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Are automobiles a major cause of global warming?
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http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/02/08/earths-polar-ice-melting-less-tha- n-thought
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I want new scientific findings to be included in the climate debate. It would then become clear that the simple equation that CO2 and other man-made greenhouse gases are almost exclusively responsible for climate change is unsustainable. It hasn't gotten any warmer on this planet in almost 14 years, despite continued increases in CO2 emissions. Established climate science has to come up with an answer to that.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,813814,00.html
Meanwhile I'm selling one of my snowboards. Not enough white stuff on the hills to need two in rotation.
The nice thing about the ice caps not shrinking as much story is that the tech is available to be able to measure such stuff (in this case the weight of glaciers and ice caps).
Ice caps not shrinking as much as once thought, new data show (Christian Science Monitor)
We are currently in a dry year here. A very unusual winter. Not all that warm and not all that cold. No frost at our place so far. We are hoping it will not frost late as all the Cherries and plums are blossoming. Watched a monarch come out of its cocoon and fly away yesterday.
Warming still going...
U.S. Climate Highlights -- Winter to Date (December 2011-January 2012)
The first two months of the winter season, December and January, have been much warmer than average for the contiguous United States. The two-month period was the fourth warmest on record with an average temperature 3.8 degrees F above average. Much of the warmth was anchored across the northern and eastern United States. Minnesota was record warm for the period, with an average temperature 10.1 degrees F above average. A total of twenty-two states from Montana to Maine had December-January temperatures ranking among their ten warmest.
Despite a large winter storm which impacted the western U.S. during January, much of the region was drier than average. California had its fourth driest December-January period, and Montana had its sixth. Wetter-than-average conditions were observed in a string of states from New Mexico to New York, with Texas having its eleventh wettest two-month period.
U.S. Climate Highlights -- Last 12 months (February 2011-January 2012)
The 12-month period, ending in January, was the sixth warmest such period for the contiguous United States, with warmer-than-average temperatures dominating the eastern two-thirds of the nation. Seven states -- Delaware, New Jersey, North Carolina, Maryland, Rhode Island, Texas, and Virginia -- were record warm for the period, while an additional 18 states had 12-month temperatures ranking among their ten warmest. Oregon and Washington were the only states with below-average temperatures during the period.
The nationally-averaged precipitation total for the 12-month period was near average, masking regional extremes. The Ohio Valley and Northeast were record wet for the period, with seven states within those regions also being record wet. Dry conditions were present along the southern tier of the nation from New Mexico to South Carolina.
And then some outlier comes along and turns everything upside down.
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So, a side effect of GW would be more and perhaps cheaper diesel to burn in your TDIs.
The cause was a 51 percent drop in panel prices last year as the world’s 10 largest manufacturers, led by China’s Suntech Power Holdings Co., doubled output capacity.
“Solar is going mainstream in India, helped by Chinese pricing,”
"German chemicals manufacturer Wacker Chemie is building a new polysilicon plant in the state of Tennessee, US. The plant will manufacture hyperpure polycrystalline silicon to tap the anticipated growth in demand from the solar and semiconductor industries.
The new plant will be built in a 550-acre (220ha) site in Bradley County in Cleveland. The facility will be a fully integrated site that will produce 15,000mt of polysilicon a year. Wacker will invest about €1.1bn ($1.5bn) in the project that is expected to create about 650 jobs."
Wacker Chemie Polysilicon Plant, United States of America (chemicals-technology.com)
Not sure if it's changed, but the usual rule of thumb for a payback period for an energy efficiency improvement is 7 years.
“THE CO2 LIES pure fear-mongering should we blindly trust the experts?”
That’s what Germany’s leading daily Bild wrote in its print and online editions today, on the very day that renowned publisher Hoffmann & Campe officially released a skeptic book – one written by a prominent socialist and environmental figure.
What has set it all off? One of the fathers of Germany’s modern green movement, Professor Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a social democrat and green activist, decided to author a climate science skeptical book together with geologist/paleontologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning. Vahrenholt’s skepticism started when he was asked to review an IPCC report on renewable energy. He found hundreds of errors. When he pointed them out, IPCC officials simply brushed them aside. Stunned, he asked himself, “Is this the way they approached the climate assessment reports?”
http://notrickszone.com/2012/02/06/body-blow-to-german-global-warming-movement-m- ajor-media-outlets-unload-on-co2-lies/
I wondered how long it would take before Real Science won out over Political Driven Science.
(stalemate continues)
Some fast talking, double dealing conman invents a problem...like maybe...in the year 2050 the world will be destroyed because people are eating too many oranges. Send money so we can work to prevent this catastrophe.
The lunatics, and some of the just plain gullible fall for it...they always do. Those true believers who buy into it hook, line, and sinker, send their money in and start preaching and crusading for others to do the same.
After a while, when the con starts to unravel, the con man and his followers pull out the old try to prove a negative trick: "Well, let's just see you prove that it is not going to happen".
Some will never admit they were duped. There truly is one born every minute.
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Coal demand falls as cheap gas cuts use to 20-year low (pittsburghlive.com)
The mild winter in much of the US isn't helping either (not to mention new solar coming on line all the time).
http://www.naturalgas.org/overview/uses_eletrical.asp
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send the excess coal to China to help our balance of trade.
Well, that and a transmission line. :shades:
Nice thing about stand-alone solar, like my off-grid friends in NM have, is that you don't need much in the way of infrastructure.
If only it was a few thousand feet lower in elevation I could see living there.
The elevation gets me as well. Especially flying from sea level to 5000 ft or more just knocks me out.
"The time frame is short, but if future observations show that clouds are truly getting lower, it could have an important effect on global climate change. Clouds that are lower in the atmosphere would allow Earth to cool more efficiently, potentially offsetting some of the warming caused by greenhouse gases."
Sky actually falling, report scientists (csmonitor.com)
Oh the humanity...
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What about the sun and volcanoes, they seem to be wild cards in the CC picture? Yet the scientific community paid by the warmers, says it is a DONE DEAL. Man causes CC. They go to big fancy conference vacations on the tax payers of many poor countries and decide the USA should hand out $trillions to somehow fix what they don't even understand.
Scientists are the same genetically and have the same psychology - wants and needs, of those centuries ago. Science for generations often hold scientific theories and laws that were false and look ridiculous today.
I'm not about to jump on any bandwagon, especially when I see billions of $'s being redirected to certain people as a result, and the supposed facts being funneled to a handful people who have a bias ($$) in seeing a certain result presented. And according to some of the best minds in science, we are still at least 25 years away from having the computing power to run a decent model of the climate. Seeing how computing power increases so quickly, today's computers must be making a very, very crude simulation.
Melting Arctic link to cold, snowy UK winters (BBC).
The piles are getting up there. :-)
'Tis fun seeing the daffodils blooming and some dogwood and fruit trees in bloom.
In NH we just had a decent-sized snowstorm. We've been told it's been one of the warmest winters on record, but the winter still costs me quite a bit in heating-oil and space heaters, on top of a woodstove being fed many days. And we keep the thermostats down to <65F when home, or 55F when sleeping. So we'll take all the warming we can get. If it starts getting really warm in the summer, I'll consider getting an AC unit; or I'll just go swimming more.
Meanwhile it's almost 50 back home and it's not even 9 am. Too strange. At least our catsitter won't break her neck on ice and snow negotiating the sidewalk to the back door.
After a jaw-dropping blizzard on Monday (Jan. 9), a record-breaking 81.3 inches (207 centimeters) of snow has fallen in Anchorage this winter, the National Weather Service (NWS) said today (Jan. 12). That's nearly 7 feet (2.1 meters) of snow.
The total is a new record for most snow from July to Jan. 11. This year's total so far is nearly double what Anchorage usually receives by that date — certainly not the wimpy winter the rest of the country has had. The new record is 4 inches more than the previous record, set in 1977.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/snow-record-anchorage-120113.html
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Tomatoes all winter long. Just slower growing. Lots of oranges and lemons this winter.
Now it's getting serious - Global warming called threat to ice hockey (UPI)
(Kernick, neighbors on one side are from Bangor, on the other side they'll from Portland ME. I'm guessing only NH is populated this time of year?).
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Fees amortized into special sale lease price of $299.
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Save a Prius V for me please.
I am now paying 15 cents a KWH. Up 50% since Obama got in.
They now aren't sure that higher CO2 levels don't cause lower cloud levels and actually cools the Earth better.
Global warming causes island nation to sink
AlGore must be WAY smarter than we give him credit for. He managed to incorporate the sinking of an island nation into his "scam." WOW !!!