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I’ve been a busy boy this past month.  Not did I help setup a turf-grass experiment site on campus with two portable weather towers, I have nearly completed the 10m permanent weather station tower on campus and setup a live weather-data server. Here’s what’s going on behind the scenes. The station is connected to the [...]

Today the UTM permanent weather station reached its final height of over 10 meters (about 35 ft.). Here are some photos of the progress so far. Below is the first photo I took today, after we had assembled the bottom two sections of the tower.  The third section of tower lies beside it and the [...]

Once the iPad launches, I’ll be launching my first App, The Quiz Game. Students and teachers are sure to go batty over this!

If you’ve been looking for some good sites for climate change information, here is a list to get you started.  If you’re on an iPhone, there’s now an app that can help, too. Skeptical Science – List of skeptics’ main arguments and the science in support and against. How to talk to a climate skeptic [...]

Click each image for more details. Today’s National Forecast: Mixed Surface Analysis: SPC Overview: Local Radar: Today’s Predominant Weather: Watches and Warnings: Precipitation Forecast Loop: QPF: Tropical Weather: Local Conditions:

A recent article in the BBC News claims that Global Warming has stopped in recent years.  In fact, they claim, that there has been no warming over the last 11 years.  Meanwhile, CO2 emissions continue to rise, and climate scientists steadily posit that the climate continues to warm due to greenhouse gas emissions.  So what’s the truth? [...]

Today, a new post on Realclimate.org debunks yet another pseudoscientist claiming to have found the cure to all of our global warming blues. Read the article here. Of all the blogs I read, my favorite and most trusted (and also voted top Science Blog of 2005) is RealClimate.org. One role that they have played in the recent [...]

A new study by Halevy et al. published in the Journal of Geophysical Research (Vol. 114, D18112, doi:10.1029/2009JD011915, 2009) uses radiative transfer theory to demonstrate that higher levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses in the early Earth and Martian atmospheres limited the amount of infrared radiation that is able to escape the planets’ atmospheres. It’s [...]

For the tiny portion of the global population that still thinks that Global Warming is a hoax that Al Gore and some liberal scientists are proposing to make a few bucks, I swallow back some harsh words and will try to patiently offer some data for you to peruse. (I will try not to compare [...]

Glaciers are responding to climate change in ways that we have expected for decades. The only difference is the speed. Around the world, glaciers are retreating at rates that are unprecedented, and previously deemed impossible. Thanks to some amazing time-lapse photography and an incredibly talented group of scientists, photographers, a large dose of ingenuity, and their [...]