The California Urban Heat Island Effect

Last week Anthony Watts had a post at WUWT in which he talked about a new effort to find out just how much the urban environment was affect...

ONI and individual state temperatures

The influence that sea surface temperatures have on land temperatures and climate is an ongoing debate, and I mentioned this somewhat in my ...

Regional US temperatures, the West, the Middle and the East

The relative changes in the temperature profiles between the Central States and those along the Atlantic Coast , begs the question as to t...

The rising number of earthquakes in America, not Iceland

This is just a short post drawing attention to a couple of things that are starting to look a little odd. The first was the subject of a po...

Natural gas shortages in the Southwest

The troubles with energy supply are not just confined to electric power blackouts in Texas. A shortage of natural gas in New Mexico has lef...

High Speed Rail - Europe and the American Election

It was President Obama who famously said, after the 2008 vote that “Elections have Consequences.” Well two years later that dictum still ap...

California temperatures, GISS USHCN, E.M. Smith and Anthony Watts

This is the day that I am going to look at the temperature records for California. It was the truncation of the number of stations in the ...

Looking back at 2009

This has been an interesting year to look back on. The change in the Administration and the difference in outlook that they bring to many o...

Trying to legislate technology

Over on Climate Progress there is a note on the 100th coal-fired power station to be cancelled or postponed in recent months. This one is ...

P62. Pick Points

Well after being told that we had to “Drill, Baby, Drill,” a Federal appeals court has" J ust Said No! ” It ruled that permits for off...

Cap and Trade

The Administration has stated that it is looking favorably at the concept of “cap and trade” as a way of controlling the generation of carbo...