Posted on January 25th, 2010 by admin
An excellent opinion in the Wall Street Journal. It is absolutely amazing that there are so few media companies that try to get the story straight.
Last November, U.N. climate chief Rajendra Pachauri delivered a blistering rebuke to India’s environment minister for casting doubt on the notion that global warming was causing the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers.
“We have a very clear idea of what is happening,” the chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told the Guardian newspaper. “I don’t know why the minister is supporting this unsubstantiated research. It is an extremely arrogant statement.” Read more... (464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)
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A Glacier Meltdown – The Himalayas and climate science.
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Posted on August 17th, 2009 by admin
Boone Pickens and Ted Turner are well respected businessmen (the former a big investor and the latter a media mogul and founder of CNN). Both have a history of speaking their mind on public issues and both have a history of making huge sums of money.
While I certainly do not begrudge this gentlemen the right to speak their mind, I wonder if this message (that may be good for America) also is good for their business interests. Mr. Pickens is renown in the energy sector and a large scale switch to natural gas would likely help his wallet. Mr. Turner is a very large landowner in the western States and my gut is that he has found large deposits of natural gas under some of his holdings. Read more... (744 words, estimated 2:59 mins reading time)
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Posted on July 30th, 2009 by admin
If you read this site often, you will know that I am an engineer by training (even though I don’t currently practice). I tend to respect this profession a great deal as being fairly straight-forward and hard working. As a group, they also tend to be a pretty smart bunch.
One of the major trade rags in engineering is C&EN (Chemical and Engineering News). It is edited by Mr. Rudy Baum. If you aren’t in that trade, you would probably never pick up an issue so you may not be familiar with it. I haven’t read the publication in a long time but was recently made aware of a bit of controversy by Climate Depot. While the readers of C&EN are likely not climatologists, the science of CO2 and its affect on the atmosphere is very steeped in chemistry which their target market knows a bit about. Read more... (1161 words, estimated 4:39 mins reading time)
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Posted on May 9th, 2009 by admin
The LA Times is running with an article that says that the Obama administration will not reverse the Bush administration in using the scarcity of polar bears to curb emissions. About a year ago, the US listed the polar bear as a threatened species. The concern of many was that this ruling would be used to control, tax, and sue individual companies to reduce their CO2 output. The Bush administration said that wouldn’t be happening and now the Obama administration appears to agree.
I originally found this article by reading Watts Up With That so go over there and check out his handling of this story. Read more... (375 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)
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U.S. global warming rules won’t change to help polar bears
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Posted on February 26th, 2009 by admin
There is no question that our climate has changed slightly compared to 20 years ago. Most of the data points to increases of temperature and the most significant (and obvious if you are in the Arctic) is the diminished amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean. While there is some question as to the cause of this melting (see my ocean currents article), there is little question that it is occurring.
This article discusses some of the observations that scientists have seen regarding the ice melt and some possible repercussions. The article is somewhat refreshing though in that it focuses on what can be observed rather than focusing on what might be causing the warming. Since it was so evenly reported, I felt it was of significant interest to my readers. Read more... (460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)
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Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by admin
I really can’t comment on the news that it will take 1,000 years to recover from today’s carbon dioxide pollution better than Mr. Taranto of the Wall Street Journal.
I do want to make three additional comments before you read below. If it takes 1,000 years to recover from an overload of carbon dioxide that has already poisoned our atmosphere then: Read more... (920 words, estimated 3:41 mins reading time)
- why would we risk ruining our current economy for a solution that is likely to not ever happen?
- if it takes 1,000 years to get healthy doesn’t it stand to reason that it takes 1,000 years (or at least a couple of hundred) to get sick?
- is this just another example of inference based on mathematical computer models that have little to do with reality?
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Posted on January 19th, 2009 by admin
The blog “I think, therefore I rant” just put out a list of 100 accomplishments of the George W. Bush administration. Actually, it went over 100 and did 112 just to be safe.
I thought my readers would be interested in the following:
48 – Katrina
51 – Drilling for oil
54 – National forest cleanup
57 – Carbon sequestration
58 – Mercury emissions
59 – Nuclear power
61 – Papah?naumoku?kea Marine National Monument
62 – Polar bear endangered list
66 – Kyoto treaty
68 – Ethanol production
83 – Law of the Sea Treaty (affects how we work with the Arctic Ocean if it has less ice on it).
93 – Interstate air quality
94 – Clear skies initiative Read more... (189 words, estimated 45 secs reading time)
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by admin
The Independent – June 27, 2008
There is a very real chance that there will be no ice at the North Pole this summer. This is probably being caused by a “perfect storm” of several events including a slight warming of the Arctic Ocean, a slight warming of the air above the ocean, a change in ocean currents, a change in prevailing winds and possibly even the ozone layer. It is important to note that this does not mean that there is no ice in the Arctic Ocean as it appears that the water off the coast of Canada and Greenland will be ice covered. Read more... (387 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by admin
Washington Post – July 17, 2008
Mr. Al Gore recently gave a speech in Washington DC regarding energy. While many in the blogosphere will call Mr. Gore “Pope Gore” and refer to environmentalists as a religion, in this case, I don’t think that Mr. Gore makes many of the outlandish comments which I have chastised him about. Most of his comments are regarding energy independence, the status of the technology of alternative fuels, and the balance of power.
He does make a few global warming references which are a little hard to defend. He implies that the fires in California are caused by manmade global warming – this is probably not true since California has been enjoying an unusually wet climate for several decades and it appears that this current drought is simply going back to status quo. Read more... (4298 words, estimated 17:12 mins reading time)
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Posted on May 21st, 2008 by admin
Cartoons tend to be some of my most popular posts. I guess everyone likes to laugh!
Here are some cartoons that I found. They are displayed small so that you will click through to the original site to see the full display.
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