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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Great Mysteries of Nature Nobody Seems to be Thinking About
This list will be changed from time to time and some mysteries will be developed into posts. In some sense they all speak to our lack of understanding of the magnetic and gravitational forces that bear down on us. 1. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Geography, Geology, Magnetic Reversals, Plate Tectonics
Tagged Bermuda, Bermuda Triangle, Geomagnetic reversal, Gravitation, Magnetism, North Pole, Proterozoic, South Pole
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Maybe we’re all Chasing Ice
A hopeless task of course. It will melt. Our planet has been ice free more often than not. We are really chasing something far more ephemeral; an ethic, a lost connection to the natural world, even a return to the … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Theology, Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Geology, Global Warming
Tagged Chasing Ice;
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An Argument for the Necessary Existence of Negative Feedback to the Greenhouse Effect of Water Vapor.
A crucial component of the hypothesis that the one part in ten thousand in the atmosphere that represents human CO2 caused the atmospheric warming from the late 1970’s to the late 1990’s is the notion that the miniscule warming by … Continue reading
How Old is the Grand Canyon?
Controversies over wonders of the world capture the public imagination from time to time. Now some Caltech scientists have dared suggest from a new technique that measures the depth of overburden on apatite crystals that there was an older canyon … Continue reading
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