Comet Lovejoy was only discovered in the last month. Given that its path got very near the Sun, everyone thought it would burn up. The following video tells the story (so far)….
Posts Tagged ‘science’
In Search of Energy Innovation Role Models
We have compelling reasons to drive for clean, cheap energy, but we lack the technology to get there today. Threats of climate change, national competitiveness and energy security (OK, “clean, cheap, domestic energy”) all contribute to the urgency of this innovation challenge. Given the scale of the challenge, coupled with the dire consequences of not [...]
Sustainability: TNG
The theme of the weekend was the next generation of sustainability leaders. Tom Friedman led off with an excellent op-ed on the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search. Meanwhile, I got a look even farther into the future at the Alcott School Science Fair, here in Concord, MA. With three kids, I’ve been to my share [...]
Green Education: What We Need
Over the holidays USA Today had an article talking about the sudden rise of green-oriented minor and major programs at universities. According to Paul Rowland, Executive Director of Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, two factors are driving the surge: students want the courses, and employers want the trained students. When I [...]
Some Data Released in UK
Steve McIntyre reports that “the UK Met Office has released a large tranche of station data, together with code”. Notes: The Met Office says that this is not a complete set of data, but it is unclear what is missing. This is the processed data – the raw data is claimed to have been deleted. [...]
Specifying Open Climate Science: A First Attempt
In my last post, I used lessons from the open source software community and the Creative Commons effort explore what we mean by “open climate science”. In this post I’m going to take the next step and propose a specification for open climate science. Finally, in the next installments I will look at the how [...]
Towards Open Climate Science
The events that have transpired (physically) at University of East Anglia and (virtually) around the globe have raised the important question of whether climate science is open and transparent enough. This has led, naturally, for a call for “open source” science. Personally, this discussion links two amateur passions of mine, climate science and open source. [...]
Temperature Data – “Worse than we thought”
The title may have led you to believe that the temperature is rising worse than expected, but the comment is about the data itself. The various sets of temperature data that we have to do climate modeling are not very good, especially as you go back in time. This shouldn’t be surprising, when we’re trying [...]
Antarctic Temperature and the Science of Measurement
A recent article in Nature continues to gather attention (it costs $32 to read the article, even though the US taxpayers probably paid for most ofthe research). By analyzing temperature data from the across the continent, including readings from the Antarctic peninsula (warming) and the continental interior (cooling), it concludes that result is a continental [...]
Don’t Miss It
If you haven’t seen the exploding comet yet, make sure you check it out. There’s a good history here.