AFTIC Has Moved

Hello! Scienceblogs has shut down and A Few Things Illconsidered has relocated to cobybeck.wordpress.com. Scienceblogs says they will redirect from the old address to here only until November 30, 2017 so update your bookmarks and RSS feeds etc.   The export/import process seemed to go smoothly, but please report any broken links as you find …

Satellites Observe “Traffic Jams” in Antarctic Ice Stream Caused by Tides

A fascinating press release I want to pass along.  At first I thought it was maybe good news in that rising sea levels would slow glacier drainage into the oceans but the affect is the opposite: For the first time, researchers have closely observed how the ocean's tides can speed up or slow down the …

The Earth is Not Moving

"In order to save the dying heliocentric theory from the conclusive geocentric experiments performed by Michelson, Morley, Gale, Sagnac, Kantor and others, establishment master-mind Albert Einstein created his Special Theory of Relativity which in one philosophical swoop banished the absolute aether/firmament from scientific study and replaced it with a form of relativism which allowed for …

2015 Was the Hottest Year on Record by a Long Shot

An illustrative graphic from Bloomberg.com arrived in my inbox.  As they put it: "We just obliterated another heat record." To view it, you'll have to head over to here: 2015 Was the Hottest Year on Record by a Long Shot  

Unmoderated Post on Moderation

I will allow comments through by default for repeat commenters again, first time commenters will still need an initial approval. I will however now be a more active moderator and delete things that are useless or unnecessarily personal from now on, except on this thread. This is unavoidably subjective but I will try to err …

Global Day of Overshoot

August 13th was Earth Overshoot Day. The correct date, if calculated precisely, would come earlier and earlier each year, the current choice is just an approximation. This year, the year 2015, by sometime around August 13th, humanity had consumed as much of what we require from the lands and seas as our planet can sustainabley …

AFTIC Status Report

A gentle reader recently asked for a "status of the blog" report. As the two week delay between ask and answer can attest to, things are rather slow moving around here at the moment and I am mainly just my own lurker.  I do have some new content that I will offer very shortly and …

Cat out of the Bag

I haven't seen this making the climate blog rounds (though I don't pay as close attention anymore as I used to...) so I thought supporters of science and detractors alike might like to know that the cat is out of the bag and the Global Warming Hoax has been exposed. See below: Continental drift and …

Happy New Year!

Other original images can be viewed here.  (No, they are not New Year's, but they are fireworks!)  

Happy Holidays!

Sorry, I don't know who to credit for that, I got it from a Facebook post...