In today’s post I wish to celebrate a booklet (Special Report) by my colleague Theano (Any) Iliopoulou and myself, which was published the other day: T. Iliopoulou, and D. Koutsoyiannis, Have Rainfall Patterns Changed? A Global Analysis of Long-Term Rainfall Records and Re-Analysis Data, 47 pages, SR 306, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, [...]
[There is also a Greek version of the post—Υπάρχει και ελληνική έκδοση της ανάρτησης] In my web browsing today, I stumbled upon a video posted yesterday by Robin Horsley, which is based on my work. I was impressed with the simple, beautiful and convincing way he presents my findings, and goes beyond them to [...]
[There is also a Greek version of the post—Υπάρχει και ελληνική έκδοση της ανάρτησης] I am starting my brief post of today with some facts: The atmospheric CO₂ currently represents 4% of 1% of the total number of molecules in the atmosphere. (The rest 99.96% are molecules of other substances: Nitrogen 76%, Oxygen 20%, Water [...]
[There is also a Greek version of the post—Υπάρχει και ελληνική έκδοση της ανάρτησης] ”On the one hand, a prophet is he who foretells the future by revelation of the Spirit; on the other hand, a stochastes is he who infers the future by prudence, comparing similar states, and by the experience of forefathers” (Basilius [...]
[There is also a Greek version of the post—Υπάρχει και ελληνική έκδοση της ανάρτησης] Following the brief introduction (Part 1 of the series “The Nile’s gifts for understanding climate” referring to the booklet “Understanding Climate: Gifts from the Nile”), in today’s post I discuss some of the Nile data sets and the failed attempts to interpret [...]
[There is also a Greek version of the post—Υπάρχει και ελληνική έκδοση της ανάρτησης] In today’s post I wish to celebrate our booklet (Special Report) that was published yesterday: D. Koutsoyiannis, and T. Iliopoulou, Understanding Climate: Gifts from the Nile, 60 pages, SR 301, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, USA, 2024. Its abstract reads as follows: [...]
[There is also a Greek version of the post—Υπάρχει και ελληνική έκδοση της ανάρτησης] By now, I have published 41 peer-reviewed papers about climate—out of my total of 258 papers in journals and my total of 1000 works recognized by Google Scholar.1 The peer review system has had bad facets ever since I started writing papers (around 1990). I had [...]
Climate is a hot topic, but I have been studying it in a cool way. I have used math in my studies, as it is something that I have learned and appreciate. And I fully embrace Stendhal’s maxim about math: What is more I loved, and still do love, mathematics for itself as not [...]
The biosphere increases entropy, yet it produces interesting patterns. Credit: pernsanitfoto This article is written by Demetris Koutsoyiannis and G.-Fivos Sargentis National Technical University of Athens It's a more popular version of their peer reviewed paper Entropy and wealth. Full paper: D. Koutsoyiannis, and G.-F. Sargentis, Entropy and wealth, Entropy, 23 (10), 1356, [...]
Ανοιχτή Επιστολή από την CLINTEL στους Ηγέτες των Χωρών: Χάγη, 23 Μαρτίου 2020 Καθηγητής Guus Berkhout Πρόεδρος της CLINTEL guus.berkhout@clintelgroup.org Εξοχότατοι, ΜΑΘΗΜΑ ΤΑΠΕΙΝΟΦΡΟΣΥΝΗΣ: ΑΠΡΟΒΛΕΠΤΕΣ ΦΥΣΙΚΕΣ ΔΥΝΑΜΕΙΣ ΑΛΛΑΖΟΥΝ ΤΟΝ ΚΟΣΜΟ Ο κόσμος βρίσκεται εν μέσω σοβαρής κρίσης υγείας. Σήμερα οι λαοί όλου του κόσμου αντιμετωπίζουν μια πραγματική κατάσταση έκτακτης ανάγκης – μια κρίση υγείας [...]
