Climate and Weather

You will have to clarify what you mean by overall picture. The scientific community is focused on anthropogenic CO2. Its not the absolute numbers so much but the ratio of sources to sinks. The relatively small contribution of atmospheric CO2 from human related activities (compared to global CO2 flux from natural sources) is driving a net increase over what, geologically, is a small period of time. It clearly emerges as the forcing variable in global energy budget modelling, the latest iteration of which is the CMIP5. A complete list of simulations run through CMIP5 leading up to AR5 can be found here. I am also attaching the AR5 carbon cycle graphic that shows net sources and sinks for atmospheric CO2.

http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/docs/Taylor_CMIP5_design.pdf

AR5 is a document intended for the public and, in particular, policy makers. I've heard it said that the summaries are written according to the average time it takes for a legislator to take a dump. I know he's a busy man, but maybe our friend Bernie Sanders will stop by and tell us if that is true.

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I can verify the highlighted text above as true.
Its also a pretty picture.
 
It is good to hear you say so Bernie. Although sometimes I fear the movements of our legislative bowels must be distributed in the manner below.

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Your chart has some disturbing tendencies.
It appears republicans either eat too much cheese, or are actually trying to read the "Affordable Care Act" while on the pot.
I suggest they use it as toilet paper, to speed things up a little.
 
Your chart has some disturbing tendencies.
It appears republicans either eat too much cheese, or are actually trying to read the "Affordable Care Act" while on the pot.
I suggest they use it as toilet paper, to speed things up a little.

Oh, I'm pretty sure is all the saturated fat in the brie. Inhofe's the rightmost point. Hogs the stall for hours. His middle name's not Mountain for nothing you know.
 
Hmmm. Since there's no way there was sufficient dinosaur biomass to create our planetary reserves of oil bearing shales, coal deposits, etc. The carbon comes from unfathomable numbers of little tiny creatures and plants. Unless you've got a way for birds to keep your house warm and cool. Or Nessie in a sheltered cove working a water wheel. But maybe I misunderstood you.

Not at all. I'm okay with "our planetary reserves of oil bearing shales, coal deposits, etc., coming from unfathomable numbers of little tiny creatures and plants. Sounds like a pretty efficient process.
 
… is from page 175 of my great colleague Walter Williams’s 1995 book, Do the Right Thing; specifically, it’s from Walter’s September 1992 op-ed (for which I cannot find a link) “Wealth and Poverty”:

More than anything else, wealth results from a state of mind and a set of values. Government is not a source of wealth. Governments, including ours, are essentially parasitic; they consume and dispose of wealth produced by private individuals.
 
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When I’m in Washington, D.C. I frequently see many dozens of very large buses that pass by my neighborhood with almost no passengers, especially in the evening. When I’m in Minneapolis I frequently drive by the light rail transit system and see trains going by with 4 or 5 empty or nearly-empty cars. Those examples of “mass transit inefficiencies” that have to be very, very costly — 1 person riding on a large bus, and only a handful of passengers riding on 4-5 light rail train cars — seem to be exactly the type of inefficiencies that Uber and Lyft can help address as ride-hailing services help to revolutionize the future of ground transportation and public transit. Just as they out-competed Big Taxi, Uber and Lyft can certainly just as effectively out-compete Big Bus!--Mark Perry
 
California’s Legislature has approved regulations on cow flatulence and manure – both blamed for releasing greenhouse gases.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...ulations-approved-by-californias-legislature/

A supplement added to the feed of high-producing dairy cows reduced methane emissions by 30 percent and could have ramifications for global climate change, according to an international team of researchers.

In addition, over the course of the 12-week study conducted at Penn State's dairy barns, cows that consumed a feed regimen supplemented by the novel methane inhibitor 3-nitrooxypropanol -- or 3NOP -- gained 80 percent more body weight than cows in a control group. Significantly, feed intake, fiber digestibility and milk production by cows that consumed the supplement did not decrease.​

http://news.psu.edu/story/364787/20...t-greatly-reduces-dairy-cow-methane-emissions
 
A supplement added to the feed of high-producing dairy cows reduced methane emissions by 30 percent and could have ramifications for global climate change, according to an international team of researchers.

In addition, over the course of the 12-week study conducted at Penn State's dairy barns, cows that consumed a feed regimen supplemented by the novel methane inhibitor 3-nitrooxypropanol -- or 3NOP -- gained 80 percent more body weight than cows in a control group. Significantly, feed intake, fiber digestibility and milk production by cows that consumed the supplement did not decrease.​

http://news.psu.edu/story/364787/20...t-greatly-reduces-dairy-cow-methane-emissions
Everyone likes 3NOP in their dairy.
It seems to be perfectly safe, but so did MTBE.
Im not concerned with cow methane, but I know some of you are.
 
AN ICE-FREE ARCTIC OCEAN HAS HAPPENED BEFORE

Doom-mongering scientists telling us that the melting Arctic is a disaster conveniently overlook vast chunks of history

http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/arctic-sea-ice/

Some time in the next few decades, we may well see the Arctic Ocean without ice in August or September for at least a few weeks, just as it was in the time of our ancestors. The effect on human welfare, and on animal and plant life, will be small. For all the attention it gets, the reduction in Arctic ice is the most visible, but least harmful, effect of global warming.
 
AN ICE-FREE ARCTIC OCEAN HAS HAPPENED BEFORE

Doom-mongering scientists telling us that the melting Arctic is a disaster conveniently overlook vast chunks of history

http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/arctic-sea-ice/

Some time in the next few decades, we may well see the Arctic Ocean without ice in August or September for at least a few weeks, just as it was in the time of our ancestors. The effect on human welfare, and on animal and plant life, will be small. For all the attention it gets, the reduction in Arctic ice is the most visible, but least harmful, effect of global warming.
Actually, the time referenced in the article, (between 6 and 10 k yrs ago) was a very good time for humankind.
 
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