Monday, November 19, 2018

Are these Danish cities older TPT?


FTA: "Urban development is one of those areas that's very difficult to pin down because it's at the border between archaeology and history—

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-danish-cities-older-previously-thought.html#jCp

"Sometimes you have to take a deep breath and look again. And I think that's the case here," 



More water into the earth's interior TPT


The Earth is eating its oceans

As Earth's tectonic plates dive beneath one another, they drag three times as much water into the planet's interior as previously thought.
Those are the results of a new paper published today (Nov. 14) in the journal Nature.

FTA: The water cycle at subduction zones remains poorly understood.

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Even Colder than Scientists Thought.

Even with CO2 levels exceeding 400ppm and left wing politicians frantic to restrict energy use and human freedom, the Antarctic region continues to show record low temperatures  as low as any possible even at 280 ppm CO2.  Interesting reading.   And commentary at WUWT.

An inconvenient truth.

Here is also a link to the primary report (which may have limited time free access.)

FTA:  Plain Language Summary The lowest measured air temperature on Earth is 89.2 °C ( 129 F) on 23 July 1983, observed at Vostok Station in Antarctica (Turner et al., 2009, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012104). However, satellite data collected during the Antarctic polar night during 2004–2016 reveal a broad region of the high East Antarctic Plateau above Vostok that regularly reaches snow surface temperatures of 90 °C and below. These occur in shallow topographic depressions near the highest part of the ice sheet, at 3,800 to 4,050-m elevation. Comparisons with nearby automated weather stations suggest that air temperatures during these events are near 94 ± 4 °C or about 138 F. Ultracold conditions (below 90 °C) occur more frequently when the Antarctic polar vortex is strong. This temperature appears to be about as low as it is possible to reach, even under clear skies and very dry conditions, because heat radiating from the cold clear air is nearly equal to the heat radiating from the bitterly cold snow surface.

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

“More Complex Than Previously Thought”

“More Complex Than Previously Thought”


Interesting blog posting on the idea of science and new discoveries.  Usually 'More' seldom 'less' complex TPT.

FTA: The pursuit of science is an interesting beast. It’s awesome to distill our world down to a basic set of principles…laws, rules, and theorems that explain, or at the very least describe, how things work. On the other hand, the more you dig into things, the more interesting and surprising they can be. Previous notions end up being overturned, or perhaps even more frequently, the accepted phenomenon turns out to be “more complex than previously thought.”

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New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids' construction



FTA...  the job of hauling into place the huge blocks of stone used to build the monuments may have been completed more quickly than previously thought.