He's not clever enough to do it himself, but just clever enough not to reveal his source and thus expose his level of gullibility.
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He's not clever enough to do it himself, but just clever enough not to reveal his source and thus expose his level of gullibility.
Wez
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What would past Ice Ages have to do with a current discussion on AGW?
The question has never been, does Climate change over time. The question is, how much is man contributing to the current unusual spike up in Global temperature (since the industrial revolution starting pumping carbon into the atmosphere) and what are the consequences?
Nope! Formed it myself. Don't like bosses.
One can get a non-scientific but nonetheless technically interesting look at the degree of human influence versus possible natural warming processes by recognizing a couple of things --
1) Most human sources of CO2 are in the northern hemisphere, and
2) because of global wind patterns, especially the winds known as the trade winds, the northern and southern atmosphere components are partially isolated from each other.
That has resulted in a lag of CO2 concentration as measured in the south compared with the north. One might expect, then, that regardless of any natural background warming process (sunspots, volcanoes, eetc), if atmospheric CO2 is the driver, the north would be warming faster than the south.
Bruddah IZ
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The Totalitarian approach should yield something.
The biggest change with respect to reducing anthropogenic CO2 production in current technology is converting coal-powered electrical plants to operate on other fuels (usually natural gas), or replacing them altogether with renewable electrical energy sources (wind and solar predominate). What we are "forsaking" in that case is air pollution.
Bruddah IZ
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Bruddah IZ
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or Nuclear Power
Wez
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If we can warm it, can we cool it or reduce the warming rate?
Tough question.
Bruddah IZ
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Silence
Bruddah IZ
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Nuclear power is pollution-free when properly operated (ignoring fumbles like Chernobyl, 3-Mile Island, Fukushima, Detroit Fermi, etc) but still has a long-term waste storage and isolation problem. Perhaps t can overcome the politics that has kept the completed Yucca Mountain repository empty.
Bruddah IZ
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French Frie exhaust always gets the appetite going.
Your plot.
What pattern do you see since the beginning of the thread?
You highlighted them, so I figured you'd give us a run down on the warming.
Can you elucidate on the catastrophic warming during your highlighted thread projector?
I said all of that with a totally straight face.
Bruddah IZ
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The tow truck was worse. Smelled like Fish n Chips with Vineagar.
Bruddah IZ
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Catastrophy is of no importance to Totalitarian climate policy experts. Consumption is the only thing that matters. Just ask Leonardo.
EvilGoalie 21
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Nobody planned for the munchies. Maybe that's why everybody's so grumpy.
EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
What? Maybe that's why he was too slow. He ended up with the Dynamo I think.