Quark Soup by David Appell

So awhile back I hypothesized that the probability of extreme temperatures increases exponentially when global temperatures increase linear...

One way climate change is certainly making the Houston flooding is because because sea level is rising. That increases the height of storm s...

Sorry, but there's one more eclipse-related topic I need to get out of my system. As we were watching last Monday's eclipse, from ...

I've seen three things in my life that didn't look real -- the Grand Canyon, Crater Lake, Oregon, and today's total solar eclips...

This was the best I could do with my unfiltered iPad. Totality was almost dreamlike.... The whole park cheered at the diamond ring.

A painting of a solar eclipse as seen from the moon, from space illustrator Pat Rawlings, was  published at TheAtlantic.com. Rawlings paint...

From the mysterious confines of my refrigerator's freezer:

The eclipse is only two and a half days away, and the weather forecast for Salem, Oregon is looking good for Monday. My biggest stressor i...

GISS's global temperature anomaly for July was the warmest July in their record, albeit only by 0.01°C, so technically it's a stati...

Every year, global sea ice extent -- the simple sum of Arctic SIE and Antarctic SIE -- has two maxima. The first, lower maximum, usually o...

The denier blog No Tricks Zone was sure , almost seven years ago, that global cooling was coming. They even compiled a list of 31 scienti...

On July 30th the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by David R. Henderson and John H. Cochrane, whoever they are , two economists at t...

It's supposed to be 107°F here again in Salem -- that was yesterday's high, a record -- and on top of that there is noticeable haze ...

....in Salem. Normal high is 84 F.

The ocean heat content (OHC) for the 2nd quarter of 2017 has just been published, and it shows strong warming from a year ago. Data: 0-7...

I mean, come on people. Via LASP .

Oregon Dept of Transportation says traffic could be congested in Oregon for up to a week, on I5, the major north-south route here. Glad I...