Re: [FRIAM] On Apple Podcasts: Solving Tornadoes: Woke Meteorology

2023-09-07 Thread Steve Smith
Fascinating (to me) how water (the H20 molecule, it's phases, mechanical modes, radiative coupling, chemistry, aggregate thermodynamics, etc) is central to such a widely distributed space-time regime of morpho and teleodynamic phenomena spanning (sub)cellular to organism to super-organism (herd

Re: [FRIAM] On Apple Podcasts: Solving Tornadoes: Woke Meteorology

2023-09-07 Thread Roger Critchlow
Anyone who needs to call "woke" to make a scientific argument has lost my ear. An attention seeking proto-populist weatherman. The electrostatics of individual water molecules, that the hydrogens have some positive charge and the lone pairs of oxygen have some negative charge (which is actually a

Re: [FRIAM] On Apple Podcasts: Solving Tornadoes: Woke Meteorology

2023-09-07 Thread Nicholas Thompson
thanks Pieter for giving a hear. He almost certainly is a crack pot (he has an "only I can fix it" thing going) but is he wrong about everything? He makes a big deal about the special properties of water molecules. He argues that these are created not by the geometric properties of the molecule p

Re: [FRIAM] On Apple Podcasts: Solving Tornadoes: Woke Meteorology

2023-09-06 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
I listened to the podcast and my opinion is that this guy, James McGinn, is a crackpot. On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 05:28, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > *Hi, all,* > > *I was casting about for a podcast on meteorology and stumbled on this > guy. I can’t tell if he’s a total raging loon. he says some in

[FRIAM] On Apple Podcasts: Solving Tornadoes: Woke Meteorology

2023-09-06 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi, all, I was casting about for a podcast on meteorology and stumbled on this guy. I can’t tell if he’s a total raging loon. he says some interesting things about the properties of water and then claims that convection is a myth! I could not find any trace of him on the web except this podcas