Category Archives: Climate

Great Mysteries of Nature Nobody Seems to be Thinking About

Posted on December 28, 2012 by gymnosperm

This list will be changed from time to time and some mysteries will be developed into posts. In some sense they all speak to our lack of understanding of the magnetic and gravitational forces that bear down on us. 1. … Continue reading →

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Maybe we’re all Chasing Ice

Posted on December 9, 2012 by gymnosperm

A hopeless task of course. It will melt. Our planet has been ice free more often than not. We are really chasing something far more ephemeral; an ethic, a lost connection to the natural world, even a return to the … Continue reading →

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An Argument for the Necessary Existence of Negative Feedback to the Greenhouse Effect of Water Vapor.

Posted on December 8, 2012 by gymnosperm

A crucial component of the hypothesis that the one part in ten thousand in the atmosphere that represents human CO2 caused the atmospheric warming from the late 1970’s to the late 1990’s is the notion that the miniscule warming by … Continue reading →

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Global UV Increase from 1979-2008 Correlated with Global Warming

Posted on November 8, 2012 by gymnosperm

As we delve into the fractal complexities of nature it is easy to overlook very simple things. The hypothesis of human global warming is based on the correlation of the slopes of global atmospheric temperature increase from the late 1970’s to the … Continue reading →

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Carbon Theology

Posted on October 16, 2012 by gymnosperm

A while back I wrote a post “On Carbon and Sodium” where I pointed out that in spite of the fact that researchers have known for forty years that it is the Chlorine (Chloride) in table salt that causes hypertension … Continue reading →

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Done with “Anthropogenic”

Posted on October 3, 2012 by gymnosperm

Wine folks rightfully speak of mouthfeel as a quality of wine. Words have mouthfeel too. When I say “Anthropogenic” I get a bad puckery finish that makes me want to smack my lips. This word is bandied about as a … Continue reading →

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A couple interesting papers

Posted on July 24, 2012 by gymnosperm

Sulfate Burial Constraints on the Phanerozoic Sulfur Cycle Halevy, et al. Science 20 July 2012: 331-334.DOI:10.1126/science.1220224 Rapid Variability of Seawater Chemistry Over the Past 130 Million Years Wortmann, et al. Science 20 July 2012: 334-336.DOI:10.1126/science.1220656 Sulfur has hit the radar. … Continue reading →

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Carbon Isotope Excursions and Carbon Limitation of Primary Productivity in the Biosphere

Posted on July 15, 2012 by gymnosperm

Carbon Isotope Excursions and Carbon Limitation of Primary Productivity in the Biosphere Gordon Lehman, Trunkmonkey, Gymnosperm; sheepherders, ignoramuses all Abstract The conception of natural history as an economic struggle was developed by Geerat Vermeij (1). “Supply side” interpretations of δ13C … Continue reading →

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Spreadsheet of Human History

Posted on May 24, 2012 by gymnosperm

Spreadsheet of human history Spreadsheets are really graphs. This one has time on one axis and space on the other. The space geography is arbitrary but intended to sequence human dispersion from Africa. I have lots of Teaching Company timelines … Continue reading →

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Explaining Milankovitch to a Barmaid.

Posted on April 10, 2012 by gymnosperm

I had been drinking. And thinking, and remembering Einstein once said no scientific theory was any good unless you could explain it to a barmaid. Well, Albert, good luck with special relativity on a napkin, but Milankovitch? A barmaid brought me … Continue reading →

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