Minimum Publishable Unit (MPU)

Missing Heat Update Some of you may recall that I commented on NCAR looking for "missing heat" almost two years ago.  Here is a l...

Many of you have personally witnessed me get passionate about why I think anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a hoax.  Secretly, I think W...

Early this week, I experienced another "poke the monkey" episode (see the comment section). This time, my loyal commenter, Josh, ...

I received an email recently from one of my grad school buddies (who shall remain nameless) asking the following question: "When are yo...

Not too long ago, former Vice President Al Gore won an Oscar and shared a Nobel Peace Prize for telling the world that the earth has "a...

To anyone who is still dropping by this site let me say, "HOWDY!" I haven't posted for over a week because I just got back fr...

There is a country song by Dierks Bentley that goes something like "Well, I know what I was feeling, But What was I thinking?" Wh...

Over the last 15 years, I have taken the time to read lots of "science" related news stories, opinions, and blogs. Recently, I ra...

I saw this cover of Time magazine a couple of days ago and tried to start framing my thoughts about the serious problem that it represents. ...

Today (April 14), I went to work with frost on the ground, and yesterday it was below freezing when I got out of bed. I tend to HATE cold we...

I was reminded of a scene from Seinfeld when I read this article on the missing heat of global warming. The scene is one where Kramer and E...

One of my all-time favorite professors once told our class, "ALL models are wrong, but some are useful." He was basically letting ...

As a nuclear engineer, I use radiation physics codes quite a bit. We use the computer software to model radiation effects experiments, to p...