It is fitting that on the last day and the last post of 2009, that this post is number 1400 for this blog.  I provide these thoughts to carry with you for the next year and perhaps the rest of your life.  If they inspire, then share them with

We are been graced this year with a full moon on New Years Eve.  Take advantage of it and get outside.  Unless you have cloud cover, there will be a well lit countryside.Otherwise enjoy this history of the idea of a blue moon.  It is a

This information presents us with a conundrum of significance.  It begs questions and more data.  I have already noted that the surface of Lake Superior is also warmer.  Therefore we might make the conjecture that all lakes in the Northern

This technology represents a major jump in resolution of the Earth’s gravity potential.  At present it is early days, but we can see from the illustrations the shape of things to come.  By next year we should have a map showing fine resolution

Under the icy north lurks a ‘carbon bomb’Tropical deforestation is a climate change crisis, but scientists fear for boreal wilderness, too A lake in the boreal forest north of Ottawa. Peat in the forest has been absorbing and storing carbon for thousands

Stratigraphy, 6(4) (2009) 265-275.New quantitative evidence of extreme warmth in the Pliocene ArcticMarci M. Robinson* (U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192, U.S.A.)AbstractThe most recent geologic interval characterized by

James Hansen on why he’s disappointed that we did not show more leadership at the Copenhagen summit, “Cap and Fade,” Climategate, and moreDemocracy Now, December 22, 2009 We speak with the nation’s leading climate scientist, James Hansen. He wasn’t