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JULY 18, 2019
Global warming fanatics keep missing this elephant in the room
By Sam Younnokis
Imagine, if you will, that the sun quit radiating energy, completely, for all wavelengths. How long would it take the world to freeze to the point of being uninhabitable at the surface?
Our planet also has a molten core. Imagine that this core cools and solidifies at the same time, so the only sources of heat are anthropogenic. Same question.
I'm not sure how to do the calculations, but I'll defer to anyone who can. My expectation is that the SUVs and coal-burning power plants, and whatever else climate change enthusiasts obsess over, wouldn't slow the rate at which the planet became a frozen chunk of rock and ice, careening on its habitual path as it revolves around the mass of the darkened sun.
Summers are hotter, and winters are cooler. It is easy but inaccurate to blame that on the Earth's elliptical orbit, thinking the climate should cool when the planet is farther from the sun, as Mars is farther away and cooler, while Venus is closer and warmer. But according to this site, that isn't the case. They explain it better than I can, but it has to do with the Earth's axial tilt and the angle at which the hemispheres point toward the sun during the seasons. When you think the summer temps in many places easily reach 90 in the summer, and go below zero in the winter, you see a hundred-degree variation due to geometry over which human beings have no control. The amount of influence alleged for SUVs, etc. is only a couple of degrees. Giving up all our modern conveniences would make not more than a few percentage points of difference. But then, climate concerns were never about the weather anyway. Just another excuse to take from the haves and buy votes from the have-nots.
It is also worth noting that there is no scientific basis whatsoever to presuppose that a natural environment should never change and that if it does, it must be man's fault. Volcanoes erupt, and the airborne ash results in cooler and rainier weather downwind. Yes, the Dust Bowl resulted from human behavior, but it was the exception rather than the rule. I think there are some good reasons for considering how to live with less environmental impact — e.g., use of thorium reactors to provide electricity. Saving the climate is not one of the reasons, as we don't have that much influence on the forces that influence it.
I am glad that human beings lack the technology to control the sun's output. Some idiot would insist that government is the only entity smart enough and wise enough to determine how much the sun should shine. There is such an entity, but it isn't government. It's God.
Global warming fanatics keep missing this elephant in the room
By Sam Younnokis
Imagine, if you will, that the sun quit radiating energy, completely, for all wavelengths. How long would it take the world to freeze to the point of being uninhabitable at the surface?
Our planet also has a molten core. Imagine that this core cools and solidifies at the same time, so the only sources of heat are anthropogenic. Same question.
I'm not sure how to do the calculations, but I'll defer to anyone who can. My expectation is that the SUVs and coal-burning power plants, and whatever else climate change enthusiasts obsess over, wouldn't slow the rate at which the planet became a frozen chunk of rock and ice, careening on its habitual path as it revolves around the mass of the darkened sun.
Summers are hotter, and winters are cooler. It is easy but inaccurate to blame that on the Earth's elliptical orbit, thinking the climate should cool when the planet is farther from the sun, as Mars is farther away and cooler, while Venus is closer and warmer. But according to this site, that isn't the case. They explain it better than I can, but it has to do with the Earth's axial tilt and the angle at which the hemispheres point toward the sun during the seasons. When you think the summer temps in many places easily reach 90 in the summer, and go below zero in the winter, you see a hundred-degree variation due to geometry over which human beings have no control. The amount of influence alleged for SUVs, etc. is only a couple of degrees. Giving up all our modern conveniences would make not more than a few percentage points of difference. But then, climate concerns were never about the weather anyway. Just another excuse to take from the haves and buy votes from the have-nots.
It is also worth noting that there is no scientific basis whatsoever to presuppose that a natural environment should never change and that if it does, it must be man's fault. Volcanoes erupt, and the airborne ash results in cooler and rainier weather downwind. Yes, the Dust Bowl resulted from human behavior, but it was the exception rather than the rule. I think there are some good reasons for considering how to live with less environmental impact — e.g., use of thorium reactors to provide electricity. Saving the climate is not one of the reasons, as we don't have that much influence on the forces that influence it.
I am glad that human beings lack the technology to control the sun's output. Some idiot would insist that government is the only entity smart enough and wise enough to determine how much the sun should shine. There is such an entity, but it isn't government. It's God.
Bruddah IZ
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Lol!
The concept of AGW , AOC, and 11 years left, boiled down to its essence.
Fella play'n the organ even looks a little like the old commie Bern.
I recognized you. Who is the musician holding your leash?
Bruddah IZ
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It’s the racist Bernie.
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Maybe thats his Twitter master.
Symbolically, yes, but he has become reticent about revealing his sources lately. Maybe he is just too embarrassed to admit who is leading him around on a leash now?
Your doppleganger is the self appointed smartest man in the kitchen....
You're the leader when it comes to not listing sources...do you really believe AFF is lead around by someone?
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You don't pay attention well do you?
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Like I said a couple years ago, the way he phrases things and the words he uses comes straight from the Aryan nation playbook . . . like his hero t, they speak the same language.
He stopped thinking for himself years ago.
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He went full troll.
My two biggest fans
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I worry about anyone who has lost it as bad as you. You may not be a white nationalist, but you sound just like one and that's exactly what they would hope for . . . a nation of unknowing trolls under their control.
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ENVIRONMENT
ANDREW WHEELER, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: "From 1970 to 2018, U.S. criteria air pollution fell 74 percent. ... Under your administration, emissions of all the criteria air pollutants continue to decline. For example, the lead and sulfur dioxide have dropped by double-digit percentages over the last two years. Today, we have the cleanest air on record." — remarks Monday.
THE FACTS: Air quality has not improved since Trump took office and air in the U.S. is not the cleanest on record.
Wheeler specifically is incorrect that emissions for all six of the "criteria" air pollutants tracked by EPA have declined during the Trump administration. Of the six, three actually increased in 2017: carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and two measures of particulate matter pollution. The other three, ozone, lead and sulfur dioxide, did decline.
Indeed, after decades of improvement, progress in air quality stalled. Over the last two years the U.S. had more polluted air days than just a few years earlier , according to EPA data analyzed by The AP.
There were 15% more days with unhealthy air in America both last year and the year before than there were on average from 2013 through 2016, the four years when the U.S had its fewest number of those days since at least 1980, when the measurement started.
Records for the fewest air polluted days were set during the Obama administration.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/ap-fact-check-trump-eco-115951030.html
ANDREW WHEELER, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: "From 1970 to 2018, U.S. criteria air pollution fell 74 percent. ... Under your administration, emissions of all the criteria air pollutants continue to decline. For example, the lead and sulfur dioxide have dropped by double-digit percentages over the last two years. Today, we have the cleanest air on record." — remarks Monday.
THE FACTS: Air quality has not improved since Trump took office and air in the U.S. is not the cleanest on record.
Wheeler specifically is incorrect that emissions for all six of the "criteria" air pollutants tracked by EPA have declined during the Trump administration. Of the six, three actually increased in 2017: carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and two measures of particulate matter pollution. The other three, ozone, lead and sulfur dioxide, did decline.
Indeed, after decades of improvement, progress in air quality stalled. Over the last two years the U.S. had more polluted air days than just a few years earlier , according to EPA data analyzed by The AP.
There were 15% more days with unhealthy air in America both last year and the year before than there were on average from 2013 through 2016, the four years when the U.S had its fewest number of those days since at least 1980, when the measurement started.
Records for the fewest air polluted days were set during the Obama administration.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/ap-fact-check-trump-eco-115951030.html
Bruddah IZ
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Sucker
I've noticed something about ants.
The imported Argentine variety.
Anyone else notice in your area a change in the little black ant ( Argentine) population?
I would appreciate your input.
I'm doing a little study of my own.
The imported Argentine variety.
Anyone else notice in your area a change in the little black ant ( Argentine) population?
I would appreciate your input.
I'm doing a little study of my own.
I read some time ago an article by an SDSU biologist that there are two "tribes" of Argentine black ants in Southern California. Within each tribal area, ants from neighboring hills sort of get along with each other, but on the ever-shifting boundary between the two tribes, there is constant warfare.
Old news.
Since that time they had, (within the past five years or so) become one "super colony".
I've noticed something within the past year that is astounding.
What have you noticed, if anything, about the Argentine ant colonies in your area?