An unusual paper has appeared in the journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change: Sunspots, GDP and the stock market Theodore Modis Abstract A correlation has been observed between the US GDP and the number of sunspots as well as between … [Read more...] about A Sunspot Correlation?
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That Sink-ing Feeling
This week's climate doom and gloom story comes from the unsurprising source of the University of East Anglia, reported in an unsurprising place - the BBC website: Oceans are 'soaking up less CO2' The amount of carbon dioxide being absorbed by the … [Read more...] about That Sink-ing Feeling
Lyssa macleayi
If this spectacular moth had a common name it would almost certainly be the Night Citrus Swallowtail. Previously known as Nyctalemon patroclus, it has since been re-affirmed as the formerly identified Lyssa macleayi. The compound eyes of many … [Read more...] about Lyssa macleayi
A Man’s Got To Do What Mann Won’t Do
Thanks to Willis Eschenbach for the amusing spoof 'reconstructed' photo of Michael Mann. No doubt many blog readers will be familiar with the infamous 'Hockey Stick' graph, which used 'proxy' reconstructed temperature data up to 1980, grafted onto … [Read more...] about A Man’s Got To Do What Mann Won’t Do
Turning Pink into Green
More Global Goreing I'm afraid: Rethink Pink - The marketing to Women Portal … [Read more...] about Turning Pink into Green
A Response to Team Gore: 35 Inconvenient Truths
A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine “errors” in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to … [Read more...] about A Response to Team Gore: 35 Inconvenient Truths