Web Watch

http://www.realclimate.org

Mitigating the impact of climate change is fraught with unpalatable tradeoffs—all the more reason, believe the five climatologists who founded RealClimate, that the public should receive accurate and balanced information about climate science. Launched in December 2004, the RealClimate website provides expert and timely commentary on how climate change is covered in popular media.

http://nerdling.net/slushpile

Tania Ritchie studies chemical engineering and physics at the University of Newcastle in Australia. But this austral summer, she is visiting David Base in Antarctica. Her mission is to help retrieve, maintain, and calibrate equipment that monitors Earth’s magnetic field. You can follow her progress by reading her entertaining weblog Slush.

http://virtualsolar.org

The Virtual Solar Observatory provides a single portal to more than 50 databases of solar data that are available on the Internet. This site offers several search parameters, including time and spectral region.

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