Tag Archives: global warming

Everyone Loves Lists, Should We Worry or Not?

Posted on April 26, 2014 by gymnosperm

Take a big leap back in time. It is 1974, forty years ago. The planet has been cooling for thirty years. There is very real concern about this. The Pentagon is making Ice Age contingency plans. The scientific community is agnostic. … Continue reading →

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Dude, It’s Not About Carbon Dioxide

Posted on August 25, 2013 by gymnosperm

We know a lot about Carbon dioxide in a jar. We know the wavelengths it prefers to absorb and emit photons. We know it tends to mix efficiently with other gasses. We know it has a nearly magical affinity for … Continue reading →

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A bit About Adiabatic, (Without the Devil)

Posted on June 27, 2013 by gymnosperm

Air does basically two things; either it warms and rises , or it sinks and cools. Winds follow the pressure gradients that emerge between these regimes. Ironically, cold air masses are warming and rising and warm air masses are sinking … 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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528 years of PDO, the long skinny one.

Posted on January 23, 2012 by gymnosperm

        Quite a bit lost in the upload but here is the complete Shen Index plotted on three graphs and cobbed together (Excel tops out at 255 per series). Most of the time the index has been … Continue reading →

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