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The Nano Carbon Cycle
We live in a world of wee beasties. Microbes here, microbes there, microbes in every breath we take, microbes on every bite we eat. They digest the food in our bellies, they create our food and drink. They make us … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Cycle, Climate, Geography, Geology, Oceanography
Tagged Bacteria, Microorganism
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Reversals and the Carbon Dioxide Wind.
The most astonishing lesson in physics gained from floating rivers is the inclination of water to reverse direction and flow back into a “hole”. Even in the steepest rapid and in spite of its tremendous weight and momentum, when an … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Geography, Oceanography, River
Tagged Antarctica, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide wind, Carbon Management
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Study in Science Magazine Shows Strongest El Ninos in 7000 Years Were During Little Ice Age
Kim Cobb and others published January 3 in Science Magazine a paper exploring 18Oxygen in coral cores as old as 7000 years. Living coral was not drilled. While showing some increase in amplitude since 1970, the strongest El Ninos in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, History, Paleoclimate
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Structural Similarities Observed in ENSO Neutered Atmospheric Temperatures and Ocean Enthalpy
Signal lies in structure. Atmospheric temperature for the last decade and a half has made it abundantly clear that there is much more going on than the optical and radiative properties of carbon dioxide. The converse possibility that oceans, which … Continue reading
Loose Fire Hose and the Aborted Nino
The Antarctic vortex is a whirling dervish that extends from the stratosphere to the deep ocean. Inside the steep gradients that drive this circulation everything is reflected inward and contained. Outside the dervish everything that contacts it receives angular momentum. … Continue reading
Global Average Temperature and Whirled Peas
Can you visualize whirled peas? Yes, unfortunately. And what do whirled peas mean? Both the mean and the average and everything else.. Everything is nothing. So what if the diurnal temperature spread were the difference between a snowcone and a snowfree … Continue reading
Adventure and Science
What exactly is the distinction between play and work? The things some people do for recreation would seem like bloody hard work to others.I’ve spent a good part of my life climbing mountains and rafting rivers, and a good part … Continue reading
Carbon and Freight Trains
Everyone seems to think that carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere and sort of sits there like some invisible smoke, trapping outgoing IR like our automobile windshields and heating us up. Carbon dioxide is more like a freight train. Humans … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Oceanography
Tagged Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Earth
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Ring Around Antarctica
There are lots of rings around Antarctica. Sailors know the circum-Antarctic winds as the fearsome fifties, the screaming sixties, etc. These winds are not impeded by any land and they drive the circum-Antarctic currents in the Southern Ocean. The surface currents … Continue reading
Seafloor Isochrons Place a Hard Limit on Crustal Disintegration from the Chicxulub Impact
I always thought the entire form of the Gulf of Mexico might be the crater from the Chicxulub impact reputed to have wasted the dinosaurs. My imagination runs with that name. So much to work with. Chicxyclub…well, Club Med impact … Continue reading
Posted in Asteroid Impacts, Geography, Geology, Magnetic Reversals, Oceanography, Plate Tectonics
Tagged Chicxulub, Chicxulub crater, Club Med, Gulf of Mexico
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