Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Via Gerard: The home page of Anthony Watts, a Chico, CA weatherman who’s been picking a bone on the whole global-warming-climate-change subject. His bone to pick is, get this: How are we taking these measurements?
Huh. Well…however you define “earth’s mean temperature,” which is what the whole argument is about — that figure, is nothing more than an average taken of these. So logically, the issue Mr. Watts has raised, can be no less important than climate change itself.
And the facts he’s managed to scare up, are probably more interesting than you might otherwise think.
One of the really odd discoveries that I’ve made while surveying climate monitoring stations around the USA is the fact that many of the official stations are located at sewage treatment plants…this picture comes in today from from surfacestations.org volunteer Steve Tiemeier, who visited the climate station of record located at the Urbana, Ohio Waste Water Treatment Plant:
The small item in the center of the picture labeled “MMTS” is the temperature sensor that is used to submit monthly climate reports to NCDC.
Now in case you don’t see some of the obvious problems with this location and why its a terrible place to measure temperature, I’ll list them one by one:
– Sensor is attached to the building, just mere inches away from brickwork
– Sensor is near windows, which radiate heat from heated interior rooms in winter
– Sensor is directly above effluent grates for waste-water, Waste-water is often warmer than the air many months of the year
– Sensor is between three buildings, restricting wind flow
– Sensor is between three buildings, acting as a corner reflector for infrared
– Several exhaust fans near sensor, even though one is disable, there are two more on the walls (silver domes)
– Air conditioner within 35 feet of sensor, enclosed area will tend to trap the exhaust air near sensor
– Sensor is directly over concrete slab
– Refrigeration unit nearby, exhausts air into the enclosed area
– Shadows of all buildings create a valley effect related to sunlight at certain times
– There are two nearby digester pools, which release heat and humidity in the sensor vicinity
– Heat and humidity plume over the site from digesters is often tens of degrees warmer than the air in the wintertime
Something to keep in mind, at least? Maybe to ponder next time you see a Climate Change Chicken-Little hautily scolding you that “The Science Is In On Global Warming”? You decide.
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Though some of Helen Keller’s ancestors have taken real jobs and are hard at work, perhaps a slacker or two are employed inside that facility. No offense intended to any of her true descendents, as the point I hope to have made was, that being so inhibited to the realities existing just in that small area, indicates the mind set required for employment of all the conspiracy theorists by the al-Goreacle dues yet to be paid members.
- forest hunter | 06/28/2007 @ 20:59