In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
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Sunspots Still Elusive
I last wrote about the lack of sunspots in September 2008. Now, seven months later here in April 2009, even NASA is raising a quizzical eyebrow as it releases a press release discussing what it describes as a very deep solar minimum. Despite the press release being dated 1st April, this is no April Fool. [...]
Rising Sea Levels
When the waters start to rise, how will coastlines around the globe be affected? A clever mash-up of Google Maps and NASA data gives a graphic illustration of what could happen if sea levels rise by up to 14 metres. George Murphy, who commented on my North Polar Meltdown post, asked if I knew of [...]
The Truth Behind ‘Cold Comfort’
The story was so outrageous, many doubted it could be true — “Hailstones shooting out the toilet? Nahh. Gotta be a hoax.” When I published “Cold Comfort” a few days ago, it stirred up quite a controversy. So I dug a little deeper. My original source for the story was a humorous item published in [...]
Cold Comfort
What sort of consequences will we have to endure if, as I suspect, our weather starts to turn really cold in the near future? Hopefully, none of us will have to go through this Austrian resident’s unsettling experience … “I was sitting on the toilet in my apartment,” Martin Bierbauer told reporters in Eisenstadt, “when [...]
Methane Gas: The Great Escape
It’s been talked about for years, and now it’s really happening — methane, a global warming gas far more deadly than carbon dioxide, is escaping from the Arctic seabed in vast quantities, adding to the atmospheric burden. What effect will it have on our planet’s climate? UK newspaper The Independent led with what it described [...]
Arctic Ice Melt: 2008 Just Misses The Boat
Having recently passed the period of maximum retreat, the Arctic sea ice melt this year just missed beating last year’s record — but there’s little to celebrate. On Tuesday 16th September 2008, BBC News reported that according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the ice covered 4.5 million sq km (1.7 [...]
Still No Sunspots
The current Solar Cycle — an indicator of the sun’s magnetic activity, which in turn is believed to influence our planet’s climate — is confounding astronomers by resolutely refusing to conform to predictions. There should be increasing numbers of sunspots blemishing the sun’s surface by now, but there are none. What does this trend indicate [...]
A Sunny Outlook?
Once again, the Sun’s influence on the current state of our climate has been called into question, with the link between incoming cosmic rays and global warming being refuted. Meanwhile, Solar Cycle 24 has got off to a grindingly slow start. Where have all the sunspots gone? Back in June 2007, I wrote about some [...]
When More Means Less
Recent news that Arctic winter sea ice bounced back to previous levels after an unprecedented summer melt prompted speculation that the global warming scenario had been exaggerated. Indeed, it’s been a surprisingly cold winter across much of the northern hemisphere — so is there really anything to worry about? Yes, says a new report backed [...]
There Goes The Sun
China’s coldest winter in 100 years, Baghdad’s first snow in recorded history, North America has the most snow cover in 50 years. Record cold in Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile … in the past 12 months, global temperatures have dropped so dramatically that a century of warming has been reversed. Why? [...]
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