Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Daily data fix! 29 Jan had a global mean surface temp of 0.74°C above pre-industrial. With the offset o 0.97°C, 29 Jan 2025 was 1.71°C above pre-industrial. 2120
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 31/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky archive.org/details/in.e...archive.orgMicrobe Hunters : Paul De Kruif : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveBook Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.221187dc.contributor.author: Paul De Kruifdc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-09T22:06:28Zdc.date.available:... 080
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Daily data fix! 28 Jan had a mean surface air temp of 0.78°C above the 1991-2020 average. With the offset of 0.97°C, 28 Jan 2025 was 1.75°C above pre-industrial. 150
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 30/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky archive.org/details/b9c0...archive.orgThe Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young : Andrew Robinson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveNo one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson... 050
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Daily data fix! 27 Jan global mean surface temp was 0.79°C above the 1991-2020 average. With the offset 0f 27 Jan of 0.96°, 27 Jan 2025 is 1.75°C above pre-industrial. 050
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 29/01/2025 #internetarchive book of the day. #booksky. archive.org/details/king...archive.orgking solomons ring : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 050
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Daily data fix! 26 Jan had a mean global surface air temp 0.83°C above the 1991-2020 average. With the offset of 0.96°C, 26 Jan 2025 was 1.79°C above pre-industrial. 030
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 28/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky. archive.org/details/TheP...archive.orgTHE PERIODIC TABLE - PRIMO LEVI : PRIMO LEVI : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveTHE PERIODIC TABLE, PRIMO LEVI, NOVEL, HOLOCAUST 030
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Daily data fix! 25 Jan had a global mean surface air temp of 0.84°C above the 1991-2020 average. With the offset for 25 Jan of +0.96°C, 25 Jan 2025 is 1.80°C above pre-industrial. 152
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 27/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky. archive.org/details/enri...archive.orgEnrico Fermi : physicist : Segrè, Emilio : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivex, 276 pages : 23 cm 020
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Daily data fix! 24 Jan had a global mean surface air temp of 0.84°C above the 1991-2020 average. With the offset of 0.96°C, 24 Jan 2025 was 1.80°C above pre-industrial. Jan 2025 is now 1.75°C above pre-industrial. We are going in the wrong direction folks! 241
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 26/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day #booksky. A classic popular science book unlike any other. archive.org/details/mrto...archive.orgMr. Tompkins in paperback : Gamow, George, 1904-1968 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivexii, 186 pages 22 cm 040
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Daily data fix! 23 Jan had a global mean surface air temp 0.79°C above the 1991-2020 average. With the offset of 0.96°C, 23 Jan 2025 was 1.75°C above pre-industrial. So far Jan 2025 is 1.74°C over pre-industrial. 050
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 25/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky Second part of Isaac Asimov's autobiography archive.org/details/injo...archive.orgIn joy still felt : the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978 : Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivex, 828 pages, [12] pages of plates : 23 cm 020
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 24/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky archive.org/details/over...archive.orgOvershoot : the ecological basis of revolutionary change : Catton, William R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveIncludes bibliographies andindex 030
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Daily data fix! 22 Jan global mean surface air temp was 0.77°C above the 1991-2020 average. With the offset of 0.96°C, 22 Jan 2025 was 1.73°C above pre-industrial. Although the forecast for the next week is for temps to drop, Jan. will be >1.70°C above pre-industrial. 010
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Daily data fix! 21 Jan global mean surface air temp was 0.80°C over the 1991-2020 average. With the offset of +0.96°C, that makes 21 Jan 2025 1.76°C over pre-industrial. 130
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 23/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky. Highly recommended. archive.org/details/tele...archive.orgTelephone : the first hundred years : Brooks, John, 1920- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveIncludes bibliographical references and index 010
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Daily data fix!. 20 Jan the mean surface air temp was 0.85°C above the 1991-2020 average. With the offset of +0.96°C, 20 Jan 2025 was 1.81°C above pre-industrial. 030
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 22/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day #booksky I love this book. A French explorer lives with the Inuit. archive.org/details/kabl...archive.orgKabloona : Poncins, Gontran de, 1900- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivexii, 339 p. : 22 cm 000
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 21/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky. Fascinating account of life in the Arctic.https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780191261961archive.orgThe Arctic year : Freuchen, Peter, 1886-1957, auteur : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive433 pages : 22 cm 000
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Daily data fix! From pulse.climate.copernicus.eu The global surface mean air temp for 19 Jan was 0.88°C above the 1991-2020 average. Adding the offset of 0.96°C, 19 Jan 2025 is 1.84°C above pre-industrial. 020
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Daily data fix! (Copernicus back up, my earlier post had an error). 18 Jan. global mean surface temp was 0.87°C above the 1991-2020 average. Adding the offset of 0.96°C, we find that 18 Jan 2025 is 1.83°C above pre-industrial. Not good. 020
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 20/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. Btw, the great lab is no more. The building is now a home for the aged. archive.org/details/thre...archive.orgThree degrees above zero : Bell Labs in the information age : Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchivePortions of this book originally appeared in the New Yorker--Verso t.p 110
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 19/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky This book explains how a skyscraper is built, mainly from the perspective of its developer. archive.org/details/high...archive.orgHigh rise : how 1,000 men and women worked around the clock for five years and managed to lose $200 million building a skyscraper : Adler, Jerry : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archi...Includes index 120
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 18/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky archive.org/details/subt...archive.org"Subtle is the Lord-- " : the science and the life of Albert Einstein : Pais, Abraham, 1918- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivexvi, 552 p., [9] p. of plates : 24 cm 120
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Anyone like me, who can't get enough weather data? Go to climatereanalyzer.org and play around. Here is the NAM model (North American Mesoscale) at a resolution of 3km. This particular model is computed every 6 hours and gives temperature forecasts hourly up to 60 hours in the future. 050
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Unfortunately, the daily data for temp anomalies has not been updated today on the Copernicus website. However, we can look at the global surface mean temperature forecasts for the next 7 days. Looking at the chart, and correcting for an approximate 0.2°C bias 120
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 17/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky archive.org/details/orde...archive.orgOrder out of chaos : man's new dialogue with nature : Prigogine, I. (Ilya) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveBased on the authors' La nouvelle alliance 010
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Daily data fix! For 13 Jan, the global surface mean temp was 0.71°C above the 1991-2020 average. The offset for 13 Jan is 0.96°C, so 13 Jan was 1.67°C above pre-industrial. 040
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 16/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day #booksky. archive.org/details/unsa...archive.orgUnsafe at any speed : the designed-in dangers of the American automobile : Nader, Ralph : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveIncludes index 020
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 15/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky. archive.org/details/dist...archive.orgDisturbing the universe : Dyson, Freeman J : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivex, 283 pages ; 24 cm 000
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 14/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky This was the first book by Vaclav Smil I read. Excellent. Like all books of his, great data porn. archive.org/details/twop...archive.orgTwo prime movers of globalization : the history and impact of diesel engines and gas turbines : Smil, Vaclav : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive261 p. : 24 cm 020
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The temp anomaly from Copernicus for 11 Jan is not available yet, so let's take a look at this from www.karstenhaustein.com/climate This shows the surface air temp anomaly forecast for the next 7 days. We find that the anomaly is expected to continue to be ~1.7°C above pre-industrial. 1/ 110
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 13/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. #booksky. Published in 1998, so a little dated, but still very thought provoking. archive.org/details/ourc...archive.orgOur Cosmic Origins : From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence : Delsemme, A. H : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivexviii, 322 pages : 24 cm 000
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Love AI? Try DeepSeek. Open-source, free to use. I've been playing around with it this morning. Besides being an excellent AI, it gives you its "thought process" after your prompt. Here's an example. Be amazed! docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.com 100
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 12/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day #booksky archive.org/details/revo...archive.orgRevolution in time : David S. Landes : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 110
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Daily Data fix! Copernicus had a problem with their data for almost a week, but its all fixed now. 10 Jan had a global mean surface air temp 0.80°C above the 1991-2020 average. With the +0.96°C offset, 10 Jan was 1.76°C above pre-industrial. The first 10 days of Jan are ~1.71°C > pre-industrial. 261
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 11/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day #booksky archive.org/details/expl... Biography of a great American astronomer.archive.orgExplorer of the universe; a biography of George Ellery Hale : Wright, Helen, 1914- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveBiographical articles on George Ellery Hale: p. [465] 021
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Unfortunately here in Chattanooga, we only got about 2 inches of heavy, wet snow before turning to sleet and a little freezing rain before it stopped. But the ground is all covered in snow. One of the more interesting effects of a snowstorm appears. Because of the reflectivity of the 1/ 110
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 10/01/2025This is the 7am balloon sounding in Nashville, TN. The columns are pressure in mb, height in meters, temp in °C, and dew point in °C. You can see it is below freezing at the surface, but above freezing at ~1000 meters, This "warm nose" of air may change the snow to rain or sleet later. 020
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Beginning of the snowstorm here in Chattanooga. Bring it! 030
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 10/01/2025This is going to be a fun day. It started snowing here in Chattanooga just before 7am EST. The snow is sticking to not only the grass, but on the road surfaces because the temperature has been below freezing overnight. There is a lot of moisture in the air column, so the potential exists 1/ 120
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 10/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day #booksky archive.org/details/prof... From 1964. Very supportive of racial equality.archive.orgA Profile of the Negro American : Pettigrew, Thomas F. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 130
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 09/01/2025#internetarchive book of the day. archive.org/details/dark...archive.orgDark side of the moon : the magnificent madness of the American lunar quest : De Groot, Gerard J., 1955- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivexiv, 320 pages ; 24 cm 000
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Tennessee, Kentucky, North Mississippi, Alabama & Georgia. Here is the 4pm EST NWS forecast for snow probabilities > 2" for the period 7am Fri. to 7pm Sat. 2" is what I consider the threshold for a real snowstorm, enough to cover the grass. Note that this is only for the 24 hour period. 030
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 08/01/2025This is what I think of our current politics here in America: youtu.be/x8jca8ZATfA?...youtu.beThe Clash - I'm so bored with the U.S.A. (lyrics)YouTube video by 93WK 020
Andrew Gross @ahgmem.bsky.social · 08/01/2025While California 🔥, and D.C. goes more 🥜 with each passing day, we in the mid-south can play in the snow. Get your white board and ruler and measure it. Citizen science! 010