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Resuming Normal Transmissions
Apr. 11th, 2012 02:09 pmI found my energy levels so low yesterday that I neither blogged nor went to the gym. Having gone to the gym over lunch today, I am now resuming blogging with a few hand-selected links.
1) Some scientists were cleaning out their bookshelves and came across a paper from 1981 predicting climate change. The money quote? To conclude, a projection from 1981 for rising temperatures in a major science journal, at a time that the temperature rise was not yet obvious in the observations, has been found to agree well with the observations since then, underestimating the observed trend by about 30%, and easily beating naive predictions of no-change or a linear continuation of trends. It is also a nice example of a statement based on theory that could be falsified and up to now has withstood the test. The “global warming hypothesis” has been developed according to the principles of sound science.
2) Does the US really have more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia? no, not really. A key point - true "shale oil" isn't "oil" it's oil that hasn't been cooked by nature, and to get it to a usable state requires heating it.
3) On the softer side of things, why some Civil War soldiers glowed in the dark.
1) Some scientists were cleaning out their bookshelves and came across a paper from 1981 predicting climate change. The money quote? To conclude, a projection from 1981 for rising temperatures in a major science journal, at a time that the temperature rise was not yet obvious in the observations, has been found to agree well with the observations since then, underestimating the observed trend by about 30%, and easily beating naive predictions of no-change or a linear continuation of trends. It is also a nice example of a statement based on theory that could be falsified and up to now has withstood the test. The “global warming hypothesis” has been developed according to the principles of sound science.
2) Does the US really have more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia? no, not really. A key point - true "shale oil" isn't "oil" it's oil that hasn't been cooked by nature, and to get it to a usable state requires heating it.
3) On the softer side of things, why some Civil War soldiers glowed in the dark.
