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
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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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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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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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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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Never mind the mighty fireball’s great flares and fluctuating cosmic rays ..read more
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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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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
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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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"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
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Although hidden from the public for years—hidden in plain sight yet invisible to most—a deep and dangerous conspiracy has been operating in America for generations, possibly since its founding. Only in the last few weeks has this pernicious conspiracy been brought to light by the brave actions of Henderick “Mort” Morton who founded a society at the University of Missouri to expose and combat the conspiring malefactors ..read more