| Author | Message | ||
     Ducbsa |
We were in the best of hands (/sarc) http://theresurgent.com/the-real-reason-leftwing-g roups-are-freaked-out-by-trumps-epa-pick/ | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/12/the_po lar_vortex_comes_to_kill_agw_hype.html | ||
| Sifo |
  | ||
| Ducbsa |
"Notice: It’s OK to print this email free of any “eco-guilt.” Paper is a biodegradable, renewable, sustainable product made from trees. Growing and harvesting trees provides jobs for millions of Americans. Working forests are good for the environment and provide clean air and water, wildlife habitat and carbon storage. Thanks to improved forest management, we have more trees in America today than we had 100 years ago." http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/30359/ | ||
| Ducbsa |
http://manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2016/12/13/som e-predictions-for-the-future-in-the-climate-game | ||
| Ducbsa |
The comments are pretty good: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/252177/ | ||
| Ducbsa |
More from California http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/12/cali fornias-continuing-brownout.php | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/fp-comment/blog. html?b=business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/lawre nce-solomon-proof-that-a-new-ice-age-has-already-s tarted-is-stronger-than-ever-and-we-couldnt-be-les s-prepared Of course I'm inclined to believe this since this real scientist says what I, an amateur history of science buff have been convinced of for decades. I'm openly biased. ( something the Climate Con folk deny with passion & fury ) As always who is right? The absolute certain folk who would jail or murder those who question any aspect of the revealed wisdom? Or those who say there are questions to answer and are accused of treason to mankind for asking them? | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/china-cl aims-orbital-test-of-em-drive/ | ||
| Aesquire |
The EM drive is an example of a potential break through in technology on the level of atomic power or photovoltaic cells. If.... repeat, If it works it changes everything about space travel. Just as fission reactors made it possible for a submarine to go hide indefinitely, travel from ocean to ocean under the Arctic ice and travel around the world without refueling, limited not by air supply.... never having to surface with the excess power to make oxygen from sea water, but only limited by the food storage for the crew. The EM drive allows a constant, if small, acceleration as long as you have electric power. Instead of being limited by reaction mass. All current rockets are mostly a big "fuel" tank. For chemical rockets the fuel is also the reaction mass. For ion or Nerva type fission-thermal rockets the reaction mass is accelerated by electric charge or by heating. More efficient & higher exhaust velocities but still in essence moving a row boat by tossing rocks over the stern. When you're out of rocks you are coasting. Period. Almost all space flight you have ever actually heard of is based on running the engine at full power for efficiency then coasting until you need to change speed again then blasting away. Never mind clever tricks like gravity slingshot maneuvers or aero braking. ( which only works when you have an atmosphere to lose energy to ) To go anywhere in space you need to carry enough mass to throw away not just to speed up & coast but also to slow down before you arrive at your destination as a suicide kinetic energy weapon. Not needing to carry tons of stuff just to throw away changes how space is crossed. Nuclear reactors, thermal ionic batteries, solar panels, even mirrors and a boiler can make the power to fly you where you're going. The only other ways to not need a giant fuel tank are sails & the Photon drive. A big flashlight can push a ship. The trouble is you get a Newton of thrust from multiple megawatts of power. Even Star trek ships don't have the power to make photon drives useful. ( and the exhaust can boil a city ) Today we have no proof if the EM drive works. Tabloid hype is it. We know how to test it but that test has not to my knowledge been done. But if the Chinese space station heads to the Moon....... | ||
| Hughlysses |
Back on topic (not that I don't really enjoy reading about the EM drive): http://realclimatescience.com/2016/12/100-of-us-wa rming-is-due-to-noaa-data-tampering/ | ||
| Ducbsa |
The point in here about domestic use being only 2% of the total puts saving shower water in perspective. The 2% needs to be evaluated, though, because sometimes industrial users do have their own wells. A food plant that I worked on used plenty of water for ingredients, cooling. steam, and sanitizing and it had a 200 to 500 hp (can't remember exactly) pump for its well, while the town it was in uses Lake Michigan water. https://fee.org/articles/your-shower-is-lame-you-d ishwasher-doesn-t-work-and-your-clothes-are-dirty/ Watch the video. it's funny. Like with many other Green activities, there is a large component of Virtue Signaling involved. | ||
| Sifo |
This is encouraging for science... Skeptical Climate Scientists Coming In From the Cold | ||
| Aesquire |
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/155121836641/the-illu sion-of-knowledge What I know is folk like Bloomberg & Soros & other uber rich guys are dishonest and love Global Warming for the power & wealth it can give them. I know M Mann & company use ad hominem attacks instead of discussion. I know evil men use fear to gain power. I know it was warmer before and colder before and it will be both again. I bet man has something to do with climate change. Ask the folk in the Sahara Forest. I know if you lie to me every day and want to take my choices and money I don't need to believe you ever again. I know if Obama says so & Kerry & Hillary that it's probably a lie. Almost always. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/04 /anti-surveillance-clothing-facial-recognition-hyp erface I've also seen anti paparazzi shirts. High reflectivity in the right frequencies to mess with camera auto exposure systems. The face gets under exposed and is too dark for a saleable picture. The anti face recognition shirts are in a sense negative camouflage. Like dazzle stripes on WW1 ships they don't hide but confuse. The modern aircraft camouflage uses multiple techniques including a false cockpit on the bottom to give momentary uncertainty as to which way the plane is pointed. ( obviously more useful on a fighter than a tanker ) How much you wanna bet anti retina scan glasses are on sale by the time "Minority Report" ad scanner systems are in malls. On a simpler scale my Mother has a bandaid on her laptop camera. Not my idea, she must have been inspired by the internet. ( if I'd advised that she'd have called me paranoid, but if Rachel Maddow told her it's revealed Wisdom ) I just don't bother to plug in a webcam. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environ ment/wp/2017/01/04/scientists-say-the-global-ocean -circulation-may-be-more-vulnerable-to-shutdown-th an-we-thought/?utm_term=.d69f788a5b88 Let me give you the short version. IF co2 doubles AND one theory is correct THEN there could be sudden ocean current change that could cause drastic climate change. But really we're using real science with unlikely circumstances to scare you because we are statist tools who want you to be ruled by an international elite..... which we imagine we'll be part of. There I just summed up forty years of climate news. That said such ocean current massive changes in short periods of time are blamed for sudden ice ages in places like England. Shut off the Gulf Stream & Europe freezes. ( pretty much all the REAL doom scenarios freeze folk.... because that's actually happened & Global Warming scenarios..... haven't. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/01/06/spec tacular-collision-suns-will-create-new-star-night- sky-2022/ 1800 years ago, 2 stars collided. In 2022, that light reaches us here, and will be visible to the naked eye. Get those good binoculars when they go on sale. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/01/06/amazon-alexa-or ders-dollhouses-for-owners-after-hearing-tv-report / Ok, not the Terminator.... but this is the beginning of the Robot Revolt. Come to the Dark Side, they have Cookies. http://what-if.xkcd.com/5/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/05/new-ruin s-of-viking-village-near-the-hudson-river-seriousl y-question-where-were-the-borders-of-the-legendary -vinland/2 Who went where, when, will continue to change as we keep looking for evidence. Vikings covered from the New World to far east into ( now ) Russia and clear down to the Mediterranean. Centuries before Columbus. Irish may have made it to the Canada/New England long before Columbus. Egyptians may have made it to South America... before the Vikings existed. Long before Rome. Heck, Celts may have made it to the New World before the rise of Rome. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.noconsensus.org/scientists/freeman_dyso n.php If Freeman Dyson isn't on board, you have to ask, "Who's Smarter, "97% of Climate Scientists" or Freeman Dyson?" That's an easy one. Dr. Dyson. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/01/10/copper-toxi city/ First..... the doctor involved sounds typical fruit loops to me. Sauna to rid you of toxins? Generally a sign of fad medical hype not real. Second. ..... the notion that salad, especially expensive yuppie salads with kale are actually evil amuses me no end. Third..... a short time ago aluminum cookware was the suspect in Alzheimer's. This week copper? Don't bet the house. Check your house water? Maybe. Also check for negative waves, Moriarity. My guess is this is fad bogus. I could be wrong so avoid Michelle Obama lunches & don't eat pennies. Until next year when copper is good.  | ||
| Chauly |
What about my copper bracelet and woven copper-infused underpants? | ||
| Crusty |
..... the notion that salad, especially expensive yuppie salads with kale are actually evil amuses me no end. For me, Kale is poison, and I avoid it completely. I have to avoid anything with high amounts of vitamin K, as they could cause me to have a stroke. Most Yuppie salads are as appealing to me as, and only marginally safer than, a bowl of D-Con. But that's due to a medical condition that most people don't have to concern themselves with. If you like Kale, enjoy every bite; but there are people for whom it's bad. | ||
| Blake |
Don't most all the leafy greens (Swiss chard, spinach, mustard, beat, kale) cause blood to thicken? Must be a horrible loss for you to have to give up kale, eh John? </sarcasm> <grin> | ||
| Alchemy |
Quote, "If Freeman Dyson isn't on board, you have to ask, "Who's Smarter, "97% of Climate Scientists" or Freeman Dyson?" For people that have a simplistic understanding or some other agenda, this might be somewhat convincing but lets look deeper. Scientists arguing about this detail or that detail is how science works and a large part of how science makes progress. It is the converging consensus of climate scientists that is really the gold standard. Agreement becomes greater and disagreement becomes less. But Dyson (a great scientist) supports the value of the heretics in opposition to the common consensus... but in this case he is in the consensus. Dyson agrees that anthropogenic global warming exists, and has written that "  one] of the main causes of warming is the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from our burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal and natural gas." See his Wikipedia page. But Dyson is cautious about the predictive value of computer simulations as to rate of rise over time which is typical of a good and cautious scientific mind. Read the referenced site (NoConsensus.org) carefully. Dyson quotes confirm that he studies climate change and mostly has issues with data sets. That is a good thing to constantly challenge and improve. He states that he thinks biological solutions are likely which he wouldn't be saying if he thought there were no solutions needed. By my reading, I would include Dyson in essential agreement with the broader consensus of climate scientists that climate change is real and human caused. He wouldn't be talking about mitigating the burning of fossil fuels if he did not see burning fossil fuels as part of the cause of rising CO2 levels. Typical of Dyson, he not only identifies the problem but imagines a possible solution. If we stop burning fossil fuels and plant hundreds of billions of trees atmospheric CO2 could be reduced. Sounds like a good idea to me. | ||
| Ourdee |
WATER. I do not trust water. Rockford water smells like chemicals. When my wife got cancer, the only differences were the move to Illinois and her dietary change to include lots of water (tap water). I was feeling under the weather last week and soaked in the tub a lot. The lower half of me broke out. WATER. | ||
| Hootowl |
There are more trees in the world now than there were 100 years ago. Hasn't stopped the climate from changing. Trees don't eliminate CO2, they just store it until they die. The carbon is only temporarily sequestered. Not a long term solution...to a non existent problem. | ||
| Aesquire |
It is the converging consensus of climate scientists that is really the gold standard. Incorrect. It makes no difference how many believe. Belief is not truth. Consensus means a popularity contest. How popular an idea is has nothing to do with it's truth. Nothing. 20 plus years of lies? Now that's worth paying attention to. When the data doesn't match the theory you change the theory. That's science. When you change the data to match the theory, that's fraud. An entire generation of fraud = an entire generation of lies. Please understand. It's not that mankind has no effect on weather. That's the Rush Limbaugh conceit. He knows nothing about science. It's that the people selling you Global Warming are liars and politically driven. They want your money, and they want to run your life. Control your thermostat. Tell you what to eat, where to live. The weather is just an excuse for them to rip you off. Period. | ||
| Hootowl |
Especially when dissent is crushed. Consensus, indeed. | ||
| Macbuell |
Converging consensus = confirmation bias. It would be nice if these "scientists" hadn't already made up their minds before conducting their "research". |
