Its the 2004-2005 hurricanes all over again. Remember the dire warnings after Katrina that the U.S. was in for more more and bigger hurricanes? We are repeating that news theme with the ongoing winter storms in the East. I have written many times about the fact that the scientists who believe in global warming tend to be the ones who have not studied meteorology or related sciences. We had another of these interviews on NBC's "Today" show.  Dr. Michio Kaku's educational qualifications (according to Wikipedia) are as follows: Kaku graduated  summa cum laude  from  Harvard University  with a  B.S.  degree in 1968 and was first in his physics class. He attended the  Berkeley Radiation Laboratory  at the  University of California, Berkeley  and received a  Ph.D.  in 1972... I went on the read the rest of his resume and he is not published in the field of atmospheric science. Nevertheless, NBC put him on the air as an exp...

This image is a screen capture from yesterday evening's "NBC Nightly News" photographed from our television screen: Notice any thing odd about the ice?  I'll give you a hint: There is no dirt or soot in the Arctic (just ice and, under the ice, water). Obviously, a foreign substance is on the ice. And, pollution causes ice to melt much  faster, even if the temperature is below freezing, if the sun is out. For details, check here . Where might the dirt/soot have come from? Here's another hint: This satellite image shows the brownish pollution from China flowing northeast toward the Arctic. There are multiple peer-reviewed papers attributing the recent summer ice melt in the Arctic to soot rather than 'global warming' as Arctic temperatures have been colder than normal the last three summers. Please be clear: I'm concerned about the melting ice. It may be the the melting ice could lead to other climate problems. But, attributing the melt to "...

From The New York Times .

The concept drawings for the museum to commemorate the tornado and the World's Largest Hand Dug Well (a quirky attraction I wrote about in Warnings ) are out. Here is the aerial view: Based on the drawings, I really like the design which is suggestive of the tornado's winds and the large skylight will allow a great deal of natural light, in keeping with the "green" building effort. The full set of concept drawings are here .

Here is an AccuWeather map of the unusual lightning from around Baltimore across Delaware about an hour ago. The + sign = cloud-to-ground lightning. There was more lightning than this, the in-cloud and cloud-to-cloud strikes aren't displayed on this system. The winter storm continues to organize and move northeast. Here is the latest AccuWeather radar. UPDATE 9:45pm Central: Here is a list of numbers of homes and businesses without power in the Washington, D.C. area due to the lightning with the snow: Courtesy WTOP Radio And, with the winter storm causing serious problems, here is the Airline Crisis Survival Guide . 

At about the same time the mayor declared the weather emergency, schedulers at the City Council took some action of their own. They canceled a hearing planned for Wednesday in Brooklyn. The session, the last of eight sessions in different parts of the city in the last two weeks, was supposed to focus on what went wrong after the 20-inch blizzard last month. Full story from The New York Times . 

Ya think? Two University of Indiana researchers have learned that males are "distracted" by sexy anchorwomen . I've posted these photos because I have an important question for you below... Do you think television news executives had already figured this out  without  the use of our tax dollars?