Oil-Qaeda: The Indictment - 5
The Spirit of Victims has awakenedI'm Looking Through Youby The BeatlesI'm looking through you, where did you go?I thought I knew you, what did I know?You don't look different, but you have changedI'm...
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Dyson Grid?Enigmasby Pablo NerudaYou've asked me what the lobster is weaving there withhis golden feet? I reply, the ocean knows this. You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparentbell?...
View ArticleWeekend Rebel Science Excursion - 40
Enceladus is a moon of SaturnI. Introduction "TGIF" as they say, so let's talk some science.I want to fuse the subject matter of several series into recent scientific developments.A paper in Nature has...
View ArticleThe Poet Laureate of MOMCOM - 4
GenieHe is affection and the present momentbecause he has thrown open the house to the snowfoam of winterand to the noises of summer —he who purified drinking water and food—who is the enchantment...
View ArticleWill This Float Your Boat - 7
Fig. 1 Antarctica melt zones (click to enlarge)Following some new research, I have expanded the scope of the C++ Sea Level Calculation Program.It now includes all of Antarctica, not just W. Antarctica,...
View ArticleOut On The False Front - 2
Downtown"What we want you to think we look like" KSJust can't get enough of history can we?At least when it is a filler for vision (e.g. "Everything goes on like it has since the founding of the...
View ArticleThe Innocence Project2
Miss Piggy Is "Using"It is just one damn quandary after another here in the exceptional Western Civilization.Eat your heart out, exceptional Eastern Civilization!From time to time our science becomes...
View ArticleOn the Origin of the Genes of Viruses - 13
Emergence all at once?All my carping about the dearth of scientific papers concerning evolutionary abiology may have paid off.A paper recently published, in a peer reviewed setting, addresses some of...
View ArticleChoose Your Trances Carefully - 4
How big is a cube 500 kilometres on each side?It is about the same as a cube 311 miles on each side.It would reach past the International Space Station orbit (258 miles) by 53 miles.So what is that...
View ArticleThe Question Is: How Much Acceleration Is Involved In Sea Level Rise?
Down town TomorrowI. Introduction The question is not "is sea level rise accelerating?"The consensus is that sea level rise (SLR) is accelerating.The answer, then, is based on a three-fold spectrum:...
View ArticleAre Some or All Comets Pieces of an Exploded Planet?
The Pebble cometIs nomenclature important in astronomy and cosmology?Not to some scientists and science writers.Sometimes it seems like it never has been important (Modern Evolutionary Synthesis).The...
View ArticleInside Job and/or Conspiracy?
Reconstructing a narrative from its piecesSome tragic events are a metaphor, an epitome, a simile, or similar representation of a larger reality.Germanwings Airbus A320, Flight 4U 9525, was the scene...
View ArticleOnce Upon A Time In The West
The Earth is my bitchThe major movement taking place in our current civilization is also the greatest danger to security, that is, if the President and Pentagon are to be believed.Under the ongoing...
View ArticleThe IPCC Record on Global Warming Temperature Projections
Fig. 1 (click to enlarge)There is an interesting disconnect among various papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). One paper found that for each 1°C of global...
View ArticleIn The Year 2010
I have been doing upgrades to the sea level rise modelling program.So, I did not get any posting done.Time for another look at the past to see same old same old is real.Yep, some review to emphasize...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Models
Model evolutionThe Darwinian thinking, in its embryonic state, was not a concept that abiotic entities evolve, no, it was a line of thinking based on the evolution of biotic entities.For example, those...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Models - 2
Fig. 1 (click to enlarge)Today, I am going to be "talking out loud" about the sea level rise (SLR) calculation program, version 1.0 (earlier versions I posted about were betas).I added a masking class...
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Complex SystemsArchitects of prospective sea level rise (SLR) software have to face 'mystery' or better said, complex system behavior, from time to time.Complex becomes 'mysterious' when the complexity...
View ArticleThe IPCC Record on Global Warming Temperature Projections - 2
Fig. 1 (click to enlarge)Don't you just love good records?And don't you just love the best?So, today, we are going to use the "best estimate" of what life and death will be like in 2100.How the IPCC...
View ArticleNew Climate Catastrophe Policy: Triage - 12
"You need insurance."I. IntroductionA blogger, commenting on the prudence of having insurance, wrote: "[as] far as frequency you could figure that 0.317% of households ... 0.276% of housing units had a...
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