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

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

The carbon dioxide theory of the ice ages by John Tyndall

Not even on his page!

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

As best as can be told, nowhere on Wikipedia  (no surprise actually)
Archive.org has it archived here

Calculation shows that doubling or tripling the amount of the carbon dioxide of the atmosphere increases the average sea level temperature by about 4° and 7°K, respectively; halving or reducing to zero the carbon dioxide decreases the temperature by similar amounts. Such changes in temperature are about the same as those which occur when the earth passes from an ice age to a warm age, or vice versa. Thus the calculation indicates that the carbon dioxide theory of the ice ages, originally proposed by Tyndall, is a possible theory.

https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.38.1876

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/wea.386

https://history.aip.org/climate/xTyndall.htm

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstl.1861.0001


See also  Louis Agassiz’s 1837 ice age theory

The entry that started this blog, Sycamore Spring Reservoir AZ

Sycamore Reservoir, and Sycamore Dam, also called Sycamore Spring Reservoir (map) (map)

A wondrous place not found on Wikipedia.  The old dam was built to supply water to a prison camp built on Mt Lemon AZ

Nice picture here

Google maps wide view

Google maps close up

Google street view of entrance to the area

Stats for the last week

The Vandal Minimum

A cold climate period following the Roman warm period

133 hits on Google scholar

No Wikipedia entry

Nobody tried making a page yet

James C. "Jim" Robinson founder of Freerepublic

I found out Jim Robinson started and runs Free Republic, a moderated Internet forum for activists, and chat site for self-described conservatives,

No surprise he doesn't have a Wikipedia page.  

While a fictional character does, and actual person does not.

Jim Robinson not a real person has a very detailed page.

Jim Robinson, who started and runs a controversial forum does not.  It would be far too much to explain this one.

The talk page is of course interesting

Fractal wrongness Fractal Wrongness FRACTAL WRONGNESS!

fractal wrongness

Not found on Wikipedia  (ok the term, certainly one can find examples of Fractal wrongness)

There was an entry, but it was deleted in 2008  The reason used was "uncited neoglism",a term that also does not have an entry on Wikipedia!

It is found on Rational Wiki

Explaining it  The book source itself!

Urban Dictionary

The Klee mentioned in the explaining it link

Steven Klee, another thing (person) not found on Wikipedia 

(while Wikipedia has literally thousand and thousands of entries for things that literally do not exist, it is lacking in entries for things that actually do exist, which is one reason I started this blog)

Like so many things, searching for "fractal wrongness" will not allow you to find this blog entry