Here’s what I did yesterday:

5:00 - Got up
5:30 - Arrive at work
11:30 - Lunch
12:00 - Back to work
4:30 - Leave work
4:45 - Start making dinner; lasagna
5:45 - Eat dinner; mmm
6:00 - Turn on TV to see what’s on
6:10 - Nothing on, decide to watch Independence Day
7:10 - Pause movie to read abstract of paper that looks good
7:35 - Unpause movie
8:50 - Movie over, get into bed and read a little
9:30 - Sleep

Exciting, huh?

This probably isn’t even worth posting, but it seems to attracted a bit of attention from the loonies. Global warming debunked.

Some selected quotes from the article, all attributed to Augie Auer, and all but the first were in quotes. Responses from Climate change: A guide for the perplexed.

Man’s contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn’t change the climate if we tried.
[Response: Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter]

“We’re all going to survive this. It’s all going to be a joke in five years.”
[Response: It's been far warmer in the past, what's the big deal?]

“The Greens are really going to go after you because you put out 49 per cent of the countries emissions. Does anybody ask 49 per cent of what? Does anybody know how small that number is?”
[Response: CO2 isn't the most important greenhouse gas]

“It’s become a witch-hunt; a Salem witch-hunt.”
[Response: Many leading scientists question climate change]

I have this equation written on my chalkboard in my cube.

I previously wrote about Suggestive correlations between the brightness of Neptune, solar variability, and Earth’s temperature (Hammel and Lockwood, 2007) in (Hammel and Lockwood, 2007) A Correlation between Neptune Brightness, Earth Temperature and Total Solar Irradiance?

Hammel and Lockwood (2007) explain that there are correlations between the temperature of the Earth, Neptune’s brightness and the solar cycle. In my previous post, I explained why I don’t think they actually do that. To recap, they used a model for the total solar irradiance (TSI) which doesn’t agree with recent satellite observations. The model had solar irradiance increase dramatically since the 1980s, which the observed values have actually decreased.

In addition to the aforementioned problems, there is one big one - provided by Lockwood and Jerzykiewicz (2006).
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