The Warming Science Commentariat - 8
Fig. 1I added a module to the World Ocean Database (WOD) system.It reads a plain ASCII file which contains a list of WOD zones.It then reads data from SQL tables where measurements in those zones are...
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Fig. 1 Greenland Subsurface TemperaturesThe waters around Greenland dramatically show the changing temperatures I have been writing about lately (Fig. 1).The contrast from area to area is shown by the...
View ArticleOn Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 4
Fig. 1The graph at Fig. 1 is composed from World Ocean Database (WOD) data from all around the coast of Antarctica.Those zones are listed on the Fig. 1 graph, and shown by the red line on Fig. 2.Like...
View ArticleLouisiana: The Latest on Flood Recovery, by the Numbers
1) Number of Houses So Damaged That Residents Are Displaced: 60,6462) Number of People in Shelters: 2,6343) Number of People Rescued: 30,0004) Number of Pets Rescued: More Than 3,3005) Number of State...
View ArticleNew Continent Found - Garbage Gyre II - 10
Go FigureI am writing this post while watching a "window" on my computer's screen that is displaying another program that is updating the WOD database (my local version of it that is).After releasing...
View ArticleRecognize A Brain Wreck When You See One?
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."- James MadisonNot all folks will, but some of the notable foreign policy officials of long standing...
View ArticleOn Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 5
Fig. 1 Temperatures @ The Garbage PatchAfter the temperature and salinity phases of the WOD data based subsurface analysis, there is the chemical and microbe analysis.Perhaps the most interesting...
View ArticleUnprecedented In A Thousand Years
Fig. 1 What goes up NASA / GuardianSome quotes from "Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies" and the Guardian:The planet is warming at a pace not experienced within the...
View ArticleOn Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 6
Fig. 1In this series, among other things I wanted to discuss, one was the effect of the loss of salinity on the expansion and contraction of water.Specifically ocean water.And especially on most ocean...
View ArticleQuestionable "Scientific" Papers - 10
Fig. 1As a follow-up to the previous post in this series, I wanted to share some facts about the data I use to generate graphs that regular readers peruse.I want you to know that a lot of work goes...
View ArticleThe Extinction of Robust Sea Ports - 8
Bankruptcy: World's Seventh Largest ShipperThis series has focused on an area of global economy that is habitually overlooked.At least it is overlooked in terms of global economic security (The...
View ArticleKochenstein Kochaine
Kochenstein"Kochaine"(with apologies to J.J. Cale)If you want to die out, you've got to pump it out, kochaineIf you want to fall down, get buried in the ground, kochaineShe tells lies, He tells lies,...
View ArticleOn Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 7
Fig. 1 WOD Zones @ EquatorToday we take a look at the World Ocean Database (WOD) zones along the equator.One strip of zones is in the N. Hemisphere and the other is in the S. Hemisphere, yet they have...
View ArticleThe Warming Science Commentariat - 9
Fig. 1 Lipstick on a mouthpieceI. Once Upon A ReportIt is time to mention where, when, and by whom the warming science commentariat were originally led astray.Yes, led astray on the myth that "thermal...
View ArticleGRAVITY: It's Wireless
Fig. 1 Equatorial BandIn recent posts we took a look at the World Ocean Database (WOD) zone data for WOD Zones bordering the warm equatorial band around the globe (Fig. 1, Fig. 2).Fig. 2 Water...
View ArticleWill This Float Your Boat - 13
Fig. 1 WOD data I. BackgroundIt is about time to turn the page on the discussion about the thermal expansion hypothesis.If I haven't made it clear enough by now, I doubt that I ever will. I recently...
View ArticleWill This Float Your Boat - 14
Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)by EnyaLet me sail, let me sail,let the orinoco flow,Let me reach, let me beachOn the shores of Tripoli.Let me sail, let me sail,Let me crash upon your shore,Let me reach, let...
View ArticleTime Is An ocean But It Ends At The Shore
Fig. 1More HereOneI am including a couple of graphs today (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2).The data were generated by the evolving sea level module I am writing (again).It works with the module that processes WOD...
View ArticleGroundhog Day & The Climate of Fear - 2
Oh no, not again ...In the first post of this series I was struck by the denialist infiltration of the political process: "Have you noticed that those who want to be our leaders would not mention the...
View ArticleEpipelagic Magic
Fig. ASea LevelEpigovernment?I. EpibeginningWe mention the "surface" of the ocean a lot, without mentioning what "surface" means.Is "surface" an inch deep, a foot deep, or what?To oceanographers at...
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