The Reference Frame: Science debate, 14 questions: Romney beats Obama

Your humble correspondent and Slate are among those (see Google News for media reactions) who think that judging by the answers, Romney defeated Obama, despite all the talk about the Left's being pro-science.

Sea Levels are barely rising « sunshine hours

Sea Levels are barely rising 0 – 3 mm per year according to the NOAA website Tides and Currents.

All the green arrows are only 0 – 3 mm per year. There is some yellow arrows (3 – 6 mm). And a very few red. Sea level is dropping in the Gulf of Alaska.

Noaa: Budget woes force a halt to [greenhouse gas] monitoring at 12 ground stations -- 09/04/2012 -- www.eenews.net

faced with shrinking budgets and an uncertain fiscal future, NOAA has stopped measuring greenhouse gas levels at a dozen ground stations, eliminated some aircraft monitoring and cut the frequency of remaining measurements in half. The agency scrapped plans to expand its network of tall towers and is now moving to shut down some of the seven existing sites.

The cuts come at a time when governments are pushing for more detailed information about sources and sinks of greenhouse gases. Scientists say the decision to shrink NOAA's monitoring network -- the world's largest -- threatens their ability to provide those answers.

Windpower Layoffs Making PTC Extension Increasingly Moot — MasterResource

Energy reality continues to set in for the government-dependent energy sector, industrial windpower. Part of the reckoning is economic–the increased competitive gap between electricity generated from natural gas versus wind. But the bigger part is the looming expiration of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind. Twenty years of such political favor has not been enough for a product that is intermittent (read: sub-industrial grade).