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History on Ice
, This graphic of Greenland ice core temperature based on data by Alley has been making the rounds. I took a notion to plot human history against it and don’t know who to credit for the base graphic, but grateful acknowledge it as not … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate and Civilization, Climate Change, Geography, History
Tagged Proxies and Human History
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Hydrocarbon Combustion Water Vapor and it’s Greenhouse Effect on Surface Thermometers
Nobody ever thinks about this, but when you drive your car down the street, when David Crosby drives his Tesla into a pedestrian, when solar cells wrought with energy from fossil fuels produce energy for the grid; twice as many … Continue reading
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Truckin’
My son, having graduated from UCLA in Math/Econ and worked for a year at a bank, took a notion to try his hand at long haul trucking. We parents were not particularly thrilled with this move, but having personally abandoned my … Continue reading
Oil and the Devil
The concept of the devil in the Judeo-Christian/Muslim tradition seems to have its roots in an older Persian and possibly Indo-European notion of opposing forces of good and evil. The Christian conception developed into the elaborate scheme described by Dante which was integrated into … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Climate, Geology, History, Religion
Tagged Oil and the Devil
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California Drought Update February 2015
It seems from the great wailing and moaning that we have arrived at a new definition of drought. The new definition is whatever is inconvenient for 30 million people regardless how much rain falls. I am a big fan of … Continue reading
Posted in California Drought, Climate, San Francisco Rainfall
Tagged California Drought
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Further GRBaV Observations
A number of things we have noticed about red blotch did not really fit into the themes of prior posts but we feel bear mention. The first, along the lines of Dr. Golino’s finding of a similar virus in a … Continue reading
Posted in GRBaV, Red Blotch Disease, Wine
Tagged Master Gardeners, Red Blotch, Roger Raiche
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Say Watt? Or Why I Just Love Math
Mathematics is one of the many human languages. It is written in very impressive hieroglyphics that can include multitudes of “terms”, many of which are given Greek letters. This language has been very much in fashion since the Enlightenment and … Continue reading
GRBaV, Heredity or Environment?
The burning question in the vineyard business these days is whether or not to rip out and replant Red Blotch infected vines. On the one hand, the first variant of the disease has spread at an average of maybe 4% … Continue reading
The State of the Onion
Let’s say the way this planet works is an onion. There are many layers and they interact in ways far more complex than onion rings. Yet we have to start somewhere, and peeling back the layers of this onion can … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Geology, LLSVP's are Doughboys, Magnetic Reversals, Moho, Oceanography, Seismic Tomography
Tagged missing energy
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