El Niño Southern Oscillation
I’m probably going to get most of this wrong, but since even the guys driving the Cray supercomputers don’t really understand the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and what makes it tick, I guess...
Tagged: Marine
Deep Sea Mining: Part 2
Before we jump into the deep water, a couple possibly irrelevant tangents: I love the earth, am fascinated by its processes, and wish it a long and happy life. Anybody who has opened their...
Oops, Our Bad…
Real science — by definition — is open to continuing reinterpretations as more data become available, often leading to adjustments of accepted models. An excellent example of this unavoidable truism was the basis of...
What’s Next?
I spend quite a bit of time thinking about what the earth is going to look like when humans are no longer around to take care of it. I had a student once who...
I Can’t Take the Pressure Anymore…
A Request… Please hit the Subscribe button and sign up for updates to this blog. It costs you nothing and gives me nothing, other than a bit of emotional validation for my efforts. What...
The sound of the sun
I mentioned in an earlier post that sitting at the beach gives us a chance to listen to the voice of the sun. While this may sound like a 60s flashback — and fifty-plus...
