Quark Soup by David Appell

A commenter recently wrote that "...Greenpeace et. al., used to tell me not to trust government science, now Greenpeace et. al., tells...

From Peter Sinclair :

If you want to see what the fuss about light field cameras is about, click on any part of the picture below, and watch that spot come into ...

One more point for Albert The leaders of the experimental group OPERA that announced the faster-than-light neutrinos have stepped down a...

Canada will take their penny out of circulation at the end of this year*. It costs 1.6 pennies to make each penny, so the move will save...

I was reading about Kari Norgaard, Climate Depot's Daily Pillory, who teaches at the University of Oregon. This kind of thing doesn...

I was going to write about this month's raw satellite temperature measurements for the lower troposphere from UAH, and "predict...

Got this in the mail..... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: GM Officially Pull...

A new study suggests it's not Republican's brains after all. An article by Gordon Gauchat in American Sociological Review finds ...

A new Gallup poll finds that the average American currently ranks environmental concerns 12th out of 15, above terrorism, illegal immigrati...

I started reading Will Happer's recent piece in the WSJ -- the man should be a farmer, becasue he is quite the cherry picker! "W...

So what is the natural rate of temperature extremes? Here's what I was thinking about the chances of finding extreme weather events so...

And here are more important points on extreme events, from a recent article in EOS by John M. Wallace: Claims that the severity of heat w...

I meant to write more about extreme events but I haven't yet figured out exactly how to say what I want to say, so in the meantime here ...

Lest I get branded a skeptic or denier, let me take a moment to review where I'm coming from: My mention of Anthony Watts mother was ...

I've read most of the new paper by Coumou and Rahmstorf in Nature Climate Chang e ( "A decade of weather extremes" ), and it...

So just in time a new paper has come out that finds an increasing trend in extreme weather events. I haven't read it yet and it'...

Besides the short length of my records, another problem with my earlier calculation of the probability of a certain 7-day extreme in heat o...

Some people think I was unfair to Bill McKibben the other day . I think perhaps I was, somewhat, but I can't go all the way from "M...

Dick Cheney finally gets a real heart. It's too bad this didn't occur decades ago -- it could have saved hundreds of thousands o...