| Author | Message | ||
     Sifo |
There Are Now 52 Explanations For The Pause In Global Warming I have to admit, they have no problem making shit up! | ||
| Aesquire |
http://pjmedia.com/blog/hole-in-political-science/ ?singlepage=true From the info I've been seeing, the Ozone Crisis was based on one very important fact. The patent on Freon ran out. So Mexico and China were going to start making it cheaper. So with a lot of bribe money the "evil corporation" got Freon banned. And....replaced by a NEW chemical they had years of patent rights remaining on. The result, millions of megawatts MORE of electricity used to run refrigeration systems and air conditioners had to be produced to use the new chemicals and MANY millions of dollars spent on upgrading equipment world wide, for decades, to use the new chemicals. Oh, and in case no one told you, the Ozone Hole in Antarctica is caused by 2 very important things. 1. The sun does not shine on Antarctica in Northern Hemisphere Summer. The Sun's UV rays make Ozone. No Sun, No fresh Ozone. 2. There is an active volcano near the coast of Antarctica, Mr. Erebus, which puts out tons of Chlorine gas every year. ( and many other delightful fumes ) Chlorine acts to destroy Ozone in the upper atmosphere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erebus The above does NOT disprove the theory that CFC's decompose in the upper atmosphere in the severe radiation up there, or disprove that the Chlorine ( in CFC's ) then destroys Ozone. It's just that the Freon Patent Expiration and Ban can by provable fact be attributed in at Least part to simple economic forces. If it actually did any good may not be known for a century. The Chlorine that breaks down Ozone is a catalyst, and while it makes chemical reactions happen is not used up by them, so Eviiiil-Freon-Chlorine from 1989 may indeed still be in play. What is uncontested is that a constant flow of Chlorine creates and sustains the ozone hole over Antarctica, every year... And then the Ozone is replenished, when the sun rises each Northern Winter. That's fact. What could be termed fiction in a sane world is the hilarity of the laws passed to save the planet made making Freon by the megaton MORE profitable to China than stopping it's production. For many years. But... alas, that's fact too. http://pjmedia.com/blog/climate-change-pac-in-cris ts-corner-raining-millions-into-scott-race/?single page=true Goes to show, if you tell the lies rich people want to hear they give you money... suckers. I'll just point out that 2 different groups want to stop frakking. Envio-con folk who get money from the "end of the world", and Oil Sheiks in the middle east & Russia who get money from selling oil to the world. | ||
| Daddio |
I always wondered how heavier-than-air gasses get that high up. Volcanoes make a lot of sense in that mechanism. Now, if someone could explain how hot water gets, and stays under cold water (the theory of 'hidden' global warming) I would be satiated. for now. | ||
| Sifo |
Looks like the Antarctic sea ice is at record levels. You would intuitively think that this would be cause by cold weather. Scientists know better though. Ice is caused by climate change.  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-14/record-cover age-of-antarctic-sea-ice/5742668 | ||
| Pwnzor |
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| Sifo |
Just some pretty cool robotics technology... | ||
| Aesquire |
http://nypost.com/2014/09/14/leo-v-science-vanishi ng-evidence-for-climate-change/ | ||
| Aesquire |
Technology creates a new way to mess with your fellow man. http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/09/15/gamers-use-p olice-hoax-to-lash-out-at-opponents/ The internet, and the advances in Computers in the past few decades, have taken place with 2 main drivers. Gaming and Porn. Porn brought us Paypal, so you could buy porn on the internet without your wife seeing the charges on your credit card. Live streaming is made for porn, higher bandwidth is the call of more and better porn, HDTV is probably for porn, originally. ( big mistake, HD porn is scary... some things should be a little pixelated ) Gaming brought us more power, 3d video cards, bigger monitors, higher bandwidth, ( LPB'S!!!!!!! ) and more power... Yes, the desire to dynamically model nuclear reaction may have driven the Cray supercomputer, but my Video card is more powerful than all the computers owned by NASA during the Apollo Program. Your New Computer's power owes far more to Halo than Word. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://chronicle.com/article/Is-Artificial-Intelli gence-a/148763/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en http://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/rob ots-and-computers/mary-e-lowd/pegacornus-rex new technology brings new problems. Politicians cannot see the problems until someone complains or dies. Science Fiction has been pointing them out since the beginning. http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/ The-Machine-Stops.pdf I'd rate this with "1984", "Fahrenheit 451" and "Animal Farm" as must reads. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2014/09/17/nobody-c ame/?singlepage=true Allow me to share a personal experience. I went to Copenhagen in 2009 for this website to cover another UN climate conference (COP 15), then considered to be extremely crucial. Several islands — Micronesia, I think — were supposedly about to go under from the rising tides. I ran into the representative from one of those islands and asked him if he was worried. He started to laugh and shook his head. So I asked him what he was doing at the conference. I want the money, he said. So here we go again. Climate is the real problem. We know the song — and the motivation. Whatever happened to all those billions spent for carbon offsets…. hmmm? But the whole climate thing is much more than a mere scam, gigantic as it is. It is the purest example of the use of moral narcissism by and against liberals and progressives. It is the perfect exploitation of the human need to feel good about ourselves. More opine about matters scientific in our culture than in all of history, probably, while knowing less — and that’s not just because Al Gore got D in geology or because the whole idea of “settled science” is an oxymoron. ”Climate change” is liberalism’s paradigm self-deception. If you believe that, you can believe anything. It is so, if you want it to be so. With the world in the midst of civilizational struggle, that’s pretty pathetic — and scary. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388234/lates t-anti-small-business-effort-stop-global-warming-d iane-katz CFC's have nothing to do with climate change... | ||
| Fast1075 |
The ban on CFC refrigerants was driven by greed. Dupont had held patent on the most common types. What better way to eliminate the competition than to ban CFC's, and line their own pockets by developing "new" refrigerants. OK, refrigeration and A/C systems leak refrigerant if improperly installed or maintained. In some areas, by law, a "leaker" has to be evacuated and left for dead until it is repaired. In some areas (depending on system capacity) you can waste as much money as you want pouring water into a leaking bucket. Volcanoes spew massive amounts of chlorine. But so does the domestic and industrial use of unregulated chlorine. It's all double talk and bullshit. A little warning to the unknowing. If you have bought a small refrigerated product in the last few years that uses refrigerant R-134a, keep the condenser clean because if you let it plug up and overheat the compressor, the PAG "oil" will interact with the refrigerant and create a rubbery substance that will block the system and destroy (for all practical purposes) the equipment. And if you own older equipment that has developed a leak that is repairable, beware that "substitute" or "retrofit" refrigerants can be a can of worms if not correctly selected. The business is rife with snake oil salesmen and the ignorant that base their product selection on profitability or the advice of salesmen instead of study and research. So remember, if you have to have your A/C or refrigeration equipment repaired, and you get sticker shock, regulation based on bullshit has raised the cost of doing business. And now the crap starting for HFC refrigerants (fluorine based) is flaring up. Keep 'em coming. Soon, problems with systems will require replacement rather than repair because of design and " ever more hydroscopic lubricants". Why don't the regulators force fart absorbing under shorts on us to "reclaim" that atmospheric destroying methane. Whole new industry potential there. | ||
| Kenm123t |
Fast we are dealing with oil burn Issues in SDR 4 hotgas valves in Pretreat units. I ordered 2 valves this morning and we are having problems with clogged driers in the same units. 1200 -1500 per unit to fix ! Its a money maker for us but the Customers are under an heavy cost to maintain | ||
| Fast1075 |
Dang Ken. That sux. We had a new Carrier residential unit that was a week old, that suffered "frosty coil syndrome" because of txv failure. Carrier could not supply a replacement valve. They were under back order. Carrier recently went with Chatleff fittings on their residential valves. Daiken/Goodman uses Chatleff connectors in all their products, so guess what valve is in the Carrier now? The pins and springs are sticking in a lot of valves today. My insider at Sporlan says it is from the anti corrosion compound they lube the internals with to keep off rust. More cheap chicken crap. How much money did they save going to carbon steel pins from 406? Stupid. Who was the genius that didn't check anti corrosion compound compatibility with POE lube? Dude, how high is the discharge temp in those Preheat units? Having C.R. issues? | ||
| Kenm123t |
380-416 psi on 410a but they run in hotgas reheat as a leaving air temp control Desertaire Qv04 series They run well but a little lite on ni purges since the driers& suction filters clog in the 1st 60 days We just change them after a week now bad for a WSHP But they have one of most every thing henry valve and sporlan valve makes inside ! I got a notice on the oil change but didnt know why going cheap on valve parts it figures cost cutting Bastards | ||
| Aesquire |
http://pjmedia.com/blog/rfk_jr_enviro_hypocrite/ I have too much to comment about Mr. Kennedy to bore you that much. I think that if the climate myth he believes in was true, he'd have a good point. It's not, so.... I agree that we need to stop Congress from being for sale. I think he's picking on the wrong people, but I could be wrong. I even agree that we need to stop having wars over foreign oil. To move on and be rich with real forms of alternative energy. I'll bet you a weeks pay he would not agree with my ideas, instead insisting on the Holy State being given power to tell me what to drive and where. Kennedy wants to Order people to live as he wants you to. But not himself. I could be being unfair to him, he may have the highest motives. My opinion of this rich spoiled brat however is that he's a total fake. Speaking of Fake... how about the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia and it's slide into disaster, ecologically. http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/versailles-in -california/?singlepage=true | ||
| Aesquire |
Kenm & Fast.... So the new mandated tech costs more, works worse, and none of that matters to the ones making the laws..... except for the bribes they get from Dow, of course. | ||
| Kenm123t |
Dow never made Freon branded refrigerants that was Dupont Allied Signal, Union Carbide Daikin developed 410a with Carrier | ||
| Aesquire |
Right, thanks for the correction. The advantage of a wildly diverse bunch of Buell nuts. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/climate-s cience-is-not-settled/ a very good read, IMHO. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2014/09/23/climate-movem ent-drops-mask-admits-communist-agenda/?singlepage =true | ||
| Aesquire |
http://bearingarms.com/rise-machines-mri-scanner-d isarms-officer-fires-weapon/ | ||
| Kenm123t |
That comes under the heading if your dumb you have to be tough. Hey Patric wear your armor to the MRI place you too can fly My cousin works for GE MRI division he has flown before while holding on to a pump in the wrong place and for too long | ||
| Sifo |
Kind of a science thing here. Pretty impressive IMO. I'd like to see how it would do on a track full of cars actually racing though. | ||
| Reepicheep |
I got to "play" in an MRI room a couple of times. I was hired by a major MRI manufacturer to do ethical hacking with machine owner permission to understand to what degree they could monitor or service other manufacturers machines (so they could make blanket hospital maintenance contracts). Most of the machines then were running some Unix variant under the covers, and the security on *all* of them sucked. It's freaky what that kind of magnetic field does. A paperclip in your hand feels alive as you move it through flux lines. A big plate of aluminum (like what you use to deadhead a 5" pipe) gets bumped all over the place on the flux lines also while moving it around. Fun times. The guy I was contracting for knew the techs that worked for the same company maintaining the MRI. They were in one room training each other, while we were in the other room and I was figuring out a way in. Took me 15 minutes, and he told me to do something to mess with the techs to show I had control of the machine. 10 minutes later, there was a pop up on their X-Terminal indicating they started the magnet quench process with a live 60 second count down.  (a big deal if it was real, as if they accidentally quench it, it will take like a week to get it back up and operational, so it is a big deal for the facility). It was a fun joke at the time, and I don't think I would do it again even if asked, but it also nicely showed how big a deal bad security was on those things... | ||
| Blake |
You're a danger to society. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/arch aeologists-uncover-clues-to-why-vikings-abandoned- greenland-a-876626.html http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/distribut ism-and-moores-law/ ".......Here’s an interesting article from 2013 about the Viking colonies on Greenland, and how as the climate changed and became colder ca. 1300, they adapted. http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/arch aeologists-uncover-clues-to-why-vikings-abandoned- greenland-a-876626.html <http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/arch aeologists-uncover-clues-to-why-vikings-abandoned- greenland-a-876626.html> Note that per one method of dating the Little Ice Age, it began roughly ca. 1350AD, but certainly began no later than about 1550. Wolf Minimum (extended solar minimum) ca. 1280-1350 (definite, but not as deep as others) Sporer Minimum ca. 1460-1550 (significantly deeper than Wolf) Maunder Minimum ca. 1645-1715 (deepest extended minimum) Dalton Minimum ca. 1790-1820 (shallower than Wolf) Also note that (as we have been seeing for the last ~2 decades) there was a gradual taper-off — both in solar activity, and in temperatures. SIDE NOTE: This was brought on by research into Stonehenge, and the notion that Britain was "Hyperborea," "Beyond the North Wind," and that Stonehenge was the purported "spherical temple to Apollo" as purported by Hecataeus of Abdera as preserved by Diodorus Siculus. However, that same description also describes the Sun as moving around the horizon, which would place Hyperborea above the Arctic Circle. Ptolemy and Marcian both place Hyperborea in the North Sea. Stephanie Osborn Interstellar Woman of Mystery http://www.Stephanie-Osborn.com <http://www.stephanie-osborn.com/> ....." | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391047/endur ing-power-story-jonah-goldberg Modern-day environmentalism is full of talk about data and “settled science.” But science is never settled, because science is the craft of unsettling what we know at any given moment. If science could settle, man would never learn to fly or read by electric light. Meanwhile, inconvenient data is left on the cutting-room floor as an ancient story is retold in modern terms. “If you look carefully,” Michael Crichton once observed, “you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths.” Preindustrial times are our Edenic past, when man and nature were in balance. Forbidden knowledge leads to disharmony, and our sin invites a looming judgment day. Similarly, so much that passes for ideological opposition to capitalism is in reality loyalty to a storyline disproved by reality. Indeed, one reason climate change hysteria is so hard to combat is that, unlike previous indictments of capitalism, it is immune to falsification — if temperatures rise or if they fall, it’s evidence of impending calamity. For generations we were told that democratic capitalism was bad for the environment compared with the enlightened rule of socialism. But everywhere this proposition was put to the test, it failed. I understand that the difference between narratives and ideas can be a subtle one. But if you keep the distinction in mind, the arguments tearing apart America become more comprehensible. It is a conflict of visions driven by adherents of two versions of the story of America. And whichever side wins, the victors will determine the story taught to the next generation. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/390850/oil-r igs-support-biodiversity-jonah-goldberg | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-26/arctic-ic e-melt-seen-doubling-risk-of-harsh-winter-in-eu.ht ml Short form.... The "melted off" Arctic ice cap will cause more severe winters in the Northern Hemisphere. Because of the open water. A process called "lake effect" in the Great Lakes region, air passing over open water picks up moisture, ( even when it's freezing out ) and that dumps as snow ( or rain ) on the land the air passes over. This is, in fact, the 1970's weather disaster model where we plunge into an ice age. How big & long? Perhaps a small one, a few decades long....or longer, since the snow covered landscape reflects solar heating and stays cold in a positive feedback loop. No matter what, I bet you $10 that 2014 will be the "warmest year on record" and that 2015 will be too. Even if Summer Never comes. |
