Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Question from Merle

2020-01-06 Thread Tom Johnson
Nick: Five published papers, you say. Might you have left out the book of proceedings of the Ver 1.0 conference held in Santa Fe in 2006. Many of the goals of the conference were ignited by FRIAM conversations. Many current FRIAM participants were involved. See http://www.lulu.com/shop/j-t-johnson

[FRIAM] more praise for FRIAM

2020-01-06 Thread thompnickson2
Frammers, I just got a note from Marjorie Ropp, wife of the China scholar, Paul Ropp, who used to visited with us from time to time. She says, in part, When you see the Fri-AM group at St. Johns, please let them know how much Paul enjoyed those weekly gatherings. And thanks to you all

Re: [FRIAM] Important New Climate Study

2020-01-06 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
I'd like to read the paper, but it's pay-walled so I realise my comments are on very thin ice. But I do accept that since the mini ice age the global temperatures have been rising and CO2 levels caused by human activities have also been rising and also contribute to the increase in temperatures. So

[FRIAM] Important New Climate Study

2020-01-06 Thread Merle Lefkoff
For the first time, scientists have detected the “fingerprint” of human-induced climate change on daily weather patterns at the global scale. If verified by subsequent work, the findings, published Thursday in Nature Climate Change , would upend th

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Question from Merle

2020-01-06 Thread thompnickson2
Steve, You a good and kind man! FRIAM is the petri-dish that brings ideas from different sources into proximity, and metaphors are the enzymes that actually coax them into interaction. No other working group has ever been as stimulating. I have often said, I owe my intellectual (if not biol

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Question from Merle

2020-01-06 Thread Steven A Smith
> Lars, Merle, Nick, and FRIAM members, > > Thank you for taking the time to respond, Lars! It's an important > first spark of interaction between two groups with Stockholm and Santa > Fe as nexus. Just to second Stephen's praise for both Lars' and Merle's "shepherding" our group so deftly.   Kudo

Re: [FRIAM] Big Data Course at RENESAN

2020-01-06 Thread Tom Johnson
Guess I was trying to jump the gun. Again. But I do wonder why, if the course calendar is ready, they don't open registration when the page goes up. On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 1:55 AM George Duncan wrote: > Course registration begins Monday, January 6 at 8am. See renesan.org > > Data Rights and Data W