#Tegtmeier
🎶 What you don't know you'll need to explain on your own.
Was man nicht selber weiß, das muss man sich erklären. 🎶

When I was a teenager, Tegtmeier was a German TV figure 1984-85, played by Jürgen von Manger. In the show, he travelled Europe and explained to himself and his audience all kinds of stuff he found curious. His explanations were based on his common sense alone.
And he sang that little tune "Was man nicht selber weiß, das muss man sich erklären." 🎶

Now, since I became #climate aware, my guilty conscience (WHY didn't I get it earlier?!?!?) and natural curiosity has me tegtmeiern a lot. See? I used the name as verb, with the German infinitive "n" at the end ! Cause that's what I'm doing when I go on a quest to figure out how stuff works in the big eco and climate clusterfuck: I tegtmeiere ("e" = suffix for verb in presence, first person singular).

Using my common sense alone isn't enough, of course.
But still, having to catch up in soo many areas unknown to me until 2018, I feel the need to preserve my self-image at least a little bit. Not knowing stuff wasn't a prominent part of my self-image before – unless coupled with successful tegtmeiern. It's a
personally disorienting experience, having ignored for most of my life THE most existential topic of all time, and now, based on that big unknown, having to re-design all of my philosophy and values.

So when I come across something I don't know and find curious enough to explain to myself, I apply my uneducated, unfactual common sense as first pointer to where to search for answers. Humming #Tegtmeier 's silly, little tune to myself: 🎶 What I don't know myself, I'll find an explanation 🎶
And I decided that I'll be using #Tegtmeier as hashtag for my quests here in the Fediverse.

Next two #Tegtmeier topics: #clathrate #ClathrateBomb
and #AMOC slowdown.
I pulled ocean temperature measurements from the World Ocean Database for the topic of the clathrate scare.
And once I had gotten a feel for the data and what I can and can not do with it, I pulled some more data for the wider region around the #ColdBlob

When I get around posting about the two things, watch out for the hashtag #Tegtmeier .

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As you may recall: I'm verifying my belief that a #ClathrateBomb from #methane #hydrate is not a worry for us. So ºC in shallow-ish Arctic waters eg., Kara Sea is of interest to me.
For the highlighted map area I pulled records from World Ocean Database #WOD. The table view shows Year-Month and number of records.

THEY JUST END IN 2014 !!!

I think this is asshole's Putler 2014 #Ukraine war as seen in ocean ºC measurements done from ships!!! We need to kick the Kremlins out! Effin' assholes!

The resolution in Miller's data is 3,000 yrs.
In the context of a "clathrate bomb": is it possible that a sudden spike in temperature (and sea level) from methane went unnoticed?
CH4 is short-lived; in today's atmospheric chemistry a molecule survives 10yrs before it is killed by OH-radicals.
When there's not enough OH in a #ClathrateBomb episode, maybe it takes 100yrs to break it all down? Or 1000? It'd fly under the radar of studies w/ a resolution of 3ky. A ºC spike from CH4, too? Hm hm🤔