Bits of Science / Roundup #1
Sights from a Field Trip in the Milky Way: From Paleoclimatology to Dark Matter
Gravity waves in rain clouds over the Arava valley
Spring weather here in Israel was rather strange. Although winter with most of its precipitation should have been over, we had a few very rainy days. We're now in the midst of a heat wave with temperatures as much as 20°C higher than just a week before. In between there was a nice gravity wave appear over the Arava Valley, the first one I have ever seen in a rain radar!
Dust Dendrites
My wife and I had our kitchen renovated aaa. Since this involved breaking a few walls (and cutting out a new window), we knew it would raise a lot of dust. Mind you, here in the middle east houses are built from concrete and concrete blocks, not wood. To minimize the dust annoyance (and damage), we decided to quarter off the living room from the kitchen by using large nylon sheets hung from the ceiling to the floor.
The worst of the BEST
I was asked by quite a few people about my opinion on the BEST analysis of Richard Muller and his group in Berkeley. Since I didn’t want to keep my friends without an answer, I took a more careful look into the analysis. Here is what I think of it.
There are two parts to the analysis. The first part is a reconstruction of the temperature over the 20th century. The second part includes analyzing this reconstruction and drawing various conclusions out of it.
Does the global temperature lag CO2? More flaws in the Shakun et al. paper in Nature.
Causes of Climate Change - Poll Results
The results can be summarized as follows.
First, the visitors of this site have the following background:
Background | Fraction (Votes) |
---|---|
Layman | 54.9% (232) |
General Scientist | 41.1% (174) |
Climate Scientist | 4.0% (17) |
On IPCCs exaggerated climate sensitivity and the emperor’s new clothes
Climategate 2.0
Why don't I believe the that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light?
"There is nothing new under the Sun" an article about 20th century global warming
Expert credibility in climate change?
A visit to Stromboli
The oceans as a calorimeter
I few months ago, I had a paper accepted in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Since its repercussions are particularly interesting for the general public, I decided to write about it. It's called, using the "Oceans as a Calorimeter to quantify the solar radiative forcing".