Post #292,277
9/3/07 11:07:04 PM
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what is really behind global warming hysteria
the usual, money [link|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=479514&in_page_id=1770|http://www.dailymail...4&in_page_id=1770] Nearly two-thirds of the public believe ministers are using environmental fears as an excuse to raise tax revenue, according to a poll.
And research suggests their cynicism is justified - with green taxes raking in \ufffd10 billion more for the Treasury than it would cost to offset the entire UK's carbon footprint. thanx, bill Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
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Post #292,278
9/3/07 11:13:36 PM
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No, say it ain't so!
Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry.Adrian Belew
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Post #292,280
9/3/07 11:18:57 PM
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oh yeah, bill
...and the poor goddamned energy sector is reduced to burrowing under the sofa cushions for dimes and quarters to fund their counteroffensive, which isn't itself about money, oh no, nada, nichto, nyet. And pigs don't just fly, but they fly to the fucking moon on goddamned gossamer wings. Right.
You're a strange character: not stupid but, on several subjects, one who strives toward folly the way lesser mortals strive toward ignorance. I'm inclined to go with CRC's theory that your posts are fueled by demon rum.
cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #292,298
9/4/07 9:52:20 AM
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dunno, I go with the science not popular opinion :-)
[link|http://www.dailytech.com/Survey+Less+Than+Half+of+all+Published+Scientists+Endorse+Global+Warming+Theory/article8641.htm|http://www.dailytech...y/article8641.htm] In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the "consensus view," defined as humans were having at least some effect on global climate change. Oreskes' work has been repeatedly cited, but as some of its data is now nearly 15 years old, its conclusions are becoming somewhat dated.
Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently updated this research. Using the same database and search terms as Oreskes, he examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. The results have been submitted to the journal Energy and Environment, of which DailyTech has obtained a pre-publication copy. The figures are surprising.
Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus." its all about the money, who gets to control the world energy pursestrings, either free market enery companies or government controlling the coffers via taxes. Either way you and I will be stiffed with the bill. Im still waiting for Siverlock to tell me how global warming is going to kill him any day now. thanx, bill Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
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Post #292,281
9/3/07 11:25:58 PM
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Anti-tax group against taxes: Film at 11:00.
[link|http://tpa.typepad.com/research/2007/09/the-case-agains.html|Taxpayers Alliance] has a link to the full "study" and poll.
I wouldn't take their statements about how much money it would take to offset the UK's carbon footprint as gospel, myself, given their obvious self-interest.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #292,282
9/3/07 11:34:45 PM
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It's all New Zealand's fault. (244 kB .img)
[link|http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/04/the-sheep-albedo-feedbacki/|Real Climate]: 1 April 2007
The Sheep Albedo Feedback
Filed under: * Climate Science
\ufffd raypierre @ 9:51 AM
The already-reeling "consensus" supposedly linking climate change to CO2 is about to receive its final coup-de-grace from a remarkable new result announced in a press conference today by Dr. Ewe Noh-Watt of the New Zealand Institute of Veterinary Climatology [1]. Noh-Watt and his co-workers, describing work funded by a generous grant from the Veterinary Climate Science Coalition, declared "We have seen the future of climate \ufffd and it is Sheep." Prof. Jean-Belliere Poisson d'Avril, star student of Claude Allegro Molto-Troppo (discoverer of the Tropposphere) reacted with the words, "Parbleu! C'est la meilleure chose depuis les baguettes tranch\ufffdes!"
The hypothesis begins with the simple observation that most sheep are white, and therefore have a higher albedo than the land on which they typically graze (see figure below). This effect is confirmed by the recent Sheep Radiation Budget Experiment. The next step in the chain of logic is to note that the sheep population of New Zealand has plummeted in recent years. The resulting decrease in albedo leads to an increase in absorbed Solar radiation, thus warming the planet. The Sheep Albedo hypothesis draws some inspiration from the earlier work of Squeak and Diddlesworth [2] on the effect of the ptarmigan population on the energy balance of the Laurentide ice sheet. Noh-Watt hastens to emphasize that the two hypotheses are quite distinct, since the species of ptarmigan involved in the Squeak-Diddlesworth effect is now extinct.
[...] [image|http://www.realclimate.org/images/SheepTemp.jpg|0|Sheep Albedo Anomaly|502|540]Very interesting.... Cheers, Scott.
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Post #292,287
9/4/07 4:51:42 AM
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Believe Dr. Ewe Noh-Watt is related to
the mystic, Sri Oh-Wa-Tana-Siam.
At least, the fez is familiar.
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Post #292,293
9/4/07 9:31:59 AM
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wasnt he the teacher of ho flun dun?
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
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Post #292,295
9/4/07 9:40:45 AM
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Bad Scott.
Baaa-ad Scott. Trying to pull the wool over our eyes...
:-)
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #292,296
9/4/07 9:45:41 AM
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I can't agree
It was [link|http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/state/ag/pics/561-1.jpg|shear] brilliance!
Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry.Adrian Belew
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Post #292,299
9/4/07 9:54:57 AM
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A cutting remark.
And quick, too. Might have to tar it over if you're not careful.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #292,301
9/4/07 11:19:27 AM
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Are ewe threatening me?
You can't pull the wool over my eyes that easily!
Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry.Adrian Belew
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Post #292,302
9/4/07 11:21:54 AM
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Then he'll be on the lamb.
Smile,
Amy
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Post #292,335
9/4/07 11:03:24 PM
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Wool, I know shearing is repetitive work...
... but you didn't have to throw my own line back at me like a tricky lamb. :-p Cheapens the price of the wool, yaknow...
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. | · my ·
· [link|http://staticsan.livejournal.com/|blog] ·
· [link|http://yceran.org/|website] · |
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