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Category Archives: Climate
Oil and the Devil
The concept of the devil in the Judeo-Christian/Muslim tradition seems to have its roots in an older Persian and possibly Indo-European notion of opposing forces of good and evil. The Christian conception developed into the elaborate scheme described by Dante which was integrated into … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Climate, Geology, History, Religion
Tagged Oil and the Devil
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California Drought Update February 2015
It seems from the great wailing and moaning that we have arrived at a new definition of drought. The new definition is whatever is inconvenient for 30 million people regardless how much rain falls. I am a big fan of … Continue reading
Posted in California Drought, Climate, San Francisco Rainfall
Tagged California Drought
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The State of the Onion
Let’s say the way this planet works is an onion. There are many layers and they interact in ways far more complex than onion rings. Yet we have to start somewhere, and peeling back the layers of this onion can … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Geology, LLSVP's are Doughboys, Magnetic Reversals, Moho, Oceanography, Seismic Tomography
Tagged missing energy
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Pope Misguided the XXXXXXXXIX Preaches Crusade Against Carbon
In an action that betrays all the more clearly the religious roots of the Carbon crusade, the Pope continues a long and sorry tradition of involving the church in matters best left to science and individual conscience. From Galileo a … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Carbon Theology, Climate, Ethics
Tagged Carbon Crusade, Pope
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Lamarc Col, Muir Pass, Mt. solomons, Charybdis, Mt. Goddard, Echo Col, December, 1976
We had fallen in love with the moonscape of Muir Pass and the improbable hut there while hiking the John Muir Trail in 1966. No vegetation besides hardy buckwheats and lichen can be seen in any direction from this … Continue reading
Hold and Haul, The Surprising Result of a Careful Analysis of Sustainability
The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate the “sustainability” in terms of fossil energy use between localized wastewater treatment at a sewage treatment facility and “hold and haul” trucking to the EBMUD cogeneration facility in Oakland for a new … Continue reading
The end of the Hollowscene
The concept of the Holocene epoch is a 19th century notion developed when the preceding “ice age” was thought of as a monolithic block of ice extending back to the end of the Pliocene. In this context it made sense … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropic interglacial, Anthropocene, Climate, Geology, Holocene, Paleoclimate
Tagged Anthropic interglacial, Hollowscene, Misanthroposcene
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The Myth of Stasis
As one gets on a bit in years it is a comfort when customary things like the dental floss and shoes stay the same, but the sad fact is that most often they do not and it is necessary to find available … Continue reading
Satellites and Thermometers
In a recent blog discussion with some unusually astute folks who are still concerned about human warming, the thread came to a dead-end at satellites and thermometers. It became clear that the real crux of the climate debate between well-studied … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming, Mount Whitney
Tagged GISS data adjustments
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The Ocean Ate It
One of the arguments one hears often these days to explain the lack of lower atmospheric warming for a human generation is that the ocean is somehow absorbing the “heat” or enthalpy that Carbon dioxide is supposed to be creating … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Global Warming, Oceanography
Tagged Ocean Heat Content, Thermosaline Subduction
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