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Post by missouriboy on Jan 23, 2018 6:17:29 GMT
Ahhh. Just might be the time to go position hunting in Qatar. A little strife always sends the more flaky expats scurrying. I miss the Egyptian accountants with the big rolls of cash.  |
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 6, 2018 18:13:38 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 7, 2018 14:52:48 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 7, 2018 18:18:44 GMT
Typical that they show a nice little stream (which is meant to be 'navigable waters' - when what they mean is that damp patch in the center of the Soy bean field that they are now going to claim is Waters of the US and stop you farming it, ploughing or draining - and don't dare dig an irrigation ditch or the EPA swat team will turn up. |
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 12, 2018 4:30:26 GMT
www.hoover.org/research/comeuppance-obamas-presidential-centerWhen Barack Obama was President of the United States, he eagerly used his “pen and phone” to achieve his grand environmental objective of locking up public lands to keep them from private use. In January 2017, he used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to designate 1.3 million acres of land in Utah as a National Monument. The month before he mounted an all-out resistance to both the Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline—two projects that offered more reliable delivery of oil and fewer adverse environmental effects than the railcars and trucks that they displaced.
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Post by acidohm on Jul 14, 2018 16:07:40 GMT
www.jonfr.com/volcano/?p=7590A new name to learn....Öræfajökull Flagged up for activity alot in the last few weeks. Seems situation may be escalating. In the way that volcanos do...
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Post by acidohm on Jul 14, 2018 16:09:11 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 14, 2018 22:24:44 GMT
Just wait for Cowabunga! |
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 16, 2018 18:37:32 GMT
Eyjafjallajökull was just a blip....
"Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he's got an answer: "536." Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, "It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year," says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night—for 18 months. "For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year," wrote Byzantine historian Procopius. Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. The Irish chronicles record "a failure of bread from the years 536–539." Then, in 541, bubonic plague struck the Roman port of Pelusium, in Egypt. What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire and hastening its collapse, McCormick says......"Read on to find the Eyjafjallajökull connection  |
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Post by blustnmtn on Apr 27, 2019 14:38:56 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Apr 27, 2019 15:05:43 GMT
It does raise another question though -- there will be assumptions about the geoid around Greenland and Antarctica on which guesstimates of mass of ice will have been made. But really that is all they are guesstimates. There could be similar geoid distortions but they will not be noticed as the ice will be blamed - something that is not possible in the featureless Indian ocean. |
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Post by blustnmtn on Apr 27, 2019 16:34:06 GMT
It does raise another question though -- there will be assumptions about the geoid around Greenland and Antarctica on which guesstimates of mass of ice will have been made. But really that is all they are guesstimates. There could be similar geoid distortions but they will not be noticed as the ice will be blamed - something that is not possible in the featureless Indian ocean. I was thinking of Greenland when I read the article. I was also thinking about the origins of our moon. We don’t know what we don’t know Naut! |
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Post by Ratty on Apr 27, 2019 23:42:35 GMT
Black Holes appearing everywhere.
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 29, 2019 1:40:55 GMT
Black Holes appearing everywhere. They found Ross Perot's great sucking sound. |
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 11, 2020 11:16:04 GMT
(Cue the Stanley Holloway nonsense song -- /~o "Climbing up mount Popocatepetl is a bit above a little boy at boarding school" )
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