Posted on 04/25/2010 11:21:43 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Not a place to be wondering around in a bathing suit that is for sure. To keep things in perspective. We should remind ourselves, mercury goes into it’s solid state form at -87 below zero F.
It allows them to blame the lack of warming on volcanic ash rather than on their theories being bogus.
Acclimatization to such conditions can take from a week to two months and is accompanied by headaches, eye twitches, ear pains, nose bleeds, perceived suffocation, sudden rises in blood pressure, loss of sleep, reduced appetite, vomiting, joint and muscle pain, arthritis, and weight loss of 3-5 kg (7-11 lb) (sometimes as high as 12 kg (26 lb)).
I've heard McMurdo can be a fun place, especially considering the party scene. But I think Vostok is close to the bottom of my list of places to see.
Yes, that article (paper outlining a mathematical prediction for near-term climate oscilations based on a 60+ year short term cycle) is long, but a good start.
As I wrote in the comments sections at www.WattsUpWithThat.com discussing the idea, there are several ways the author needs to improve his function:
Apply the short-term 60 year cycle on top of a longer-term 800 year cycle, rather than adding it to a simple linearly increasing baseline.
Examine the Roman Warming Period, Dark Age Cold Period, Medieval Warming Period, and Little Ice Age IN ADDITION TO today’s Modern Warming Period, rather than in isolation.
Use this mathematical model as a basis to start a more fundamental physical model, not as a replacement for a physical model.
On the other hand, using a simple mathematically-derived function to prove wrong the badly-flawed CO2-AGW theory is correct in all regards.
Proving Theory A false with real-world data does NOT require that Theory B, Theory C, or even Theory D be proven correct.
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