Monthly Archives: March 2012

An exceptional walk across the Golden Gate Bridge

Posted on March 24, 2012 by gymnosperm

An exceptional walk required exceptional procedures. Picture ID, affidavit signed and cosigned, hard hats issued. Ancient key inserted, old bolts grudgingly lifted, a tiny passageway to the innards of the south tower. Three human sardines at a time, an elevator … Continue reading →

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Skepticism

Posted on March 22, 2012 by gymnosperm

You know what skepticism is? Skepticism is doing yoga in your socks because it is cold and you didn’t start the fire soon enough. You know darned well it will be fine, you’ve even done it before when it was … Continue reading →

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Please Don’t Feed the Feedbacks

Posted on March 20, 2012 by gymnosperm

Feedback is central to the alarmist narrative on several levels. Negative feedback seven times more powerful for CO2 loss (from pre-industrial level, it is non-linear) than positive feedback for an equal gain is critical for the hypothesis that Milankovitch cycles … Continue reading →

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Reblogg

Posted on March 14, 2012 by gymnosperm

I’d actually written this as a reply on Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog but there seemed some sort of enfarction and the beauty of having your own is I can just post it here… “And I still think a photon emitted … Continue reading →

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Too Much on my Plate

Posted on March 13, 2012 by gymnosperm

I’ve been getting annoyed with the grade school conception of “plate” tectonics where everyone is identifying plates and their relative motions and saying stuff like the Japan Earthquake of 2011 was caused by the Pacific Plate sliding under Japan. It … Continue reading →

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