In my opinion, the global warming issue has become so politicized that it is almost impossible for laymen to sort fact from fiction. For many, it has become a political litmus test that has nothing to do with science - liberals must profess the faith,...

I read the 12/9 post by Carl on our blog and then I found an email notification of a RealClimate.org post that reproduces an editorial appearing in 56 newspapers in 45 countries using 20 languages. Most of the newspapers put it on their front page....

The point of this note is to raise the view that man's effect on the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere should be questioned and not just accepted because a politician says so. According to the chemistry references the number of elements are 96 well...

I got a little surprise the other day, not one to my liking at all.   As some of you know, I still like to use GWBASIC from DOS 3.3 and Paintbrush from Windows 3.1 for all kinds of reasons that have arched some number of eyebrows. An older PC...

First some equivalences—1 Kwh=2,655,223 ft-lbs=3.6 megaJ. Particularly the 1 Kwh=3.6 megaJ will show up often in the following.  For our purposes we are defining a "fuel cell",FC, as a catalytic device that allows the oxidation of carbon and...