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Author Archives: gymnosperm
The Myth of Stasis
As one gets on a bit in years it is a comfort when customary things like the dental floss and shoes stay the same, but the sad fact is that most often they do not and it is necessary to find available … Continue reading
GRBaV, An Hypothetical Model for Disease Progression
It’s not like we really have a firm understanding why some plants typically produce brilliant red foliage before dropping their leaves and others do not. It has been suggested that anthrocyanins are produced as a sun screen as chlorophyll is … Continue reading
Satellites and Thermometers
In a recent blog discussion with some unusually astute folks who are still concerned about human warming, the thread came to a dead-end at satellites and thermometers. It became clear that the real crux of the climate debate between well-studied … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming, Mount Whitney
Tagged GISS data adjustments
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Virus and Veins
Whether Ebola infects the blood tube walls directly or causes an immune response that damages them, one of the advanced symptoms is leakage of blood from the tubes or vessels. We know even less about the red blotch virus that … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Extinctions, Microbial Dark Matter, Red Blotch Disease, RGBaV
Tagged Red Blotch, Red Blotch Disease, Red Vein Virus
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The Ocean Ate It
One of the arguments one hears often these days to explain the lack of lower atmospheric warming for a human generation is that the ocean is somehow absorbing the “heat” or enthalpy that Carbon dioxide is supposed to be creating … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Global Warming, Oceanography
Tagged Ocean Heat Content, Thermosaline Subduction
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Stigma, The Scarlet Letter, and The Red Blotch
In the highly competitive business of marketing wine, consumer perception is everything and nobody wants to admit their vineyards have problems. This fear has slowed research into the habits of a virus now known to cause Red Blotch Disease. It is not such … Continue reading
Posted in Microbial Dark Matter, Red Blotch Disease, RGBaV, Wine
Tagged Scarlet Letter R, Stigma
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GRBaV, The Highway Hypothesis
On our highways fossil energy propels nearly incessant rivers of iron and plastic machines at velocities approaching one hundred feet per second. These machines produce billowing vortices of dust, microbes, micronutrients, and exhaust chemicals in the surrounding atmosphere as they … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Ecology, Red Blotch Disease, RGBaV, Wine
Tagged GRBaV, Mites, Red Blotch
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Wink
It happens I have an extremely goofy dog. Teasing him as he thrust his legs in the air as if doing some high hurdle in reverse lying on his back on the couch, he looked over upside down and winked at … Continue reading
Aftershocks Implicate Unusual Fault System in American Canyon Quake
California can be thought of as a ice flow where multiple independent blocks with different inherent buoyancies are at times pressed together, pulled apart, and slid past each other. The M 6.1 American Canyon quake did not take place on … Continue reading
Grape Vine Red Blotch Associated Virus
Ebola is on our minds, but we easily forget that the biosphere is a churning cauldron of microbes whose tenure on the planet extends back several billion years. They live deep in the earth’s crust. They live in the mesosphere. … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Microbial Dark Matter, Wine
Tagged Citizen Science, GRBaV, Red Blotch Disease
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