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India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org)
"India just ratified the Paris climate deal -- bringing it extremely close to taking effect," reports the Washington Post, calling India the world's fourth-largest producer of greenhouse gas. An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes NPR's update on the Paris agreement:
It will not become binding until it's ratified by 55 countries that contribute a total of at least 55% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The 55-country requirement has already been fulfilled -- India is No. 62 -- but...the current signatories account for about 52 percent of global greenhouse emissions, according to a statement released by the U.N. on Sunday.
India currently produces about 4.5 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions [and] has set a goal of producing 40 percent of its electricity with non-fossil fuel sources by 2030. India also promised to plant or preserve enough tree cover to act as a sink for at least 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide, and has called on the U.S. and other fully developed countries to share technologies that help decrease emissions.
India currently produces about 4.5 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions [and] has set a goal of producing 40 percent of its electricity with non-fossil fuel sources by 2030. India also promised to plant or preserve enough tree cover to act as a sink for at least 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide, and has called on the U.S. and other fully developed countries to share technologies that help decrease emissions.
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I certainly approve of restricting emissions from curry niggers and chinks. Darkies shouldn't be allowed to release greenhouse gases, because they contribute nothing of value to the world. However, America faces much more grave problems than emissions from darkies, and we should move on to addressing those problems. I think we should be more concerned about the threats against America and how we should stop them. We're constantly being threatened by niggers, chinks, wetbacks, kikes, towelheads, and so many other types of darkies. We need to keep America safe from all of these threats and remove as many of them as possible from our great country. I hate all of these threats because they all hate America, and can't even show the proper respect for our country by standing during the national anthem. My hate is strong and I'm damned proud of it. I'm fact, my hate is getting stronger as I talk to you people. However, I'm not racist and there's absolutely nothing racist about this post. People will attempt to discredit me by accusing me of being a racist, but all of these accusations are false and are attempts to avoid addressing the real problem. America is constantly being threatened by darkies and we must ensure that they are unsuccessful in their hatred of the greatest country in the world. Only Hillary Clinton is prepared to respond to these threats, therefore any true American should be voting for Clinton in November.
HILLARY 2016!
Canada (1.95% of the percent of global greenhouse emissions) is supposed to ratify the agreement later this week. With the liberals having the majority of seats, this should easily pass. Not enough to bring it to 55%, though.
A little earlier we were told that the US is no. 4 on the list of polluters (sic) in the post[1] on reservoirs as a source of greenhouse gases.
So which is it?
[1] https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
And you all thought this had something to do with reversing Earth's climate cycles.
... 55 countries that contribute a total of at least 55% of global greenhouse gas emissions
So, in effect, 55% of the countries should pollute more to get an agreement working to pollute less. And, off course, every country that does not wait for the agreement to take effect and starts pollution reduction now is spoiling it for the rest.
Stupid rules like this are why only politicians believe the climate agreement actually helps to achieve something.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
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It's years to late and even if it where ratified by the required number of countries there is no mechanism to force compliance and no targets from previous treaties have even come close to being met
Can we just admit we don't care about children and get on with the business of enslaving them and destroying the planet for our own limited comfort without pretense of ethics or morality
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When is 'Climatedot' going to stop promoting 'catastrophic man-made global warming' alarmism?
Obviously its just going through a natural climate cycle however, that temperature obviously has nothing to do with its atmosphere being composed of CO2. [/sarcasm]
And before anyone says its simply because its closer to the sun, Mercury is even closer than Venus yet its colder.
Remember when "acid rain" was the #1 environmental problem? - No? - Neither does anyone else under 40 because Reagan and Thatcher pushed for (and won) a global cap + trade treaty on sulphur emissions. Besides, if climate treaties don't make a practical difference, why has the coal industry spent the last 30-40yrs doing everything it can to sabotage them?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Slashdot is deleting comments. Warning to all. Maoism is here. and now that icann is in the devil's hands its coming to an end. Prison planet. ANYWAYS. Fuck you. Fuck your DUUSH HAUS.
OH NO DGW DINOSAUROGENIC GLOBAL WARMING!
The Jurassic period. O2 in atmosphere was 130% modern levels. CO2 was at 1950ppm, 5-7 times modern levels. The temperature was a whole 3 DEGREES C over modern times! Oh no! The Jurassic DGW, Dinosaurogenic Global Warming, shows that those Dinosaurs - with their Airplanes, SUVs, Coal Fire Plants and Cars and stuff, you know, those Dinosaurs and their DGW destroyed THE WHOLE PLANET!! With their DGW! Look, who wants 26% atmospheric oxygen? More air to breathe? Who wants that? And who wants more CO2 @1950 ppm, you know, to make all those plants and trees convert that CO2 into a higher O2! Who wants that! And we DON'T want the massive biodiversity of the Jurassic, no, we don't want more plants and animals and trees, no.
Any time period the warmunists want to "prove" there is AGW the warmunists just cherry pick ranges. And now I give the warmunists what the need on a silver platter - now they have the perfect example - the Dinosaurs and their horrible DGW (Dinosauric Global Warming) that destroyed the Jurassic... Wait, no, it didn't, it was the best time for life on earth with 1950 ppm atmospheric CO2!
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FACT 1: ALL of the solar system planets & other bodies are/were warming. Are you responsible and guilty for the entire solar system getting warmer? SOURCE: "Hoagland Interplanetary Day After Tomorrow". Parts 1-2-3. Dated 2004.
FACT 2: Since 1989, Pluto has been moving AWAY from the Sun. You logically
expect Pluto to get colder. NO! Plutoâ(TM)s temperature and atmospheric pressure is
increasing, by a huge amount. SOURCE: ((Halber, Deborah. 'Pluto is undergoing global warming, researchers find'. MIT News, Oct. 9. 2002) via Hoagland part 3)).
FACT 3: Solar system wide climate change is likely due to running through a very large hydrogen/helium interstellar cloud with varied density. High speed solar systems passing through any cloud density causes some friction. Friction creates heat. SOURCE: "NASA, Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery December 23, 2009". 'The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist'.
FACT 4: The Sun travels around the Milky Way galaxy once every 250 million years, at approximately 568,000 mph (2012 estimate). During that travel our solar system path encounters rouge clouds and debris from exploded stars, of varying chemical composition and density for periods of time, that can result in greenhouse effects or ice ages. Data says our heliosphere actually moves through the local interstellar cloud at about 52,000 mph. Going through varying densities of the cloud at that speed may cause changing heating/cooling periods. SOURCE: "NASA, A Breeze from the Stars, Dec 17, 2004". 'The sun's magnetic field holds much of the cloud at bay, but some of the cloud's gas does penetrate'.
FACT 5: Climate Change is politically linked to the Carbon Credit Tax Scam. Scams work when you are denied the whole truth and/or complete information. 1-Suckers are repeatedly told to feel guilty, for breathing out CO2 and releasing methane from their bottom hole ("A lie told often enough becomes the truth" - Lenin). 2-Then the Suckers are repeatedly told to relieve their guilt by giving $ to the scam, and are happy to comply. How does any tax scam stop solar system warming/cooling? Remember, much of this data is many years old. At 568,000 mph the Earth has moved nearly 55 Trillion miles from old data points. Time & position changes everything in this universe. SOURCE: Common Sense.
Fact: cows create methane through flatulence
Fact: Indians don't eat cows
Fact: cows run rampant in India
Fact: Indians responsible for global warming
>> call on west to "share" tech
Not a problem, it's on sale now.
>> Er...we really meant "give"
Thought so.
Fact: cows create methane through flatulence ...
Fact: Indians don't eat cows
Fact: Therefore, India does not factory-farm cows
Fact: Therefore, India produces far fewer cows than places that mass-produce beef
Fact: therefore, Indians really are not particularly responsible for global warming
As does water vapor, which is why it's a greenhouse gas
Lots of water vapour in the air also tends to condense and form clouds, which are white and reflect energy away from the Earth. The greenhouse effect happens when shorter wavelengths (which can penetrate carbon dioxide) hits the ground and are re-radiated as infra red. The IR is then unable to radiate into space because of the greenhouse gasses. If you have a lot of white clouds in the air, then the energy is simply reflected. This causes cooling, which causes the air to be unable to gold as much water vapour, which causes rain, and the system largely balances with respect to water vapour.
Not quite so simple. Clouds also reflect thermal infrared, and so they have both warming and cooling effects. Whether the sum is warming or cooling depends, among other things, on the cloud altitude. The first-order effect is that clouds reduce the day/night temperature swings.
Last I heard the prevalent theory was that if you continue long enough down that road you get enough weather to flip you over into an ice age
That's one of the predictions.
A while back, there was a hypothesis that climate warming could affect thermohaline circulation, cutting off one of the mechanisms circulating heat northward from the equator, and hence triggering a northern-hemisphere glaciation ("ice age"). I don't think anybody was able to come up with a reasonable model showing this happening, though, so nobody credits that hypothesis right now. It was never a "prediction"; it was a hypothesis that never got well accepted (except by Hollwood, which will take any excuse to make a disaster movie.)
Why does "prosperity" mean "the USA's profligate wastefulness"???
The article says that the U.S. has joined the agreement, but that is not actually true. Obama has not even submitted this agreement to the Senate to START the process of the U.S. joining it. Until the Senate ratifies it, this agreement is not legally binding upon the U.S.. If other countries want to bind themselves to an agreement based on the assumption that all future Presidents and Congresses will honor Obama's word on this treaty, that is up to them. But if they do so, they are being foolish because the reason Obama has not submitted it to the Senate is because he knows the Senate will reject it (just like a previous Senate rejected the Kyoto accords...even without them being submitted that Senate voted 99-0 on a statement opposing the Kyoto Accords).
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
The U.N. (useless nations) have no way to enforce it. It's a piece of paper, that they will hail as a way to "save the planet", but, most nations will ignore/cheat anyway.
AGW = is a FUCKING SCAM. Any assholes who buy into it are Hillary Gore Obama faggot puke loser low lives who HATE HUMAN PROGRESS and love IDENTITY POLITICS AND DIVISION.
FUCK you. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOUUUUUUUUU
Clearly India hasn't been subjected to enough black-ops false-flag terror attacks to convince them of the foolishness of this course of action.
Or maybe they just, y'know - want the world to be a better place.
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CO2 absords and re-remits IR - which would otherwise escaped from the atmosphere - in a random direction (ie scattering it) therefore heating the atmosphere up. The physics is not up for debate.
So when the lower levels of the atmosphere are warmer than the upper levels of the atmosphere, the radiation of IR by CO2 in the upper levels of the atmosphere is going to pump heat down into the lower levels, moving more heat from the cold region to the hot region than the hot region moves to the cold region? Is there a thermodynamicist in the house?
I'm a physicist; I can answer that question!
Short answer: in the greenhouse effect, as in all other things, net thermal radiation moves from hot to cold. Notice that word "net".
"Net" means upwelling IR flux minus downwelling flux. If you look at only one component of the flux, you will get a wrong answer.
Everything at a temperature not equal to absolute zero radiates infrared. So, if you put a hot object next to a cold object, yes, the cold object will radiate infrared to the hot object. But, since the hot object radiates more than the cold one, the net flux is from hot to cold.
So, yes, the (cooler) upper atmosphere radiates infrared downward to the warmer lower atmosphere. But the lower atmosphere radiates more infrared, so the net flux is from hot to cold..
Your argument consists of two parts:
(1) a statement that doctors misdiagnosed you, therefore experts are idiots. The previous poster has commented on this.
(2) a statement that many years ago the Institute of Forecasters criticized the global circulation models as not being verified as methods of forecasting.
Looking at what the Institute of Forecasters publishes articles about, it seem that they mostly have expertise at economic forecasts, with a few outliers such as forecasting television ratings and forecasting election results. The author of the most recent paper on climate prediction is a professor of "management science" and his postdoc, also in management science. I don't see much in the way of publications showing that they know anything about physics or about climate.
Their most recent publication (Robert Fildes and Nikolaos Kourentzes, "Validation and forecasting accuracy in models of climate change," pp 968-995, International Journal of Forecasting Volume 27, Issue 4, October–December 2011) doesn't seem to be as negative as you suggest, and the conclusions, described in the paper as "tentative and limited," are mostly that the predictions need to be analyzed and verified. Despite this being a not very controversial recommendation, it is debated by two follow-on commentary papers (by Patrick E. McSharry and Noel S. Keenlyside). It seems that the Institute of Forecasters argue about climate prediction but don't actually have a consensus opinion.
The way science is done-- as opposed to management-science "forecasting"-- is that you compare your hypothesis to the null hypothesis. In the case of climate science, the null hypothesis is strongly ruled out. If you want to disbelieve climate science, the correct way to do it is come up with an alternative hypothesis that fits the evidence and makes predictions. So far that alternative hypothesis has failed to materialize.