Quite by accident I took a wrong turn this AM while searching for a Starbucks, and ended up in front of an interesting bookshop in the old Scots Church building in Sydney. I went in and one of the first books I saw, prominently displayed, was this book written by BoM:
It was pricey, large and heavy. Coffee table book. $65AU. So I went back to my hotel to see if I could order on Amazon. No such luck. In fact I couldn’t find it to order anywhere. So I bought it given the opportunity. Now I just need to lug it back.
The rear cover is interesting.
It contains a CD ROM of data, tables, illustrations and graphs. This will of course make blogging easy for future topics.
To fit it into my carry on, I had to leave a couple of other things. In a future post, I’ll discuss what else I left behind.
I’m offline for a couple of days as of now. but I do have a couple of posts scheduled to run while I’m in the air. Thanks to the kind people of Australia for their support and hospitality. Yanks, I’ll see ya soon.
UPDATE: Writing from the airport net kiosk, I’ve tried to post a pix of a hilarious book juxtaposition I saw. It will have to wait until I return since the SD card reader doesn’t work. Also, I should point out that I’ll also be reading Dr. Bob Carter’s book, The Climate Counter Consensus on the way home. – A
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I hope you didn’t have to leave your souvenir didgeridoo behind. 😉
Oh Noes! Think of the trees!
Bet it has some beautiful photos to look at anyway.
o/t Anyone up for this in Edinburgh a week on Wednesday?
http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/events/index.htm#July
Well my first thought was that it was published by the Australian Government Bureau of Meterology so it’s all on the up and up eh what?
I’m sure that the Australian government is as honest and aboveboard as our American government so it must be 100% accurate yes?
Second thought… 65 dollars for a book? darn… that’s almost up there with University level text books. I wish I could borrow it from Anthony when he gets back, I could learn a lot of things about Australian climate at least from it.
You know Anthony, I’m surprised airport security is letting you take it on a plane,
The bloody thing looks so big and heavy I’m surprised they aren’t considering it a deadly weapon and confiscating the beast.
🙂
Not exactly “light” reading, or something most people would be willing to lug halfway around the world. But it will be interesting to see which dataset is on the CD.
I hope you didn’t have to leave a razor behind!
“To fit it into my carry on, I had to leave a couple of other things.”
That’s what snailmail is for.
tan me hide on the shed fred….
sorry for being off topic.
Congrats on your world tour, and all that.
As a skeptic, no roo’s in any pictures makes me wonder ?
Welcome back, we need you.
Yeah – why didn’t you just snailmail it home? How much more could it cost?
We will welcome our brave leader back to climate change:
The observatory posted this picture of the snow on its website.
By Jeff Fish, Globe Correspondent
Ignoring the calendar, which showed the beginning of the month of July, a dusting of snow fell Thursday on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, startling tourists and forcing the closure of the road to the top.
“It’s not extraordinary, but it’s definitely interesting,” said Stacey Kawecki, a meteorologist for the Mount Washington Observatory.
Thats sounds like a book I might like to own assuming the content resembles the preface. They didn’t mention “climate change” or “global warming” once! Look forward to your review of it. I am wishing I bought something to read on the way home from down under……that flight was brutal! 13 hours from brisbane to LAX. Bunch of drunk women behind me made it impossible to sleep, but I digress.
A quick search on the ISBN yielded at least a couple of online book stores that post to the US with this title in stock…
Thanks for visiting Australia. You have further inspired many of us with your research and informative presentation. We now have a little more ammunition for the debate which seems to be stirring up again in anticipation of an Australian Federal election.
Speaking of long flights, I was around an ex-Quantas DC-7C Propliner, it was converted
to an Airtanker, 3000 US Gallons. What was amazing it had a fuel capacity that gave it
a 10,000 mile range max. However it also had some 75 gallons of oil -60 wt- behind each
engine. Yet it would run out of Oil before it ran out of gas. Usually they stopped in Tahiti
to re-oil. Still, at 300kts to was more like 30 hours than 13 hours..
Have a safe trip, Anthony…
Sounds like a heavy book and a large carbon footprint by carrying it on a plane all the way from the land of Oz. You will have to plant a couple of trees as penance when you land back home, Anthony.
Shoulda shipped it Fedex. Woulda beat you home by 12 hours.
I also appreciate your visit to Australia, though it would appear that nothing seems to get through to the (so-called) scientific establishment, starting with the CSIRO – S used to stand for Scientific – someone will have a better suggestion now.
However it seems that you were so busy on your trip that you did not notice the relative importance (or lack) of Starbucks in Oz. In the area of the city in which you wandered, during the working day, there must be hundreds of barista manned (personned) espresso coffee machines in establishments ranging from barrows to restaurants – a favourite is a cafe in what used to be the large, previously empty, monumental entrances to modern bank buildings – now shared with the waft of superb coffee, panini, biscotti and French or Italian or… style cakes.
Only those who are “culturally deprived” – meaning US visitors, new non-European residents or those who have just progressed from Nescafe, get their fix from a Starbucks!
We, (exhuding hubris), true Australian city occupiers and workers, “wouldn’t be seen dead in” Starbucks – not that there’s anything wrong with them, of course.
Seriously, the only rise in sea (well fluid) levels in Australia, is from the “flood” of superb coffee – in a country where all my parents would ever drink was tea (and beer of course).
Richard Henry Lee says:July 2, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Sounds like a heavy book and a large carbon footprint by carrying it on a plane all the way from the land of Oz. You will have to plant a couple of trees as penance when you land back home, Anthony.
Au contraire, that book has probably sequestered enough carbon to offset the the entire flight home.
It’s sunny and warm here on the Gold Coast, I’m just saying.
I scored one today too. I ordered “Heat transfer by infrared radiation in the atmosphere”Author/Creator: Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-
Contributor: Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory (Harvard University)
Subjects: Heat — Radiation and absorption
Publisher: Milton, Mass., Harvard university, Blue Hill meteorological observatory
Date: 1942
Language: English
Format: 107 p. incl. tables, diagrs. 26 cm.
A little less pricey, to get it through inter-library loan. I hope to be able to extract DIRECTLY from it the part about the CO2 “upflux” contribution in the Troposphere being EQUAL to the CO2 “downflux” contribution based on “first principles” of grey gas radiation heat transfer.
Maybe we can then start a “thread” on trying to find out what happened between 1942 and now that “changed the fundemental physics” and made CO2 a predominate “downflux” agent. (Stratosphere, because of the “shape factor/view angle subtended to space, CO2 is a net UPFLUX agent.)
I’m sure Anthony may find many sets of data in the $65 Aussie book, that may make claims about “massive change” moot points. It will be a wonderful thing to look forwards to!
Michael Lewis says:
July 2, 2010 at 8:35 pm
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We, (exhuding hubris), true Australian city occupiers and workers, “wouldn’t be seen dead in” Starbucks – not that there’s anything wrong with them, of course.[…]”
For the U.S., Starbucks must have been a step forward. But i would be careful in importing European influences; for instance, be picky when importing politics. There’s a lot to chose from; not all of them are fresh.
Anthony,
There is a book on the history of the Oz BoM. I haven’t read it but I’ve seen a review. In the beginning there was a staff of one and he was supposed to cover all of Oz. So he did all he could – he just made it up.
Hi Anthony
Hope that book is more even handed than recent BOM/CSIRO pamphlets that are sadly biased to warming.
I reckon I’ll wait till that book comes up (inevitably) in the Dirt Cheap Books range of remainders. The book I offered you in Melbourne, “The Weather Watchers” (100 years of the Bureau of Meterology) official history is similarly heavy, but remaindered at AUS $19.99!! (Authored by David Day and produced by Melbourne University Publishing
ISBN 9780522852752
ISBN 0 522 85275 0)
Of course, printed in China by the Australian Book Connection! on behalf of the BOM and the Australian Government!) Sad that!!
As I have said previously the written history explains a lot about the politics of Weather in Australia, the early struggles to source equipment and then set up and maintain due to lack of support unless successive governments were prodded by crisis, and media pressure. The inevitable internal bickering, personalities, and even more revealing the resistance to early modeling and uncertainties and the competition with Australian Scientific organisations like the CSIRO and the “new guns on the block”, computer scientists, flexing their newfound political authority. Also details the very dedicated service by many meteorologists to the dream of providing the best weather(an unbiased) service to the Australian community, while operating under quite adverse conditions.
Our continental variety of climate with its extremes, makes it easy for the warmist’s agenda to misrepresent and exploit historically repeating weather cycles, as scary anthropogenic C02 induced climate change!!
My offer to mail a copy still stands!!
Thanks for undertaking such an arduous tour for all our sakes, and hopefully in less strenuous times you might get back for a well deserved holiday!!