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Category Archives: Climate
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
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
Cold is the New Hot
Once it was that everything was getting hotter and hotter and pretty soon we would be frying eggs by just putting the pan outside. This was to have been because a certain trace gas was invested with magical powers far … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Climate, Climate Change, Cold is the New Hot, Global Warming, Religion, Shamanism
Tagged Cold=Hot, Dinglenuts
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Carbon and the Second Coming
Why do we yearn the judgment day? Why is there always, on some street corner, somewhere, somebody proclaiming that the end is near? One must learn from their weaknesses, if possible. But this yearning keeps returning, again, and again. We … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Climate, Human need for Judgdment, Shamanism
Tagged Judgment Day, Second Coming
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Ah, the Frogs
Almost forgot about the frogs. It has been dry, desert dry, in California for so long. They are tiny creatures, like what we used to call “tree” frogs, but they live in the grass. You can never imagine there would … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, California Drought, Climate
Tagged Frog Patience, Frogs on the plain
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A New Feature of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation?
We learn about things in mundane ways. Our conception of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) began with fish. Salmon are absolutely delicious. Tough handed people venture into dangerous conditions to catch them for us. It became apparent to the tough … Continue reading
Posted in California Drought, Climate, Geography, San Francisco Rainfall
Tagged pacific decadal oscillation
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Some Things We’ve Noticed About the California Drought
California is a drought state. Our so called “Mediterranean” climate falls in a global zone just poleward of the great deserts and along the western continental margins that is characterized by winter rain and summer drought. Should we be surprised … Continue reading
Carbon Dioxide, the Wimp
It is pretty well-known that CO2 represents only one part in 2500 in the atmosphere. Water vapor represents one part in 40. Not only is CO2 a wimpy constituent of the atmosphere, it is also a wimpy constituent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Global Warming, Optical Material Properties
Tagged CO2, Greenhouse gas, the Wimp
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A Very Dry Season in California
The pre-Columbian California native people had a mystical and cultural relationship to the climate that did not involve measuring rainfall. The Franciscan fathers were on their own spiritual quest, and while they sometimes recorded wine production at the missions, they didn’t record … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Geography, San Francisco Rainfall
Tagged California, California Drought, rainfall data, rainfall measurements, San Francisco
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Photon Food Fight
The fact that more energy cycles between the surface of the earth and the atmosphere than the earth receives from the sun strikes me as one of the great marvels of nature. This is the earth’s energy budget according to … Continue reading
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