Category Archives: Climate

The 2 Good Greenhouse Gas II

Posted on January 17, 2016 by gymnosperm

When show a Carbonist that there is no evidence of CO2 causing significant “global” warming at any scale from deep time to the last 35 years as we did in the last post, they usually look at you funny and say, … Continue reading →

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Quick and Dirty Irradiance to Radiance

Posted on January 6, 2016 by gymnosperm

Couldn’t believe it when it turned into a huge mathematical cluster to convert units of irradiance or spectral irradiance as used in models to radiance as used in measurements. Rather than get into the intricacies of spherical harmonics, figuring steradians, and … Continue reading →

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The 2 Good Greenhouse Gas

Posted on January 3, 2016 by gymnosperm

Anyone with a big picture perspective can see that there is no correlation between CO2 and temperature at any scale except the clear dependence of CO2 on temperature in the ice cores; and temperature control of the variation of CO2 … Continue reading →

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Much Ado About Noses II

Posted on January 1, 2016 by gymnosperm

We left off the nose theme with the quandary that the surface temperatures as measured about the height of the human nose in places humans frequent on the planet differs significantly in trend from measurements by satellite of various levels of … Continue reading →

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The Earth is Falling! – Land Subsidence and Water Management in California

Posted on December 28, 2015 by gymnosperm

Still a good amount of sanity in academia if you know where to look. A link referenced in the post ( Land Subsidence from Groundwater Use in California )is well worth the read if you live in California. Source: The Earth … Continue reading →

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Much Ado About our Noses

Posted on December 7, 2015 by gymnosperm

You get the idea that nobody thinks about weather stations. Budofcourssse, with futbol and all the other distractions this should really not be surprising. The fact remains that weather stations are ergonomically designed louvered boxes designed to be opened and … Continue reading →

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Naked Apes, Staring Into the Sunrise

Posted on December 6, 2015 by gymnosperm

We are an arrogant lot. We presumed the universe rotated around us, even positing epicycles upon ever more byzantine epicycles to explain the growing contradictory evidence. The truth was evident, but incomprehensible. Burn the evidence, burn the very idea if you … Continue reading →

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Going Solar

Posted on October 19, 2015 by gymnosperm

According to Svalgaard (2015): Solar EUV, by exciting Oxygen molecules, creates thermal winds in the ionosphere whose dynamo effect changes the earth’s magnetic field. 2. The diurnal change in the earth’s magnetic field as a result of the sun passing … Continue reading →

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Sea Level and ENSO

Posted on September 27, 2015 by gymnosperm

Been puzzling lately over this graphic from the university of Colorado. It shows a very significant relationship between El Nino and global mean sea level. The notes on their website, http://sealevel.colorado.edu/, state that “often” the ENSO index leads sea level … Continue reading →

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How Big a Baby Will the 2015-16 Nino Be?

Posted on September 26, 2015 by gymnosperm

Lots of bluster about coming storms but what does the data we have tell us? What jumps right out is that the hot whopping 1997 El Nino shows remarkable agreement in phase and strength between all the indices. We really … Continue reading →

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