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Author Archives: gymnosperm
California Drought Update 4-14
For some reason the validated CDC data for March in San Francisco have been excruciatingly slow, and judging from local data will be revised down slightly. This is peculiar because it was raining hard as March came to a close … Continue reading
Everyone Loves Lists, Should We Worry or Not?
Take a big leap back in time. It is 1974, forty years ago. The planet has been cooling for thirty years. There is very real concern about this. The Pentagon is making Ice Age contingency plans. The scientific community is agnostic. … Continue reading
The Pacific Doughboy and the Core
Here at the Trunkmonkey Research Institute we’ve been possessed of late by the Doughboys. This representation is not really very good. It is a plate carree projection extruded as a box. Trouble is, when you bend it round like our … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Geoid, Geology, LLSVP, LLSVP's are Doughboys, Seismic Tomography
Tagged Earth's magnetic field, LLSVP
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Doughboys
I have seen the following attributed to Ritsema and van Heist but have not found it in any of their papers. People with no sense of verbal aesthetics have named the red things LLSVP’s for Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces. Sometimes they … Continue reading
Posted in Africa Keystone of Pangea, Asthenia, Geoid, Geology, Large Igneous Provinces, LLSVP, LLSVP's are Doughboys, Moho, Seismic Tomography
Tagged LLSVP, P waves, S waves
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The Pause That Refreshes
We hear more and more about the Pause. This pause refers to a hiatus in lower atmospheric warming for a human generation since 1997. This “pause” by its very name implies that warming will resume sometime soon. Only zealots will claim … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Global Warming, Paleoclimate, the "Pause"
Tagged Climatic Optima, Pause
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Huston, We have a Few More Problems
Humans are not naturally inclined to science. We yearn for certainty, the sort of certainty mathematical equations could provide if only we could be certain of the factors. We cannot. We don’t really yearn for mathematics, it is just another … Continue reading
Posted in Asthenia, Geology, Large Igneous Provinces, Magnetic Reversals, Moho, Oceanography, Plate Tectonics, Seismic Tomography
Tagged Moho, P waves, S waves, Seismotomography
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Spectra, Goddess of Light
We worship in strange and disjointed ways. One seeking to better understand how Spectra’s blessings arrive and leave our planet is confronted with a bewildering array of graphics. This one shows incoming light in nanometers. This one shows outgoing in … Continue reading
Large Igneous Provinces, Temperature, Sea Level, and Extinctions
We had been looking at the stuff one can easily google regarding global temperature and large igneous provinces (LIP’s) and it seemed there might be something, so we dug in. There is an organization, largeigneousprovinces.org, that has excel data in … Continue reading
Nature and Chaos
We don’t even know what randomness is. In gambling and cryptography computer algorithms are used to create “pseudo” random strings that are difficult to cipher, but ultimately these are “determined” by the algorithm. To get “true” randomness we resort to … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biology, Chaos, Fourth Law of Thermodynamics, god of chaos, Randomness
Tagged Chaos, Fourth Law of Thermodynamics, Life, Randomness
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California Drought Update Early March
San Francisco did break the record of 1917 as of January, but just barely. Had the rains begun a day earlier as forecast, the monthly record would have held. Anyway, the drought is definitely not the end of life as we … Continue reading
