Author Archives: gymnosperm

Much Ado About our Noses

Posted on December 7, 2015 by gymnosperm

You get the idea that nobody thinks about weather stations. Budofcourssse, with futbol and all the other distractions this should really not be surprising. The fact remains that weather stations are ergonomically designed louvered boxes designed to be opened and … Continue reading →

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Naked Apes, Staring Into the Sunrise

Posted on December 6, 2015 by gymnosperm

We are an arrogant lot. We presumed the universe rotated around us, even positing epicycles upon ever more byzantine epicycles to explain the growing contradictory evidence. The truth was evident, but incomprehensible. Burn the evidence, burn the very idea if you … Continue reading →

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A Chronology of Red Blotch

Posted on November 8, 2015 by gymnosperm

The single strand DNA virus shown to be the causative agent in Red Blotch disease of grapevines will almost certainly become a new genus in the family Geminiviridae. Phylogenetic evidence suggests that GRBaV diverged about 250 million years ago before the … Continue reading →

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Red Blotch Perspective Harvest 2015

Posted on October 27, 2015 by gymnosperm

The virus seemed different in the vineyard this year. Many vines we had marked as 50% red canopy last year did not meet that threshold this year and some seemed asymptomatic. We began to notice during our vineyard survey last … Continue reading →

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Going Solar

Posted on October 19, 2015 by gymnosperm

According to Svalgaard (2015): Solar EUV, by exciting Oxygen molecules, creates thermal winds in the ionosphere whose dynamo effect changes the earth’s magnetic field. 2. The diurnal change in the earth’s magnetic field as a result of the sun passing … Continue reading →

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Sea Level and ENSO

Posted on September 27, 2015 by gymnosperm

Been puzzling lately over this graphic from the university of Colorado. It shows a very significant relationship between El Nino and global mean sea level. The notes on their website, http://sealevel.colorado.edu/, state that “often” the ENSO index leads sea level … Continue reading →

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How Big a Baby Will the 2015-16 Nino Be?

Posted on September 26, 2015 by gymnosperm

Lots of bluster about coming storms but what does the data we have tell us? What jumps right out is that the hot whopping 1997 El Nino shows remarkable agreement in phase and strength between all the indices. We really … Continue reading →

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The banality of California’s ‘1,200-year’ drought

Posted on September 23, 2015 by gymnosperm

Terrific post. Couldn’t agree more. California drought? What else is new? California WaterBlog The south fork of Lake Oroville, California’s second largest reservoir, in September 2014. Photo by Kelly M. Grow/California Department of Water Resources By Jay Lund California’s ongoing … Continue reading →

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The Day and the Night

Posted on September 13, 2015 by gymnosperm

I have responded to many of Stephen Mosher’s comments on various sites, but to date he has responded to only one. His response displayed surprising ignorance on many levels but in good spirit I queried if he knew the difference between … Continue reading →

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A Graphical Calculus of the TLT Weighting Function

Posted on August 26, 2015 by gymnosperm

The lower troposphere is a big place and it is difficult to understand what a published temperature really means when viewing NASA GISS or UAH data. This difficulty becomes important as thermometer surface temperature data seemingly diverges from satellite derived … Continue reading →

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