Showing posts with label Natural and synthetic disasters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural and synthetic disasters. Show all posts
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Geosonnet 69

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An accidental drilling in the deeps Reveals a sleeper agent- felsic melt Invisible to seismic, magma sleeps Until basaltic trigger car...
Sunday, May 02, 2021

Geosonnet 68

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A hickory, a dickory, a dock Diffusion rate of mice when timing’s known But atoms, unlike rodents, have a clock Which contradicts the others...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Geosonnet 64

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When Perseus, Medusa’s head in hand, Returned triumphant from the Gorgon’s isle, He sold himself as hero of the land, No stony witne...
Saturday, February 09, 2019

Sierra Sequoias from space

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I wrote last year about the big trees of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. One if the things that interested me was the ability of...
Saturday, December 08, 2018

The Greenland impact crater

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This is a brief note on the recent Science Advances paper on the Hiawatha Impact crater, a large, recent crater which lies under the Hi...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Book Review: The 2020 Comission Report into the North Korean Nuclear Attacks...

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Book review: The 2020 Commission Report into the North Korean Nuclear Attacks against the United States By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis This ...
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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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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Total eclipse of the Death Star

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Happy Eclipse day! Congratulations to everybody who is lucky enough to live in the eclipse path, or who made the effort to get under th...
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Monday, March 21, 2016

Nickel and timed

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One of the problems with studying the origin and evolution of life is that our mother Earth has a shady memory.   The farther back in t...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

The wrong kind of Bang

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In science education and popularization, there is a delicate balance that must be struck between overcomplicating and oversimplifying. Insu...
Friday, October 17, 2014

A brief word on Earthquakes and fracking.

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Since the Keranen et al . paper a few months ago, there has been much discussion on the relationship between earthquakes and wastewater dis...
Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Don’t weaponize space

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On the Planetary Society  website , the normally responsible and pro-science Planetary Society has posted an opinion piece by Louis Freedm...
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Friday, October 04, 2013

Never complain about your stove again

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Geologist have it pretty easy, in terms of lab safety.  Compared to chemists and biologists, we have to deal with a relatively low number o...
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...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Putting the Russian meteorite in perspective

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Friday morning, a large meteor entered the atmosphere over the southern Ural area of Russia , detonating with enough force to shatter wind...
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Friday, September 09, 2011

The National Hurricane Center's Y2K bug

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The following is the current forecast discussion for Hurricane Katia. Note the last line: ZCZC MIATCDAT2 ALL TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM HURRICANE...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

One hundred major impacts: part two: the deep ocean

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A few months ago, I guaranteed the readership of the Lounge that none of them would be killed by a meteorite impact . In laying out the es...
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Monday, March 14, 2011

Japan disaster

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I've been away for a long weekend, and haven't been keeping up with the news. Other people have, though. Highly Allochthonous has a...
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