Temperatures dropping for 30 years in the face of rising greenhouse gases without some other factor such as lots of big volcanic eruptions or a really significant change in the Suns output causing it would do it for me.
As I said above, the term "climate change" was an invention of Frank Luntz for the Bush administration, not something that climate scientists came up with. You can Google it.
The SEC is an independent agency. There are 5 SEC commissioners appointed by the President to a 5 year term. The terms are staggered so each June one commissioner is replaced. Other than that I think it's pretty much up to the commissioners how the agency is run.
I would point out that what nailed New Orleans so hard was not Katrina itself but the failure of the levees. The major damage from Katrina itself was east of there in Mississippi. Even if the storm surge had overtopped the levees during Katrina the damage would not have been nearly as much in NO if the levees had held. I don't think the damage to the levees was obvious until noon or so on the day after Katrina passed.
Mach is the ratio of your speed to the speed of sound in whatever medium you're traveling in and varies somewhat in the atmosphere depending on your altitude (or the air pressure).
Also the abrasive effect of the ash can scratch the windows, particularly the forward facing ones the pilots look out of and it can abrade the aluminum skin, particularly the leading edges of the wings. Neither will bring the plane down but they can necessitate expensive repairs and if the windows become opaque enough it can make landing difficult.
Could the fact that all pregnant women have access to good health care in the EU vs. many in the US not having that sort of access have something to do with the higher rate of premature births in the US?
Actually at the current rate of global warming we are seeing temperature changes in a couple of hundred years that would have taken 5,000 years normally.
Actually Global Warming is a more accurate description because the total energy in the earth system is increasing. Climate Change was a phrased dreamed up by Frank Luntz for the GWB administration because it sounded less threatening.
Global temperatures have not been falling since 1998! They just haven't risen quite as fast as they did in the 1990s. There is a graph of the global temperature anomaly from 1880 through 2009 here.
The urban heat island effect is well understood and accounted for. A recent study [PDF] that used the surfacestations.org list of well and poorly sited stations showed that the poorly sited stations actually introduced a slight cooling trend in the data (but not enough to change the overall warming trend).
It was not the head of the IPCC who said that, it was Phil Jones, the head of the CRU who said the warming over the past 15 years was not statistically significant to the 95% confidence level which is the gold standard in statistical confidence. Instead it's about 93% significant. He also said that trends over long periods are more significant than short periods and there is statistical significance over the past 20 or 30 years.
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Temperatures dropping for 30 years in the face of rising greenhouse gases without some other factor such as lots of big volcanic eruptions or a really significant change in the Suns output causing it would do it for me.
You ought to go out and read some of the grant applications. Very few if any of them mention trying to prove anything about global warming.
I imagine the reason they're being sued is because they didn't present facts regardless of how the are spun.
As I said above, the term "climate change" was an invention of Frank Luntz for the Bush administration, not something that climate scientists came up with. You can Google it.
Actually the term "climate change" was dreamed up by Frank Luntz for the Bush administration because it didn't sound as scary as global warming.
Of course that's not the only thing it stimulates.
The SEC is an independent agency. There are 5 SEC commissioners appointed by the President to a 5 year term. The terms are staggered so each June one commissioner is replaced. Other than that I think it's pretty much up to the commissioners how the agency is run.
Most of the methane cows produce is from burping, not farting.
Volcanic ash and SiO2 (sand) particles are quite different things.
I suspect the composition of the ash varies from volcano to volcano so it might be difficult to really test for ash effects in a turbine engine.
I would point out that what nailed New Orleans so hard was not Katrina itself but the failure of the levees. The major damage from Katrina itself was east of there in Mississippi. Even if the storm surge had overtopped the levees during Katrina the damage would not have been nearly as much in NO if the levees had held. I don't think the damage to the levees was obvious until noon or so on the day after Katrina passed.
Mach is the ratio of your speed to the speed of sound in whatever medium you're traveling in and varies somewhat in the atmosphere depending on your altitude (or the air pressure).
Also the abrasive effect of the ash can scratch the windows, particularly the forward facing ones the pilots look out of and it can abrade the aluminum skin, particularly the leading edges of the wings. Neither will bring the plane down but they can necessitate expensive repairs and if the windows become opaque enough it can make landing difficult.
Could the fact that all pregnant women have access to good health care in the EU vs. many in the US not having that sort of access have something to do with the higher rate of premature births in the US?
Plants need oxygen as well as carbon dioxide. When they're not photosynthesizing they take in oxygen and emit carbon dioxide.
Yet in AT&T v. Portland the federal court ruled that local or state governments did not have the authority to require open access to other ISP's.
The recent melamine scandal in China comes to mind.
But doesn't their wool coat shrink and strangle them if they go in the ocean?
Actually at the current rate of global warming we are seeing temperature changes in a couple of hundred years that would have taken 5,000 years normally.
Because you don't want said dbag to move in next to you when they are forced out of their current location?
As I said in a previous reply to you, there has been no cooling trend over the last decade. That's not a scientifically supportable statement.
And very few scientists have considered global cooling a real problem in the last 100 years.
And what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
Actually Global Warming is a more accurate description because the total energy in the earth system is increasing. Climate Change was a phrased dreamed up by Frank Luntz for the GWB administration because it sounded less threatening.
Global temperatures have not been falling since 1998! They just haven't risen quite as fast as they did in the 1990s. There is a graph of the global temperature anomaly from 1880 through 2009 here.
The urban heat island effect is well understood and accounted for. A recent study [PDF] that used the surfacestations.org list of well and poorly sited stations showed that the poorly sited stations actually introduced a slight cooling trend in the data (but not enough to change the overall warming trend).
It was not the head of the IPCC who said that, it was Phil Jones, the head of the CRU who said the warming over the past 15 years was not statistically significant to the 95% confidence level which is the gold standard in statistical confidence. Instead it's about 93% significant. He also said that trends over long periods are more significant than short periods and there is statistical significance over the past 20 or 30 years.