The coriolis effect isn’t the easiest thing to get your head around, but it is an essential element in understanding the large scale motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. If you roll a ball along a flat frictionless surface it keeps going in the same direction. This is because objects that have no forces [...]
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The Coriolis Effect and Geostrophic Motion
Posted in Atmospheric Physics, Basic Science on January 15, 2012 | 20 Comments »
The Rotational Effect
Posted in Commentary on January 11, 2012 | 37 Comments »
Climate scientists think that the rotation of the earth is responsible for a lot of the atmospheric and ocean effects that we see. In fact, most climate scientists think it is easy to prove. (Although not as simple as proving that radiatively-active gases affect the climate). Now suppose the earth’s rotation speed was reducing by [...]
Kramm & Dlugi On Dodging the “Greenhouse” Bullet
Posted in Basic Science, Commentary on January 5, 2012 | 123 Comments »
In Kramm & Dlugi On Illuminating the Confusion of the Unclear I pointed out that the authors of Scrutinizing the atmospheric greenhouse effect and its climatic impact are in agreement with climate science on the subject of “back radiation” from the atmosphere contributing to the surface temperature. No surprise to people familiar with the basics of radiative [...]
Kramm & Dlugi On Illuminating the Confusion of the Unclear
Posted in Basic Science, Commentary on January 3, 2012 | 156 Comments »
Many people are confused about science basics when it comes to the inappropriately-named “greenhouse” effect. This can be easily demonstrated in many blogs around the internet where commenters, and even blog owners, embrace multiple theories that contradict each other but are somehow against the “greenhouse” effect. Recently a new paper: Scrutinizing the atmospheric greenhouse effect [...]
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“Blah blah blah” vs Equations
Posted in Basic Science, Commentary on January 30, 2012 | 454 Comments »
It is not surprising that the people most confused about basic physics are the ones who can’t write down an equation for their idea. The same people are the most passionate defenders of their beliefs and I have no doubts about their sincerity. I’ll meander into what it is I want to explain.. I found [...]
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