Proceedings and Report of the 1st-15th Annual Meeting

Proceedings and Report of the 1st-15th Annual Meeting

By American association of farmers' institute workers

An interesting bit of reading.

Heliothermometer (updated September 4 2025) is now found on Wikipedia

An insulated box with a thermometer inside, sunlight is allowed in through a window with three panes of clear glass, to measure sunlight, but not the outside air.    

Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799), a Swiss natural scientist, used Mariotte’s insight to design and build a “heliothermometer” to measure the relative intensity of sunlight. It was an insulated box with one side consisting of three layers of glass separated by air layers. 

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Image and conflicting information about altitude here

Not found on Wikipedia (Aug 7 2015)

Found in an IPCC report (archived)

Dec 25 2023, still not found on Wikipedia

September 4 2025 added a redirect to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinometer

Maxwell–Lorentz electromagnetic theory

Or Maxwell's electromagnetic theory.  Not even on the article about Maxwell! The closet you will find is

His most notable achievement was to formulate the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, 

But the article on electromagnetic radiation doesn't have it either!

For The Love Of Models: A Global Warming Allegory

From this wonderful blog

(you will never find it on Wikipedia)

The coming Ice Age

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List of stories from a blog (huge amount of links to stories)

Not found on Wikipeida

Why the snows of Kilimanjaro decreased

Kilimanjaro snow loss due to deforestation, which is a form of human caused. climate change.  While the reason, decreasing humidity,  does appear, they essential reason is left out of the article.  As is the scientific study.

 It appears that decreasing specific humidity instead of temperature changes has caused the shrinkage of the plateau glaciers since the late 19th century.

The study, Kilimanjaro's vanishing ice due to tree-felling, as well as the information from it, is not found on Wikipdia.

Bronze Age Optimum

A warm period following the Middle Bronze Age age cold period.