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On the formation of ship tracks
On of the interesting manmade climate phenomenon is that of Ship Tracks, whereby a ship, with all the exhaust particles its releases, can change the characteristics of clouds in its wake. The physics...
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The Hebrew University debate on Global Warming
On Sunday last week, a global warming debate was held at the Hebrew University, in front of a large public audience. The speakers included myself, and Prof. Nathan Paldor from the HU, on the so called...
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A Nice Black Hole Merger Simulation
I recently stumbled upon a nice black hole merger simulation which describes recent numerical results describing the in-spiraling and merging of massive black holes. Since it is not in my habit of just...
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Corpuscular Rays in St. Peter's Basilica (the Vatican)
A few days ago, I stayed in the Vatican (more about this one day symposium in another post). During the stay, I naturally visited St. Peter's Basilica.Near Bernini's altar (made from copper stolen...
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Open convection cells over the Negev?
Jerusalem was under siege, again. Last time it was Bush. This time, it was snow because of which we had two snow days. So, I didn't have to teach and instead could build a snowman with my kids. Now...
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More slurs from realclimate.org
Realclimate.org continues with its same line of attack. Wishfulclimate.org writers try again and again to concoct what appears to be deep critiques against skeptic arguments, but end up doing a very...
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Is the causal link between cosmic rays and cloud cover really dead??
Just recently, Sloan and Wolfendale published a paper in Environmental Research Letters, called"Testing the proposed causal link between cosmic rays and cloud cover". In the Institute of Physics Press...
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Auroras in Lapland
I recently attended the 3rd Space Climate Symposium which took place in Saariselkä, about 250 km north of the arctic circle in Finnish Lapland. Because of the prolonged solar minimum, my hopes were for...
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Touch and go - my worst landing ever
I recently returned from Lijiang (in Yunnan, China). One of my legs was a flight from Chengdu to Beijing, and it is certainly a flight I will never forget. After the plane took off in rather dense...
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The oceans as a calorimeter
I few months ago, I had a paper accepted in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Since its repercussions are particularly interesting for the general public, I decided to write about it. I would have...
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A visit to Stromboli
It seems that every time I write a blog entry I have to apologize that I don't do so more often. Apparently I don't like to admit that I am a busy person (even though I am). Anyway, I decided I should...
View ArticleExpert credibility in climate change?
I recently stumbled upon one of the most meaningless papers I have ever seen, it is called "Expert credibility in climate change" by Anderegg, Prall, Harold and Schneider. The paper "proves" that the...
View Article"There is nothing new under the Sun" an article about 20th century global...
After a long lull in activity, I decided it's about time I write an update about my thoughts on global warming. Here it is. 20th century global warming - "There is nothing new under the Sun" - Part...
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Why don't I believe the that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light?
Three weeks ago I visited the underground laboratory of Gran Sasso near l'Aquila. Little did I know that it would make headline news so soon, for "discovering" particles moving faster than the speed of...
View ArticleClimategate 2.0
A few weeks ago, a new release of a large amount of e-mails from the same source (University of East Anglia) has surfaced in Russia again. It is most likely from the same original batch because the...
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On IPCCs exaggerated climate sensitivity and the emperor’s new clothes
A few days ago I had a very pleasant meeting with Andrew Bolt. He was visiting Israel and we met for an hour in my office. During the discussion, I mentioned that the writers of the recent IPCC reports...
View ArticleCauses of Climate Change - Poll Results
Out of curiosity, I opened a few weeks ago a poll asking the visitors of this site, what do they think is the primary cause of global warming. 429 people answered the poll (thanks to all of you!). The...
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Does the global temperature lag CO2? More flaws in the Shakun et al. paper in...
Over the past two weeks, perhaps a dozen people asked me about the recently published paper of Shakun et al. in Nature. It allegedly demonstrates that the global temperature followed CO2 around the...
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The worst of the BEST
I was asked by quite a few people about my opinion on the BEST analysis of Richard Muller and his group in Berkeley. Since I didn’t want to keep my friends without an answer, I took a more careful look...
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Dust Dendrites
My wife and I had our kitchen renovated. Since this involved breaking a few walls (and cutting out a new window), we knew it would raise a lot of dust. Mind you, here in the middle east houses are...
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