Here comes the sun

After knowing the daily solar effect on weather and the seasonal climatic effect, the seasons due to the Earth's tilt towards and away from the Sun, and the changing length of day, the "global warmists" aka "Climate disruptors" are now starting to bring solar factors back into some of their flawed climate models.

solar effects have generally been left out of climate models. However, the latest research has changed this view, and the next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), due in 2013, will include solar effects in its models...

The sun is being unusually quiet and seems to be napping a long time before starting maximum solar activity, so we do not really understand what the role of the Sun is in the Earth's weather and climate. Some weather patterns like monsoons seem correlated to solar activity.

Science needs to study and rule in or out various solar factors and to improve drastically the climate prediction models. This is a nice first step, trying to follw real data not prejudge it or manipulate it.

And if you hadn't noticed here is a paper saying we have more Arctic Seas ice then any time in the past 900 years.

Pop goes the Weasel

The Nursery Rhyme, 'Pop goes the weasel' sounds quite incomprehensible in this day an age! The origins of the rhyme are believed to date back to the 1700's.

I grew up with the Australian variation of the lyrics:

Alternative Lyrics (3)
Round and round the mulberry bush
The monkey chased the weasel.
The monkey stopped to pull up his socks
And Pop goes the weasel.

Networks – not size – give cities competitive advantage

A city’s size no longer is the key factor in building vibrant local economies, according to a study by a Michigan State University sociologist.

Study pdf here- From Central Places to Network Bases: A Transition
in the U.S. Urban Hierarchy, 1900–2000

A pretty cool study.

If this keeps up, no one's going to trust any scientists.

The global-warming establishment took a body blow this week, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a stunning rebuke from a top-notch independent investigation.

the prestigious InterAcademy Council, an independent association of "the best scientists and engineers worldwide" (as the group's own Web site puts it) formed in 2000 to give "high-quality advice to international bodies," has finished a thorough review of IPCC practices -- and found them badly wanting.

The warming "scientific" community, the Climategate emails reveal, is a tight clique of like-minded scientists and bureaucrats who give each other jobs, publish each other's papers -- and conspire to shut out any point of view that threatens to derail their gravy train.