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Summer Weather Is Getting 'Stuck' Due To Arctic Warming (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Summer weather patterns are increasingly likely to stall in Europe, North America and parts of Asia, according to a new climate study that explains why Arctic warming is making heatwaves elsewhere more persistent and dangerous. Rising temperatures in the Arctic have slowed the circulation of the jet stream and other giant planetary winds, says the paper, which means high and low pressure fronts are getting stuck and weather is less able to moderate itself. The authors of the research, published in Nature Communications on Monday, warn this could lead to "very extreme extremes," which occur when abnormally high temperatures linger for an unusually prolonged period, turning sunny days into heat waves, tinder-dry conditions into wildfires, and rains into floods.
One cause is a weakening of the temperature gradient between the Arctic and Equator as a result of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The far north of the Earth is warming two to four times faster than the global average, says the paper, which means there is a declining temperature gap with the central belt of the planet. As this ramp flattens, winds struggle to build up sufficient energy and speed to push around pressure systems in the area between them. As a result, there is less relief in the form of mild and wet air from the sea when temperatures accumulate on land, and less relief from the land when storms build up in the ocean.
One cause is a weakening of the temperature gradient between the Arctic and Equator as a result of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The far north of the Earth is warming two to four times faster than the global average, says the paper, which means there is a declining temperature gap with the central belt of the planet. As this ramp flattens, winds struggle to build up sufficient energy and speed to push around pressure systems in the area between them. As a result, there is less relief in the form of mild and wet air from the sea when temperatures accumulate on land, and less relief from the land when storms build up in the ocean.
âoeThe Trump administration disbanded a 15-person advisory committee that helped communicate scientific climate change findings to businesses and government officials, making data from the National Climate Assessment "more accessible and useful to private sector/civic organizations and state/municipal governments for their use in planning and decisionmaking."â
Iâ(TM)m guessing trump doesnâ(TM)t notice the weather because his head is up heâ(TM)s ass.
Once the Hadley cells start to expand we'll see some additional fun. Enjoy the last year or two of normalcy.
I live in New York. If it never exceeded 25C (about 77F) and stayed at under 60% humidity, I'd be happy as a porcine in excrement. Summer is much nicer when it's comfortable enough to be outside without being drenched in sweat.
I'm really get used to the weather that has temperatures in the 70's and 80's with plenty of rainfall in the middle of August here on the plains.
You really sure you wanna ring that bell? Because when Norway is 30C all year round, that means that a good portion of the planet is going to be uninhabitable. So there will be billions of people, many of them with guns, who will come for their piece of Norway. And you can't stop them all, especially if the famous winter slog that caused the Russians so much trouble before isn't there any more. Some people think Scandanavia has african migrant problems now, if what you wish for comes to pass there'll be several hundred million migrants coming your way...
Now, come back when you have an actual, scientific ENGINEERING PLAN to combat it in a way that doesn't involve
Until then, POLITELY FUCK THE HELL OFF!
I live in South Carolina. We did not have a Summer this year.
"Global Constipation"
Table-ized A.I.
Did you try turning the EPA off and on again? Please sir! Do the needful!!!
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. I was just looking over all your assertions, and they are almost 100% wrong. "They" are most of the world's scientists, not some shady organization backed by Al Gore. https://climate.nasa.gov/ https://europeanclimate.org/
"...As this ramp flattens, winds struggle to build up sufficient energy and speed to push around pressure systems in the area between them. As a result, there is less relief in the form of mild and wet air from the sea when temperatures accumulate on land, and less relief from the land when storms build up in the ocean...."
Which just means that the differences between continental and maritime wind patterns will be that much stronger which meaning the gradient will be less about N/S coriolis patterns and more driven by surface topology. It doesn't mean the winds are going to be weaker, there's still as much energy in the system - more, in fact, if you believe in general systemic warming - it's just going to shove the gradients around.
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More than 1/3 of co2 being emitted is from china. In addition, china is by far the largest in terms of total emissions across all time frames. Now china not grows their own, but also continues to grow co2 emissions in other nations. The only place for Putin to increase oil/nat gas is china, who will likely do to Russia, what they are doing to Venezuela.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Amazing how many ppl really do not look at reality. Good posting.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Considering how many people in the US believes science is fake, how about setting up a lot of very large fans and tell people they will be used to circulate air and it will slowly help eliminate the heat waves.
But remember keep the real use of the very large fans secret
Have all nations drop their emissions together. We need to get to the levels of Denmark and Finland . They have some of the lowest, and correct levels. The question is how to measure, which really needs to be sats. Only a few nations are well measured, and we have nations like china with a communist gov, that prohibits it. So, sats will at least be precise. And then normalisation should be emission /$GDP( real ). That will cause all give and businesses to drop emissions.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
And God says take care of his creations. You are destroying them.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I'm not sure you are really Christian, or just a troll. I don't think a Christian would every say that humans are "a mere creature". God never said that man was a mere creature. Man is special -- made in the image of God.
I will be dead by the time I give a fuck.
Selfish pricks like you can't die soon enough.
Actually I was thinking it would be more fun if you died first.
All the grass turned yellow. Never has anyone here ever seen such a thing.
The trees looked like in fall. Yellow leaves everywhere.
The animals that didn’t have access to rivers or lakes, just plain *died.*
Entire rivers ran dry! Something we only knew from watching documentaries about extreme desert regions in Africa on TV.
Ships were unable to use many rivers or had to reduce their load.
Lakes were closed off for swimming due to algae bloom. With most fish in them dying.
And even with all the water the farmers could afford to buy, many crops dried out.
Have this only one or two more years, and you're going to see food prices go up like crazy, entire regions of land turning into literal desert, shitloads of wild animals just plain dying, and then, people dying from starvation or getting sick because they can’t afford food anymore.
At least in central Europe, this summer, really /everyone/ got the memo. Shit got way too real. We realized how quickly we could just be done.
Something will change. Finally.
Yay, no more winter. Summer forever.
Its a complex system with feedback.
It has no will for end goal.
It has never 'moderated' itself in the way that statement implies.
It may have more 'moderate' behavior at times.
That's right! WE DO!
I'm not a fan of China, but we can't outsource all our dirty shit to China, and then point to China and blame only them.
Every piece of cheap crap we consume, is US killing ourselves by ruining our home (the planet).
(And we buy cheap crap because we let the leeches take by far most of our money in-between sale price and salary. With salaries based on work time times skill alone, and making profit, as opposed to actually earned money, a crime, like theft and robbery, we could afford things that don't ruin the planet. ... Buut I bet most people are already too mentally disabled nowadays, to not buy the cheap crap anyway "BECAUSE MOAR".)
Won't do any good. It got 98F in Ontario this month and the pussies started dropping like flies. As in died. 98 is a LOW temp where I live. Come back when you enjoy a nice 121F in the shade, weaklings.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they will never sit.”
For 200 years either side of the year 1000 of the common era, Vikings raised cattle, wheat and barley in multiple locations on the Greenland Coast. For 400 years.
It's too cold today regardless of what the Climate Profits (sic) predict.
Good day
We don't need your "help", Conservatard. You're part of the goddamned problem.
The problem is it won't be 30C year round. It'll be 40C in the summer and -20C in the winter and the variations will be erratic and unpredictable. Summer will start in January one year and July the next, it'll rain all year long one year and then won't rain again for two more. The worst kind of situation imaginable for food production.
Because China is 4 times bigger you ignorant fuck. Per person, the only sane measurement, America is over twice as bad.
Amazing how many ppl really do not look at reality.
Said without even the slightest hint of irony...
Good posting.
Agreed.
Begone foul-mouth minion of Satan!
Instead of bringing up the problem again and again I'd like to see more discussions on solutions.
I like hydro, nuclear, and wind as solutions. Those seem to come out on top on every selection parameter I could come up with.
I'm also a fan of the Pickens Plan.
http://pickensplan.com/the-pla...
That plan is to use as much natural gas to replace imported oil as we can while we develop alternatives.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
If youâ(TM)re still this butthurt 2 years in, 2024 must seem like an excruciatingly long time to get another chance. Try not to alienate too many moderate swing voters in the meantime, pal.
'God' doesn't give two shits or he'd just fix it himself. Wake up sheep, there was no Sheppard, you need to solve your own problems.
I count less than 4 months to the flip-terms--er, mid-terms.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Once the Hadley cells start to expand we'll see some additional fun.
So as the atmosphere expands, it becomes less dense. The baseline surface pressure won't be 1013 hpa anymore. It goes down to, say, 1005. A stormy future ahead!
It's clear who's causing the problems America. Last time you said Sweden and Switzerland were your targets so I showed you them too. Which countries are all clustered together down the bottom? Which country is double the other countries?
You first Windy. Drop your levels down to anywhere near those other countries and you won't just look like a whiny douche blaming everyone else for the problems you caused.
Considering how many people in the US believes science is fake
It's not that many in the U.S. believe science to be faked. It's that, based on decades now of scandals, they believe many so-called SCIENTISTS to be fake.
Hard to argue with them when they constantly re-adjust data to fit theories, which when run backwards can't even fit past climate behavior without further massaging datasets.... or when so many studies published are found to be bunk when anyone tries to replicate results. After reading something like that, how can you not assume a lot of scientists are faking things?
It's at the point now where Global Warming Hysteria comes off as a religion that isn't even as believable as scientology - and Scientology has e-meters!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Yes, but which one? man has created thousands of gods over the span of history.
Judging from most of the people I've met so far in my life, I have to deduce that God is an asshole.
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Too many people, and particularly the Media, tend to focus on the negatives of global warming and climate change. Just as there are losers there are also winners and the longer summers are very beneficial in the northern areas. We're getting longer growing seasons. Our winters are more temperate although still deep snows. The news is good.
at the rate we are going, that may be an optimistic climate model.
The truly justifying part in attacking this sort of argument to me is that shits hitting the fan right now, in 5 years exponentially worse, and so on. You will live to see it because you are living now. So that becomes less and less of an excuse as time goes by.
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Obviously the crisis Trump has been waiting for to declare martial law.
In addition, china is by far the largest in terms of total emissions across all time frames
Yet another obvious Windy lie. Don't you ever get sick of lying all the time? literally on the first page of Google.
I suspect you're trolling hard but I'll play along. Revelations 11 makes a reference to time to judge the dead, reward the righteous, and "destroy those who destroy the earth." Your turn...
And the point you're missing here is that environmental regulations here have fuckall effect on China, and are thus essentially useless past a certain point.
Also, by decreasing trade with China, by your own logic, we'd be improving the environment. Who's threatening a tariff battle with China that would decrease trade? El Trumpo, baby.
Every time liberal opens his mouth about global warming they always say temperature is not equal to the climate. This article is all about temperature. There were no shattered records anywhere in the world. Who the fuck cares if Spain had a record year because nobody else did.
A -1 mod for quoting the Bible in order to refute an AC troll about man being a "mere creature"? Slashdot mods must be a bunch of heathens and Moloch worshipers.
Revelation 21:8 - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, [and all Slashdot mods,] shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Repent!
Don't worry, I have it on good authority that weather != climate, especially in the winter time.
Weaponized Bible verses! Nice try, Satan.
Revelation 12:7-9
7And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan [this is you!], which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him
You mean where your leftist pals running the polls are wrong again and the R gal seats in Congress?
What's your take on Yahweh, or Allah? Are they assholes too?
Or hours for that matter. Noon on Wednesday the weekend is a monsoon, thursday morning Friday-Sunday is 80 and Sunny, Friday, it's raining while the weather report says it's sunny......
With that said, these climate change retards have little to zero trust in their ability to predict a thing.
Typing this from where there used to be a glacier 10,000 years ago, which in case you were curious, GWB or Trump were not responsible for. :)
Analysis indicates that the article and the conclusion of the scientists written about in the article have very a high (>97%) bologna content.
Bullshit liar, show your sources.
>thousands
I bet you can't even name 200.
Everyone knows global warming is a hoax made up by the Chinese. The President said so.
In addition, china is by far the largest in terms of total emissions across all time frames
Yet another obvious Windy lie. Don't you ever get sick of lying all the time? literally on the first page of Google.
Why bother continuing the lie further? Are you really that stupid?
You are fucking brilliantly funny! That and your other lines were so good I was laughing so hard my gf made me read them to her.
Norway is going to move to Chicago?
Norway is going to move to Chicago?
If it gets that bad, Chicagoans are going to move to Norway. And they'll be bringing their pianos.
Yes, but which one? man has created thousands of gods over the span of history.
There have been thousands of names for the flower of the rose ... they still smell as sweet. More pertinently, it couldn't have been man that was made in Her image. After all, men are women with a bit of genetic damage. Obviously the the creator god(dess) would have the full complement (or there would have to be, in turn, a greater Creatrix from whose X the broken Y of that god was formed).
What's your take on Yahweh, or Allah? Are they assholes too?
El and Alah are cognates, meaning that the god called God (El*) is the same numen as Alah (the god of Abraham). Yahweh (the god of Moses), of course, is a separate deity.
Al Gore promised us that snow would be a thing of the past. So many of us have been working overtime to increase greenhouse gasses and other emissions to ensure that future becomes reality. We do not need a winter season on this planet.
You can thank us later
I wonder if this means that we will be able to have longer pot growing seasons with bigger yields here at 45 degrees north...
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China is in the lead with getting renewable up and running. And the poster was saying it's upto YOU to stop buying cheap Stuff from China, it's the citizens fault for continually buying cheap derivatives from China instead of more expensive locally produced goods. Nothing to do with the Orange President.
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
Three times now you have claimed this with nothing to back it up. where this shows clearly America was far far worse going back to 1900.
Data from 1900-2004 supports such an argument, when you keep in mind the size of countries' populations. The US has the biggest historical share (314,772m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide), while European countries such as Germany (73,625) and the UK (55,163) cast a shadow over developing nations such as India (25,054), Brazil (9,136) and Indonesia (6,167). China is on 89,243.
And that isn't even considering America is a quarter the size of China.
You can't be the slightest bit serious. If you Added China to Denmark or Finland, maybe even all 3, the level would be less than America. Obviously China is much closer to their level than you are.
More lies. Transportation is clearly in front for over a year or 2 now, and is increasing, it's not going down, why say it is? Now getting worse is taking care of itself?
Nah, the DOD have been helping into this way before.
OK we know 1850 1950 is clearly a lie by you
Did you have any evidence to show 8 and 15 aren't also lies by you?
Of course the last 10 years China produced more, they have 4.2x as many people and send 10's of billions of dollars of products to you every month, that they pay the CO2 for and not you.
Exactly, most people don't Cate but if things goes like this, that case might be sooner than you might think, even with the best air conditioner and the best calefaction the climate change is already making harder to create energy.
1970 - 2013 America is clearly higher than China, why are you making things up? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
This has fuck all to do with the topic. What did you do, open the Bible on some random page and quote it?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You know what? I don't even have to read the funny pages anymore. Just launch a story about climate change on Slashdot, grab a bag of popcorn, lean back and enjoy. It's hilarious. Well, it would be, if it wasn't so terribly sad.
And yes, I'm beyond caring. I tried to care. I really did. But I simply don't anymore. I have no kids. And the planet will stay habitable for the maybe 20 years I have left. Why should I care about this ball being habitable for you or your kids if even you can't be assed to?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If it hadn't been for deniers denying we could have started 20 years ago and THEN there would have been time to include nuclear. No longer.
who mods lies informative? How many sock puppets do you have WindBourne?
https://google.com/search?q=co...
I will be dead by the time I give a fuck.
Unless your expected continued life span is less than 10 years I wouldn't count on that. And even 10 years might be too optimistic.
Just more bullshit, there's no such thing as a greenhouse gas, it's a failed theory that doesn't make sense at all. The additional warmth of the earth's surface is due to adiabatic compression of the atmosphereby gravity. This is why Venus' surface is much hotter; it has 90 times the atmospheric pressure of Earth.
You can keep telling yourself that all you want to and it still won't make it true. If it was how could an air conditioner work? After all it compresses a gas to liquid form which causes it to heat up but then the heat energy is removed and when the liquid becomes a gas again it's cold enough to cool down your air.
They come anyway. EU courts have consistently decided to make blocking entry at the border and moving illegals back to where they come from impossible legally. There are now numerous countries that tried and have been tried. On top of that EU hired shops hover not far away from the coast of Africa to bring whoever pass to international waters to Europe. Mostly these are young men in best military age and w/o any chance to get a proper job in Europe. We do not need massive natural catastrophe to have what you envisioned. But yes the problem from chronic will move to acute if the shit hits the fan.
You mean we reached the end of the petri dish?
Seems to me humans are just like Machiavelli described - ready to be the worst at any time. Evil conservatives will make life miserable for quite some - that is their nature. Some of them will support regimes that are not so democratic to say the least. The other side deteriorated to be marxists i.e. people ready to kill other people so that they cannot become evil. I wonder how we proceed from there. No discussion is possible with marxists. They just claim arguments against their views are invalid and their positions are non-negotiable anyway. We are still on the left swing - I wonder what happens when we reach the end of it? Will we have reeducation camps or we just lock automatically (google will help I am sure) bank and media accounts of evil people so that they die in elevators etc because they cannot open the doors with their now invalid cards etc.
I'm guessing he means spaghetti and meatballs.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Is that what science says? I am asking because from what I read about global warming (of whatever origin) that is not the case. We may have made it worse by multiplying w/o end. The bed news is that any process that involves for instance an ocean is slow. This does not mean the wind is slow but that the process is slow. But this also means that if we stop CO2 production then assuming that this is really the reason we have a problem in the first place the results of that may be visible in 50 or 100 years. Which kind of proves the comment of not giving a fuck. What you should do is to decrease population levels as humans living everywhere tend to be affected by a storm anywhere. What you could also do is build walls the way Dutch do it. It is unavoidable so you can just as well start now or start preparation to move all your stuff inland. Whining here about climate change because we had a warm summer is just silly as it is ineffective. It also has negative effect on people like me who were sympathetic but became annoyed by silly fucks running around and telling me that I should not drive diesel while they are traveling half the world for holidays with friends and family, 4 times a year. I used to go for a good steak, baked potatos, nice salad and a bottle of wine every time discussions became too heated to have an argument. We are now at a point where I cannot do it every time because I would have to my friendly restaurant every day. I just stopped caring.
If you don't like Trump, get the fuck out of the US. You won't be missed.
Did you say the same about Obama when Obama was president?
That's exactly what's happening, since all trees will be cut down for industrial processes, or wilt from lack of water.
Sure, we're swinging left with a Republican lead in every major branch of gov't. Check your facts before spouting BS, please.
Yup, man is special. The only species capable of breaking the planet eventually.
The left doesn't exist in this country. It's the moderate right versus the not-so-moderate right.
I will be dead by the time I give a fuck.
That time is now. Are you dead already?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
How many pianos would that be?
I always find it weird to see you science deniers here.
Right and Christianity has an odd intersection with environmentalism. Humans are special. Humans are to have dominion over the earth. All of creation is a gift from God.
Some Christians take the sad view this means the earth is ours we are free to do whatever we like.
Some take the view the world is a gift and we must reverently preserve it as is.
Finally there are those that take my view the world is a garden we were given to tend. We should treat it respectfully but we may mold it to our desires and our benefit. The way a gardener selects and shapes plants; the way a landscape architect forms the terrain. We had just better be sure not to abuse it not thru pridefully thinking we know best all the time and not thru neglect - The world has a purpose and to abuse it is sinful. Because of free will if we sin in that way we will bear the consequences for that sin.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Is it hard to wake up and blame everything on straight white American males or does it just come naturally?
under a "new world order" to quote a-hole George Bush (41).
Get outta here, you voted for Bush!
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
Global warming: Is there anything it cannot do?
No, but in hindsight we should have.
> Judging from most of the people I've met so far in my life, I have to deduce that God is an asshole.
While I know basically nothing about you, do remember that people tend to respond in kind. Based on your chosen username, I'm guessing you have no problem telling others what you think of them. You see where I'm going with that?
To be fair, it rarely gets up to 40C in Chicago (of course, the day my brother asked me to help him move it was 41C). Also, most years it gets colder than -20C a few nights, and has gotten as cold as -32C.
God isn't real dipshit.
You really sure you wanna ring that bell? Because when Norway is 30C all year round, that means that a good portion of the planet is going to be uninhabitable. So there will be billions of people, many of them with guns, who will come for their piece of Norway. And you can't stop them all, especially if the famous winter slog that caused the Russians so much trouble before isn't there any more. Some people think Scandanavia has african migrant problems now, if what you wish for comes to pass there'll be several hundred million migrants coming your way...
Guess who will be wishing they had a wall then ;-)
>fuck all to do with the topic
What was the topic again? Oh yeah, "stuck" weather patterns.
It's garbage like this that makes me think an Internet License is required.
Anyone under the age of 12 should not be allowed to post their political opinions.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
it's very easy on account of how many problems they are genuinely responsible for
If we are dumb, then God is dumb (and a little bit ugly on the side) -- Frank Zappa
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
It would help if you alarmist were ever right. Your tired 10 year predictions are laughable. Hell, you alamists have been beating that drum for 30 years already. LOL and you are completely oblivious to this fact.
99% vs 1%
It's sad to see the so-called scientists here on slashdot continuously ignore the most pertinent points. C02 is the albatross of the AGW movement and blinds people to the real causes of climate, which are extremely complex and cannot currently be modeled.
show some evidence idiot...
It's non-anthropogenicand and this a non-story.
it's clear you are the one and only true liar WindBourne.
Summer weather causes ice to melt, and water to heat up, film at 11.
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Im streight and white but I,didnt do anything to anyone. I,didnt even vote. Leave me alone.
I'd revoke you speech licence if I could you facist
> So there will be billions of people, many of them with guns, who will come for their piece of Norway.
Right, Americans will swim over to Europe and spread their gospel of bullets.
Yes, but which one? man has created thousands of gods over the span of history.
I bet you can't even name 200.
Challenge accepted.
God
Jehovah
JHVH
Allah
Aakash
Aditi
Agni
Anila
Annapurna Devi Mata
Anumati
Anuradha
Ap
Apam Napat
Aranyani
Aravan
Ardhanari
Ardra
Arjuna
Aruna
Arundhati
Aryaman
Ashapura-Mata no Madh
Asura
Asvayujau
Aswiniis
Ayyappan
Ayyanar
Ayya Vaikundar
Bagalamukhi
Bahuchara Mata
Balarama
Bhadra
Bhadrakali
Bhaga
Bhairava
Bhairavi
Bharani
Bharati
Bhavani
Bhishma
"Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there." Slashdot's filter is racist. Continued in next post.
Yes, but which one? man has created thousands of gods over the span of history.
I bet you can't even name 200.
Challenge accepted.
Continued from previous post. Slashdot's filter is racist.
So racist it's blocking even an additional list of ten names. So have a fucking Wikipedia link instead. There's more than 200 in the Hindu pantheon alone, nevermind the ancient Egyptian pantheon, Norse pantheon, Roman and Greek pantheons, Mayan pantheon, not to mention the DC and Marvel pantheons.
The list of 200 would have had more impact... Fucking filters. My karma is Excellent, assholes. I should be exempt.
The people anywhere in lower latitudes where it is 40C or higher will complain, and will likely move in mass migrations to places like Norway. Be careful what you wish for. Also at 30C year round, the elderly will be under heat stress and die more quickly. Maybe that appeals to you.
No, the EU courts have not done any such thing. The EU courts have backed the requirement to follow the UN human rights regulations on refugees that European nations signed up to. In large part those regulations were drawn up by the USA and European nations after the mess of mass migrations at the end of the WW2 that led to up to 300,000 people dying. As I understand it Merkel is particularly sensitive to this, as her parents were some of those forced to migrate.
Actually, the climate has changed slightly faster than the projections made 30 years ago (Hansen et al), but have largely been spot on.
An air conditioner works like this:
Compress gas (work), its temperature and pressure and increases (adiabatic compression), then cool the gas back to it's original temperature (but higher pressure) using a radiator so it condenses into liquid, expand the gas to low pressure, the liquid evaporates inside an evaporative heat exchanger, absorbing energy.
This is a thermodynamic cycle, I'm an engineer, I've spent years studying thermodynamics, I can calculate and design an air conditioner. There is no such thing as a greenhouse gas, no amount of telling yourself it's true will make it so.
Greenhouse gas theory is bullshit, carbon dioxide does not form a blanket, there is no radiative greenhouse effect, period, it's pseudo science and you and many others have been fooled, wake up and educate yourself. It's claimed that CO2 absorbs and re-radiates heat back to the earths surface from the middle of the troposphere, how is that possible given the CO2 is much cooler than the surface it supposedly heats? Pseudo science. If air increases in temperature in the troposphere, it rises, given enough energy it rises up towards the stratosphere, the hotter the air the higher it goes, note that as it's expands, its pressure and temperature drops, but its entropy remains constant. The stratosphere has a higher entropy than the troposphere, so the air doesn't rise any higher, but higher entropy in the troposphere will push the stratosphere higher, for example the stratosphere is much higher at the equator than the poles.
CO2 absorbs infrared photons then distributes most of that energy by collisions to other molecules in the atmosphere. Those molecules eventually give off IR photons in random directions so approximately half of them go back toward the surface of the Earth. So the total amount of energy impinging on the surface of the Earth is the part of sunlight that gets absorbed plus the IR energy from the atmosphere. In order for the temperature of the Earth to be at (a dynamic state of) equilibrium it has to emit as much energy as it has coming in. Increasing the concentration of a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere will cause it to intercept more of the IR energy from the surface of the Earth. That will increase the IR energy emitted from the atmosphere including back toward the surface of the Earth. In order for the surface of the Earth to increase the energy it emits it has to heat up.
So CO2 doesn't directly heat of the surface of the Earth, it just changes the balance of incoming and outgoing energy in such a way that a higher concentration in the atmosphere forces the surface to heat up (from absorbed sunlight) in order to reject enough energy to reach a new balance.
So Denmark has a large natural gas installed base (great for power when required) but rarely uses it (great for the environment). This means they don't need to go to the trouble of building nuclear, as they have it covered.
Those windmills and natural gas plants will wear out, and likely new capacity will be needed as populations and standards of living grow, so they will need to build new power plants eventually. What should Denmark do then? Seems to me that choosing the safest energy source we have available to us today would be the wise choice.
I could see an argument made to continue building windmills for power, as it is likely as low carbon and low cost as nuclear. Possibly just as safe as well. Replacing old natural gas with new natural gas though fails on several levels. Natural gas is not low CO2, it's not safe, and even if it is cheap there is still a case to be made to save on natural gas used for electricity and save that for heating or sale as exports.
It's easy to find a number of natural gas rich nations that are building nuclear power plants. This is because in nearly every case natural gas use, for domestic heating and cooking as well as electrical generation, is increasing and by not burning that natural gas for electricity they avoid having to end up importing it. Even if a nation has plenty of natural gas this can be exported, or used domestically to displace higher CO2 petroleum liquid fuels for transportation.
Denmark does not "have it covered". There will be a continual need for new power plants as the old ones wear out. They can replace them with more dangerous and higher CO2 sources like natural gas, or with far better nuclear. Europe as a whole is burning far too much coal and natural gas, and they have an international grid for electricity and natural gas. If Denmark builds nuclear power then they can help their neighbors in reducing their CO2 by exporting natural gas and electricity from nuclear to displace the coal and oil that's being burned now.
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Hydroelectric power is a lot of things including the most dangerous of the non-fossil fuel power sources (except biofuel/biomass) due to just the immediate causalities from dam failures. That is 3 times more dangerous than solar, 9 times more dangerous than wind, and 16 times more dangerous than nuclear. Including casualties from long term effects like famine makes it several times more dangerous but that would apply to any dam whether power producing or not.
You are looking at the global numbers to get such poor performance, which does not apply to US policy. In the USA hydro is exceedingly safe, beat out only by nuclear. For the USA hydro should absolutely be used. If not only because it is safe, low CO2, inexpensive, and generally a good performing energy source, there is the need to match the load which also applies globally. I'll get into details next.
Even if we look at the global numbers on safety there is a very real need to keep using hydro power. Wind and solar are intermittent energy sources, so something needs to back them up when they are not available, and even possibly provide storage when there is an excess. Nuclear power, at least the third generation water boiler styles being built today, do not load follow well and will need something to match the changing loads through the day. If there is no hydro to go with the wind, solar, and nuclear to match supply to demand then that means oil, natural gas, or perhaps bio-mass fuel. This is not a choice between hydro, wind, or solar. This is a choice between hydro, natural gas, or oil.
If we are going to build out wind and solar to the point that there is an excess capacity with regularity, which inevitably comes with shortages, then there will be a need for storage to time shift the peaks to fill the valleys. I haven't seen any performance metrics on storage technologies except for price, and nothing is cheaper than pumped hydro storage. And no matter how you compute it, money saved is lives saved.
Fourth generation nuclear promises to offer the capability to match supply to demand. If this comes true, and maintains it's safety and other benefits, then we need nothing more for electricity. That's not likely to come for at least a decade. Until then we should invest in hydro and current generation nuclear when and where we can.
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That and bacteria.
Freshwater fish seem to be a loophole here.
Because of the blemish upon his image those made in his image have become. He's like the parents too embarassed of their child to acknowledge them in public.
You really are one dishonourable fucking asshole aren't you WindBourne.