Wolverine glacier

After creating the Schwan glacier post I realized the Wolverine glacier doesn't have an entry.  What the hell?

It should be in this list

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Glaciers_of_Alaska

But it's not.  Thanks Wikipedia, for having every fictional character in Star Wars listed, but not actual things that exist.

Schwan Glacier

Schwan Glacier

A glacier in the Chugach Range of Alaska.

How screwed up some things are on Wikipedia

The connolley-wiki-wars thing

The Smoking Tooth

The smoking tooth will not be found on Wikipedia. Even with it being one of the most important videos to watch, in regards to the health of mankind.

The video

It shows scientific evidence for how easily mercury is released from mercury based dental fillings.

It doesn't talk about how bad mercury fillings are, in regards to how much material must be removed to even use a mercury filling.  The dangers of mercury in your mouth is another thing you won't find on Wikipedia.

If you somehow dismissed the video (probably before it was even finished), be sure to watch the follow up video,  before you make the mistake of claiming it isn't mercury vapor, or somehow the UV light caused it, or whatever people come up with to deny reality.

Newton's flaming laser sword

While there is an article for Occam's razor, there isn't one for Newton's flaming laser sword.  It's a redirect to the article on Mike Alder, which is already suffering the Wikipedia curse, labeled "not notable".

  The paper by Alder

The battle against global warming

While the term is used multiple times on Wikipedia, there is no article called  The battle against global warming.   Google shows 423,000 results  for " The battle against global warming".  Certainly it exists, but not on Wikipedia.

James Lovelock's views on current Climate Science

Lovelock's reaction to first reading about the stolen CRU emails [he later clarified that he hadn't read the originals, saying: "Oddly, I felt reluctant to pry"]:

I was utterly disgusted. My second thought was that it was inevitable. It was bound to happen. Science, not so very long ago, pre-1960s, was largely vocational. Back when I was young, I didn't want to do anything else other than be a scientist. They're not like that nowadays. They don't give a damn. They go to these massive, mass-produced universities and churn them out. They say: "Science is a good career. You can get a job for life doing government work." That's no way to do science.

I have seen this happen before, of course. We should have been warned by the CFC/ozone affair because the corruption of science in that was so bad that something like 80% of the measurements being made during that time were either faked, or incompetently done.

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

You can make mistakes; they're helpful. In the old days, it was perfectly OK to make a mistake and say so. You often learned from it. Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant – and 99% of them are – you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do. It's an awful moral climate and it was all set up for the best of reasons. I think it was felt there was far too much inequality in science and there was an enormous redress. Looking around the country [at the wider society] this was good on the whole, but in some special professions you want the best, the elite. Elitism is important in science. It is vital.

On what the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia – and climate scientists in general – should do to help restore public trust in their work:

Careers have been ended by this affair and the reputation of the institution [CRU] will go down for a while. It's sad because there are some good people there. They have to clean their house if they know people are behaving badly. They have got a rotten job ahead, but it will blow over in a few years. I think if they can produce a coup and produce some really good climate research they will undo all the harm that's been done. And they've now got an incentive to do that.

I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.

You don't hide data. But there are some natural limitations to making data public. For example, if you have just received a fresh batch of data you want to make sure that the instruments are properly calibrated and that something else hasn't happened in that region that might explain why a sudden change might have occurred. You've got to be honest about it and explain why you've done what you have done. I think to release the raw data as it comes up, you could see silly sceptics misusing it quite badly.

On the over-reliance on computer modelling:

I remember when the Americans sent up a satellite to measure ozone and it started saying that a hole was developing over the South Pole. But the damn fool scientists were so mad on the models that they said the satellite must have a fault. We tend to now get carried away by our giant computer models. But they're not complete models. They're based more or less entirely on geophysics. They don't take into account the climate of the oceans to any great extent, or the responses of the living stuff on the planet. So I don't see how they can accurately predict the climate. It's not the computational power that we lack today, but the ability to take what we know and convert it into a form the computers will understand. I think we've got too high an opinion of ourselves. We're not that bright an animal. We stumble along very nicely and it's amazing what we do do sometimes, but we tend to be too hubristic to notice the limitations. If you make a model, after a while you get suckered into it. You begin to forget that it's a model and think of it as the real world. You really start to believe it.

On climate sceptics:

We're very tribal. You're either a goodie or a baddie. I've got quite a few friends among the sceptics, as well as among the "angels" of climate science. I've got more angels as friends than sceptics, I have to say, but there are some sceptics that I fully respect. Nigel Lawson is one. He writes sensibly and well. He raises questions. I find him an interesting sceptic. What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: "Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?" If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours. Some of them, of course, are corrupted and employed by oil companies and things like that. Some even work for governments. For example, I wouldn't put it past the Russians to be behind some of the disinformation to help further their energy interests. But you need sceptics especially when the science gets very big and monolithic.

I respect their right to be sceptics. Nigel Lawson is an easy person to talk to. He's more like a defence counsel for the sceptics than a right-winger banging the drum. His book is not a diatribe or polemic. He tries to reason his case.

There is one sceptic that everyone should read and that is Garth Paltridge. He's written a book called the Climate Caper. It is a devastating, critical book. It is so good. This impresses me a lot. Like me, he's convinced that if you put a trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which we will have done in 20 years' time, it's going to have some nasty effects, but what we don't know if how nasty and when. If you look back on climate history it sometimes took anything up to 1,000 years before a change in one of the variables kicked in and had an effect. And during those 1,000 years the temperature could have gone in the other direction to what you thought it should have done. What right have the scientists with their models to say that in 2100 the temperature will have risen by 5C? There are plenty of incidences where something turns on the heat, but temperatures actually go down perversely, before eventually going up. A cold winter may mean nothing, as could 10 cold winters in a row.

The great climate science centres around the world are more than well aware how weak their science is. If you talk to them privately they're scared stiff of the fact that they don't really know what the clouds and the aerosols are doing. They could be absolutely running the show. We haven't got the physics worked out yet. One of the chiefs once said to me that he agreed that they should include the biology in their models, but he said they hadn't got the physics right yet and it would be five years before they do. So why on earth are the politicians spending a fortune of our money when we can least afford it on doing things to prevent events 50 years from now? They've employed scientists to tell them what they want to hear. The Germans and the Danes are making a fortune out of renewable energy. I'm puzzled why politicians are not a bit more pragmatic about all this.

We do need scepticism about the predictions about what will happen to the climate in 50 years, or whatever. It's almost naive, scientifically speaking, to think we can give relatively accurate predictions for future climate. There are so many unknowns that it's wrong to do it.

On the blogosphere's reaction to the various revelations over the past few months:

I think the sceptic bloggers should worry. It's almost certain that you can't put a trillion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere without something nasty happening. This is going to resolve itself and global heating is going to come back on stream and it's these bloggers who are going to be made to look weird when it does. When something like this happens again, they'll say we had all this before with 'Climategate'. But there's a danger that you can go off too strong, like they have. They are not sufficiently aware of the longer-term consequences. I think the sceptics have done us a good service because they've made us look at all this a lot more closely and hopefully the science will improve as a result. But everything has a price and an unexpected price may hit these bloggers. It's the cry-wolf phenomenon. When the real one comes along, they'll be laughed at.

On the Copenhagen summit:

Copenhagen was doomed to fail. But I think it was worth their while trying. A lot of people put their hearts into it. But I've never felt entirely happy with that sort of environmental wing-ding. It's obscene to have 10,000 people flying to Bali or whatever to talk about the environment. It just shows how hopeless humans are. The UN was a lovely idea, but its primary objective was to make sure the British Empire was got rid of. You just can't get all those people to agree.

On the IPCC:

I was all for the IPPC when it was set up. I greatly respect Sir John Houghton [IPCC's co-chairman from 1988-2002]. It wasn't just a bunch of gung-ho scientists wanting to save the world. But then in 2007 there was a paper published in Science with the observational measurements saying the predictions [for sea-level rises] were underestimated. It was a serious underestimating of sea-level rises. The thing people should know about the sea is that surface temperatures can fluctuate all over the place, but we're not measuring the temperatures far down below. There's very little funding, or interest, in direct observational data.

On the influence of vested interests:

We shouldn't let the lobbies influence science. Whatever criticism might befall the IPCC and the UEA, they're nothing as bad as lobbyists who are politically motivated and who will manipulate data or select data to make their political point. For example, it's deplorable for the BBC whenever one of these issues comes up to go and ask what one of the green lobbyists thinks of it. Sometimes their view might be quite right, but it might also be pure propaganda. This is wrong. They should ask the scientists, but the problem is scientists won't speak. If we had some really good scientists it wouldn't be a problem, but we've got so many dumbos who just can't say anything, or who are afraid to say anything. They're not free agents.

On how humans will ever manage to tackle climate change:

We need a more authoritative world. We've become a sort of cheeky, egalitarian world where everyone can have their say. It's all very well, but there are certain circumstances – a war is a typical example – where you can't do that. You've got to have a few people with authority who you trust who are running it. And they should be very accountable too, of course.

But it can't happen in a modern democracy. This is one of the problems. What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

On what it will take to convince the public that meaningful action is required to tackle climate change:

There has been a lot of speculation that a very large glacier [Pine Island glacier] in Antarctica is unstable. If there's much more melting, it may break off and slip into the ocean. It would be enough to produce an immediate sea-level rise of two metres, something huge, and tsunamis. I would say the scientists are not worried about it, but they are keeping a close watch on it. That would be the sort of event that would change public opinion. Or a return of the Dust Bowl in the mid-west. Another IPCC report won't be enough. We'll just argue over it like now.

On what we should be doing to tackle the predicted threats of climate change?

I've always said that adaptation is the most serious thing we can do. Are our sea defences adequate? Can we prevent London from flooding? This is where we should be spending our billions. If wind turbines really worked, I wouldn't object to them. To hell with the aesthetics, we might need them to save ourselves. But they don't work – the Germans have admitted it. It's like the [EU] Common Agricultural Policy which led to corruption and inefficiencies. A common energy policy across Europe is not a good idea. I'm in favour of nuclear for crowded places like Britain for the simple reason that it's cheap, effective and exceedingly safe when you look at the record. We've had it for 50 years, but I can understand the left hating it because it was Thatcher's greatest weapon against the miners because we were then getting 30% of our electricity from nuclear. We could build a nuclear power station in five years, but it's the legal and planning stuff that makes it take 15 years. If governments were serious they would undo this legislation that holds it back.

I don't know enough abut carbon trading, but I suspect that it is basically a scam. The whole thing is not very sensible. We have this crazy idea that we are setting an example to the world. What we're doing is trying to make money out of the world by selling them renewable gadgetry and green ideas. It might be worthy from the national interest, but it is moonshine if you think what the Chinese and Indians are doing [in terms of emissions]. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

On the surveys showing that public trust with climate science is eroding:

I think the public are right. That's why I'm soft on the sceptics. Science has got overblown. From the moment Harold Wilson brought in that stuff about the "white heat of technology", science, in Britain at least, has gone down the drain. Science was always elitist and has to be elitist. The very idea of diluting it down [to be more egalitarian] is crazy. We're paying the price for it now.

On whether we are capable as a species of tackling climate change:

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. We're very active animals. We like to think: "Ah yes, this will be a good policy," but it's almost never that simple. Wars show this to be true. People are very certain they are fighting a just cause, but it doesn't always work out like that. Climate change is kind of a repetition of a war-time situation. It could quite easily lead to a physical war. That's why I always come back to the safest thing to do being adaptation. For example, we've got to have good supplies of food. I would be very pleased to see this country and Europe seriously thinking about synthesising food.

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The Brückner cycle (or Bruckner Cycle)

 The Brückner cycle does not have an article (or a redirect) on Wikipedia.  Google scholar has some great scientific papers about it. In essence he found climate changes were connected to the sun.  See this image (read the conclusion) for a fascinating look into what real climate science is like. (source of image)

But if you only use Wikipedia, the following is all there is.  Hidden under Eduard Bruckner.

 Brückner was a proponent of the importance of climate change, including the effects on the economy and social structure of society. His research included studies of past climate changes and he proposed the 35-year long Brückner cycle of cold, damp weather alternating with warm, dry weather in northwest Europe. 

The GKSS Research Centre's Eduard Brückner Prize, for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate research, is named after him.

There is also no entry, redirect or anything else about the Eduard Brukner Prize,  on Wikipedia.  He was, and is, quite a fascinating scientist, and one of the first to contemplate climate change and how human activities might influence things.

"The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic change points to the possibility of future climate change, which inevitably will have significant implications for global economics". — Eduard Brückne 1890

His extensive research and findings based on study of climate and climate history, led to many things. The quote below is one may be very important.

"Very old and wide-spread is the opinion that forests have an important impact on rainfall. ... If forests enhance the amount and frequency of precipitation simply by being there, deforestation as part of agricultural expansion everywhere, must necessarily result in less rainfall and more frequent droughts". — Eduard Brückner

Pink Disease

Mentioned in this book, one hundred articles on PubMed, even a redirect on Wikipedia, but of course no entry for it, much less the horrific story involved. Like why so many children died, horribly, or were crippled.  A multiple country endemic "disease" caused by giving infants and children toxic mercury, and it isn't notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia?

You won't find the story of Pink Disease on Wikipedia.  You will find a ridiculous paragraph called Infantile Acrodynia, which in no way actually matches the historic record.  See this paper for more info  Or any of my multiple blog posts about it.

(edit May 2015) There is now an article on Acrodynia, but no story of Pink disease.

The Devil's Oven

No entry for the Devil's Oven, not even a mention of it on the Ausable Chasm article. But I found an old image of it on Wikimedia.

It's a feature of the chasm, which has it's own website. http://www.ausablechasm.com/

Amazon Fan

Google scholar

Came across this because there is a submarine canyon within it.

Image here

Shark reef

The patch reef located just seaward of the Key Largo sink, once used as a dive site known as shark reef, is now dead, due to pollution from septic tanks in south Florida.

Theory of Global Warming

The page "Theory of global warming" does not exist. On Wikipedia.  Global warming theory?  Nope, no page for the theory.

There used to be this info at the link
http://technologyhope.com/theory-of-global-warming.html but it's since been deleted

The Swedish chemist in 1896 give explanation of two gases carbon dioxide and water vapor that they help in trap the sun’s heat in the atmosphere of earth and warmer the earth. He was the first scientist who put forward this theory in 19th century he said that global warming is caused by burning of coal during industrialization would increase the temperature of earth and he then predicted that carbon dioxide would cause in increasing the temperature. He states that the influence is greater in winter than summer and greater on land then ocean. He said it is hoped to enjoy ages with better climate situations. In 1938 Guy S. Callendar published in his studies that fossil fuels was responsible for global warming and humans had added a millions of carbon dioxide into the air as 1 degree Fahrenheit temperature had been risen in 1934 and 1980 so these rising temperatures results in less snow. In 1957 Roger published in his theory that large amount of greenhouse gases had been pumped by human activities and it’s very difficult to know about their quantity. He advised all scientists to inquire about the quantity of gases in atmosphere. In 1958 new instrument was installed by young chemist so he could measure the quantity of gasses in atmosphere which was successfully launched with good results.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/global-warming-101/ 

Global Warming Theory in a Nutshell

Much more info than you will find on Wikipedia.

Here are some mentions of the theory not found on Wikipedia

NASA GISS jsc.nasa (pdf) Earth Observatory (archived)
Skepticalscience blog
Scienceofdoom blog and once again (“standard theory” about CO2)

Ocean holes

On Google scholar, but not on Wikipedia

Unknown (and unnamed) glaciers in New Guinea

Updated July 4 2010

The New Google Maps now has much better views of the entire mountain chain there. Be sure and click the "slant view" option, lets you see the glaciers in 3D

Google Earth Engine view, not much to see, but look at the mine.  Fascinating.

Photos of the mine pit and famous glaciers here




 (following is the original post, links are to the old Google Maps views)
Visible with Google Earth if you know where to look.  After years of searching I can find no source even describing these glaciers, nor any mention of their discovery.  In fact, the Google images (from Landstat photos) are the only evidence of their existence I can find. Because the photos are years old, the ice may have melted by now.  Hence only these photos of them may exist. In either case, you won't find these tropical glaciers on Wikipedia.  Or anywhere else for that matter.

Unnamed glacier
Unnamed glacier
Unnamed glacier

View of them all
If you are zoomed out just one more click, none of them will show up,  and the newer photos seem to show no ice.

These are something not found on Wikipedia, and according to the rules of Wikipedia, they will never be found there.  No sources.  (A picture by a satellite of something that actually exist, or did exist, doesn't qualify for Wikipedia, if there are no published sources to draw on for an article)

The famous (and well known) glaciers of New Guinea appear once in the article about New Guinea

How Magnets Work

OK being the repository of the worlds knowledge, you might think this one would be on Wikipedia.

You would be wrong.

If you type it in you get a horrible choice between the the Insane Clown Posse song Miracles and the article called Magnet.  

There is no page called How Magnets Work.  Not even a redirect to someplace that explains this.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_between_magnets would probably be the best place for a redirect.

Using a search engine online should answer the question, if your question is actually "How is a magnetic field created?" From  http://www.howmagnetswork.com/

How is a magnetic field created?
When current flows in a wire, a magnetic field is created around the wire. From this it has been inferred that magnetic fields are produced by the motion of electrical charges.

But what most people want to know is how does a magnet attract certain metals?  Or, how does a magnet attract or repel another magnet?  What is happening in the space between magnets that causes them to act as they do?

Skeptic

Skeptic

Mind blown.  There is no article for skeptic.  So of course I check atheist.

You won't find skeptic or atheist on Wikipedia.  How is that even possible?

meta musings

Do you know of something not found on Wikipedia? Do you care?  Would you start a blog to document these things?

The "Skeptical Movement"

I know it exists.  In fact it is used on Wikipedia (and elsewhere), but there is no definition or article for it on Wikipedia.

What is the Skeptical Movement?  Usually I link to at least one good source for something not found on Wikipedia.   This one seems to not have a definition that is scientific in nature.

Temperature of the sun

You won't find the Temperature of the sun on Wikipedia.

This isn't a mystery, as nobody actually knows the temperature of the sun.

 Not that there isn't a lot of speculation and information about the sun, and the various temperatures involved.

The center might be around 15,700,000 kelvin, the Photosphere we are pretty sure about is exactly 5,778 kelvin, and the Corona around 5,000,000 kelvin.  (which means the temperature rises as you leave the surface, a lot)

This all has to be true, because it is on the Wikipedia article.

It still doesn't tell us the temperature of the sun. But this is understandable. as nobody knows the temperature of the Earth either.

Evidence Based Science

Evidence Based Science has no entry on Wikipedia. (I made it up years ago, after seeing the term, Evidence-based medicine being used).

Evidence-based medicine is defined as "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients".

Makes you wonder, what other criteria would be used in making decisions about patient care? Money? Profit? Guessing?

 Not going to go there.

 However, many years ago I started a blog about Evidence Based Science but you won't find it on Wikipedia either.  I did find 14 instances of the term evidence based science being used on Wikipedia.  It's just never defined there.

Winter of 1933-34

This one might exist somewhere, but it's certainly not showing up.

Winter of 1933-34

Nobody can argue there wasn't a winter, and it's certainly notable.  It was by far the coldest winter in the north east United States, since records have been kept.  It was notable in New England and New York for the devastating effects on the apples. source source source source

Do winters show up on Wikipedia?  Yes, yes they do.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_2009 which redirects to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_2009%E2%80%9310_in_Europe certainly exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_2009%E2%80%9310_in_United_States does not.

Winter of 2009-10 in the US?  No.

Does Winter of 1933-34 exist on Wikpedia?

Theory of Evolution

It may be hard to fathom, but there is no article for Theory of Evolution.  Instead you get redirected to Evolution, which is like typing in Theory of Gravity and finding there is no article. (there isn't)

Nor is there an article called "Newton's theory of gravity".  But back to "theory of evolution", which certainly must have at one time had an article.  (there was)

The original article created back in 2001 is simple and straightforward.

A theory of evolution is an attempt to scientifically explain how evolution occurs. There are countless theories of evolution, many of which are compatible with one another. Others, such as Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, have been falsified. 

In popular usage, "the" theory of evolution refers to the various theories proposed by Charles Darwin, notably the theory of common descent, and the theory of evolution by natural selection. It also refers to the modern Darwinian theory that combines evolutionary theory with the science of genetics.

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To the point, and exactly what you would expect when trying to find out what "theory of evolution" means.
Of course somebody may have been looking for "Darwin's theory of evolution", when they typed "theory of evolution.".  But,   there isn't an article for "Darwin's theory of evolution". It redirects to "Darwinism".

 No, I am not making any of this up.

mandyjo.net

A blog that linked to the post The Holocene transgression (and global sea level).

mandyjo.net does not appear on Wikipedia.

Neither does mandyjo

Evolution denial

The phrase Evolution denial leads to an article called Creation–evolution controversy, so there is no page called Evolution denial.

So Global warming denial should lead to the article Global warming controversy, right?

Not on Wikipedia.  It will go to Climate Change denial.  (like there is some weird controversy over the very issue of climate changing)

The first line dissuades anyone who might be confused.

Climate change denial is a set of organized attempts to downplay, deny or dismiss the scientific consensus on the extent of global warming,

So it's really a global warming article, or something.  The first version (2007) probably will make more sense.

Climate change denial refers to the claim that anthropogenic climate change or global warming has not taken place to the extent or in the manner agreed upon by current scientific consensus. 

Obviously common sense would tell us it should be part of the Global Warming Controversy.  Except the article on that says

" Many of the largely settled scientific issues, such as the human responsibility for global warming, remain the subject of politically or economically motivated attempts to downplay, dismiss or deny them – an ideological phenomenon categorised by academics and scientists as climate change denial."

So there isn't really any controversy over global warming.  Facts, something often not found on Wikipedia.

Wikigroaning

Wikigroaning will probably  NEVER be found on Wikipedia.

Hope springs eternal. (Truthiness used to be forbidden, but now it has an article)

There is a way to see what used to be in Wikipedia.  Unless there is a deletion, the history files will show what somebody doesn't want you to read on Wikipedia.

The first Wikigroaning entry (2007)

'Wikigroaning is a term, coined in June 2007, to describe "the art of highlighting Wikipedia's bias toward things that don't matter".^[1]. The practitioner "think[s] up two similar topics, one being of genuine historical or social relevance, and the other being useless to everyone but a small coterie of fans", and then compares the length of their respective Wikipedia entries.^[1] A good example would be a comparison of Wikipedia's entry on knight with that on Jedi knight. The term was invented by the website Something Awful in an article entitled "The art of Wikigroaning".^[2].

Smoker box

A Smoker box is a metal box filled with wood chips to give a smoke flavor to foods.  It's one of many articles deleted from Wikipedia.  (it should at least be a redirect to the Barbecue Grill article) You will find it described as "A small metal box containing wood chips may be used on a gas grill to give a smoky flavor to the grilled foods".

Or you can use Google and Google images

Just another thing not on Wikipedia.  .Yes, a small group of somebody actually felt it was important to delete  the Smoker box. (not simply change it to a redirect)

So now if somebody types in "Smoker Box" on Wikipedia it asks "did you mean smother box".  Which is an article that is not notable, pornographic in nature, and unlike a smoker box, not even in existence.

See Wikigroaning (which is also something not found on Wikipedia)

Effects of contrails

While there is an article "Effects of Global warming", oddly enough there isn't one for "Effects of contrails".

It's odd because contrails are a known and measurable factor in changing the atmosphere and heat balance of the planet.  See Google scholar

Also, the article Effects of Global warming does not include the term contrails.

It does use CO₂ 13 times.

There is an article about the Environmental impact of the coal industry, but not one for Environmental impact of contrails.

(edit) Found it under Environmental effect of aviation 

An obvious redirect is in order.

Ship trails

Ship trails are clouds produced by ships at sea, polluting the atmosphere. A redirect to ship tracks would be easy enough to add to Wikipedia.

While one of the sources for the Ship tracks article is Twomey, S. (1977). "The Influence of Pollution on the Shortwave Albedo of Clouds". J. Atmos. Sci. 34 (7): 1149–1152.

You won't find "pollution" in the Wikipedia article.

On average, polluted clouds reflect more sunlight than their unaffected counterparts.

Mainan

Large linguistic group of Native people of Peru. Can be found here 

Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)

A group of tribes constituting a distinct linguistic stock, the Mainan, ranging along the north bank of the Marañón.

Now included under  theCahuapanan languages.

Mainan and Mainas should redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahuapanan_languages

But they don't.  Even worse, a redirect goes to some Pokeman page. 

CONCERT campaign

The CONCERT campaign  (CONtrail and Cirrus ExpeRimenT) was a scientific study of contrails conducted in 2008. No article on Wikipedia.


Microphysical and radiative Properties of Contrails detected during the Aircraft Mission CONCERT 2008 (CONtrail and Cirrus ExpeRimenT)

Christiane Voigt, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany; and U. Schumann, P. Jessberger, A. Petzold, H. Schlager, F. Holzäpfel, A. Dörnbrack, J. F. Gayet, and M. Krämer

Large uncertainties remain in the assessment of the climate impact from contrails, in part as reliable in-situ measurements of conrails are rare. To this end contrails from a series of aircraft were probed with the DLR research aircraft Falcon during the CONCERT campaign in November 2008 over Europe. During this campaign, the Falcon was equipped with instruments to measure the particle size distribution, extinction and particle shape as well as trace gas distributions of NO, NOy, H2O, CO and O3.

During 5 mission flights contrails were probed at altitudes between 9 and 11.6 km and temperatures between 213 K and 229 K near and slightly below ice saturation. 22 contrails from 11 different aircraft with ages below 10 minutes were detected in the vortex and early dispersion regime. In particular we present new observations of the contrail from a large aircraft (A380). The evolution of the A380 contrail within the first 6 minutes of its lifetime will be discussed. Based on our measurements we investigate the impact of the aircraft type on microphysical and radiative properties of young contrails.

Further, the specific climate impact from each of the measured contrail cases is assessed with the help of a new contrail cirrus prediction tool (CoCiP). The model computes the integral of the radiative forcing of the contrail over the computed life-time of the contrail and is tested with the detected contrails. It will be shown that the climate impact of contrails depends on both aircraft and meteorological parameters.


https://ams.confex.com/ams/13CldPhy13AtRad/techprogram/paper_171682.htm

Kinetic event

Kinetic event doesn't have an entry.  In the past I would have put a redirect to the article Word of the Year where you would find under

Most Euphemistic

2010: kinetic event (Pentagon term for violent attacks on troops in Afghanistan)

The Great Debate: THE STORYTELLING OF SCIENCE

A show about science and story telling.

The Climate Wars (or Climate war)

The Climate Wars is not an article on Wikipedia. Neither is climate war. But if you search for either you will find plenty of articles that use the terms.

Yet another thing that is both not found and found on Wikipedia.

Beautiful writing

No, not an entry called Beautiful Writing, just beautiful writing in general.

The great encyclopedias were carefully crafted, edited and written by professional writers, often some of the best minds who studied a subject, but almost always the writing was beautiful.  I picked an example at random to compare with Wikipedia.

Encyclopedia Britannica
Luther, Martin (1483-1546), the great German religious reformer, was born on Nov, 10, 1483, at Eisleben, in the county of Mansfield, wither his parents, Hans Luther and Margaret Ziegler, who belonged to the free peasant class, had migrated from Mohra, in Thuringia..


Wikipedia
Martin Luther (German: [ˈmaɐ̯tiːn ˈlʊtɐ] ( listen); 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German monk, former Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of a reform movement in sixteenth century Christianity, subsequently known as the Protestant Reformation.^[1] 


I looked at many articles to compare the writing, and Wikipedia is often blunt, ugly and drab, even repulsive to read at times.  It is the language of a mob, rather than a great mind.  

Because beauty exists in the eye of the beholder, this is, of course, my opinion.  Another thing you will never find on Wikipedia.  You will however, find that I'm entitled to it.

An important classic work on writing, from George Orwell exists, and here is a link to it.  

Politics and the English Language

He uses 5 examples of terrible modern writing in the essay, and here is one of them

 I am not, indeed, sure whether it is not true to say that the Milton who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-century Shelley had not become, out of an experience ever more bitter in each year, more alien [sic] to the founder of that Jesuit sect which nothing could induce him to tolerate.

Professor Harold Laski (Essay in Freedom of Expression)

I know your mind must be reeling, so here is another one.

 

2. Above all, we cannot play ducks and drakes with a native battery of idioms which prescribes egregious collocations of vocables as the Basic put up with for tolerate, or put at a loss for bewilder.

Professor Lancelot Hogben (Interglossia)

Climate History (Climatic History)

If you open up an old  Encyclopedia and look up "Climatic History", you will find an article on climate history.

Not on Wikipedia.

The redirect for Climate History  goes to "Temperature record", and that article is an obvious piece promoting something, It is not an article on either climate history, or the history of climate.

In fact, the article Temperature record article does not even contain the phrase "ice ages".  It only contains the word "rainfall" once, and only to tell you how uncertain it is to connect it to temperature.  Unlike an encyclopedia, it doesn't even mention "wetter" or "drier", two words used a lot in talking about climate history.

There are a lot of things missing from Wikipedia, but the climate history of our planet?  How does that happen?

Deaths at Burning Man

Nobody can ever die at Burning Man.

While Burning Man is obviously an article on Wikipedia, it does not contain the word "died", "deaths" or "killed", much less any mention of anyone who died at the event.  The article does include the word "death" twice, but neither instance is about anyone who died there.  If you believe Wikipedia, nobody has ever died at Burning Man. If you listen to people who actually know about Burning Man, like 9 Ways to die at Burning Man, it's understandable the Burning Man Corporation would want everyone to believe there has never been a single death there.

If you don't want to read that link, the technical reason nobody can ever die there,  it's because you can only be declared dead at Reno, the closest city.  Even if you commit suicide at Burning Man (it has happened) your death will be in Reno.

Another thing you will not find on Wikipedia.

The Ice Age Floods Institute

Was looking at the The Ice Age Floods Institute website, and checked Wikipedia for background information on it. and while it is used as a source for many articles on Wikipeida, it is not found on Wikipedia.

Why this blog? updated Dec 18 2023

It's easier and faster than adding new items to Wikipedia (something I have done now for almost a decade).  I sometimes update an entry, rather than a new blog post.

Some things can't be added to Wikipedia, because there are no sources that meet the mysterious guidelines of Wikipedia.  Like "Boreal winter".  Or "Austral winter". I hate dealing with idiots, who want to delete information. So I just use this blog.

 Mostly because I enjoy it.  And it allows a place to store links and info that isn't on Wikipedia.  My own private Idaho

Update on Dec 18 2023

The more I see pages being deleted on Wikipedia, the more I appreciate having this blog.  Wikipedia is being run by some group, but there is no way to know who it is.

The Schwan Glacier, Alaska

Another huge glacier not found on Wikipedia.  Popular with snowboarders and skiers, who have to be flown to it by helicopter.  These ski guides have reported that it is growing (2013).

22 articles on Google Scholar
About 2,980 results on Google
Mapcarta
Video of going down it
Images of Glacier
Cool landslide onto the glacier

The Holocene transgression (and global sea level)

During the Holocene climatic optimum there was a time when global sea levels were 2.5 to 4 meters (8 to 13 feet) higher than the twentieth-century average. (source) Temperatures were 1 to 2 degrees warmer than present. (source)

When the sea level was at it's peak, during the Holocene Transgression, it is called "the sea-level highstand"

A chronology of the Holocene transgression in Arctic Siberia,
Sea-level highstand recorded in Holocene shoreline deposits on Oahu, Hawaii

Mid to late Holocene sea-level reconstruction of Southeast Vietnam using beachrock and beach-ridge deposits

The timing of the maximum Holocene transgression varied in different regions. However, in general, it is believed to have occurred during the period from approximately 7,000 to 5,000 years ago (between 7600 and 5600 cal yr BP) in many parts of the world 1, based on radiocarbon dating of geological and biological markers such as hazelnut shells and charcoal. It's important to note that the transgression occurred gradually over time, rather than being a single event at a specific moment in time.

Google Scholar lists over three thousand papers, including 1,810 that include the term "sea level".

But an article about the Holocene Transgression is not found on Wikipedia. The maximum sea level rise during the Holocene climatic optimum is called the maximum Holocene transgression, an example is shown here

The altimetric correlation between the base of the beach ridge dated at 6055 ± 20 YBP and the inner margin of the corresponding marine terraces allowed us to constrain the maximum Holocene marine transgression to about 3 to 2 m above sea level.

 Here is another example in the following evidence based science paper.

A detailed ecological, micro-structural and skeletal Sr/Ca study of a 3.42 m thick Goniopora reef profile from an emerged Holocene reef terrace at the northern South China Sea reveals at least nine abrupt massive Goniopora stress and mortality events occurred in winter during the 7.0–7.5 thousand calendar years before present (cal. ka BP) (within the Holocene climatic optimum).
 Sea level rose by ∼3.42 m during this period, with present sea-level reached at ∼7.3 ka BP and a sea-level highstand of at least ∼1.8 m occurred at ∼7.0 ka.

Google Scholar has 5,869 papers about it.

It's considered by scientists who study our planet to be a factual thing. In essence it was the highest sea level rise in the last 100,000 years.

 You might not be able to read about it on Wikipedia, (it does appear in the Holocene climatic optimum article). The article on the  Older Peron  was fairly good, and explains the sea level, but since this blog post was edited to remove any hint that there was a higher sea level during the Older Peron .  The article on the Holocene Maximum doesn't mention sea level at all.  Nor does the article on sea level mention the Holocene transgression, or the higher sea level that we know happened.

The sea level change is one of the strongest reasons for knowing the Holocene climatic optimum occurred. Also the remains of trees above the current treeline, lake sediments, ice cores and other evidence support a much warmer period 9,000 to 5,000 years ago, and at some point it was as warm as it would get. There was much less ice and the oceans were higher. You can actually see this high level here in the image

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Sea_level_temp_140ky.gif

 Like many things not found on Wikipedia, it's fascinating and interesting.  There are raised beaches worldwide that provide irrefutable evidence of the higher sea level, and this has been known for a very long time. (source, Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1956 edition)

But you won't find that fact on Wikipedia either.

Some of the water came from the Hans Tausen Iskappe, which didn't exist during the climactic optimum.   The history of our planet is very interesting. The climate history is very interesting.

While there is an article on Paleoclimatology, it doesn't mention the Holocene transgression, the climactic optimum, or the sea level that occurred because of it.

You won't find an article about the History of Climate or Climate History on Wikipedia, but that is another entry.

The maximum sea level rise at any point is called the Holocene sea-level highstand, That's another term you won't find an article for on Wikipedia.

For example, from the Journal of Sedimentary Research, Section A: Sedimentary Petrology and Processes

Vol. 70 (2000), No. 3. (May), Pages 478-490
Responses of Stable Bay-Margin and Barrier-Island Systems to Holocene Sea-Level Highstands, Western Gulf of Mexico
 Independent evidence from studies of geodynamic, climatic, and glacio-eustatic processes can explain the mid-Holocene highstands and late Holocene lowering of sea level that is observed in tectonically stable coastal regions far from former centers of glaciation.

(edited July 2014) Like all things Wikipedia, the information on Wikipedia can change.  Anytime, by anyone.  Since
this original blog entry the Older Peron was changed to remove relevant data by an account
 that only made two edits to Wikipedia.  Both edits were to gut the Older Peron article.

Meanwhile, back in the world of science

Mid to late Holocene sea-level reconstruction of Southeast Vietnam using beachrock and beach-ridge deposits
Sea level paper

Image of Holocene climatic optimum

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