Massive swarm of earthquakes, small scale evacuation. El Hierro island, Canaries

Spanish National Geological Institute in Spanish showing the extreme activity, been thousands. Article in Wired magazine science “Evacuation of smallest Canary Island begins after earthquake ‘swarm’ sparks fears of volcanic eruption” — Daily Mail, UK newspaper I expect this item will interest those working on a CME or planetary alignment linkage with earthquakes, or in [...]

Sun has a flare for X rated movies

Image credit Catania sunspot group Stanford WSO daily magnetic. Latest is here As I expect sunwatchers are well aware the sun is going through a highly active phase, throwing out CME and X-class flares.

Roger Andrews: Sea level reconstruction from tide gauge data and a match with SST

Roger Andrews has computed an annual sea level time series which is mentioned in the previous thread. I’ve plotted the data so that it can be shown. “Last year I constructed a relative global sea level rise series between 1900 and 2010 from scratch using 328 unadjusted tide gauge records from the PSMSL data base. [...]

Temperature leading sea level

Recent Internet talk about lead/lag, ocean and so on tripped me into doing a quick rework of the temperature vs. sea level finding. This is of course all conjecture. I’ve extracted what some might call a principle wave component from both datasets and these are very similar. As models I can time shift trivially. All [...]

High confidence in faster than light?

News is emerging from CERN / Grand Sasso of the results from a three year experiment where neutronos are sent from CERN to Grand Sasso, Italy, 730 km southeast. They think the neutrinos arrive 60ns too early. Reuters article Opera experiment page at Gran Sasso (in English, follow current and Opera) EDIT: news item from [...]

Cloud albedo: what does it respond to?

There has been much discussion recently about clouds and feedback. The Spencer and Dessler debate, and the blog hosted science being done around the issue has captured a lot of attention. Let’s take a look at the primary cause of the change in temperature over the last few decades. This graph is put together from [...]

Al Gore: 24 hours of consenseless nonscience

Al Gore went to war All on an autumn day He gave us his facts And turned on his acts To scare the denialists away

Bart: Cloud feedback is negative – ocean response is around 4.88 years

I’m not sufficiently up on stats to really understand this, but I’m collating the relevant comments from Climate Audit and Roy Spencers site here, because it looks important, and moderation at CA seems to be impeding the flow of the conversation so it has become disjointed. Is there anyone with a voice in these matters [...]

Bill Illis: Clouds account for most of the variability in net radiation at TOA

Over on the Spencer Good, Bad and Ugly response to Dessler 2011 thread on WUWT, Bill Illis quietly drops this little bombshell: Bill Illis says: September 10, 2011 at 10:11 am While we are having no luck finding a good correlation between clouds and temperatures in a feedback sense (the scatters are providing r^2 of 0.02) [...]

Strange discrepancies in co2 measurement

The Japanese GHG measuring satellite GOSAT has been measuring GHG’s in the atmosphere since 2009 http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/05/20090528_ibuki_e.html The website is here: http://www.gosat.nies.go.jp/ The levels they are measuring for co2 seem to be a bit lower than results at Mauna Loa: Here’s the Mauna loa reading: and here’s GOSAT’s animated data over the last couple of years: