Friday, November 02, 2007

More Great Desktops

11 Great space shots of the Earth. If you click on them to enlarge them, they make great desktops. 

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Fashion SWAT

The Fashion SWAT is in force, busting lamers left and right. 

Global Warming Smackdown

One of the scientists who was awarded a Nobel Prize with Al Gore has refused it. Why? Because, he says:

Both halves of the award honor promoting the message that Earth’s temperature is rising due to human-based emissions of greenhouse gases. The Nobel committee praises Mr. Gore and the IPCC for alerting us to a potential catastrophe and for spurring us to a carbonless economy.

I’m sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never “proof") and the coincidence that changes in carbon dioxide and global temperatures have loose similarity over time.

There are some of us who remain so humbled by the task of measuring and understanding the extraordinarily complex climate system that we are skeptical of our ability to know what it is doing and why. As we build climate data sets from scratch and look into the guts of the climate system, however, we don’t find the alarmist theory matching observations. (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite data we analyze at the University of Alabama in Huntsville does show modest warming—around 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit per century, if current warming trends of 0.25 degrees per decade continue.)

It is my turn to cringe when I hear overstated-confidence from those who describe the projected evolution of global weather patterns over the next 100 years, especially when I consider how difficult it is to accurately predict that system’s behavior over the next five days.

Got that? This is what I’ve been saying this for years. Now an IPCC scientist says the same thing. It’s really common sense. GW alarmism is a scam. It’s good to see another scientist speaking out.

Those who claim the debate is over are liars. Point blank.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, the political clowns are trying to ram an anti-carbon bill down our throats. This would only be the start. Believe me.

1001 Lists

List mania dominates the blogs these days. They seem to be popular. Here’s 1001 lists to keep you occupied. 

Spock Ears?

Now you can get Spock Ears. As body mods go, its a lot better than this one. Brrrr.