There was a huge demo of around 15-20,000 people in Granada tonight, protesting changes to labour laws and working practices. The march came down the main street right past our hotel, where I got some snaps from our balcony on the fourth floor. They were using flash powder to set off mighty canon-fire which shook [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Day 5: The Alhambra and a plan for the high Sierra
Posted: February 29, 2012 by tallbloke in Photography, TravelThe Alhambra is a world famous site on a hill at the edge of Granada. It consists of a sandstone fortress encompassing a range of Moorish palaces, monumental buildings from the 13th to 18th centuries, and the fabulous garden of Generalife. I keep coming back here, but for Kath, it was a first, and I [...]
Day 4: From coast to mountains
Posted: February 28, 2012 by tallbloke in PhotographyTags: spain, travel
After three beach days, we´ve headed uphill. This was the dawn at Almunecar this morning. Around midday we headed for the bus station, arriving just in time to catch the fast aircon coach to Granada. It´s a spectacular climb, with the Sierra Nevada eventually dominating the skyline.
ARGO: The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat
Posted: February 27, 2012 by tallbloke in Ocean dynamics, atmosphere, media, methodologyThis 2008 article holds an important historical truth about the adjustment of ARGO data. I suggest everyone copies and pastes the original article into a text file or saves the web page complete. One day, it will disappear… Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving [...]
WOW! Nomination into the finals of the 2012 Bloggies was unexpected. Winning European blog of the year is almost as much of a surprise as…
We had a nice easy flight from Leeds to Malaga. Our accom in the old university hall of residence is great, and very central. After checking in we had a stroll round. The streets are still crowded at midnight. Everyone is out for the first warm saturday night of 2012.
Hans Jelbring: The Stefan-Boltzmann Law and the Construction of a Perpetuum Mobile
Posted: February 25, 2012 by tallbloke in Astrophysics, atmosphere, Energy, methodology, solar system dynamicsStefan-Boltzmann Law and the Construction of a Perpetuum Mobile Hans Jelbring BSc, meteorologist, Stockholm University, Civil engineer, electronics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, PhD, institution of Paleogeophysics & geodynamics, Stockholm University Abstract By analyzing two concentric spheres where one is placed inside the other some far reaching conclusions can be made concerning temperatures on two [...]
Stephen Wilde: The Myth of ‘Backradiation’
Posted: February 25, 2012 by tallbloke in atmosphere, climate, Energy, general circulation, Ocean dynamicsThe Myth of ‘Backradiation’. Stephen Wilde 1) The so called ‘consensus’ theory of the Greenhouse Effect. At some point over the past twenty years or so it has come to be believed that the physics of radiation is the primary driving process for planetary atmospheric temperatures. I do not know how or when that happened [...]
Reblogged from : Handel's Messiah: It's not just for Christmas anymore. Attention scientists and journalists: I want my word back. You don’t get to use it anymore, unless you want to admit that you are in the business of deceiving people. That word? “Ever.” I know I’m in for it when I hear this word [...]
Solar cycle progress to maximum
Posted: February 24, 2012 by tchannon in Astrophysics, Solar physics, solar system dynamicsThe solar polar magnetic field goes through zero at about sunspot cycle maximum, with the magnetic cycle running at half the speed, one reason why alternate sunspot cycles are similar. The present solar situation is genuinely anomalous with no-one clear on what is going to happen next.
