About 18.950 years ago something natural happened. Snowball Earth started warming. There were a few detours along the way. The Minoian Warm, the rRman Warm, the MWP, The Younger Dryas, etc. Variation on variation. Then about 70 years ago all that stopped and whatever natural process(es) were causing the steady general warming stopped and handed over the job to a magic molecule; CO2.
Sounds silly when you hear it that way but that's what the current consensus claims.
Florida Woman:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article141657284.html
The Co2 caused it. ;)
ReplyDeleteIf the Co2 purveyors would donate less money to the R's (or better yet..switch to the D's)..I suspect you'd hear a lot less complaining about it..
ReplyDeleteWhy is this controversial? Co2 causes warming and so does a lot of other stuff.
ReplyDeleteso does a lot of other stuff.
ReplyDeleteHollywood celebrities flying in their personal jets to pick up environmental awards??
Yeah, and Trump emitting hot air.
DeleteTrump can't create that energy.
DeleteIt's more the politicizing (and hypocrisy) from the left that drives me crazy on this issue.
ReplyDeleteI actually support continuing to aggressively raise fuel standards on cars..if for no other reason because I'm sick of caring what's going on in the Middle east..
Agreed.
DeleteIt's very complicated, the models are bad which the modelers freely admit. The are cycles interacting with othercycles, there's the sun which has its own troubles. All no reason to stop studying.
ReplyDeleteYeah, and Trump emitting hot air.
ReplyDeleteat least Trump doesn't pretend to care about the issue..now Obama (Mr Green!!) taking Air Force One for a Hawaiian vacation three weeks before he leaves office..that i have a problem with.
I think the CAFE hatchet needs to be scrapped in favor of a scalpel. Huge pick-ups with equally large profit margins subsidizing econo-boxes so the "corporate average" looks better is not science.
ReplyDeleteThe Obama 54.5mpg is unreasonable in the time frame allotted.
The Obama 54.5mpg is unreasonable in the time frame allotted.
ReplyDeletenp...gas tanks with max 2 gallon capacity.. lol
While not his primary reason, you could also argue that Trump's push to get manufacturing brought back into the US will do way more for reducing Co2 emission levels than anything Obama came up with..(closer to end customer = reduced transportation needs)..
ReplyDeleteSeems to me "environmentally friendly globalist" is a bit of an oxymoron
Seems to me "environmentally friendly globalist" is a bit of an oxymoron
ReplyDeleteI'd go further and claim exporting pollution in this fashion is unethical.
Recycling is another great example of lefties enacting laws that make them feel better about themselves..but actually aggravates the problem they are trying to solve..
ReplyDeleteOne of the big light bulbs in my education was when "recycling" went from voluntary to mandatory. We were getting $085/lb prior and then getting back $0.63/lb after paying a "deposit fee" of $1.10/lb up front.
ReplyDeleteInstead of one exhaust billowing garbage truck coming out every week..now we have two (one for "regular" garbage..and one for the recycling..which nobody really uses anyways)...
ReplyDeleteEvery body recycles here.
DeleteAbout 18.950 years ago something natural happened. Snowball Earth started warming.
ReplyDeleteI don't recall 1996 being that cold...
It took.me a while to get that.
Deletealright...errand time...
ReplyDeletecatch you guys later..
Cheap people are generally good recyclers. ;)
ReplyDeleteFRUGAL!
ReplyDeleteYankee thrift!
DeleteI am extravagantly cheap and proud of it.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother was cheap. I am enjoying her money. As did my mom.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy making money and yes my kids will have fun with some of it.
ReplyDeleteHub forgot launch. We saw cars parked on the causeway and realized what was for and parked. On way to restaurant on Cocoa Beach.
ReplyDelete10inutes. Kinda windy.
ReplyDeleteIs this the first ever reused launch vehicle?
ReplyDeleteAnd iTs off.!
ReplyDeleteExcept for the shuttle. Hes not sure about suborbital.
ReplyDeleteThe EFT was throw away. The SRBs got entirely rebuilt. The shuttle itself was pretty much 25% rebuilt at every turn. I don't count the shuttle and I am not alone.
ReplyDeleteWell the launch was cool and a car pulled over in front of us impulsively, with a little kid who got to see it.
ReplyDeleteHow much Co2 with that launch?? snicker/snicker
ReplyDeleteOh, stuff it.
Deletehey just trying to stay on topic!!
ReplyDeleteSure.
DeleteI was thinking the same thing. That's a big tail pipe. Ducks and runs!
ReplyDeleteHumpgff.
ReplyDeleteQ. What types of propellants are used in the Shuttle? How much do they weigh?
ReplyDeleteA. At liftoff, an orbiter and External Tank carry 835,958 gallons of the principle liquid propellants: hydrogen, oxygen, hydrazine, monomethylhydrazine, and nitrogen tetroxide. The total weight is 1,607,185 pounds.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttle_faq.html#12
Liquid oxegen and kerosene for the Falcon 9.
ReplyDeletethat's why they launch out of Florida I guess..so it just all blows over to Europe.. ;<)
ReplyDeleteBah.
ReplyDeletenow I understand why they are always so concerned with wind speed and direction at launch...lol
ReplyDeletewhat's interesting about the map that Rob posted is how much of Alaska was not under glacier...
ReplyDeleteAnd those are modern coastlines. Gloria was 2-3 times larger and there was a Bering land bridge then as well.
ReplyDeleteGloria? You mean Florida?
ReplyDeleteYeah you do mean Florida, which has varied between huge and shrunken to a nub and some islands. there us no normal.
ReplyDeleteIs.
ReplyDeleteThe Hub is havING a guest editorial in Florida today. With a picture! On Internet Sat nite. Paper copy in Sunday paper.
ReplyDeleteYay.
Sometimes it seems the internet is messing with us on purpose.
ReplyDeleteWhich paper?
Florida Today. On line tomorrow nite. Fishwrap Sunday Morning.
ReplyDeleteMorning all... It's beginning to snow outside my window
ReplyDeleteGood morning. Not snowing here! It is cloudy.
ReplyDeleteWake up east coasters.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning!
ReplyDeleteNo snow but scattered showers today.
Denver is now 24th in apartment rental cost. 1 bd $1,210 and a 2 bd $1,680. 3+ times a house rental here in the Flat Lands. Kali money continues to take over Kalirado.
You have rentals in Denver?
ReplyDeleteThere has been reusable suborbital flights by Blue Horizon. Space tourism, among other things targeted.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the median income in Denver? Would the Kaifugees want to buy a "cheap" house, not rent?
ReplyDeleteGoog says 2015 was about $70K. The problem is pushing long term Denver residents out of the area in to the burbs. Buying in the city of Denver has gone nuts. I don't have anything in Kalirado anymore. The Kids condo (rental in Aurora) according to Redfin is up 162% over her purchases price. Nuts.
ReplyDeleteWill they sell?
DeleteG' morning everyone..
ReplyDeletesunny..and might hit the 60's today (for the first time this year- woo hoo!!)...think I'll get a nice long bike ride in...
Daughter in Boston expects snow/sleet. . Not happy
ReplyDelete10 year below 2.41.
ReplyDeleteI don't think so. Not sure she even knows, to busy getting married. She did just get a 7% raise and is expecting a big bonus soon. Proud Papa. :)
ReplyDeletesegment on the local news last night about shortage of "maritime" workers down at the Seattle waterfront (not union dock workers..who can make well into six figures..but all the other folks needed to keep a bustling port area working).
ReplyDeleteThey are taking kids right out of high school...putting them through a year long training period..supposedly the jobs pay from $45K to $60K per year to start (when they finish training)..not bad for just a high school degree.
Yep!
DeleteA BIG hold back for a lot of these jobs is passing a drug test. Quality jobs paying premium pay have reasonable standards. Sad.
ReplyDeleteyeah i could see them requiring strict drug testing..you are many times out on the water with other peoples lives in your hands..
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