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Category Archives: Climate Change
The Duty of Truth
Those who work at public institutions owe the public, their patrons, a duty of truth. Private citizens are free to engage in any foolishness that suits them, but public servants must be held to a higher standard. The graph above … Continue reading
Here’s the Beef, Or the World Economy Explained by a Billion Cows
Grasses coevolved with ungulates (we can call them cows). About 30 million years ago due to declining temperature, humidity, and atmospheric Carbon dioxide a bunch of plants including grasses evolved a more efficient form of photosynthesis called C4. This allowed them … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Climate, Climate Change, Economics, Geography, History, History of Life, Paleoclimate, Salvation from Cows
Tagged Africa, Cattle, Sahara
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Study in Science Magazine Shows Strongest El Ninos in 7000 Years Were During Little Ice Age
Kim Cobb and others published January 3 in Science Magazine a paper exploring 18Oxygen in coral cores as old as 7000 years. Living coral was not drilled. While showing some increase in amplitude since 1970, the strongest El Ninos in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, History, Paleoclimate
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Structural Similarities Observed in ENSO Neutered Atmospheric Temperatures and Ocean Enthalpy
Signal lies in structure. Atmospheric temperature for the last decade and a half has made it abundantly clear that there is much more going on than the optical and radiative properties of carbon dioxide. The converse possibility that oceans, which … Continue reading
Loose Fire Hose and the Aborted Nino
The Antarctic vortex is a whirling dervish that extends from the stratosphere to the deep ocean. Inside the steep gradients that drive this circulation everything is reflected inward and contained. Outside the dervish everything that contacts it receives angular momentum. … Continue reading
Global Average Temperature and Whirled Peas
Can you visualize whirled peas? Yes, unfortunately. And what do whirled peas mean? Both the mean and the average and everything else.. Everything is nothing. So what if the diurnal temperature spread were the difference between a snowcone and a snowfree … Continue reading
Carbon and Freight Trains
Everyone seems to think that carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere and sort of sits there like some invisible smoke, trapping outgoing IR like our automobile windshields and heating us up. Carbon dioxide is more like a freight train. Humans … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Oceanography
Tagged Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Earth
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Global Warming and Prohibition
We like to think we live in an enlightened era, but even modern history keeps reminding us that a rigid and intolerant side of human nature lies just beneath the surface. It is ironic that Prohibition, and a corresponding amendment … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Carbon Theology, Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming
Tagged Prohibition
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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
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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
