Recent content by BartW

There’s a nice visual on the wikipedia page you posted. Orbital eccentricity of earth is currently 0.0167 (close to circular), currently decreasing, and ranges from nearly 0 (circular) to 0.05 (more elliptical) in ~100,000 year cycles. Earth’s axial tilt is currently 23.44 degrees, currently...

Indeed. You personally may not be making that argument, but it still regularly pops up here. Yes, different proxies are useful over different time scales. The aggregate of all the different sources of information tells us that current warming is unprecedented in recent geologic history. 81bc...

Joseph Fourier first wrote about the greenhouse effect in the 1820s. John Tyndall experimentally demonstrated it in the 1860s. Arrhenius calculated a surprisingly accurate climate sensitivity to CO2 in the 1890s. Alexander Graham Bell argued unchecked burning of fossil fuels would lead to global...

A moving vehicle with a dead driver, now that is a genuine threat

What makes you think this article is some sort of “gotcha”? There’s nothing inconsistent with our understanding of climate change and earth history. After the last glacial maximum, the planet warmed due to well-understood natural cycles, with temperatures peaking some 10k years ago. Since then...

In Kiffin’s 5th season at ole miss they went 9-3 including a loss to Kentucky (which was Kentucky’s only SEC win). They did beat Duke in the gator bowl. But that’s not much better than our season

The republican candidate must be pretty awful to blow a 20+ point lead. I knew Aftyn in elementary school. She went to cedar bluff in west Knoxville and lived in our average mid/upper-mid class subdivision. The Behns were right across the street from the Fraziers (Roger has been the Vols’...

Petersen catching strays? He turned around a UW program that had been down a decade longer than UT. 3 consecutive division titles, 2 conference championships, and a (4-team) CFP appearance in 6 seasons

Trump 2 admin granted him asylum earlier this year. Trump 1 started the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Bush got us into Afghanistan. Why are the feds roaming the streets anyway? Plenty of blame to go around

If you’re not a US citizen you’re an illegal!

Trump apparently doesn’t know who he pardoned last week

Oh man, if you missed that a few weeks ago, please google the trump medbed video he posted to truth social. It’s maybe the weirdest thing he’s done. There’s a lot more to it, but in summary, apparently there’s alien technology recovered from Roswell that can magically restore anyone to perfect...

Well he is giving us all access to magical medbeds

We’re one game behind 4th place

I predicted DeBoer to bama before everyone turned them down. Fisch has ties to the gators. Watch my huskies finish strong and it happens again