tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post7713003466062848796..comments2024-02-26T21:27:17.091+13:00Comments on The Fundy Post: The tide is high (except for viewers in New Zealand)Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-43456365023317388042008-12-02T14:12:00.000+13:002008-12-02T14:12:00.000+13:00Mr McShane's latest publishing flatulence caught m...Mr McShane's latest publishing flatulence caught my eye too: http://uroskin.blogspot.com/2008/11/flat-earthers-on-recruitment-drive.htmlHans Versluyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15331809478789352312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-1037628002933837152008-11-26T23:34:00.000+13:002008-11-26T23:34:00.000+13:00Only if we can either get Independence or full fi...Only if we can either get Independence or full fiscal autonomy before they need our taxes to upgrade the Thames barrier.<BR/><BR/>Just don't by any property close to the coast in the SE of England, including East Anglia. The policy is now is to let Nature take its course. Cue pictures of houses falling into the sea from crumbling cliff tops.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-27517224765862823382008-11-26T21:48:00.000+13:002008-11-26T21:48:00.000+13:00I see. So, finally, Scotland has its revenge.I see. So, finally, Scotland has its revenge.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-75588172557748328072008-11-26T21:32:00.000+13:002008-11-26T21:32:00.000+13:00How does it happen? well my understanding is that ...How does it happen? well my understanding is that it's all to do with the fact that the ice cap was not uniform in its distribution. The SE of GB is sinking because the ice was thickest up here in Scotland and further north in Scandinavia (all those lovely steep sided Glens and Fjords). Take away the ice and the north rises up faster and the land that had no ice tips. You have to remember that the continents are floating on a sea of molten/squishy rocks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-82265585871283502192008-11-26T17:48:00.001+13:002008-11-26T17:48:00.001+13:00Sorry, McEwan.Sorry, McEwan.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-12282662837580944312008-11-26T17:48:00.000+13:002008-11-26T17:48:00.000+13:00Nice link, thank you. It goes straight into Blog-u...Nice link, thank you. It goes straight into Blog-u-like. The McEwen piece is good reading.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-74846805090172326672008-11-26T14:38:00.000+13:002008-11-26T14:38:00.000+13:00I 'spose you could do worse than to just go and as...I 'spose you could do worse than to just go and ask <A HREF="http://www.hot-topic.co.nz" REL="nofollow">that guy</A>.StephenRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08717556420960471541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-87338727806807195282008-11-26T14:35:00.000+13:002008-11-26T14:35:00.000+13:00I am a bit lost: "The rebounding after the last ic...I am a bit lost: "The rebounding after the last ice age is only being magnified locally where the land is um, not rebounding, but sinking." How does this happen?Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-60900025947067516742008-11-26T13:24:00.000+13:002008-11-26T13:24:00.000+13:00Then I am out of excuses, please accept my apology...Then I am out of excuses, please accept my apology for letting the team downAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-36714046215001875482008-11-26T11:18:00.000+13:002008-11-26T11:18:00.000+13:00Sorry David W but I'm a squishy bits scientist too...Sorry David W but I'm a squishy bits scientist too. The moniker is a reference to my main interest, the development of in fact. I just have wide interests. I subscribe to New Scientist and have read every issue from cover to cover since 1987, the year we got access to the department common room as honours students. I got so hooked that when i eventually left (did my PhD there too) I had to buy my own fix.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-180796751862697012008-11-26T10:11:00.000+13:002008-11-26T10:11:00.000+13:00Heh. You may or may not be interested to know, Pau...Heh. You may or may not be interested to know, Paul, that Owen's qualification is also in Architecture of some kind or other. But he's been 'doing science' for ages aye!StephenRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08717556420960471541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-38658847742673886292008-11-26T10:08:00.000+13:002008-11-26T10:08:00.000+13:00Um you were doing so well until you ruined it at t...<I>Um you were doing so well until you ruined it at that point.</I><BR/><BR/>Oh, right, I got the directions of the change mixed up in my head somehow. I shall limit my comments to the squishy science in the future, leaving the physical science to them that know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-28727962237004314462008-11-26T09:33:00.000+13:002008-11-26T09:33:00.000+13:00You'd think we'd be sinking, what with all that pu...You'd think we'd be sinking, what with all that punching above our weight.<BR/><BR/>Someone was telling me there are these ridiculous tides somewhere in scandinavia where the shape of the coastline meets the tidal flow or whatever it is.<BR/><BR/>Oh look - turns out the biggest tide are in Canada's Bay of Fundy. Combines several of your interests there.Lyndonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622953598107216261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-62783686234325304912008-11-26T00:18:00.000+13:002008-11-26T00:18:00.000+13:00In the Northern Hemisphere apparent sea level rise...<I>In the Northern Hemisphere apparent sea level rise is magnified because, and this is impossibly cool, the continents are slowly 'rebounding' from being compressed by the ice-caps that sat on top of them during the last glacial maxima. </I><BR/><BR/>Um you were doing so well until you ruined it at that point. The rebounding after the last ice age is only being magnified locally where the land is um, not rebounding, but sinking. Like the SE of the UK. Parts of Denmark are rebounding at a rate that will outstrip sea level rises. For a while at least.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-33323712175432792502008-11-25T23:24:00.000+13:002008-11-25T23:24:00.000+13:00Maybe you should. Once I've got my brain around th...Maybe you should. Once I've got my brain around the Celts I'd like to fisk McShane. It's such a doddery piece he wrote I find it hard to even know where to begin.Matthew R. X. Dentithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12499867223966169985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-31609475580975386222008-11-25T21:32:00.000+13:002008-11-25T21:32:00.000+13:00Sea levels can be local. I was once the token bi...Sea levels <I> can</I> be local. I was once the token biologist at a 'spatial science' conference (if you are approached to be the token architectural historian at such a meeting turn and run) and the one interesting thing I did learn was that local sea level is the result of <BR/><BR/>a) the amount of ocean that there is to go around <BR/>b) local conditions including water temperature (warm water takes up more room) and atmospheric pressure (the 'storm surge' that precedes a hurricane reaching land is caused by the low pressure in the eye of the storm).<BR/><BR/>In the Northern Hemisphere apparent sea level rise is magnified because, and this is impossibly cool, the continents are slowly 'rebounding' from being compressed by the ice-caps that sat on top of them during the last glacial maxima. <BR/><BR/>That's not to say McShane is anything short of barking. Sea levels are rising in New Zealand and the local conditions are only going to exacerbate the global trend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-82198760985387771112008-11-25T16:52:00.000+13:002008-11-25T16:52:00.000+13:00That would be telling.That would be telling.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-69322797757057866302008-11-25T16:17:00.000+13:002008-11-25T16:17:00.000+13:00What with my friends in academia conspiring to obs...What with my friends in academia conspiring to obscure this country's True Celtic Origins and now my friends in NIWA and the Royal Society conspiring to obscure this country's True Unchanging Climate, I ought to be reaping more benefits of being among the conspiring elite than I am. Is someone conspiring to exclude me?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com