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Post by sigurdur on Feb 27, 2017 18:48:32 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 27, 2017 19:13:05 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 3, 2017 22:10:56 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 3, 2017 22:51:33 GMT
www.kaaltv.com/politics/democratic-senator-oversteps-in-criticism-of-sessions/4414837/WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Claire McCaskill was one of many Democrats taking umbrage at the revelation that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had twice met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. during last year's presidential campaign, during a furor over that country's alleged interference in the election, and misled his colleagues about it during his confirmation hearing. But the Missouri lawmaker went too far when she said she'd had no similar contacts in the decade that she'd been, like Sessions, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 3, 2017 22:58:10 GMT
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space." Douglas Adams
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 5, 2017 2:09:55 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 5, 2017 2:24:36 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 5, 2017 3:17:03 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 5, 2017 3:28:20 GMT
The stratosphere is a region of the atmosphere from about eight to 30 miles above the Earth’s surface. Water vapor enters the stratosphere mainly as air rises in the tropics. Previous studies suggested that stratospheric water vapor might contribute significantly to climate change. The new study is the first to relate water vapor in the stratosphere to the specific variations in warming of the past few decades.So, if equatorial convection has been declining since about 2000 due to changes in solar radiation (either intensity, spectral range composition, or both), then stratospheric water vapor declines might be expected? NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, Any one care to give them a grade?
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 5, 2017 3:48:03 GMT
Excellent article. The fact that government agencies continue to ignore the results should probably not surprise anyone. New agency heads should rub the noses of their subordinates in these results and be forced to incorporate them in agency analysis. Those who ignored them formerly should be formally relieved of their commands (i.e. 'You're fired!).
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 5, 2017 4:15:13 GMT
Agreed.
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 5, 2017 10:15:19 GMT
It would appear that NOAA may have cause/effect and correlation/causation muddled in this paper. There is cooling and a reduction in water vapor - which came first. Do they have the same common cause? One assumes that the water vapor changes must be due to changes in the troposphere as water must come initially from the Earth's surface. Surely the question to ask first is why is there less reaching the Stratosphere rather than hypothesize on the (potentially common cause) effects of stratospheric changes on the troposphere.
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Post by Ratty on Mar 5, 2017 10:54:33 GMT
THAT's not a knife worm ...........
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 12, 2017 16:56:58 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 12, 2017 20:41:39 GMT
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