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The news from NASA today is that Jakobshavn is now advancing, rather than retreating. It's probably a temporary change, but, even so, it's remarkable, considering that the glacier has been retreating for over 150 years:
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2852/cold-water-currently-slowing-fastest-greenland-glacier/
[Snip, no links to climate risk denier sites, thanks; N.]
Jakobshavn record retreat
What a coincidence. Yesterday I wrote in a comment: There's a fantastic segment on the Arctic Sea Ice Forum for discussing Greenland and its glaciers, with people presenting all kinds of analysis and satellite images. Really top quality stuff. Well, the folks there (forum member Espen Olsen to...
Climate campaigners frequently speculate that anthropogenic warming could cause an increase in the frequency and/or intensity of "extreme weather" events, like hurricanes and tornadoes. However, that has not happened, thus far. Here are some graphs:
http://policlimate.com/tropical/frequency_12months.png
http://policlimate.com/tropical/global_running_ace.png
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/images/tornado/clim/EF3-EF5.png
Climatologist James Hansen predicted that melting ice sheets global warming will keep the oceans cool at extreme latitudes, while the tropics warm due to GHGs, with the result that the "increasing temperature gradient is going to drive stronger storms."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOKBOFLhgqM#t=7m25s
However, these days just the opposite is widely acknowledged: "Polar Amplification" is expected to cause temperatures to rise faster at higher latitudes. Some people also know that non-linear negative feedbacks limit warming in the tropics:
http://www.sealevel.info/feedbacks.html#tropicalsst
Yet I have never heard Dr. Hansen, nor any other climate alarmist, speculate that the reduced temperature gradient might reduce extreme weather.
Climate Models Versus Cyclones & Hurricanes: More Titanic-Like Climate/Weather Prediction Failures
Fortunately, the Titanic only sunk once because engineers and navigators did not continue to make the same mistakes over and over. But "experts" and climate models provide a never-ending loop of sinking and re-floating of a wide assortment of climate change predictions, forecasts and scenarios....
correction: "AP Style" should be "APA Style." Sorry.
Forming Possessives With Singular Names
by Tyler Krupa I don’t think that I’m revealing a big grammar secret by letting you know that the possessive of a singular name is formed by adding an apostrophe and an s (e.g., Smith’s, 2012, study). But although this rule seems straightforward, one thing that trips up many writers is how...
Here are some authorities which, thankfully, disagree with the APA Style guide:
"most words that end in an unpronounced "s" form their possessive by adding an apostrophe + s"
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm
"The most useful rule — and the most general and the easiest to remember — is simply that you add ’s whenever you actually say an extra /əz/ at the end when forming the possessive, compared with how you say the non-possessive version. Let your own ear be your guide. That’s all there is to it. No fancy rules full of exceptions. Just your own ear (as a native speaker, mind you)."
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/79081/which-singular-names-ending-in-s-form-possessives-with-only-a-bare-apostrophe
http://data.grammarbook.com/blog/apostrophes/apostrophes-with-words-ending-in-s/
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp
Forming Possessives With Singular Names
by Tyler Krupa I don’t think that I’m revealing a big grammar secret by letting you know that the possessive of a singular name is formed by adding an apostrophe and an s (e.g., Smith’s, 2012, study). But although this rule seems straightforward, one thing that trips up many writers is how...
The rule for a silent trailing "s" seems exactly backwards. According to the AP Style book, the one time when you don't add a trailing "s" is when you do want to add an "s" sound. Seriously??
Forming Possessives With Singular Names
by Tyler Krupa I don’t think that I’m revealing a big grammar secret by letting you know that the possessive of a singular name is formed by adding an apostrophe and an s (e.g., Smith’s, 2012, study). But although this rule seems straightforward, one thing that trips up many writers is how...
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I may be contacted by email at: http://www.burtonsys.com/email/ If you are interested in my work on sea levels, see: http://www.burtonsys.com/climate/global_msl_trend_analysis.html If you are interested in my work on electoral redistricting, see: http://www.burtonsys.com/redist.html Dave Burton Cary, NC Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2010 at Ncdave4life's blog
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St. Dishtopass: The Sacristy.
Milly Biederwolfe (say BEE-der-wolf-ee) has been glad to get those pews out of the barn. Lately, now that she hasn't been hectoring dear old Hector about them, she's been busy sorting the drawers and cabinets in the sacristy. Haven't been too many surprises, but there have been a few. In th...
Katy, I just told a friend to look at your blog because, I said, "Katy's blog has the best coverage of the Wake Convention I've found."
Live Blogging the Wake County Convention
After a much needed-week off to recover from a sinus infection, your blogger spent the week away from her computer catching up on her reading. She didn't read a single email or write any blog posts. The rest was much needed. Tonight, we are live blogging the Wake County Convention, at 7:18 p....
John, what on earth are talking about?
Arrowood was chairman of Equality NC PAC, an organization which lobbies for the legalization of same-sex marriage. How on earth can you contend that "he never brought [his sexuality] up until he was asked"?
He headed a PAC that was campaigning for legalization of same-sex marriage, which is the very definition of activism. So how can you say to Katy, "you have no evidence of activism?" That's just absurd.
Conservative Hunter for Court of Appeals - Needs Your Checks to Qualify
Bob Hunter, a conservative Republican from Greensboro, has filed to take on John Arrowood in that race for the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Court of Appeals races are run statewide and typically receive little attention from voters. This race is crucial for conservatives however, as the i...
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