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Monday, February 22, 2021

The Grindelwald Fluctuation

 

Four hundred years ago, England experienced some of its worst weather ever. In the depths of the Little Ice Age (1300-1800), huge volcanic eruptions in the Americas pushed dust and gases high into the atmosphere, blocking out the sun. The related cooling phase is known as the "Grindelwald Fluctuation' (1560-1630).

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-newly-chronicle-extreme-weather-events.html

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Boreal winter

 Still not found on Wikipedia


(it means winter in the Northern Hemisphere


Austral winter is found, but it's incorrect


Austral winter is winter in the Southern Hemisphere






Thursday, November 12, 2020

Octohat OCTOHAT Octo hat

 It seems to be a British term, based on 8 cornered hats worn at graduation for Doctorate students



But I can find no source for this


Definitely not found on Wikipedia

Saturday, October 3, 2020

GISS changes the "data" once again

 A quick comparing of the 2015 version vs the 2020 version of GISS "data"


Since they regularly change the "data" I call it "data" rather than data

2020 version
2015 version



2020 version
2015 version


5 years from now it will be yet again different

source-->  https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/


You will not find this on Wikipedia


Tuesday, July 7, 2020

The controversy over Louis Agassiz’s 1837 ice age theory is found!

Louis Agassiz’s 1837 ice age theory, seems pretty well known now.  But he didn't come up with it, this is found and not found on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz#Ice_age

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Agassiz

But what does not appear on the Agassiz page, on Wikipedia, or Britannica, is that he stole it from Karl Shimper

This knowledge does appear, in a brief way,  in the Karl Schimper article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Friedrich_Schimper

This remarkable paper published 50 years after gives a wonderful account of the whole sordid matter.

https://archive.org/details/jstor-25101263/page/n1/mode/2up

Just beautiful writing in that old text, thanks to archive.org for saving it from obscurity

It's mentioned in

A Short History of Nearly Everything