Alexander Von Humboldt

Scientist Explorer The German naturalist Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt’s (1769-1859), known in English as Alexander von Humboldt, is considered the father of modern geography and ecology. He was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Humboldt’s quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. His advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.

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Weather

Weather is what happens to us. We feel it now. It can change from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, and season-to-season.Climate is the average of all weather patterns measured over longer terms of time and space. Denialism are the delusions about climate as promoted at Fox Fools and some other propaganda-manufacturing, for-profit corporations.

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