Watts Up With That
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Blog by Anthony Watts. I'm a former AMS certified (Seal 676 retired) television meteorologist who spent 25 years on the air and who also operates a weather technology and content business, as well as continues daily forecasting on radio, just for fun. Here you will find News and commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology and more.
Watts Up With That
7h ago
these questions are less about climate science and more about the climate of our national discourse ..read more
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11h ago
Laws protecting Koalas and "the magnificent brood frog" have prevented a renewable energy company from clearing 500 acres of native vegetation in the Australian tropics ..read more
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14h ago
I can only assume that the scientific community’s silence on the subject is because politically driven energy policy goals are driving the science, rather than vice versa ..read more
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23h ago
In a fit of self-loathing, the European Union has begun to destroy the economic engine that pays its bills. Some of this is well known, but some is not, and it will astonish you ..read more
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1d ago
This is indeed a crazy idea, but it would be a mistake to assume it is not being seriously considered, and for all the wrong reasons ..read more
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1d ago
Never mind the mighty fireball’s great flares and fluctuating cosmic rays ..read more
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1d ago
Earth Day Director of Education and former Montgomery County Public Schools Education Head Bryce Coon wants to build even more climate awareness into the education system ..read more
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2d ago
But how do we actually know, and how much do we actually know, about historic and prehistoric temperatures? In this Climate Discussion Nexus "Backgrounder" video John Robson examines the uses, and abuses, of various temperature proxies ..read more
Watts Up With That
2d ago
A move back to primitivism is also foreshadowed by a recent United Nations report which suggested building using mud bricks, bamboo and forest ‘detritus’. It might be thought that mud and grass huts will hardly be enough to deter unfriendly foreign hordes that hove into future view on the horizon ..read more
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2d ago
"Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness." — James Wilson (1790 ..read more