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owlice wrote:StACase,

APOD did not mention politics. Kindly read the APOD text.

If you cannot be polite here, please do not post. Thank you.

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The word "Poilitcs" isn't necessary for it to be political.

The issue is that Chris Peterson claimed that the majority of the little wars going on around the world in many cases are precipitated by climate change. So I put up a link to all the ridiculous claims for things Caused by "Global Warming" such as brain eating amoebae, acne, Spider bites e...

Already, the majority of the little wars going on around the world are closely associated with resource issues, in many cases precipitated by climate change. ... There are quite a few recent papers on the subject, easily located by searching the web. By coincidence, this article appeared today on t...

The struggle for resources may soon intensify and those with money get first crack at them. This is not a sci-fi script... :| Already, the majority of the little wars going on around the world are closely associated with resource issues, in many cases precipitated by climate change. It has already ...

If you can't hit the broad side of a barn at 25 feet, you aren't going to hit the target at 100 meters. It depends on just how big the target is. If your target is the side of a mountain, broadside of barn accuracy is very good. :mrgreen: Uh huh, and in this case it's tenths of a degree 100 years f...

I think it's useful to compare temperature and CO2 using our longest time series for temperature. What I've done is pick off the high and lowpoints of the HADCRUT4 time series compared to an extrapolation of the Keeling curve back to 1850 as follows: 1850 - 1878 - 28 years, CO2 went up less than 1 p...

I found it:

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Hangar#8 wrote:The easiest way to find the right answer is to get the author of the original photograph in Gdansk to take more photoe of sunrises for a few consecutive mornings, from the exact same location.

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I just got back from a week of canoe paddling and no internet, and of all the APODs to go through, this was the one that made me say, "WOW!"

Well there's this: And ...[sea level]... has been rising faster in the mid-Atlantic because the land here is sinking. Yeah, there is that. Parts of the Earth are still rebounding from the loss of glacial weight at the end of the last ice age, too. Local apparent sea level can be affected by either ...

In the sixth grade, maybe earlier I learned that water seeks its own level. So I don't exactly understand how one area of the planet could have a rise in sea level exceeding the rest of the planet. Perhaps someone with greater scientific expertise than I can explain. On the Earth, sea level is nomi...

...AGW is falsifiable on more than one basis: (1) There is no warming of the equatorial mid-troposphere, (2) there has been no warming for the past ten years in spite of a continuing increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, (3) ice cores clearly show that carbon dioxide content of the atmosphe...

Chris Peterson wrote:... (I recently saw An Inconvenient Truth again, and it is remarkably good and accurate, although it probably understates the worse case scenarios) ...

I have not seen it, however the internet is full of critiques listing many factual errors.

hot off the press from Roto Reuters And your link says: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York, Boston and other cities on North America's northeast coast could face a rise in sea level this century that would exceed forecasts for the rest of the planet if Greenland's ice sheet keeps melting as fast as it...

... my preference would be for a simple tax on everything that produces CO 2 . And employs how many bureaucrats? That's a much more direct approach Stopping production at the coal mines and oil wells would be more direct, except that you guys don't seem to want to do that. Why? and in the short ter...

... It is certainly true that removing carbon output from automobiles does no good if the same amount of carbon is produced elsewhere ... How about the Cap and Trade scheme? Does it really do any good to limit the CO 2 emissions of industry if the fossil fuel producers can continue to sell their co...

... I keep pointing out, all those 20 or so models that the IPCC Assessment Reports reference are currently all wrong ... The reason the results are flawed is because model they are attempting to simulate is simply too complex. To prove the energy of the "Earth System" is or is not in equ...

I live at 38.25N, 122.45W and 82dF in January (dead of winter) is extremely warm and set a record high for the day. Then in March 98dF set another record high just before spring (technically still winter). Then more 90+ deg temps in April setting more local records. Someone did a search on high and...

As far as burning coal goes, the CO2 actually promotes plant growth and will help the re-growth of forest and permit feeding the people of the world. You might want to take a closer look at the primary literature on that matter. Most studies show that increased CO 2 has a neutral to slightly negati...

Why is it that Everyone who believes that AGW is a lie tends to quote profusely and almost exclusively from information either directly gathered from or linked back to "Wattsupwiththat"? What is up with that? Because we can't find what we are looking for over at RealClimate. I visit Watts...

You're right, the smart money would be on a continuing trend, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. But that's what the politicians who are in charge seem to want to do. Doing nothing is betting the farm. Taking preventative action (as "the politicians who are in charge seem to want to do") ...

The models (which are not IPCC models) Point taken, the IPCC Assessment reports merely reference them over and over and over and over again. make no attempt to track such short term variation. I don't consider eight years short term They do, however, pretty accurately describe the upward trend, No ...

Humans can easily survive a glacial period, and the natural rate such a period comes on is unlikely to cause major societal problems. There will probably be a smaller human population during a glacial period, but I don't see anything unfortunate or problematic about that. And the other day you wrot...