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Revisiting Wood’s 1909 Greenhouse Box Experiment, Part II: First Results 26 Aug 2013 | 05:23 pm
In Part I of this series, I mentioned how Wood’s (1909) “greenhouse box” experiment, which he claimed suggested that a real greenhouse did not operate through “trapping” of infrared radiation, was pro...
Revisiting Wood’s 1909 Greenhouse Box Experiment: Part I 23 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
Much is made in some circles of R.W. Wood’s 1909 experiment which supposedly “disproved” the “greenhouse effect”. As we shall see (below) the experiment reported on in the literature has only cursory ...
On the Cloud Thermostat Hypothesis 22 Aug 2013 | 07:21 pm
Over 20 years ago, Ramanathan and Collins (1991 Nature, “RC91″) advanced what became known as the “Thermostat Hypothesis”, relating to how cloud formation over the tropical Pacific warm pool limits ju...
Does a Greenhouse Operate through the Greenhouse Effect? 12 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
One of the oft-cited objections to the term “greenhouse effect” is that it is a misnomer, that a real greenhouse (you know, the kind you grow plants in) doesn’t work by inhibiting infrared energy loss...
UAH v5.6 Global Temperature Update for July, 2013: +0.17 deg. C 2 Aug 2013 | 11:45 pm
The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2013 is +0.17 deg. C (click for large version): The global, hemispheric, and tropical LT anomalies from the 30-yea...
Big Bird at the North Pole 26 Jul 2013 | 11:01 pm
Last week, I was looking at the North Pole webcam imagery available as a time lapse video here. You can see the formation of meltponds on the ice in the last couple weeks, and then in the last few day...
Senate EPW Hearing: “Climate Change: It’s Happened Before” 19 Jul 2013 | 07:21 pm
OK, so yesterday’s hearing really was entitled, “Climate Change: It’s Happening Now”. I like my title better. In this exceedingly rare photo of me actually cracking a smile, note my subliminal shout ...
From Chemtrails to Flying Saucers 11 Jul 2013 | 01:32 am
I’ve been receiving more e-mails than usual asking about chemtrails, the supposed clandestine spraying of chemicals by jet aircraft, so I thought I would talk a little about the issue. I was at a tow...
UAH v5.6 Global Temperature Update for June, 2013: +0.30 deg. C 9 Jul 2013 | 09:31 pm
After 10 days in Michigan’s U.P. for my 40th high school reunion, here’s the belated monthly global temperature update. We added two satellites to the processing, Metop-A starting in 2007 and NOAA-19...
Update on EnviroMission’s Arizona Solar Tower Project 27 Jun 2013 | 06:46 pm
Yesterday I spoke with EnviroMission President Chris Davey to get an update on the progress of the first, large-scale solar tower (aka solar updraft tower, or solar chimney). EnviroMission is progress...
