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Understanding The Voynich Manuscript #4

Understanding The Voynich Manuscript #4 If not Latin, then what? Please see the links at...

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Understanding the Voynich Manuscript #3 Plants and the moon. For thousands of years, people...

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Understanding the Voynich Manuscript #2 An i for an i ? Not nymphs: women! There are...

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Petermann Ice Island (2010) - The Mörner Version

The world of climate science according to wishful thinkers.

I was raised at the seaside.  I lived through the 1953 floods which resulted from the North Sea storm surge.

Nils-Axel Mörner seems to have visited the seaside once or twice.

To Anthony Watts,

Letter before action in accordance with the rules of common law jurisdictions in general and of the English Civil Courts1 in particular.

In the general context of this letter, my use of the term 'you' shall be taken to mean, include and imply any or all of the persons Anthony Watts, Steve Goddard, Christopher Monckton and any other person who may have, at the relevant time, been responsible for the provision of main content or the administrative oversight of articles and / or comments unless the context hereunder clearly indicates otherwise.

Propaganda - An Application Of The Forgetting Curve

Learning curves,  forgetting curves, adjacency and the scientific roots of the black art of propaganda.


Zombies - A Public Policy Study

Found last night during a Google search for latest news about something entirely unrelated to this search result:

Night of the Living Wonks

Toward an international relations theory of zombies.

There are many sources of fear in world politics -- terrorist attacks, natural disasters, climate change, financial panic, nuclear proliferation, ethnic conflict, and so forth. Surveying the cultural zeitgeist, however, it is striking how an unnatural problem has become one of the fastest-growing concerns in international relations. I speak, of course, of zombies.
Weird World Weather

There is a lot of happy talk out there that is premised on the belief that you can't tell the public the bad news because it’ll scare them and they'll not do anything, or they will fall into despair.
David W Orr
Arctic Ice August 2010 - Update #2

Since I last posted an update, many things have happened in the Arctic and sub-Arctic.

In my last update - Arctic Ice August 2010 - Update #1 - I noted that there were no floes in the main pack bigger than 35km2.  I invited my readers to find a floe bigger than that anywhere in the main ice pack.  Nobody did.  Yes, there were a few bigger floes - even big enough to be called ice islands - but they were not in the main pack.