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I am a person who basically "buys in" to the idea that man caused global warming but it also greatly bothers me that scientists who do wish to debate some aspect of this issue do have their tenure threatened and their papers blocked from the best journals.
I am a person who basically "buys in" to the idea that man caused global warming but it also greatly bothers me that scientists who do wish to debate some aspect of this issue do have their tenure threatened and their papers blocked from the best journals.
On the bright side, those that know how to play the game, despite not subscribing to the religious hysteria surrounding AGW are able to do well by structuring their proposals for research in such a way as to indicate that their piece of research might be applicable to climate change in some way. Unless you are a tenured professor, you can't afford to be seen as a skeptic even if that reflects your real views.
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
There doesn't seem to be any outcry over the nuclear powered rover they recently landed on Mars. I assume it's nuclear powered like a nuclear submarine. I wonder why it's necessary to spread nuclear devices to other planets.
There doesn't seem to be any outcry over the nuclear powered rover they recently landed on Mars. I assume it's nuclear powered like a nuclear submarine. I wonder why it's necessary to spread nuclear devices to other planets.
You figure this justifies exporting a small nuclear power plant to Mars and leaving it there forever?
By the way, those have to be refueled from time to time. They have a 2 year time on the rover so I would assume the refueling period to be 2 years earth time.
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
Sea ice is still on path to complete destruction by September 30th, 2012. In the beginning of August two different cyclones merged to form one massive cyclone that had maximum ice destruction on August 7th. This cyclone churned up and mec...
hanically ripped up the ice, brought warm salty water up from depth to increase melting, and exported huge amounts of ice out into the Atlantic Ocean. A further cyclone cause additional destruction which peaked on August 19th. Since then the "normal" ice flow patterns consisting of the Beaufort Gyre and Trans-polar Drift have been exporting large quantiities of ice out into the Atlantic via the Fram Strait north of Greenland... details here in my new presentation: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByLu...N4T3lnekE/edit
Sea ice in the Arctic is being massacred by an enormous cylone; I do not think there will be any sea ice left by September 30th, 2012. That will change our world. I put together this presentation to partially explain my prediction.
Climate to mate humanity in 49 days. Seems like a forced mate to me, although it could be 40 days instead. Of course I may have overlooked some defense (feedback in system) but thus far all the feedbacks are in favor of the climate...
So, how's it coming, Paul? Can you give us some kind of update? There's only a couple of weeks remaining.
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
History question: Back in the 13th century we had a mini ice age where the globe cooled, ice expanded, and China abandoned its quest to colonize the world due to food shortages at home. Scientifically speaking, we hit a local minima in average temperatures (and a maxima in ice extent?). Prior to that we had an ice age that ended 10000-15000 years ago.
In between there must logically have been a maxima point. What do we know of this previous warm period in the climate records? How warm did it get, and how far did the ice recede?
History question: Back in the 13th century we had a mini ice age where the globe cooled, ice expanded, and China abandoned its quest to colonize the world due to food shortages at home. Scientifically speaking, we hit a local minima in average temperatures (and a maxima in ice extent?). Prior to that we had an ice age that ended 10000-15000 years ago.
In between there must logically have been a maxima point. What do we know of this previous warm period in the climate records? How warm did it get, and how far did the ice recede?
There is a reason they call it Greenland... They used be able to farm there.
The climate scientists who promote the global warming craze/industry/religion would like to claim that the medieval warm period never happened. If man was able to adapt then, he will be able to adapt now which is rather inconvenient if the particular snake oil you are peddling requires a doomsday scenario to sell it to the unwashed masses.
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