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Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe – News Coverage Of “Frozen Britain”.

Incredible Fire Tornado Sweeps through Brazil.

Brooklyn Tornado 9/16/10.

Horseshoe Crabs #brooklyntornado from Natalie Podrazik on Vimeo.

The brooklyn cyclone.

Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! from Craig Shimala on Vimeo.

Hat tip to Chris Weige at www.Reckon.ws

Laser creates clouds over Germany – tech – 02 May 2010 – New Scientist.

A laser has been used to generate small clouds on demand in lab, and real-world experiments suggest this could be a way to call down rain when it’s needed.

People have experimented with cloud seeding for decades in the hope of boosting rainfall, usually by sprinkling silver iodide crystals into clouds high in the atmosphere.

These crystals encourage large water droplets to form around them, and the droplets then fall as rain – in theory, at least. “The efficiency of this technique is controversial,” says Jérôme Kasparian at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, one member of a research team that think lasers may be a better way to trigger rain on demand.

Kasparian and colleagues have just reported the first successful use of this technique to summon clouds from air both in the lab and in the skies over Berlin, Germany.

READ More here: New Scientist.

ClimateGate Who’s Who.

Summary:

ClimateGate, as it’s come to be known, is a very difficult issue to deal with, not because of the nature of the information, but due to the way in which it was obtained. The long and the short of it is, someone hacked into a server containing certain documents and emails and has now made the contents thereof public.

The video linked here contains short snippets of those emails and documents in an attempt to display the nature of the scientists and the science used to justify claims of Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming (AGW).

Nathan Myhrvold is a former technology officer for Microsoft who has found his own company, Intellectual Ventures, which is involved in a number of technology development programs, including new forms of energy generation. Nathan Myhrvold also thinks that he has found a cheap and reliable way to solve global warming, which does not involve upending and perhaps destroying the world’s economy. The global warming solution proposed by Nathan Myhvold involves running a hose up to the stratosphere with balloons and using that hose to pump out enough sulfur particles to dim the sun’s heat just enough to counteract the effects of global warming. The estimated cost would be about two hundred and fifty million dollars. Nathan Myhrvold suggests that volcanoes and other natural processes already pump out sulfur into the stratosphere and that his scheme, if adopted, would increase that amount by only one percent. Nathan Myhrvold therefore thinks that there would not be any unintended consequences (like starting a new ice age.) Nathan Myhrvold’s anti global warming scheme is intriguing, even for those people (increasingly most people) who doubt that man caused global warming is actually real. The climate gate scandal involving leaked emails suggests that the data that supports the idea of man caused global warming has been doctored to some extent. Thus there is increasing resistance to the idea of arbitrarily cutting back on carbon emissions before clean energy technology is mature enough to take the place of fossil fuels, thus causing wrenching disruptions in economic growth and personal lifestyles.

Nathan Myhrvold’s Anti Global Warming Scheme – associatedcontent.com.

Owning The Weather.

Rex Murphy on Climategate.

“Let there be no more talk that the science is settled.”

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s news and public affairs operations may not quite have caught up with Climategate, but the CBC’s Rex Murphy has. Most CBC listeners and viewers might be wondering what he’s talking about. Since the story broke two weeks ago with the release of emails from the world’s leading climate institute, there has only been one news report on the network and the only analysis item was on Anna Maria Tremonti’s The Current — a pooh-poohing academic from the United States who said there was nothing in the emails worth talking about.

Where has Quirks and Quarks been?

The radio network’s vaunted science show, Quirks and Quarks, has yet to even acknowledge the existence of scientific debate over temperature records, let alone the email scandal. As far as I can tell, not once in the history of the show has Quirks and Quarks’ host, Bob McDonald,  sought to explore the work of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick–the two Canadians whose hockey stick deconstruction is now at the centre of a global science meltdown. 

While Quirks and Quarks did nothing, the world’s leading climate scientists spent a decade in behind the scenes debate over temperature data, squelching dissent and keeping mainstream scientists and media marching to the global warming official tune. Don’t you think that would be of interest? And how come Bob McDonald missed a decade of debate?

Instead of tackling the real science issues, this week’s edition of Quirks and Quarks–according to on air promotions–is going to focus on a side issue, the even shakier science of rising sea levels.

You can watch Rex Murphy‘s piece above.

Terence Corcoran 

Read more: network.nationalpost.com