Trying to relax from literally 30 days of working without a break, I plopped down in front of the History channel yesterday and watched a series of shows about...
... Both but mainly the later at present. As more greenhouse gases (not just CO2) are released into the atmosphere more heat gets retained. This rising ...
... That was the "Tunguska event" of 1908, a meteor that exploded just before impact, with a force calculated to be around the Hiroshima bomb in strength. We...
Good stuff ... thanks Keith and Ian for your replies ... I find it absurd when the reporter asked Al Gore if any scientists disagreed with the assertion that ...
... The vast majority of climate scientists do think that human activity is a significant contribution to the warming. ... I think I'll reword that. We can...
This is well worth reading: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,,2011095,00.html> Covers the claims of a nutritionist in the UK. Touches on the need to get...
... These aspects of the discussion are very much in the realm of politics -- and I think we're all inclined to keep the discussion *here* in the realm of...
... Hah! I just made the same observation. ... Agreed. ... You included a very large political blast, specifically how to sell the idea of changes to the...
... No I didn't. It was a extract from a longer piece discussing the precautionary principle in general using climate change as an example of an area were it...
... Coincidentally the 16th March issue of Science (which popped through my door this morning) has a section on polar science. It includes a review article ...
... Indeed. The precautionary principle is a political ploy being used to convince the public of something -- that making changes involving great harm are...
... I don't agree. We've been down this road before. Since that time more evidence has been collected that the vast majority of climate scientists say points...
... I think you've just proved conclusively that human activity *is* the cause of global warming. After all what has just happened on Mars? The Mars rover...
So Ian is simply trying to say that the evidence supports the idea that human manufactured CO2 is increasing GMST and therefore humans should (not as a matter...
I got a good laugh from that article ... She is a modern snake oil salesperson ... she is merely using modern terms to confuse the uneducated. Her kind will...
... More or less for my position. The IPCC make predictions that they assign a probability of them coming to pass to. Some of the predictions, which are agreed...
... I'm working on a project for the next day or so, but I think you may be about to learn something interesting about the reporting here. Just for kicks, see...
... This is because doing things much more expensively doesn't have to cost people anything -- we'll just pay for it with taxes. ];-) ... With the exception of...
... No. We don't need "absolute conclusive" evidence; science doesn't work that way. We have strong evidence that no proposed change would significantly...
... If one compares our output (I did this a few years ago), using fossil fuel production figures with the actual increase, there is clearly a very large sink...
... Coal (which is as dirty as oil when it comes to greenhouse gases and as dirty as nuclear when it comes to other pollutants) is about the only fossil...
... There are still lots and lots of oil reserves though. And reserves that were deemed uneconomical to extract in the past become economically exploitable as...
... Well -- "often" -- not "always" -- and typically lagging by hundreds of years. ... You know, I have a hard time imagining that an atmospheric temperature ...
... No doubt that is true. But it's been pretty thoroughly researched, and seems more likely to have been a stony meteor in the 30 to 60 meter range,...
... Which is a good argument for government to subsidize the creation of an alternate, nuclear alternative. Economy of scale should then take care of the...
... Yes, it was clearly an air burst and those are usually stony meteorites or ice. But ice usually detonates so far up it doesn't much affect the ground...
... Quite a while back there was some stuff published. I don't exactly remember where, though. The Permian extinction seems to have coincided with the...
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