Category Archives: Science/Engineering

The vast waters of Mars

Mars, it seems, for all its dust, airlessness and radiation, could be a livable place, after all.

Via the Seablogger.

Faulty climate models

Al Gore, call your office. Seems those allegedly "indisputable" climate forecast models lack a reliable estimate of the soil’s significant (but very slow) contribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide. Meaning global warming predictions are overestimated.

Via Hot Air.

MORE GLOBAL WARMING DEBUNKING: From, of all places, the U.S. Senate. 

“The science is beyond dispute…”

What a laugher. No science is beyond dispute. Dispute is what science does. Only a pol would say something so stupid.

Via the Seablogger.

Today’s pretty picture

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 A mosaic of astronomical images by Davide De Martin of Sky Factory, explained here. Via Bad Astronomy.

Attack of the carbon dioxide cult

Nevermind Barry’s cult of personality, it’s the global warmists we have to fear. The ones who want to remake our economy to resolve their notion of eco-pocolypse. Though Barry apparently will step up offshore drilling, he is also likely to back the EPA’s impending enforcement of carbon dioxide reductions (better hold your breath), and maybe buy up Detroit for the UAW to make teenie, weenie greenie cars. (Just so long as the Dems don’t require us to buy them.)

Meanwhile the Seablogger, freshly home from a blogged cruise to the Virgin Islands, sees perfidy behind the recent alleged NASA "blunder" in announcing October as the warmest month ever–when, in fact, it was one of the coolest. Anything to promote the Gorebot cult and Nancy Pelosi’s green "recovery," don’t you know. Big Media may get its long-touted depression yet if Barry and his party deepen the recession. At least we’d have the pleasure of seeing him voted out after one term. Or is he, perhaps, smarter than that? We’re going to find out.

Hubble snaps a planet

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The Hubble Space Telescope has made the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star: Fomalhaut b circles the bright southern star Fomalhaut, just twenty-five light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, the "Southern Fish."

The drought continues

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Hope you can read the key. We are only in moderate drought, which is unusual considering this has been the sixth driest January thru October, at 14.95 total inches of rain at Camp Mabry, since 1856.