Showing posts with label Climactic considerations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Climactic considerations. Show all posts
Friday, November 18, 2022

The Witch King’s Forest Reserve

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Yvon Chouinard, the billionaire CEO of the Patagonia company, must be feeling his mortality. A few months back, he announced that he was tr...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Can mining Australian coal slow sea level rise?

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Disclaimer. I am stuck at home waiting for a child’s COVID test result, and desperately looking for a distraction from some personal admin. ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Geosonnet 55

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A plotter’s pause to synchronize his watch Is often preparation for a heist: A bank vault? Tardy mail train full of scotch? A drug...
Tuesday, October 09, 2018

IPCC 1.5 degrees of obfuscation

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So, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released an important document today, allegedly demonstrating that 1.5 degrees of warming...
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Molten metal metamorphosis

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The Australian Aluminium smelting industry is having a rough time. Built to utilize electricity from Australian coal from the 1960’s throug...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

An Arrogant Anthropocene

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An excellent article recently appeared in GSA Today explaining how stratigraphy is defined, and how the proposal to rename a recent port...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

A conservative response to climate change

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Climate change is in the news again, with the liberals renewing their call for collectivist action, and the anti-science branch of conserva...
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Monday, June 30, 2014

Glaciers are all individuals!

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Between 16 and 11 thousand years ago, the Fennoscandian Ice sheet, which once covered the greater Scandinavia area, collapsed. When coasta...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Geology of Opportunity

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Last year, the New York Times published an article on the geography of opportunity . It discussed how upward mobility varied across many of...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

There’s no such thing as a climate scientist

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 Here in Australia, the new Coalition government, which won office in 2013 on a head-in-the-sand approach to climate change, is busy dism...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

The Wool Sock’s Carbon Footprint

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Four years ago, I blogged about the cognitive disconnect between the ecological perceptions of wearing wool and eating beef.  However, I ...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Odd-shaped lakes in Google Earth

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I was goofing around in Google Earth this evening, performing an activity that started out as meaningful and quickly degenerated into a Gam...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

The trouble with climate models

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For the past 20 years or so, people who have not wanted to consider the possible issues relating to increasing the atmospheric load of car...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Solar energy summary

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As I mentioned previously , we recently had a 2 kilowatt photovoltaic solar power system installed on the NW-facing roof of our house. Belo...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Energy from the sun

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Our house uses a number of different technologies to harness energy from the sun. Three are pictured above. The newest and most expensive ...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Real scientists study climate

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There is often an argument, usually heard from the math/ engineering wing of the global warming skeptic industry, which suggests that climat...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

How long as the Atacama been dry?

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“I am flying home from Europe in late August with nothing but a notebook and the 2011 Goldschmidt conference Geology giveaway issue to keep ...