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2 posts published by cjonescu during October 2025| The Grumpy Geophysicist
2 posts published by cjonescu during October 2025| The Grumpy Geophysicist
GG has often criticized gravity profiles drawn from gridded datasets. Recently when asked about that, he decided it was worth showing in a simple way just exactly how bad things can get. So start w…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
10/4: Another view from The Atlantic… What dropped into 9 university leaders’ mailboxes was a document that, under different circumstances, would be canned as spam as this document is basically an ultimatum: turn over control of your campus to us, or else. The “or else” is losing access to all federal programs: student loans, federal […]| The Grumpy Geophysicist
GG seems to have found all the really depressing stuff lately, so you know, let’s indulge. How does the world end? What are the odds? Now I hear you say, well, that is pretty far off (unless there are Vogons, hyperspace bypasses, and such). This is a geological view of things; humanity is pretty incapable […]| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Hey, why read stuff on your screen when you can get a real physical book to tell you how to fight what these authors call “antiscience”? Here’s a link to a story at Ars about the …| The Grumpy Geophysicist
GG is having to come back to grips with this for a field guide, so will expose some ignorance and bias, no doubt, in reviewing the problem. First, we’re talking about the foothills on the west side of the range between roughly the San Joaquin River and the Tule River. Along this stretch, basically there […]| The Grumpy Geophysicist
While polishing off a science post, would be remiss not to point you to both a book, Science under Siege, and a conversation the book’s authors had with Paul Krugman. Those authors you might …| The Grumpy Geophysicist
With everything going on, it is worth noting that the war on science continues. Despite clear indications from Congress that they intend to retain funding levels for NOAA, the Trump administration appears to plan to simply not spend money Congress allocated so that they can starve out parts of NOAA. This as weather researchers try […]| The Grumpy Geophysicist
OK, there are plans to actually post some things about earth science, but for now, some flippancy. The country is being run by MAGA, and when America was great originally remains up in the air (195…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
8 posts published by cjonescu during May 2025| The Grumpy Geophysicist
As we’ve noted a few times before, the attempts by certain members of Congress and this administration to use transparency as a subterfuge to torpedo science they don’t like. Sometimes…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
GG was a bit disturbed in reading an Atlantic story describing how PLOS Biology and a few other journals were relaxing the rules on publishing papers that were scooped by rivals publishing the same…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Although there has been a lot of focus on actions in the executive branch, a rather curious piece of legislation is working its way through Congress. HR 1430, called the HONEST act, might just be …| The Grumpy Geophysicist
A lot has been written about the results of the Reproducibility Project’s analysis of papers in psychology (for instance, here and here). While some of the response has been overwrought handw…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
2 posts published by cjonescu during August 2025| The Grumpy Geophysicist
GG has been doing a fair bit of hiking, including a 3 night backpack, in Wilderness areas here in Colorado. And as often happens, this provokes some thoughts. In this case, just how wild should Wilderness be? (As a reminder, capital W Wilderness is an official land use designation; little w wilderness is, well, whatever […]| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Electoral-Vote.com took a moment to compare headlines from this past week with a 2003 checklist of indications of a fascist state…here is their scorecard: Powerful and Continuing Nationalism:…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
There were signs that the federal government wasn’t going to leave academic science entirely, but then there is increasing evidence that science would be sidelined. There was movement in the …| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Some of us have seen this coming down the pike, and anybody who was aware of the dishonesty of the (failed) HONEST act of 2017 (and the earlier attempts to use something like it as a cudgel against…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Recently we’ve been focusing on damage to the scientific enterprise being done by the current US administration (datasets vanishing, long term studies canceled, capricious grant revocations).…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Who picks the science that the government funds? With the National Science Foundation, there were programs that Congress mandated and there were kind of bread and butter programs that were funding …| The Grumpy Geophysicist
