Earth and Planetary Sciences:
An absolutely stunning nightscape taken ten kilometers from Flagstaff (Arizona) just three weeks ago: the San Francisco Peaks covered with lenticular cloud with the Milky Way behind. All a testament to the status of the city as the first...
Posted on April 16, 2008 2:40 AM • 19 Comments
Phil Plait brings to my attention that John Archibald Wheeler died yesterday. As Phil says: John Archibald Wheeler was a genius, an amazing physicist who felt that teaching as well as research was important. His students included Richard Feynman, widely...
Posted on April 14, 2008 2:44 AM • 0 Comments
Via Phil Plait, this uber-cool false-color image of Phobos produced by HiRISE at the University of Arizona....
Posted on April 9, 2008 10:28 PM • 1 Comments
If you have problems with heights, this may not be the job for you. (via BackReaction)...
Posted on March 29, 2008 7:08 PM • 3 Comments
A report released today by the National Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization shows that while the globe warmed by an average of one degree between 2003 and 2007, eleven western states warmed by 1.7 degrees...
Posted on March 28, 2008 4:29 PM • 12 Comments
I was going to blog this later today, but now I see Tim over at Deltoid has beaten me to it, so I’ll post this without much comment. (Shakes fist in impotent fury at those damned Australians!) Like Tim, I...
Posted on February 8, 2008 2:29 AM • 5 Comments
This is what Pluto and Charon look like from 3,600,000,000 kilometers. The picture was snapped by NASA’s New Horizons probe which expects to flyby the planet in 2015. Expected future highpoints for the mission are: June 9, 2008 --...
Posted on January 26, 2008 12:11 AM • 0 Comments
Posted on January 6, 2008 2:14 AM • 0 Comments
Tim Lambert has already highlighted this, but since some of the affair played out on this blog ... John Mashey has posted an extended account of the Oreskes/Schulte affair [pdf]. Regular readers will remember that Naomi Oreskes publicly responded to...
Posted on December 9, 2007 2:24 PM • 0 Comments
According the Associated Press, the White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health. The testimony was cut from 14 pages to...
Posted on October 23, 2007 7:53 PM • 4 Comments
The following is posted on behalf of Naomi Oreskes: On September 3, I was contacted by Mr. Schulte, who asserted that statements made in my response - specifically that "The Schulte piece misrepresents the research question we posed," that "the...
Posted on September 24, 2007 11:28 PM • 0 Comments
Did Klaus-Martin Schulte plagiarize his response to Naomi Oreskes from Christopher Monckton? Looks like it. You be the judge. Is Monckton hanging around the comments of this blog, trying to scare people. Looks like it. You be the judge....
Posted on September 9, 2007 7:30 PM • 2 Comments
Following on from Oreskes' reply to Schulte, the endocrinologist replies with an open letter over at SPPI, a contrarian mouthpiece. Schulte notes: I drafted the paper because I had become concerned that patients were being perhaps unduly alarmed by media...
Posted on September 6, 2007 11:10 PM • 42 Comments
Naomi Oreskes’ reply to Schulte got me thinking about the journal Energy & Environment, which appears to be the climate science equivalent of Rivista di Biologia (more here on that particular turkey). The journal was founded in 1990 and it...
Posted on August 31, 2007 8:35 PM • 1 Comments
Historian Naomi Oreskes responds to claims by endocrinologist Klaus-Martin Schulte that her 2004 study of the climate change literature is outdated and wrong.
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Posted on August 31, 2007 1:50 PM • 45 Comments
Average number of 110+ degree days at Phoenix Sky Harbor per year by decade: 1950s: 6.71960s: 10.31970s: 17.01980s: 19.01990s: 13.62000s: 21.6 Notice a trend? No comment necessary. The record for the number of days in a year to reach at...
Posted on August 20, 2007 11:50 PM • 6 Comments
