May 19th, 2008 by Kevin Withnall
Recently I had some solar panels installed. I’m not really sure why other than the feel good factor. We have green power anyway, so we are not really saving carbon, the solar panels have had their carbon credits sold to someone else (before I got them) so someone else is claiming the carbon back anyway and they have an estimated payback period of about 18 years (even after the $8000 government rebate which I got in before the new means test.)
Anyway, its fun to look at the meter and measure how much we are generating. Any spare is just being passed back to the grid and can actually make the meters spin backwards.
October 29th, 2007 by Kevin Withnall
405-yr-old clam dredged from the deep - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
It is not known how much longer the mollusc might have lived had it been left on the seabed.
Well, at least its dead now. We won’t have to worry about how long things can live for.
I guess it didn’t think far enough in the future to protect itself from modern fishing practices.
October 10th, 2007 by Kevin Withnall
In the office we have been monitoring and recording temperatures for just over 5 years. As you can see from the data below, there were some problems originally setting up the server to record the data but as of about august 2002 we have been quite reliable.
With all these people talking about global warming etc, I think I’ve found a trend that may have escaped other peoples notice. If you look at the graph below you will probably notice what I did. It seems to get warmer towards the end of the year and colder again in the middle.
I know this is only 5 years worth of data but it seems pretty clear to me that there is a definite pattern emerging. Of course I’ve been wrong in the past. Click on the image for a larger version if you need more detail.
Weather spreadsheet
August 23rd, 2007 by Kevin Withnall
In a previous post, I mentioned the NASA error in US mean land temperatures and how I was surprised that its not more commonly mentioned as an ‘anti global warming’ argument. Well, since then I’ve had many discussions with people about it and most had seen it somewhere so its definitely being used.
Much like the christians touting fossil gaps as proof that evolution is false, they fail to understand that even with no fossils at all, theres still overwhelming evidence for evolution. Similarly with the global warming discussion, theres still far to much evidence to be ignored. While is possible it all could be wrong (as with evolution) the evidence points to a particular conclusion.
RealClimate » 1934 and all that
August 17th, 2007 by Kevin Withnall
Why hasn’t the media picked up on this ? I really would have thought someone like FOX would have made a big deal about it. Then again, they may have but as i don’t watch it, I wouldn’t know :-)
DailyTech - Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data
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