When The Mayan Calendar Was Conceived
Fig. 1 Evolution of JanuaryToday, I want to explain some of the different figures that I have talked about and used concerning the duration of the axial precession of the Earth.Numbers such as 26,000...
View ArticleAxial Precession Induced Sea Level Change
Fig. 1 Southern Hemisphere biasI. BackgroundThe Earth's natural axial precession cycle causes natural climate change, which in turn causes natural sea level change (SLC).The reason that SLC takes place...
View ArticleChoose Your Trances Carefully - 8
Fig. 1 Policy makers of TrancelvaniaI. Start HereBy definition we can't make sense of insanity, nor conversely demonstrate insanity to be sensible.Yet, there are vast industries that have been trying...
View ArticleDon't Believe In Abrupt Sea Level Change - Know About It - 4
Koch Brothers celebrate @ Davy Jones' LockerI. BackgroundToday's post will concern two videos that are related, yet quite different.The two videos span the distance between all out acceptance and all...
View ArticleThe Exceptional American Denial - 2
Whistleblowers According To The Early Americans - 2The session in today's video had no teleprompters, notes, or other backup.Just people whose professions are in the scientific realm, whose careers are...
View ArticlePSMSL Update
Fig. 1I. Database UpdatedI updated my PSMSL database to bring in new stations and data which they say is up to "02 Jan 2017".The total stations in the SQL table now total 1,486 tide gauge stations.I...
View ArticlePSMSL Update - 2
Fig. 1 1808 - 2015In yesterday's post I expressed some concern about the decrease in the number of PSMSL tide gauge stations.Today, I am presenting a graph of the history of the number of active PSMSL...
View ArticleWill Elections Cure The Disease? - 4
Fig. 1 As of January 15, 2017The Arctic sea ice has been disintegrating before our eyes for years now as the old ice, which is years and years old, is disappearing, while new ice formed each year is...
View ArticleDatabases Galore - 16
Fig. 1I. Background In a recent post (PSMSL Update - 2) I mentioned that data on tide gauge stations around the world was sparse for 2015-2016.I contacted PSMSL by email, writing: "Greetings,I am an...
View ArticleAlarmists Unite !
Fig. 1We just finished three sequential years of "the hottest year on record" with the end in sight."Temperatures are heading toward levels that many experts believe will pose a profound threat to both...
View ArticleWeekend Rebel Science Excursion - 58
Fig.1I became tired of the "standard deviation" (std. dev.) graph technique, so I tried to create a new technique to replace it.I rebelled, and mind you, this took place while I was proving that the...
View ArticleAgnotology: The Surge - 19
Fig. 1 Ocean temperature &thermal/density factorsIn this series we have looked into the dynamic spread of ignorance by isolating and identifying some of the sources of that ignorance (Dr. Robert N....
View ArticleSLC Due To Melting of Sea Ice
Mother Nature Cleaning Up The MessI. BackgroundRegular readers know that I have posted about the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice recently (e.g. Databases Galore - 16, Weekend Rebel Science Excursion -...
View ArticleOn Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 10
Fig. 1World Ocean Database, Samoa PassageIn this series I have been challenging the, IMO, fallacy that thermal expansion of ocean water is the primary factor or even a major factor of sea level rise...
View ArticleThe Donald University vs. The Lord GOP University - 2
Honorary Dr. TwainIn the first post of this series, posted in March of 2016, I pointed out how the establishment Republicans and opposing establishment Democrats had been the subjects of the research...
View ArticlePolar Sea Ice Trend At Both Poles
Fig. 1The polar sea ice in both hemispheres is setting records so far this January.The record being set is low ice extent.January is a summer month in the Southern Hemisphere (Fig. 1), but it is a...
View ArticleOn Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 11
Fig. 1There is a hypothesis which says "19th and 20th century sea level rise has mostly been caused by thermal expansion due to sunlight hitting the ocean surface and thereby warming it".In other...
View ArticlePolar Sea Ice Trend At Both Poles - 2
Fig. 1 Arctic Sea Ice TrendThis series takes a look at the "ins and outs" of that part of the cryosphere which floats on the oceans at the "top" and "bottom" of the planet. As the deniers take over the...
View ArticleThe Layered Approach To Big Water
Fig. 1 Layers 7 - 10The design of the World Ocean Database (WOD) zones is well done in several ways.There are 18 horizontal layers beginning at "the top of the world" (90 deg. N), then proceeding down...
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