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Normalization Of The Abnormal
McTell it like it is, Snooper ManThe news media habit of normalizing the abnormal went awry when candidate Trump bloviated on and on about what was considered to be abnormal politics.Like soon-to-be,...
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Hold On To Something Alright
Fig. 1 History of Ocean Depth AssertionsI. Ignorance is Bliss? The graph at Fig. 1 is a NOAA graph showing the mean (average) ocean depth in meters, as estimated or calculated for over a century.The...
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Gerrymandering - Geological Deceit? - 6
Oral Argument in Gill v WhitfordI began this series almost nine years ago (Gerrymandering - Geological Deceit?).The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument on the issue this past Tuesday in the case...
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On The More Robust Sea Level Computation Techniques - 5
Fig. 1 Determining Ocean Mass ChangeI. The Critical Numbers The most critical value to determine in thermosteric sea level rise (thermal expansion) calculations is the mass at the time the calculations...
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The Art of Making Thermal Expansion Graphs
Gardens By The BayIt has been a while since I published any C++ source code (Weekend Rebel Science Excursion - 49). The last one, linked to above, had to do with some of the simple basics of sea level...
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On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 25
Fig. 1a Conservative TemperatureFig. 1b CT AverageIn the Thermodynamic Equation of SeaWater 2010 (TEOS-10) scheme of things, Conservative Temperature (CT), Absolute Salinity (SA), and Pressure (P) are...
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On The More Robust Sea Level Computation Techniques - 6
Fig. 1 SA 0-200 mIn this series I have provided some views on how best to calculate and compute thermal expansion and contraction with the in situ measurements available in the World Ocean Database...
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On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 26
Fig. 1aFirst graph of this seriesFig. 1b Thermal ExpansionToday, let's look at thermal expansion and contraction at each depth level.But first, let's remember that all "water contracts (decreases in...
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Etiology of Social Dementia - 17
An etiological exerciseOver eight years ago I started this series concerning the origin of "social dementia" (Etiology of Social Dementia, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16).By "social...
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The Shapeshifters of Bullshitistan - 10
NoClueElla HucksterThis is the episode about NoClueElla Huckster (TheHuckster) in the Whut? House (the one who got there by the stealth of Moochifer during his historically short tenure as Vice...
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Time's Up
Even 2 C of Warming is 'Highly DangerousI. Surges In Sea Level Change It has been known for some time that instances of quick or sudden rises in sea level take place.Recently a new study reaffirmed our...
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Dept. of Justice Conspiracy Theories - 2
Don't tweet 'til you see the white supremacy of their eyesI. Background Over a half a decade ago I pointed out one bad habit of the mass media (Dept. of Justice Conspiracy Theories). The McTell News...
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Trumpeting While Straining Out A Gnat
It's too late to call this 'the future'Another lunatic kills a few people with a rented truck while those who see themselves as "the shiny city on the hill" (a dog-whistle code for "the epigovernment")...
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Trapped Heat Is Like Trapped Animals (Somewhat Unpredictable)
Fig. 1 What comes in must equal what goes out (or else)The peer reviewed paper which came out recently indicated that it was highly unlikely that a 2 degree C increase in average global surface...
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Government Climate Change Report - 11
It's the lawThis series concerns legislation passed by congress and signed into law by Bush I in 1990.This series began almost half a decade ago (Government Climate Change Report, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,...
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First Shots Fired In The Currency Wars - 2
"Truth is never the fault of the messenger." - DreddThis series is about a little-watched, but incessantly developing, situation in international monetary dynamics.One that threatens the economy of...
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The Shapeshifters of Bullshitistan - 11
Leaders of Bullshitistan at work on InfrastructureI. PreludeBullshitistan invaded the U.S.A. by way of a criminal conspiracy (e.g. Dept. of Justice Conspiracy Theories - 2).Those invaders thereby...
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Hypothesis: The Cultural Amygdala - 5
The Brain's Amygdala PairI. Some BackgroundThis series began on the Toxins of Power Blog (Hypothesis: The Cultural Amygdala, 2, 3, 4).But I can't write as much as I used to, so that blog and...
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The Shapeshifters of Bullshitistan - 12
Alias Fruit SaladThis episode is about a not-a-so-called-judge (Judge Liddle Pistol) who everyone once knew was into dating high school girls bigly (Former Colleague, c.f. Everyone thought it was...
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On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 27
Fig. 1 Simulated vs. measuredI. PSMSL Update I recently updated the PSMSL database with data up to 13 November 2017 (PSMSL).I combine the two (annual, monthly) downloads into one SQL table.The result...
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