Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:52 pm
Is that better than shutting it down every night?
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:55 pm
A British scientist recently stated that he could obtain a research grant for Hay for a rocking horse if, in his application, he stated that it would help prevent global warming!
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:57 pm
Stop being logical Min, these people can't handle simple concepts!Is that better than shutting it down every night?
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:03 pm
Ah. touche!
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:13 pm
The old childhood canto comes to mind.....
Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
Now could it be just possible that we, in
our infinite wisdom have
tapped into several hundred million years of
a highly effective carbon sink
and, like that other myth,
Pandora's Box, released it upon the world?
The reason I use the metaphor of Pandora's box
is that at the end of the day all that seems to remain is Hope.
Meanwhile, instead of any effective plan
for dealing with the problem,
we have spent all of our energy as regards this issue
creating a quasi-scientific/political
Verdun,
with utterly predictable consequences.
N'est ce pas?
john
Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
Now could it be just possible that we, in
our infinite wisdom have
tapped into several hundred million years of
a highly effective carbon sink
and, like that other myth,
Pandora's Box, released it upon the world?
The reason I use the metaphor of Pandora's box
is that at the end of the day all that seems to remain is Hope.
Meanwhile, instead of any effective plan
for dealing with the problem,
we have spent all of our energy as regards this issue
creating a quasi-scientific/political
Verdun,
with utterly predictable consequences.
N'est ce pas?
john
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:17 am
It's true. There's masses of money slushing around for anything to do with this right now. I work as an advertising copywriter in London's Soho (sort of equivalent of Madison Avenue but with blousier hookers), and the last three accounts I worked on were all websites to do with reducing your carbon footprint.Digit wrote:A British scientist recently stated that he could obtain a research grant for Hay for a rocking horse if, in his application, he stated that it would help prevent global warming!
Of course, all these 'reduce your carbon footprint' websites are on computers, and computers are the biggest contributor to global warming after aircraft!
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:53 am
I didn't know where else to put this, but thought some would like to know about it.
He is using solar heat to re combine CO2 and water to make a fuel compatable with the current gasoline use and distribution system.
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtm ... =205100670
Recycle your exhaust!?!
Does that count as perpepual motion?
He is using solar heat to re combine CO2 and water to make a fuel compatable with the current gasoline use and distribution system.
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtm ... =205100670
Recycle your exhaust!?!
Does that count as perpepual motion?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:39 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7197379.stm
Rising sea levels in the Med. partially caused by thermal expansion.A study by the Spanish Oceanographic Institute says levels have been rising since the 1970s with the rate of increase growing in recent years.
It says even a small rise could have serious consequences in coastal areas.
The study noted that the findings were consistent with other investigations into the effects of climate change.
The study, entitled Climate Change in the Spanish Mediterranean, said the sea had risen "between 2.5mm and 10mm (0.1 and 0.4in) per year since the 1990s".
If the trend continued it would have "very serious consequences" in low-lying coastal areas even in the case of a small rise, and "catastrophic consequences" if a half-metre increase occurred, the study warned.
Global climate change
Scientists noted that sea temperatures had also risen significantly by 0.12 to 0.5C since the 1970s.
Sea level rise is a key effect of global climate change. There are two major contributory effects: the melting of ice, and expansion of sea water as the oceans warm.
Last month, a study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the world's sea levels could rise twice as much this century as UN climate scientists had previously predicted.
The Nobel Prize-winning IPCC predicted a maximum sea level rise of 81cm (32in) this century.
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:11 pm
32 inchs max rise.
How does that compare to the scare stories we have been fed?
How does that compare to the scare stories we have been fed?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:19 pm
If you follow the GW fiasco you will find that each year has its new scare stories and each year something is down graded.
Wanna know what happened to the 'Hockey Stick'?
All the glaciers are melting.
There are about 160000 glaciers on this planet and about 400 are being monitored, part of the southern polar ice is thickening.
But who would buy newspaers with that as a headline?
Global temps are now below the 1986 level, CO2 is UP. No story in that is there?
Wanna know what happened to the 'Hockey Stick'?
All the glaciers are melting.
There are about 160000 glaciers on this planet and about 400 are being monitored, part of the southern polar ice is thickening.
But who would buy newspaers with that as a headline?
Global temps are now below the 1986 level, CO2 is UP. No story in that is there?
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:46 pm
Some good news though, Ken Livingstone's free newspaper The Londoner is encouraging recycling with an article in the latest edition which I, being a postman, have for some reason that escapes me, been required to deliver to 800 plus homes.
Yep. Nice easy to read article about sticking your cans in the recycle bin which just about everybody does anyway. That'll solve the problem.
I'm being sarcastic by the way.
I don't think these people really appreciate the irony of an article on recycling in their sodding free newspaper that no bugger actually wants shoved through their letterbox every four weeks. Somewhere in city hall right now there's a memo about a monster truck rally to raise awareness about cycling to work.
Yep. Nice easy to read article about sticking your cans in the recycle bin which just about everybody does anyway. That'll solve the problem.
I'm being sarcastic by the way.
I don't think these people really appreciate the irony of an article on recycling in their sodding free newspaper that no bugger actually wants shoved through their letterbox every four weeks. Somewhere in city hall right now there's a memo about a monster truck rally to raise awareness about cycling to work.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:22 pm
Bandwagons are like women's fashions, they are must haves.
My local council supplies bags of different colours in which to deposit different materials for 'recycling', which our local 'waste operatives', that's dustmen in plain language, then deposit into the same compactor for subsequent disposal elsewhere.
Somehow I very much doubt that compacting leaves the bags intact!
And I doubt the Ken or the other disciples will prevent this!
http://www.livescience.com/environment/ ... _tilt.html
My local council supplies bags of different colours in which to deposit different materials for 'recycling', which our local 'waste operatives', that's dustmen in plain language, then deposit into the same compactor for subsequent disposal elsewhere.
Somehow I very much doubt that compacting leaves the bags intact!
And I doubt the Ken or the other disciples will prevent this!
http://www.livescience.com/environment/ ... _tilt.html
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:07 am
More proof that there is no scientific consensus on 'global warming' -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7194579.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7194579.stm
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:18 pm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... eteorology
I'm glad the Gulf stream is going to be monitered. If it fails our Brit friends better get the hell out of England.An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic, from Florida to the Canary Islands, to provide early warning that the Gulf Stream might be failing, an event that would trigger cataclysmic freezing in Britain for decades.
The £16m system, called Rapid Watch, will use the latest underwater monitoring techniques to check whether cold water pouring south from melting Arctic ice sheets is diverting the current's warm waters away from Britain.
Without the Gulf Stream, the UK would be as cold as Canada in winter. Ports could freeze over and snowstorms and blizzards would paralyse the country. An extreme version of this meteorological mayhem provided the film The Day After Tomorrow with its plotline.
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:26 pm
Just think what it would do for their hockey program.
