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Even now the Eco nuts are trying to shut more of our great land down from Solar, nuclear, wind, mining or logging. We are a nation of NIMBYs. No, no, no to mining, solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, hydro, High Speed Rail, or development of any kind, if it is in my back yard.
All is not lost. It is starting to look like we are actually in Afghanistan for the great mineral wealth contained there. No other good reason I can think of. Don't scar up America do it elsewhere and then blame them for AGW.
Let's take a little side road:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/27/epa-texas-go-to-war-over-carbon-emission-r- ules/
Finally somebody standing up to the EPA and their libtard
un-Constutituional "regulations".
Let's see other states join in with the Big T.
Talked to my buddy in Prudhoe Bay Alaska. Said the high on Tuesday was minus 55 F. That is cold, I know I have been there.
How cold will it have to get before the AGW cult screams uncle?
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Looks like winter returns Friday. Rather have the snow actually.
PS
we are at 36 degrees currently.
You are correct rain in the 3os is as lousy as it gets.
I saw 86 and 82 degrees in TX on the 20th and 21st - record highs.
Did not miss ALL the Phoenix cold. Got back on the 1st and it was still in the 40s.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez on Tuesday took aim at the controversial Environmental Improvement Board, announcing that she was removing all members over concerns about the board's approval in recent months of what she considers "antibusiness" policies.
The board — made up of members appointed by former Gov. Bill Richardson — was at the center of a heated debate last year over whether New Mexico should regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The board ultimately decided to approve two proposals — one from an environmental group that aimed to limit the emissions of the state's largest polluters and another from the state Environment Department that called for a regional cap-and-trade program.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-05/nm-governor-removes-environmental-board- -members.html
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And for those that do not see that we are regulating our country into Oblivion:
Apparently we need some global cooling to warm things up a bit ! This sure is confusing !
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The warming trend is not yet over...
Population hits 7 billion this year - unprecedented levels of pollution hitting the atmosphere---we'll see what global weather changes are afoot in the next few years.
That is just one of the 31,000 new laws for 2011, mainly telling us what we can't do anymore and some of which make us all criminals whether we know it or not. Some of them rejected by Congress and the Supreme Court....but still put into effect by the current outlaw administration.
Happy New Year all you new criminals !!
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On the environmental front, my first CFL failed today, gotta keep China in business.
There seems to be a mis-conception abroad. You folks appear to be under the impression that London's Heathrow and Gatwick are AIPORTS. Sorry guys and gals but this native Brit just has to correct you, (and not for the first time, methinks).
Heathrow and Gatwick are, in reality, shopping malls that just happen to have runways on site. Most of BAA's profit, (British Airports Authority - really a private company not an "Authority" in the governmental sense of the word), comes from retail sales. So, why would they employ runway snow-clearing equipment and staff to clear 2" of the white stuff ? Only airports do that, as in Oslo, Helsinki, Hamburg etc. Airports, not shopping malls with runways. Clear now ?
Snow joke, my friends.
I had one very close to my arm while working at the PC for hours on end, that over the course of about 4 years had created a tendonitis type pain that I always attributed to the PC use. But while dealing with a problem in my back, I discovered that that light is suspect. I removed it and in less than 2 weeks the pain in my arm was almost gone! Talk about a revolutionary discovery. In 4 weeks all trace of that pain was gone from my arm. So I am back to incandescent old-fashioned bulbs for me. Electricity bill be damned.
I asked the APT how far away is it safe to be from those type lights, and he said, how about outside of your house?
I wouldn't be surprised that there are some kind of health impacts either. I know when I am at work alone, I prefer to keep the life-draining florescents off.
I remember not long ago that I could literally PARK in a pick up/LOADING ZONE @ a well known International AEROPORT and literally walk to the debarking gate, (hope that is the correct term) to pick up one of those debarking passengers. Geez, now that act would be under the jurisdiction of the FEDERAL counterterrorism authorities and I could NOW do prison time ???? Good morgan felons !!!
I suspect you misinterpreted the very info my post was about.
I found that light to be absolutely, positively, and without slightest doubt, unhealthy. Too much coincidence otherwise. I change my PC position setup, install this light. I start getting arm pain, thought it was only due to days of long typing sessions, so never suspected the light. Got rid of the light and haven't changed anything else about the PC setup position. Even on long days, that arm pain is GONE. Just gone. No one was more skeptical than me at first, but there was compelling proof in the pudding. In less than 2 weeks I thought it was actually working. In 2 weeks I knew it was, 3 weeks was certain it was not my imagination, and as time goes on...(it has been 2 months now) I am just as sure as I am sitting here it was to blame, so am real glad to be able to pass on this helpful info to anyone out there willing to check it out for themselves. Technically, all these lights that require a transformer to start and basically operate by a constant cycle of interrupted current, all fall into the same class of potential electrical energy harm.
Now, if only I could get rid of the rest of my chronic pain so easily.
The global cooling was a scam used to make money and take power just as global warming is a scam for the same purpose. Personaly I think GOD is sending them a message!
Didn't drink any Kool-Aid.
The arctic ice melting knows nothing about "scams." Show me a scam that can melt arctic ice and you have a convert.
No scam, natural phenomenon. Same as the Antarctic ice pack getting larger over the same period of time. The scam is claiming man as the major cause of any changes in climate or weather. You are still confusing pollution and CO2. CO2 is needed to sustain life. We can get along without pollution. It is CO2 the AGW bunch want to buy and sell with themselves as brokers taking their bit of profit on each transaction. That is a scam.
Good reference site on arctic ice
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Effects are bigger
Second link is old news. Europe is suffering from the coldest winter in 1000 years. That pretty well shoots down their efforts to convince otherwise. The AGW hysterics are in a real tizzy trying to explain how a warmer globe can cause extremely cold winters. Could be they took their recording devices out of the northern tier before they should have for accurate data. Face it AGW is a farce and a money grab by politicians and scientists alike.
Well there you have it. That's about as delusional as the data/statistics that: "there's no inflation" and "the unemployment rate has dropped to 9.4%".
These climatologists must be like Inspector Clouseau yelling at the street-peddler with the monkey outside the bank, while holding the door for the escaping-bankrobbers! Of course they're not all fools, there's surely a bunch of liars out-to-scam everyone tossed into the AGW group.
When we have a dinner get-together with family and friends and I suggest that many assumptions are being based on such a narrow time frame in the bigger scheme of things. As humans, in all our arrogant, self-righteous, self-centered, self-important wisdom, we think we are the be-all end-all to the universe. Our existence here and with our extremely limited ability to scope time, simply couldn't be much more inconsequential if far more broadened time frame eras are examined. You ask someone (in their important little, but very ignorant world) to think back 100, 200 hell let's make it even 500 years...that being more generations of our own family than we could possibly imagine, and then ask to look forward another 500 years and all that goes on here on earth is but the smallest spec in time. Yet so many seemingly intelligent human beings seem to lack the ability to open their mind to just how really little we mean on this earth, and how so totally inconsequential a mere thousand years of weather differences really mean. Or would you like to make it 10000 years...wanna make it a hundred thou? Hell why not make a million? It couldn't mean less if our lives depended on it.. pfffttttt..
We can all disappear just as fast as we probably appeared.
In a few years when it starts snowing regularly in San Diego in the winter, they'll still be reporting record temperature increases each year! Hermann Goebbels would be proud to realize - the masses are just as gullible as 70 years ago.
By the way it is beautiful here in San Diego today. About time we got our normal winter weather back. Clear and 71 here in the hills East of the City. I was about to pack up and move to Hawaii. Don't have to now.
"Even though the ice sheet retreat was ongoing throughout that whole period, the lion's share of the retreat occurred in a geologic instant -- probably within as little as a few hundred years," said Briner.
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10191
How many autos and people were around then? Mankind releases a few % of the total CO2 released into the atmosphere, with most of it being natural releases. And even then CO2 is a minor player in the climate, relative to the sun's activity, variations in the earth's orbit, cloud-cover, and other natural phenomenon.
I just read an article about the magnetic North Pole moving about 40 miles per year. It is enough that some airports have to change their runway designations. That could have some bearing on the climate as well.
A runway at Florida's Tampa International Airport is scheduled to reopen Thursday with new numbers and signage to account for the gradual shift of the Earth's magnetic North Pole.
Runway 18R/36L, which runs north-south, has been closed since January 3 for numeric redesignation of the compass headings at each end of the runway and to change taxiway signage to account for the one-degree shift.
It will reopen tomorrow as 19R/1L, indicating its alignment along compass headings, FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/12/shift-of-earths-magnetic-north-pole-affects- -florida-airport/
The Federal Aviation Administration required the runway designation change to account for what a National Geographic News report described as a gradual shift of the Earth's magnetic pole at nearly 40 miles a year toward Russia because of magnetic changes in the core of the planet.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2011/jan/05/shift-of-earths-magnetic-north-pole-impa- cts-tampa-/
If a temperature sensor is getting closer or further from the North Pole each year, wouldn't that make a difference in the readings you get? I feel closer to the North Pole this year.
Fun stuff; was talking to a surveyor a couple of weeks ago and he touched on the shifting a bit.
The world was a far different planet back then. We can't know what other forces were in place to keep temps manageable.
We now have the highest population (ergo, the most fossil fuel pollution) the Earf has ever seen.
We can't know that what we are doing is not having an effect on climate. We just can't say for sure it is or isn't. But there are MANY signs that it is having an effect.
So why would ANYONE think it makes SENSE to bury our heads in the sand and ignore the POSSIBILITY that we need to change some of the ways we do things?
I just can't understand why anyone would think that way.
And it is going to expand rapidly. Nothing we can do about that aside from a nuclear war to cut the world population. Earthquakes, wars and floods don't even make up for the birthrate vs death rate imbalance.
So why would ANYONE think it makes SENSE to bury our heads in the sand and ignore the POSSIBILITY that we need to change some of the ways we do things?
You leave out over half the World's population that are living a cave like existence. They want what we have and will work to that end. Idiocy like Kyoto is tantamount to you or I standing in front of a high speed train thinking we can stop it. Those as individuals or countries that believe we can really make much difference are deluding themselves. And if you look honestly at the entities that are pushing the AGW agenda it is all about money. Taking from rich countries and giving it to third World dictators and fat cat snake oil salesmen like Al Gore.
I just don't see why anyone would back such a scam.
Have you ever entertained the fact that it might be BOTH a scam
AND ALSO REALLY HAPPENING?
They are not mutually exclusive.
Man's impact might indeed REALLY be making the Earf slightly warmer. But not to the degree that AlGore and his fools are screaming. And his solutions might just be a way he figured out to get richER.
So it's not unreasonable to picture a scenario where what AlGore and his minions are doing IS a scam, but also a situation where we REALLY ARE affecting the climate with our pollution.
It is COMPLETELY natural in CA for WILD FIRES to engulf major to the majority parts of the state. Records indicate app every 5 years. It has been policy for literally generations to smack down WILD FIRES and if can not be stopped to at least to contain them. There are of course many, many, many, more examples. So yes, are we UNNATURALLY effecting/affecting climate change by doing this?
So would you be an advocate of returning to letting the wild fires run natually? In this scenario, YOU are one of the owners in Malibu, CA of one of those 3 to 60 M dollar houses.
Keep in mind that whatever position/s one takes, it can be seen as BRILLIANT to GENIUS, to totally out of touch with reality, to totally deranged.