Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / June 2005

Does anyone know where I can find an archive of surface analysis maps
(MSLP, fronts etc.) covering the East and South China seas?

Anyone know why I get a 10 degree discrepancy when I check the current
temp (for Chicago, IL) at accuweather.com and weather.com?

I have noticed that Canada has had alot of lightning activity in last
weeks.Is this a normal or not normal activity for Canada??

Hello, All:
What are the MAXIMUM POSSIBLE VALUES you can get on a HORIZONTAL
surface of the Earth for TOTAL solar radiation and DIFFUSE solar
radiation? What is the MAXIMUM DIRECT NORMAL solar radiation at the

Hartin explains that humans have been "putting the wet stuff on the red
stuff" for centuries, without really analyzing the effects. What's been
overlooked is the fact that the invisible gases produced in a fire can
be much more dangerous than any flame.

It is my sad duty to report that Dr. Charles David Keeling
Died of a heart attack while hiking with is son on his ranch
in Montana this Monday, the 20th of June.  Those of us
who frequent alt.global-warming are well aware of both

Needless alarm
By Arabinda Ghose
Editorial
The Pioneer

    From:      john.christy@nsstc.uah.edu
    Subject:     Re: MSU LT monthly data late
    Date:     June 17, 2005 10:27:10 AM PDT
    To:      rcoppock@adn.net

June 19, 2005
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Republican Senator Backs Pollution Plan
WASHINGTON, June 18 (AP) - A leading Republican senator, trying to shepherd a

June 17, 2005
Washington Post; Page A01
U.S. Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan
Global-Warming Science Assailed

Evidently global warming started about 8,000 years ago, long before the
Industrial Revolution. An article explaining this is on page 46 of the
Scientific American magazine, March 2005, by William F. Ruddiman. It
turns out that human agriculture (planting seeds, domesticating

I am trying to get a useful probability of various environmental
disasters for my area (severe storm, severe winter storm, etc.)  I have
an exhaustive list of the occurances for the last 100+ years.  I can
think of three ways to compute the probability of an event in a given

I looked at the water vapor sattelite images today, and read the
midrange forcast progs, and I'm scratching my head.
I'm in Northern California, and usually by this time we've pretty much
made the transition to the summer dry season -- warm clear days, fog at

Bush White House staffer Philip A. Cooney, a former oil
lobbyist with the American Petroleum Institute, altered
whole paragraphs of global warming scientific reports to
hide the truth about global warming.  Meanwhile, global

The low troposphere MSU data are late.  Does anyone
know why?  Is this the correct URL?
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.1