An Undersea Trench for Wind Poer? - NYTimes.com

So the new proposal for an Atlantic Wind Connection is actually about a series of links terminating at substations built on platforms that would sit in the ocean like oil drilling platforms, except, of course, these are clean-energy installations harnessing wind power.

Lessons learned from Swedish temperature records

CHURCHVILLE, VA—The ten coldest winter-spring temperatures out of the last 500 in Stockholm, Sweden, were almost all during the Little Ice Age. No surprise there. The coldest was 1569, followed by 1573.

The warmest years: 1863, 1990, 1743, 1525, 1989, 1605, 1822, 1790, 1762, and 2008, in that order. The years since 1976, supposedly with “unprecedented warming,” claim only three slots among the top ten. Apparently, the Modern Warming isn’t all that hot. Nor do we have any temperature readings from the earlier Medieval and Roman Warmings, which the ice cores and seabed sediments tell us were even warmer than today.

U.N. scientist sees global climate forecasts by 2020 | Reuters

GENEVA (Reuters) - Experts should be able to provide reliable seasonal climate forecasts on temperatures and rainfall levels a year in advance within a decade, a senior United Nations scientist said on Monday.

Further down the road, although still some way off, accurate predictions of climate conditions for up to 10 years ahead should be possible, Ghassem Asrar, director of the World Climate Research programme (WCRP) told Reuters.

William Marr’s Tantrum – Now We Know Why They Fantasize Of Red Buttons

Sometimes you read something, somewhere, that causes many people to get angry. But the latest piece by the UK Guardian, Andrew Marr unloads on citizen bloggers, calling them “inadequate, pimpled, very drunk, angry and single,” just made my day. They are collapsing faster than I ever imagined.