The Evolution of Models - 16
Fig. 1I had a bit of a brainstorm, which seemed reasonably useful, so I implemented it into the model.That brainstorm was to use GISS global mean average TEMPERATURE data from the good folks at GISS...
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Senator Inhofe's research staffI. IntroductionI am beginning a new series on questionable scientific papers, because there seems to be a surge in their numbers lately.This post could have been placed...
View ArticleEtiology of Social Dementia - 14
Obola Newsroom #61In the previous post of this series I wrote: "This series began years ago on 9/18/09, and has covered a lot of ground since (Etiology of Social Dementia, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,...
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Fig. 1Whoopee!I finally found an insidious bug and squished it, because it had been squishing my brain for several days.I pointed out some of the exercises involved in this project in the last post of...
View ArticleWW III Blues
A well known then, but probably forgotten now, song of the 1960's was Highway 61.It was a song with lyrics that described, among other things, a seemingly mythical place.A seemingly mythical place...
View ArticleWatch The Ice Shelves
Fig. 1 Wilmington, NCI. BackgroundThis year I have focused on ice shelves in several posts.Some of those Dredd Blog posts discussed a controversy concerning the impact of sea level fall (SLF) on ice...
View ArticleThe King of King Tides Approaches
Fig. 1King Tides on Steroids SLRHappy Thanksgiving.Some areas are talking about "king tides" this week ("King Tides Take Over Coastal Towns Just in Time for Thanksgiving", Weather Channel).Any subject...
View ArticleIn The Wave Strike - 2
‘In The Wave-Strike Over Unquiet Stones’the brightness bursts and bears the roseand the ring of water contracts to a clusterto one drop of azure brine that falls.O magnolia radiance breaking in...
View ArticleNew Type of SLC Detection Model - 10
Fig. 1I am adding a feature that contrasts sea level change (SLC) volatility in relatively close areas.The two examples today show Yakutat (Fig. 1) which is near Glacier Bay, Alaska, and San Francisco...
View ArticleParis Climate Change Conference Begins
"Let's Talk It Up"They have been talking about climate change remedies for decades, as the CO2, temperatures, sea level, and pollution-making fossil fuel use continue to increase.Even in the august...
View ArticleBlast From The Past (December 1)
In Support of Slavery(Tuesday, December 1, 2009)Everyone is talking about Dubai in the context of "commercial real estate failure".This talk is also in the sense of whether Dubai's financial failures...
View ArticleE3
(Pope Rap)Cold3by Dredd& GiGiCall a cosmic robosomea dizzying molecular machine,like life's ribosome.Call the flower makerin the fires of excitementagain.Call the Sky Factoriesabiotic...
View ArticleDatabases Galore - 11
Fig. 1 The zones are backThe scientists I deal with in Dredd Blog posts have indicated that it is time to watch the ice shelves: "as goes the ice shelf so goes the ice stream flow in the ice sheet"...
View Article"They Must Be Turrists Cause They Went To Sauder Arbia, Clem"
So Sayeth HelenThe San Bernardino mass murders have a link to Saudi Arabia?I heard it on the news today, oh Boy.Perhaps it was a trip to the Hajj:The U.S. Department of State wishes to inform any U.S....
View ArticleDatabases Galore - 12
Fig. 1The GISS data on Antarctica was sparse like much of the data from that hostile region.There aren't even any PSMSL tide gauge stations there.I finally was able to use the data for all zones...
View ArticleWaiting For The World To Climate Change - 2
Victim City on Highway 61The Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney presidential debates did not include a debate about climate change (Climate Change Not Mentioned In Presidential Debates For First Time In A...
View ArticleQuestionable "Scientific" Papers - 2
Fig. 1 The science is obviousA paper posing as a scientific effort, rather than a paid political ad, was discussed at Central Hopium recently (Hopium Study Sees Possible Stuff).The sarcastic title I...
View ArticleThe Gravity of Sea Level Change - 2
Fig. 1 Zones of InfluenceSome have criticized The Gravity of Sea Level Change and related Dredd Blog System posts concerning sea level change (SLC).That criticism has been done out of ignorance.The...
View ArticleNew Type of SLC Detection Model - 12
Fig. 1 Example SQL queryThe new table in the database has the distances from each PSMSL station to Greenland, Antarctica, and Glacier Bay (Fig. 1).Next I plan to implement the Mitrovica formulas (@...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Models - 18
Fig. 1 Very Simple AlgebraI. Some BackgroundWe generally take 1750 as the beginning year of the Industrial Revolution (Wikipedia, cf. Prezi).We have sea level records from less than a hundred years...
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