Spooky, the moving Death Valley rocks.
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Periodicities in mean sea-level fluctuations and climate change proxies
Posted: August 20, 2014 by tchannon in Cycles, Forecasting, methodology, Natural Variation, UncategorizedJennifer Marohasy has a new post “Revisionist Approach Destroys Information About Natural Cycles Embedded in Climate Data” where there is underlying interest for Talkshop readers. Mention of Ken Ring is perhaps not so good given a reputation for excessive claims, caveat emptor.
Her take is from an Australian perspective mentioning a Senator and the lead author is Australian.
Periodicities in mean sea-level fluctuations and climate change proxies: Lessons from the modelling for coastal management
R.G.V. Baker, , S.A. McGowan
BCSS, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
Available online 12 July 2014
Elsevier so it is paywalled http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2014.05.027
From live broadcast voice interview BBC R5
Infected US nationals have been given in-development via IV experimental ex-mouse and ex-tobacco plant anti-bodies of some kind, binds to blood circulating Ebola virus, body recognises bound combination as bad, removes from bloodstream, response inside hour.
To do this an official must have given permission or perhaps unlawfully, patients (medically qualified) apparently assented.
I hope this news is correct. Hope some more and no dire side effects.
The situation in west Africa essentially out of control, extreme.
Wire news
Sierra Leone, Liberia deploy troops as Ebola toll hits 887
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/05/uk-healh-ebola-africa-idUKKBN0G41D820140805
The BBC broke the news earlier that the power station near Knottingly, West Yorkshire was on fire. Some fifty firefighters attended the blaze that was centred on one of the flue gas desulphurisation units. The power station is being adapted to generate some electricity from biomass, so was shut down. As of time of publication there are no casualties reported.
When the power station will be able to restart is now in doubt. By winter, now seems doubtful, so will be a test of the generation network
The Bishop Hill blog is running the story HERE
Did you hear the one about the guy that goes to buy a suit?
Posted: July 14, 2014 by tallbloke in Uncategorized
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An interesting and provocative post from a newish meteorology blog
A man goes to a tailor to try on a new custom-made suit. The first thing he notices is that the arms are too long.
“No problem,” says the tailor. “Just bend them at the elbow and hold them out in front of you. See, now it’s fine.”
“But the collar is up around my ears!”
“It’s nothing. Just hunch your back up a little… No, a little more… That’s it.”
“But I’m stepping on my cuffs!” the man cries in desperation.
“Just bend you knees a little to take up the slack. There you go. Look in the mirror–the suit fits perfectly.”
So, twisted like a pretzel, the man lurches out onto the street. Reba and Florence see him go by.
“Oh, look,” says Reba, “that poor man!”
“Yes,” says Florence, “but what a beautiful suit.”
It started with Walter James Espy, the Storm King, who, around the 1840s…
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Russia successfully tests new generation of 1st stage launch vehicle and other news
Posted: July 10, 2014 by tchannon in Uncategorized
Image from RIA RT web site [belatedly I spotted this serious misattribution, my mistake entirely, sorry. 11th July –Tim]
This story is notable because up until now all the Russian designs originate with a deceased veteran designer. Few technical details seem available. Surprisingly it looks like a single nozzle. Mention of the use of boosters for heavier launch.
RIA RT news site, with youtube video (seen one seen them all).
Nigel Calder
Nigel Calder, 1931-2014
Date: 27/06/14
The Global Warming Policy Foundation
The science writer Nigel Calder has died, aged 82, after a short illness.
http://www.thegwpf.org/nigel-calder-1931-2014/
[update] Jo Calder has left a comment and provides a link to a lovely family post on Nigel’s blog
Circular aeronautics tour spitefully to Chilbolton by George
Posted: April 13, 2014 by tchannon in History, UncategorizedTim writes: No apology for the headline
A little aside has led to a snippet leading to Chilbolton Observatory.
Credit Nimbus227
Rolls-Royce Griffon aero engine (Mk 57/58?) at the Midland Air Museum
The Talkshop moved onto the question of hydrocarbon formation deep inside the earth, from there I brought up manufacture from seawater and a usage harking back to WWII aircraft. A comment mentions the hydrocarbon formation via the German chemical industry, processes used today.
Friends of Science billboard, seems sensible
Posted: March 19, 2014 by tchannon in Education, media, propaganda, Uncategorized
Photo credit: Ken Gregory Friends of Science 2014: Unrestricted use
Rather than hit people, tell them they are bad, a kinder approach, this apparently is a new Friends Of Science billboard. In the snow.
Is this good thinking or is the only way aggression?
Will it change any minds or is it affirmation?
Update on Glasgow police helicopter fatal accident
Posted: February 14, 2014 by tchannon in UncategorizedAAIB (Air Accident Investigation Branch) have issued a special bulletin dated today 14th February 2014
Valentine’s day, there will be many tears
Infrared astronomer doesn’t buy CO2
Posted: January 27, 2014 by tchannon in ozone, radiative theory, UncategorizedComment left at Steve Goddard’s by Mike Sanicola
I’m a professional infrared astronomer who spent his life trying to observe space through the atmosphere’s back-radiation that the environmental activists claim is caused by CO2 and guess what? In all the bands that are responsible for back radiation in the brightness temperatures (color temperatures) related to earth’s surface temperature (between 9 microns and 13 microns for temps of 220K to 320 K) there is no absorption of radiation by CO2 at all. In all the bands between 9 and 9.5 there is mild absorption by H2O, from 9.5 to 10 microns (300 K) the atmosphere is perfectly clear except around 9.6 is a big ozone band that the warmists never mention for some reason.
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I’m retired so I don’t need to keep my mouth shut anymore. Kept my mouth shut for 40 years,
Yep. Lots of void, no evidence for the posit. I’m still waiting for the missing primary dataset, if it can be directly measured. Proxy is wiggle matching. Ozone, sure, been known for 100 years. Angstrom reported it from Sweden.
Met Office pet, Exeter University launches first online course. Meteorology? No. One guess.
Posted: January 13, 2014 by tchannon in alarmism, climate, Education, humour, Politics, propaganda, UncategorizedCo-mod writes: Not long ago Tallbloke mentioned MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) as starting to gain traction.
So I am dismayed over be-spoiling of MOOC, usage as a propaganda tool.
Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions. A FREE online course from the University of Exeter
Our very first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) begins on 13th January 2014 on the Open University’s FutureLearn platform, and lasts for eight weeks.
Teaching, factual?
“Issues we will cover include:
We have reached a real tipping point in Earth climate systems. For example, the Greenland ice sheet is melting, raising sea levels, and there’s simply no going back.
Uh huh, speaking from a position of authority, “know or ought to know” better. Let’s see the full proof.
The leader is Mr Tim Lenton working “in partnership with the UK Met Office”. He is rather young. Got himself involved in The Team, Stefan Rahmstorf and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber[5].
Stoat pokes fun “Tim Lenton is silly” and “However, I’m inclined to think that he isn’t a tosser, just naive…”[2] , err.. Stoat, he is one of yours, oh well gave me a chuckle, still not sure what he did.
BA (Cambridge),
PhD (UEA)
[ coy on letting on the whole truth ]
Saga continues : halted, “captain of the Xue Long requested assistance when it became trapped.”
Posted: January 2, 2014 by tchannon in UncategorizedWe might be starting to see answers. As I expected the person transfer can indeed only take place when both Xue Long and Aurora Australis are in clear water, transfer barges don’t do ice. (two on the foredeck of AA)
Floatless helicopter doesn’t do water or weak helipads.
Do they all have survival suits for 50+ and have had training?
It’s a mess.
Sydney Morning Herald dated January 2, 2014 – 1:02PM reports
Helicopter rescue delayed as second ship trapped in ice
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Both the Xue Long and the Aurora need to be in open water to conduct the barge operation.
On Wednesday, the Aurora spent most of the day and evening ploughing towards the Chinese vessel [as webcam shots showed], which has not moved under its own steam for more than a day [suspected], after it [Xue Long] requested assistance.
While the Aurora made good, slow progress, coming within 2.1 nautical miles of the Chinese ship, by 1.30am on Thursday the Australian ice-breaker reached thick pack ice that it could not penetrate [as suspected].
“Nature took over,” Aurora captain Murray Doyle said.
Looks like AA is ice ramming. Weather has improved, above freezing, slightly less wind, much better visibility.
Images coutesy http://www.antarctica.gov.au/webcams/aurora
I lost a previous image, slightly different heading, could see two ships on horizon, other is to right.
Scottish police helicopter crashes into Glasgow centre pub, Friday night
Posted: November 30, 2013 by tchannon in UncategorizedBreaking news helicopter heavily crashing into Glasgow pub on a Friday night.
I have heard sufficient to state this a police helicopter in fatal mechanical trouble, is embedded in the pub roof, with at least many injuries and probably fatalities. Thank goodness no fire.
Eye witnesses directly mentioned the distinctive markings on the tail and on the rotor, few others operate at night and over a city. A serial number was given, if correct, police. [Police Scotland confirmed early today that its aircraft was involved. The police helicopter is staffed by a civilian pilot and two officers.]
Less certain the rotor was not turning (press reporter eye witness).
May be a Eurocopter, operated by Strathclyde police
Open thread space
A Hackle [1] is a toothed tool used to straighten fibres.
A Heckle [2] is much the same, aka a heckling comb.
Link to an image of an Hatchel
Text left from a wonderful archive at Arizona Uni.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/
Yarn is as tangled. And many other meanings.
Missing CRU 1000 year plot resurfaces
Posted: October 26, 2013 by tchannon in climate, Uncategorized
Surreal time.
I have a large archive here going back many years, been active via networks for longer than most. Some is online.
Trawling looking for useful content to do with a large CET article I am writing I noticed a postscript file (not PDF), open, is the above. (which is bitmap of the ps)
My immediate thought was Climategate followed by clang, not in that disk directory. Timestamp is 2000, plot ceases before 2000.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/RQMImcbbI_Y?rel=0
This is how you do it. Video is dated 2011. [Upated at end of article]
Carry On Greenpeace, balaclava and assault weapon toting FSB drop in from chopper
Posted: September 19, 2013 by tchannon in Politics, Uncategorized
Click for story
[UPDATE 6]
Russian authorities on Thursday completed pressing piracy charges against all 30 people detained aboard a Greenpeace icebreaker that was used in a protest where activists attempted to climb up a Gazprom oil rig in the Arctic.
“The defendants pleaded not guilty and are currently refusing to give relevant testimony,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said on its website. Fourteen of the detainees were charged Wednesday and 16 on Thursday. They face up to 15 years in prison.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20131003/183927995/All-30-Aboard-Greenpeace-Ship-Charged-With-Piracy.html
I cannot find the claimed quote in English on the sledcom website. (Russia’s Investigative Committee)
Perhaps it takes a few days for translations to be done.
[UPDATE 5]
Greenpeace are reported as telling “at least five of the detainees formally charged with piracy”
http://en.ria.ru/crime/20131002/183898415/Russia-Charges-Greenpeace-Activists-With-Piracy.html
Other news from the Russian outlet , may was well raise a smile, mentions Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
Huh? Never heard of it, real word. Although I once owned an ancient car carrying the number and yes it did disturb some people, never understood myself, just a random number. Neat though if you roll the car, help arrives.
Also an item on clowns everywhere, young biker riding through a Moscow metro station. Darwin invented photographs and video.
[UPDATE 4]
Court order granted, ship searched.
Some details of court sentences, seems to amount to holding for most and more serious for a few.
Putin reported stating didn’t thing was piracy but illegal.
[UPDATE 3]
Greenpeace Activists Face 2 Months in Russian Jail Pending Charges
Seems things drag slowly in Russia, pending charges. Story.
Putin remarked it perhaps wasn’t piracy but seems to be keeping out of things.
Prof. Phil Jones and king Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Posted: July 23, 2013 by tchannon in Uncategorized
By chance I noticed Prof. Phil Jones giving his affiliation
Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
and
Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research, Department of Meteorology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
This stuck me as a new departure but I am often last to know.
“Vice President for Educational Affairs, Prof Abdurrahman Alyoubi, received at his office Prof Philip Jones, of the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK.
The meeting was attended by Dr Mansour Almazroui, Director of the Centre of Excellence in Climate Change Research, and Prof Ahmed Al-Sa’idi, Advisor to the Vice President for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research.
