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Post by sigurdur on Mar 17, 2016 3:04:22 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 18, 2016 0:32:12 GMT
CO2 CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM The reef, not the photographer. He choked (croaked) on a proposition.
www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-photographer-idUSKCN0W90PD
Parts of the reef face permanent destruction if the current El Nino, one of the strongest weather patterns in two decades,
does not ease this month, scientists say.
They survived the Cambrian, the Ordovician, the Permian, and on, and on, and on.
But they choked on the Anthropocene. How sad.
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 19, 2016 18:17:06 GMT
euanmearns.com/can-geology-tell-us-what-is-warming-the-climate/On Monday this week, and rather late in the day, Dr Colin Summerhayes from the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge University, left this lengthy comment at the end of the thread on Prof. Richard Lindzen’s post called Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science. I wanted to respond to some of the points raised but did not want to do this at the end of an old comment thread, and so asked if I may publish the comment as a guest submission. Dr Summerhayes responded by expanding on the comment and submitting the Opinion Piece that is published below.
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 20, 2016 19:15:20 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 20, 2016 19:49:39 GMT
Good old government subsidies. Ain't they wonderful. |
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 20, 2016 21:18:18 GMT
Good old government subsidies. Ain't they wonderful. Yep. Bad thing about this is the subsidy is NOT lowering the cost of energy. So a double loss. |
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 22, 2016 16:56:25 GMT
www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/03/22/we-had-all-better-hope-these-scientists-are-wrong-about-the-planets-future/An influential group of scientists led by James Hansen, the former NASA scientist often credited with having drawn the first major attention to climate change in 1988 congressional testimony, has published a dire climate study that suggests the impact of global warming will be quicker and more catastrophic than generally envisioned. The research invokes collapsing ice sheets, violent megastorms and even the hurling of boulders by giant waves in its quest to suggest that even 2 degrees Celsius of global warming above pre-industrial levels would be far too much. Hansen has called it the most important work he has ever done. The sweeping paper, 52 pages in length and with 19 authors, draws on evidence from ancient climate change or “paleo-climatology,” as well as climate experiments using computer models and some modern observations. Calling it a “paper” really isn’t quite right — it’s actually a synthesis of a wide range of old, and new, evidence.
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Post by icefisher on Mar 22, 2016 17:09:04 GMT
www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/03/22/we-had-all-better-hope-these-scientists-are-wrong-about-the-planets-future/An influential group of scientists led by James Hansen, the former NASA scientist often credited with having drawn the first major attention to climate change in 1988 congressional testimony, has published a dire climate study that suggests the impact of global warming will be quicker and more catastrophic than generally envisioned. The research invokes collapsing ice sheets, violent megastorms and even the hurling of boulders by giant waves in its quest to suggest that even 2 degrees Celsius of global warming above pre-industrial levels would be far too much. Hansen has called it the most important work he has ever done. The sweeping paper, 52 pages in length and with 19 authors, draws on evidence from ancient climate change or “paleo-climatology,” as well as climate experiments using computer models and some modern observations. Calling it a “paper” really isn’t quite right — it’s actually a synthesis of a wide range of old, and new, evidence. Yeah another synthesis of old and new evidence like the hockey stick. |
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 23, 2016 12:24:01 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 23, 2016 17:00:55 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 23, 2016 17:07:29 GMT
The above looks like an attempt at population control. Yep, you can exist on a veg diet for awhile, but veggy folks have a shorter life span than us meat eating folks. Is that the desired outcome so that the increase in population will slow through mitigation of no older folks? |
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Post by douglavers on Mar 24, 2016 4:48:44 GMT
[[Mar 20, 2016 at 5:17am acidohm and missouriboy like this. QuotelikePost Options Post by sigurdur on Mar 20, 2016 at 5:17am
euanmearns.com/can-geology-tell-us-what-is-warming-the-climate/
On Monday this week, and rather late in the day, Dr Colin Summerhayes from the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge University, left this lengthy comment at the end of the thread on Prof. Richard Lindzen’s post called Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science. I wanted to respond to some of the points raised but did not want to do this at the end of an old comment thread, and so asked if I may publish the comment as a guest submission. Dr Summerhayes responded by expanding on the comment and submitting the Opinion Piece that is published below.]]
He still doesn't explain why CO2 concentrations lag temperature, and the learned Dr Summerhayes does not appear to have heard of spectroscopic saturation.
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Post by icefisher on Mar 24, 2016 5:08:02 GMT
[[Mar 20, 2016 at 5:17am acidohm and missouriboy like this. QuotelikePost Options Post by sigurdur on Mar 20, 2016 at 5:17am euanmearns.com/can-geology-tell-us-what-is-warming-the-climate/ On Monday this week, and rather late in the day, Dr Colin Summerhayes from the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge University, left this lengthy comment at the end of the thread on Prof. Richard Lindzen’s post called Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science. I wanted to respond to some of the points raised but did not want to do this at the end of an old comment thread, and so asked if I may publish the comment as a guest submission. Dr Summerhayes responded by expanding on the comment and submitting the Opinion Piece that is published below.]] He still doesn't explain why CO2 concentrations lag temperature, and the learned Dr Summerhayes does not appear to have heard of spectroscopic saturation. Yeah population control. . . .the ultimate health and general welfare issue. . . .Soylent Green. |
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Post by duwayne on Apr 3, 2016 16:22:29 GMT
CO2 emmisions by country based on COP21 commitments as summarized by Tom Quirk.  |
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Post by sigurdur on Apr 4, 2016 14:46:33 GMT
www.forbes.com/sites/judeclemente/2016/04/03/californias-growing-imported-electricity-problem/#4f090e61e96bCalifornia’s SB 350 requires the state to procure 50% of electricity from renewable energy and double energy efficiency savings by 2030. And the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “Clean Power Plan” wants states to “to act more like California.” Yet, beyond power rates 45% above the U.S. average, California has another problem that makes it less of a model than some proclaim. California now imports 33% of its electricity supply from fast growing neighbors, with about 65% of that coming from the Southwest and 35% coming from the Northwest. These numbers increase most in summer months when air conditioning loads peak. Imports have been rising rapidly: in 2010, California “only” imported 25% of its power
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