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Category Archives: Geography
Carbon Isotope Excursions and Carbon Limitation of Primary Productivity in the Biosphere
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
Posted in Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Economics, Geography, Geology, History of Life, Oceanography, Paleoclimate
Tagged banded iron formation, Climate, Earth, environment, Isotopes of carbon, Jonathan Payne, Michael Benton, Permian, Permian-Triassic, Permian–Triassic extinction event, science, Triassic
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Spreadsheet of Human History
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
Posted in Anthropology, Climate, Geography, History, History of Life, Religion
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An exceptional walk across the Golden Gate Bridge
An exceptional walk required exceptional procedures. Picture ID, affidavit signed and cosigned, hard hats issued. Ancient key inserted, old bolts grudgingly lifted, a tiny passageway to the innards of the south tower. Three human sardines at a time, an elevator … Continue reading
Please Don’t Feed the Feedbacks
Feedback is central to the alarmist narrative on several levels. Negative feedback seven times more powerful for CO2 loss (from pre-industrial level, it is non-linear) than positive feedback for an equal gain is critical for the hypothesis that Milankovitch cycles … Continue reading
Too Much on my Plate
I’ve been getting annoyed with the grade school conception of “plate” tectonics where everyone is identifying plates and their relative motions and saying stuff like the Japan Earthquake of 2011 was caused by the Pacific Plate sliding under Japan. It … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Geology, Oceanography
Tagged Earthquake, earthsciences, Indo-Australian Plate, Japan, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Plate, Subduction
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Deeper Doo Doo for Dendrochronology
Indices of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation are in close agreement for the period of the last seventy years. The NASA Multivariate Index and the Mantua Index only go back a hundred or so and they correlate very closely. These shorter … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Oceanography, Paleoclimate, Paleogeography
Tagged China, Dendrochronology, Hockey Stick, Limber Pine, NASA, pacific decadal oscillation, PDO
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What’s going on here? #…oh who’s counting
More data follies. Had to respond to a tenant complaining of poor retail sales. Took a notion to check retail sales for the area. Guess the rainfall data follies should have prepared me. But no, naive I guess, too ready to … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Geography
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Not to change the subject or anything…
But I walked into the paint store the other day carrying a can of the paint I had bought there sometime within the last decade to paint my truck and was informed that the no longer carry that kind of paint. They further … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Economics, Geography
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Picturesque
So if the oceanic circulation looks like this: And the resulting 2500m (deep) ocean age looks tile this: Then what does this mean? Why should a PDO index that basically describes which side of the Pacific Ocean the ancient deep water … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Oceanography
Tagged el nino, global surface temperature, global temperature, mjo, oceanic circulation, pdo index
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Postcard from a resltess mind
What level of economic growth is sustainable? In the current environment probably the anemic growth we are seeing, but capitalism has always been a boom and bust thing with a mentality that if you aren’t growing like crazy you are … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Geography
Tagged American Manufacturing, CNC machines, Joe six pack, Sustainable economic growth
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