Dress Codes: Language As A Clothing Metaphor
Fig. 1"Your mother wears combat boots clothing."Is "talk" cheap because it is a luxury, or is it costly ("words matter") because it is a necessity?At least one observer indicates that luxury is cheaper...
View ArticleTyphoon Triplets For Taiwan
Fig. 1Taiwan Typhoon PerspectivesIt is an everyday happenstance that clueless people are called on to misreport scientific news.The warming commentariat, politicians, and ill-informed scientists make...
View ArticleWhen The Obvious Becomes "Debatable"
Fig. 1 Sea LevelI. The Spy Boss KnowsNotice this quote from the Security arm of the Director of the National Intelligence Agencies (DNI):"This memorandum was prepared by the National Intelligence...
View ArticleThe Path of Matthew
Fig. 1 Path of Matthew (red lines)The graphic at Fig. 1 shows the past and the projected path of what is now Hurricane Matthew.It was an embryo in its mother's womb in Africa near the southern edge of...
View ArticleTrancing With The Stars
Fig. 1 WOW. original dataRegular commenters Mark and randy wanted to know about the West Coast of South America, in terms of what WOD data show is going on there.Yesterday's post had some ocean...
View ArticleOn Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 8
It is up to Peanuts nowI. Just For YawnsToday let's look at two reasons that the scientific community, and the warming science commentariat, are clueless on some basic science.I will exclude all absurd...
View ArticleThe Path of Matthew - 2
Fig. 1 Did you say u-turn?I. The U-Turn SurpriseThe robust weather software models running on the supercomputers plotted a course for Hurricane Matthew that has been reasonably correct so far (The Path...
View ArticleThe Damaged Global Climate System - 6
You Are HereI. "Parts is Parts" IgnoranceIn this series, the systemic nature of the global climate system has been emphasized.The reason for that is the simple reality that "parts is parts" has a place...
View ArticleUQx DENIAL101x + Displacementx
Dr. MannWhy don't any of these people realize that they are being murdered, and that their failure to grasp the reality is collective suicide (Oil-Qaeda & MOMCOM Conspire To Commit Depraved-Heart...
View ArticleIce Sheet Hemorrhagic Fever and The Prayer Wars
Humble Oil-Qaeda - As contrite as The DonaldI. Dr. DolittleIt would be medical malpractice for a doctor to say "nothing to see here folks, move along now" after diagnosing a patient who had viral...
View ArticleCongratulations To Bob Dylan
But now it is hereIt has been a long time coming ...The singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, one of the world’s most influential musicians, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for “having...
View ArticleBanker Jekyll Will Hyde Your Money - 12
About Aramco: View I, View IIThis is an older Dredd Blog series (Banker Jekyll Will Hyde Your Money, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) which began (on August 30, 2009) with the sentence: "In a series of...
View ArticleIt Ain't Me, Man
A lone man refusing to do the Nazi salute, 1936I. Modern Nationalism It is not universally recognized that academically, nationalism is a modern phenomenon:Nationalism, ideology based on the premise...
View ArticleOn Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 9
Fig. 1Official Ocean LayersI. BackgroundThis series is an argument against the TEH hypothesis: "thermal expansion of the ocean is the major cause of sea level rise" (Thermal Expansion Hypothesis).As...
View ArticleQuestionable "Scientific" Papers - 11
Fig. 1 Indian Ocean AreaI. BackgroundScientific papers that rely on the hypothesis that thermal expansion of ocean water is the major cause of sea level rise are per se questionable (On Thermal...
View ArticleOn the West Side of Zero - 2
Fig. 1 The SLC picture @ W. AfricaI completed the rewriting of the PSMSL data handlers.Those are the software modules that were lost when the errant operating system's installation/upgrade program...
View ArticleChoose Your Trances Carefully - 7
"Trump will help us stop Bad Barbara"I. A Peek At TrancesThis series has bolstered the subcultural notion that there is no reason to think that officialdom can avoid its ingrained systemic trances...
View ArticleUplifting Myths
Fig. 1 Indian Ocean"Uplift is the process by which the earth's surface slowly rises either due to increasing upward force applied from below or decreasing downward force (weight) from above"...
View ArticleIn the Fog of The Presstitutes - 5
"Let's begin the auction"I. The Money Grubbing"Online advertising revenue has risen as digital media becomes more popular" (Circulation vs. Advertising). This election has been marked by a media...
View ArticleThe Kiwi Factors
Fig. 1I have written some error checking modules to do quality checks on WOD data.I only do this to processed data, i.e. not directly on the 400 some million rows of data in the raw.That is, I check on...
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