Its that time of year when the bush turkeys in Queensland start their nest building. The one in our backyard wants to build right in front of the door to the shed John erected a few months ago. John sweeps the leaves away, the turkey puts them back.
Bush turkey wanting to build a nest
The latest Racetrack Playa research
Headline: The Mystery of Death Valley's "Sailing Stones" Is Finally Solved
Sarah Zhang
On a dried-up lake bed in Death Valley are dozens of rocks that have puzzled us for decades. The rocks have each left a dusty trail, evidence of some unknown force propelling them forward. Scientists have now finally observed the rocks moving and settled on an explanation: Thin ice and a gentle breeze.
Speculation about the origin of these sailing stones has ranged from hurricane-force winds to slippery algae films. In contrast, the rocks are actually being pushed around by delicate sheets of ice skating on sand, a solution that's just gentle and non-grandiose enough to be true. The idea doesn't come out of the blue; back in 2011, a scientist published his ice raft model after experimenting with sand in a Tupperware container.
What is really remarkable is that in a study published today in PLOS ONE, scientists observed the rocks actually moving for the first time.
You can read more at gizmodo.com.
http://gizmodo.com/the-mystery-of-death-valleys-sailing-stones-is-finall-1627635478
Larry's comment: The word, "solved" in the title may be an exaggeration. Nevertheless the latest research does shed some light on the greatest mystery of California's Death Valley National Park.
Congrats on getting your turkeys to rake up the leaves, Jennifer.
My turkeys turn their noses up at yard work.
Keep up the good work Egg. The German regulator confirms that their economy definitely needs more coal fired power stations.
http://www.thegwpf.org/germany-needs-coal-power-plants-energy-regulator-warns/
West Antarctica and Antarctic Peninsula melt due to cycles
'This is because the Antarctic Peninsula in located in the west wind zone of the southern hemisphere. This southern hemisphere wind belt is subject to stochastic cyclic atmospheric pressure variations, as is the case with all other global wind systems. This is analogous to the northern hemispheric North Atlantic Oscillation NAO). In the southern hemisphere it is known as the Antarctic Oscillation (AAO).'
- See more at: http://notrickszone.com/#sthash.RO0Mecy7.dpuf
Shocking News: Hiatus may last for 30 years.
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/thepause-graphic.jpg
More unbelievable past BS from Hansen. At least the passage of time shows that this BS artist is about as good a forecaster as silly Flannery.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/1986-worlds-greatest-climatologist-predicted-five-degrees-warming-by-2010/#comments
David Whitehouse on the Pause
'You don’t have to look very deeply at the science to realise that, despite the headlines, no one has come up with an answer to the “pause.” Some place their faith that there is a major driver – the Atlantic or the Pacific for instance – that can explain most of it. Others admit that there will not be any one cause for the “pause” and that it is likely to be the result of a patchwork of influences. If so then they have to explain why such a patchwork has for 17 years kept the global surface temperature statistically flat in the face of rising greenhouse gas concentrations – surely one of the most remarkable balancing acts in the history of science.
'For many the proof of what is causing the “pause” will not be forthcoming until it goes away and what is expected to be accelerated global warming resumes. But since whatever the culprit is would have been a very significant contributor to the pre “pause” warming in the 80s and 90s, one wonders how swift will be that acceleration?'
Interesting that Phil Jones agreed in 2010 that if evidence could be found for the Med WP in the SH it would change the AGW debate. IOW so called recent warming since the end of the LIA wouldn't be unprecedented or unusual at all.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/14/phil-jones-momentous-qa-with-bbc-reopens-the-science-is-settled-issues/
Well here are a number of PR studies that show the Med WP in Antarctica as does the recent Pages 2K study.
http://www.co2science.org/subject/a/antarcticmwp.php And here are numerous studies that show the Med WP in the SH.
http://www.co2science.org/subject/m/subject_m.php Just scroll down to find S America, Australia and NZ and central America.
But will these fools now change there minds? This is easily the biggest con and fraud for the last one hundred years.