Odyssey

Australia’s Aborigines or First People (that first we know about) have a rich mythology that includes the “Dreamtime”. It is their creation myth where spiritual beings shaped the world that we now know and inhabit, their wondrous deeds leaving in their wake the mountains and rivers, land and seas, forests, fish, animals and birds that […]

“Better a little with tranquility, than an abundance with chasing after the wind” Thus wrote the ancient scriptural author, whose wisdom encapsulates the answer to the question in the title. An organism or an organisation needs resources. But securing the resource is just the start – it must then be processed and “harvested”. And if […]

And just like that, life was discovered on another planet. No fanfare, no warning, there it was. Actually a moon, of Saturn, not far away at all. Enceladus is of course way too cold for life. On its surface. It has a lot of water, not uncommon (Pluto has water mountains), but at such freezing […]

Models of global climate warming from CO2 often frame the earth’s temperature as the consequence of a single simple physical system. Radiative balance determines temperature and CO2 perturbs that balance in the direction of warming. End of story. With, of course, an important caveat of “everything else being equal”. The radiative physics behind this and […]

Reblogged from https://edmhdotme.wordpress.com/ Earth has existed for some 4,600 million years.  This condensed history sets the current concerns about the level of atmospheric CO2 and the possible recent impact of extra Man-made CO2 affecting global temperature in a rational context. CO2 in the atmosphere To understand the context of current concerns about the increase of […]

It was Schmithusen and colleagues who in 2015 published research showing that the radiative greenhouse effect went into reverse over Antarctica’s high and cold plateaus. This is because the elevated ground level is colder than the stratosphere. This made sense in terms of the “emission height” based explanation of the CO2 greenhouse effect. Normally the […]

Reblogged from NoTricksZone, Pierre Gosselin By Kenneth Richard on 10 May 2021 It was previously thought the northern limit for Southern Hemisphere sea ice was 55°S. But recent declines in surface air temperatures in southernmost South America have led to sea ice formation creeping 80 to 100 kilometers further north than previous estimates. Since 2000, […]

In 2021 at the rollout of several vaccines against the covid19 pandemic, many nations and pharmaceutical companies chose to attack the vaccine created by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, due to mafia style commercial rivalry in the USA and due to resentment of Brexit Britain in Europe. Pretext after pretext was advanced to discredit the AstraZeneca […]

Posted on February 18, 2021 by curryja | 118 Comments By Planning Engineer The story from some media sources is that frozen wind turbines are responsible for the power shortfalls in Texas. Other media sources emphasize that fossil fuel resources should shoulder the blame because they have large cold induced outages as well and also […]

Reblogged from greatergood.berkeley.edu Source: What Game of Thrones Can Teach Us About Human Goodness You can’t stop empathy, compassion, generosity, and heroism. Even on HBO’s notoriously violent and cynical hit series!  BY JEREMY ADAM SMITH | MAY 10, 2019 Bookmark This article contains lots and lots and lots of spoilers. “The things I do for love,” says […]