There was a flurry of activity yesterday, while I was working to get ready for the start of classes, regarding a flawed contest to select the hottest science blogger. Clearly, when some pasty English dude wins, there's a problem with the methodology. Like, for instance, basing it off a blog aggregator that doesn't include physicists...
I'd try to cobble together a "hottest physics blogger" contest, but really, who needs that?
Also, classes start today. Whee! Posting will probably be light for a few days.
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Dr. Free-Ride: (to younger offspring) Could you teach me all the words to your song about the planets.
Younger offspring: It's secret.
NOAA says 2012 was the hottest year on record.
According to the National Climatic Data Center of NOAA, 2012 was the hottest year on record in the US lower 48:
The Australian welcomes the draft Garnaut report by reprinting an error-filled article from
We just might be experiencing the hottest year on record (can't be sure yet, but it looks like it might be) and if that is the case, I estimate it may be the hottest year (except a few unidentified and undocumented outliers) for a half a million years or so.
Whoa, pasty English dude? I hope you're not talking about me, because I'm as American as apple pie, and a Texan, to boot.
Now, pasty, on the other hand... well... I can't really argue with that....