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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Wind Power Found Dangerous

From The Onion:


In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit
Posted by Steve Scolnik at 1:36 AM
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://xkcd.com/556/

-M

July 1, 2011 at 3:42 PM
CapitalClimate said...

Indeed!

July 1, 2011 at 4:03 PM

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    10 years ago
  • The Weather Channel - Weather Blog
    Climate Lottery- Fall 2014 Contest
    8 years ago
  • USATODAY.com - The Weather Guys
  • Wonk Room: Climate
    The Battery Miracle Is Just Getting Started
    8 years ago
  • Wott's Up With That?
    Jury finds in favor of Michael Mann in defamation lawsuit against Mark Steyn, Rand Simberg
    9 months ago
  • WSJ.com: Environmental Capital
    So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish
    14 years ago
  • WSJ.com: Storm Tracker
    Officials: Galveston Not Ready for Habitation Yet
    16 years ago
  • Yale Environment 360
    As Ocean Waters Warm, a Race to Breed Heat-Resistant Coral
    20 hours ago
  • Yale Forum on Climate Change and The Media
    Watchdog Group Obtains Kerry Climate Emails: “Plans off Paper”
    2 years ago

Climate Tutorials

  • American Institute of Physics:
    The Discovery of Global Warming
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research:
    Weather and Climate Basics
  • Pew Center:
    Climate Change 101: Understanding and Responding to Global Climate Change
  • NASA:
    Global Warming
    Polar Sea Ice
  • National Snow and Ice Data Center:
    Snow and Ice Education Center
  • National Academy of Sciences:
    Understanding and Responding to Climate Change
  • Univ. of Chicago (David Archer):
    Global Warming : Understanding the Forecast
  • Univ. of Chicago (Ray Pierrehumbert):
    Physics of Climate
  • MIT OpenCourseWare:
    Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy
    Past and Present Climate
  • NERC (UK):
    Climate change challenge
  • UK Met Office:
    Climate change - the big picture
  • New Scientist:
    Climate change: A guide for the perplexed
  • Guardian (UK):
    Q&A: Climate change
  • Oxford University:
    Basics of Climate Prediction
  • Physics Today:
    The physics of climate modeling
  • BBC:
    Climate scepticism: The top 10
  • Skeptical Science:
    Hottest Skeptic Arguments
  • Gristmill:
    How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
  • Society of Environmental Journalists:
    Climate Change: A guide to the information and disinformation
  • A Layman’s Guide to the Science and Controversy:
    The Global Warming Debate

Crackpots, Nutcases and Bloviators

  • IceCrap
  • Junk Yard

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Washington DC 2009 seasonal cooling degree days: -4.0% (Aug. 31)
Washington DC 2010 seasonal cooling degree days: +48.6% (Jul. 16)

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  • Weather Underground
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Bucket O' Bookmarks

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  • 0000 GMT (7PM EST) Surface
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  • 1800 GMT (1PM EST) Surface
  • Infrared satellite (Unisys)
  • METAR data
  • MOS Forecast
  • Forecast discussion
Super Models:
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  • GFS 00Z
  • NAM 12Z
  • NAM 00Z
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