is.

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2014 As The Mildest Year: Why You Are Being Misled On Global Temperatures

Posted on January 22, 2015 | 1 comment

The most recent posting on this site was a discussion of why the year 2014 has been misrepresented as the “hottest year ever”. A broader examination of this claim is made in Dr Roy Spencer’s blog titled: “2014 as the Mildest Year: Why You are Being Misled on Global Temperatures. OR: Why I Should Have Been an Engineer Rather than a Climate Scientist.” Here is an excerpt from his posting:

“Reports that 2014 was the “hottest” year on record feed the insatiable appetite the public has for definitive, alarming headlines. It doesn’t matter that even in the thermometer record, 2014 wasn’t the warmest within the margin of error. Who wants to bother with “margin of error”? Journalists went into journalism so they wouldn’t have to deal with such technical mumbo-jumbo. I said this six weeks ago, as did others, but no one cares unless a mainstream news source stumbles upon it and is objective enough to report it.”

Dr Spencer, a climatologist, is the Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Spencer’s posting in its entirety: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2015/01/2014-as-the-mildest-year-why-you-are-being-misled-on-global-temperatures/

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2014: The Year That Wasn’t The Hottest

Posted on January 19, 2015 | Leave a comment

It is truly amazing that no major US media outlet managed to challenge the recent NASA/GISS statement that 2014 was the warmest year ever. There was no equivocation in the US media about that being the truth. And they quoted “scientists” that said this proved that man-made global warming was an unarguable fact.

A UK media organization took the time to read the presser and concluded that the leader of NASA’s GISS organization needed to be challenged. The upshot is that GISS’s Director Gavin Schmidt, according to the DailyMail.com “ has now admitted NASA thinks the likelihood that 2014 was the warmest year since 1880 is just 38 per cent.”

Wow, perhaps it could be said that it is 62% unlikely to be the warmest year ever.

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NASA Satellite:Highest Levels Of CO2 In Southern Hemisphere

Posted on January 3, 2015 | Leave a comment

A new NASA satellite finds the highest levels of atmospheric CO2 in the Southern Hemisphere. One would have expected the highest levels over the Northern Hemisphere where the highest concentration of fossil fuel use occurs. This result is the first publication of the satellite’s measurements so it may be an anomaly.

NASA provided the following “Average CO2 Concentration Oct 1 to Nov. 11, 2014” chart:

Note the scale on the bottom of the chart, that ranges from 387 to 402.5 ppm atmospheric CO2. As you can see the more red the coloring on the chart the higher the CO2 level. Roughly the red begins about 400 ppm. The reddest areas are over South America, Africa, Indonesia, China, the Northern Pacific East of Japan and the Southern Pacific East of Australia.

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Posted in AGW, CO2, Earth from Space, fossil fuels, Geothermal Energy, Global Temperatures, NASA/GISS, Ocean heat content, Tectonic activity

IS SOLAR CYCLE 24 GOING ROUGE?

Posted on April 25, 2014 | Leave a comment

What is going on with Solar Cycle 24? It began with a whisper and until recently, it continued that way. It peaked at international sunspot number(ISN) of 66.9 in February 2012 and many thought that would be the high for Solar Cycle 24. But wait, a second peak formed and the question is, when will it stop growing? Best guesses say that the peak will be somewhere around 80 (ISN). NASA says: “Many cycles are double peaked but this is the first in which the second peak in sunspot number was larger than the first.”

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Mars Rover’s First Birthday Celebration At NASA

Posted on August 14, 2013 | Leave a comment

On 5 August 2012, the NASA Curiosity Rover landed on Mars. NASA has provided several videos to commemorate Curiosity’s yearlong exploits. The first video condenses 12 months of images taken in “rover’s eye view” down into two minutes:

Click here 12 months in 2 minutes

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Joe Bastardi Says Obama’s Energy Policy Based On Easily Disproven Assumptions.

Posted on July 24, 2013 | 3 comments

Joe Bastardi, Chief Forecaster at WeatherBell Analytics LLC says that the EPA has based the Administration’s energy policy on three easily disproven assumptions. In Bastardi’s posting “Evidence That Demands A Verdict” he list the following:

There are three lines of evidence the EPA uses to back their environmental policies.

Greenhouse Gas Trapping Hot Spot Theory.
The so-called unusual rise in GAST (Globally Averaged Surface Temperatures).
Assumed validity of climate models, used for policy analysis purposes. (See, for example, SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION, INC., ET AL., Petitioners, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, ET AL. Nos. 12-1268, 12-1269, 12-1272.)

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Time To Talk Temperature—May 2013 Global and Sea Surface Update

Posted on June 10, 2013 | Leave a comment

The source for this posting comes from work done by Dr Roy Spencer. His web site can be accessed by clicking here.

Satellite Measured Atmospheric Temperature Anomalies.

First the University of Alabama –Huntsville (UAH) satellite global temperature anomaly. The May anomaly dropped to +0.074 C from April’s anomaly of +0.103. The global temperature anomaly in January 2013 was +0.504 which was the highest temperature since early 2010. This chart below covers the time period that the satellite system has been in existence. By contrast with the ground based temperature measuring systems, the satellite system is essentially global in that it is measuring lower atmospheric temperature of the ¾ of the globe represented by the oceans as well as the ground. It is the gold standard of global temperature measurements in my opinion. (Click on Charts to Enlarge.)