I was merely pointing out that there were HVDC lines coming in from the north which you didn't appear to know about.
As far as coal power in California I believe that all of the states utilities have been mandated to eliminate any coal power from their portfolios and although that is not complete yet they are well on their way to the goal.
And for the CONUS as a whole the amount of coal power has been dropping, largely as a result of increasing natural gas generation and I think in 20 or 30 years coal will be a miniscule piece of the nations energy supply.
Pluto's orbit is the most eccentric of any planet (or former planet:). Its distance from the Sun varies from about 30 AU to 49 AU. Any planet with that kind of eccentricity would have considerable climate change as it traveled along it's orbit.
Don't forget the low flow toilet you have to flush three times.
I replaced a toilet about 3 years ago that was plugging at least once a week with one recommended in Consumer Reports. It cost me about $260 plus installation. The new toilet uses 1.28 gallons/full flush and 0.8 gallons for a partial flush. I've had it for 2.5 years now and it's only plugged once in all that time. And I never have to flush it more than once (except the time it plugged where I let it sit for an hour or so and flushed it again which cleared the plug). So, if you get a quality low flow toilet it works just fine, if you go cheap expect problems.
School is about learning things, not some fuzzy concept of "learning how to learn".
I completely disagree with this. It's like the old adage "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Same thing with learning --- unless you think the only place that learning takes place is in school.
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Every individual has different strengths and weaknesses.
This is an important point. Standardized tests assume everyone is like a cog coming off an assembly line. Good education should be tailored to needs of the student, not the needs of an industrial education system.
Every individual has different strengths and weaknesses.
This is an important point. Standardized tests assume everyone is like a cog coming off an assembly line. Good education should be tailored to needs of the student, not the needs of an industrial education system.
We know there were Polynesians on Easter Island which is closer to South America than it is to Australia. Maybe some of them made it to South America long ago.
That's close to but not exactly true. Biological processes such as photosynthesis tend to prefer the lighter C12 isotope over the heavier C13 and C14 isotopes so the ratio of C12 to C13 & C14 is higher in plants than it is in the atmosphere.
Breathing is not the way humans (and other animals) take up carbon. It comes from the food we eat. So burning coal to heat your home doesn't have any direct effect on your personal C14 level.
Anthropogenic climate change probably won't wipe out Homo Sapiens. We're a very adaptable and resourceful species. But it may well wipe out the complex global civilization we've built or at least reduce it to a paltry impoverished echo of what we have now.
Yeah, we had a crappy winter on the West Coast too. But it was the opposite of what happened on the East Coast. Very warm and very little snow in the mountains where we depend on it for late summer stream flows.
I live on the same continent you do and I've lived here since the 1950's. It's easily the warmest year I can remember and the weather statistics support that assertion.
Unless you're taking a global view of the situation you're missing to much to have an informed opinion.
You just don't know how adjusted the satellite data is. Far more adjustment goes into satellite data than the surface temperature records.
Satellites don't measure temperature directly but rather the microwave emissions of O2 molecules. The data has to be adjusted for orbital variations, sensor degradation, the effects of clouds and water vapor, the effects of high elevations and the differences of replacement satellites that are launched every 10 years or so. Compared to that surface temperature adjustments are a piece of cake.
Anyone with some statistical chops can handle the raw data. The reason you don't see raw data graphs of global temperatures from climate contrarians is because they don't help their case that much. Instead they'll cherry pick some individual records like that station in Paraguay and try to imply that shows the global records are rigged.
I know there were some cold records set east of the Rockies on North America this past winter although not all that many. That doesn't negate the fact that there were also record high temperatures west of the Rockies and when you look at it globally it was a pretty warm winter.
The Koch brothers tried that with Berkeley Earth and that didn't turn out so well (for them). The researchers at BE were pretty much unconnected with the climate science community and use their own methods of adjustment yet their results came out about the same as everyone else.
There wasn't near enough snow along the US East Coast and in New England to make up for all of the snow we didn't get on the West Coast this past winter.
Throwing out Argo temps for ship engine intake temp Homogenizing, Interpolating,
etc.
I see a lot of hand waving about the temperature adjustments but I seldom see any serious scientifically rigorous challenge that addresses the reasons and methods that scientists give for making the adjustments. If you want to challenge the scientific mainstream you need to use science. Anything else is inadequate.
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It's like the Native Americans said (paraphrasing), "How can you own the land? You can't pick it up and take it with you."
Trump wants to sell Trump Brand (tm) Head Mounted Solar Panels to you for a very reasonable cost.
Wait, do those help you grow hair?
It happened from the 1930s to 1970s. No reason it can't happen again.
I was merely pointing out that there were HVDC lines coming in from the north which you didn't appear to know about.
As far as coal power in California I believe that all of the states utilities have been mandated to eliminate any coal power from their portfolios and although that is not complete yet they are well on their way to the goal.
And for the CONUS as a whole the amount of coal power has been dropping, largely as a result of increasing natural gas generation and I think in 20 or 30 years coal will be a miniscule piece of the nations energy supply.
Any serious gun nut is going to have the equipment and supplies to do their own hand loading and can keep going until their supplies run out.
Personally I prefer light-fortnights.
Pluto's orbit is the most eccentric of any planet (or former planet :). Its distance from the Sun varies from about 30 AU to 49 AU. Any planet with that kind of eccentricity would have considerable climate change as it traveled along it's orbit.
I'm not the AC but there are some HVDC lines that go through Central Oregon to California. It's called the Pacific DC Intertie.
Don't forget the low flow toilet you have to flush three times.
I replaced a toilet about 3 years ago that was plugging at least once a week with one recommended in Consumer Reports. It cost me about $260 plus installation. The new toilet uses 1.28 gallons/full flush and 0.8 gallons for a partial flush. I've had it for 2.5 years now and it's only plugged once in all that time. And I never have to flush it more than once (except the time it plugged where I let it sit for an hour or so and flushed it again which cleared the plug). So, if you get a quality low flow toilet it works just fine, if you go cheap expect problems.
School is about learning things, not some fuzzy concept of "learning how to learn".
I completely disagree with this. It's like the old adage "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Same thing with learning --- unless you think the only place that learning takes place is in school.
Sorry for the messed up formatting. That should have read:
Every individual has different strengths and weaknesses.
This is an important point. Standardized tests assume everyone is like a cog coming off an assembly line. Good education should be tailored to needs of the student, not the needs of an industrial education system.
Every individual has different strengths and weaknesses.
This is an important point. Standardized tests assume everyone is like a cog coming off an assembly line. Good education should be tailored to needs of the student, not the needs of an industrial education system.
We know there were Polynesians on Easter Island which is closer to South America than it is to Australia. Maybe some of them made it to South America long ago.
That's close to but not exactly true. Biological processes such as photosynthesis tend to prefer the lighter C12 isotope over the heavier C13 and C14 isotopes so the ratio of C12 to C13 & C14 is higher in plants than it is in the atmosphere.
Breathing is not the way humans (and other animals) take up carbon. It comes from the food we eat. So burning coal to heat your home doesn't have any direct effect on your personal C14 level.
I only care about people who disagree with science when they interfere with us facing the reality that science tells us about.
Anthropogenic climate change probably won't wipe out Homo Sapiens. We're a very adaptable and resourceful species. But it may well wipe out the complex global civilization we've built or at least reduce it to a paltry impoverished echo of what we have now.
Yeah, we had a crappy winter on the West Coast too. But it was the opposite of what happened on the East Coast. Very warm and very little snow in the mountains where we depend on it for late summer stream flows.
I live on the same continent you do and I've lived here since the 1950's. It's easily the warmest year I can remember and the weather statistics support that assertion.
Unless you're taking a global view of the situation you're missing to much to have an informed opinion.
You just don't know how adjusted the satellite data is. Far more adjustment goes into satellite data than the surface temperature records.
Satellites don't measure temperature directly but rather the microwave emissions of O2 molecules. The data has to be adjusted for orbital variations, sensor degradation, the effects of clouds and water vapor, the effects of high elevations and the differences of replacement satellites that are launched every 10 years or so. Compared to that surface temperature adjustments are a piece of cake.
You mean "hockey stick graphs". There have been over a dozen studies since the original and they all show similar shapes. Here's a graph with 10 of them from 2005.
Anyone with some statistical chops can handle the raw data. The reason you don't see raw data graphs of global temperatures from climate contrarians is because they don't help their case that much. Instead they'll cherry pick some individual records like that station in Paraguay and try to imply that shows the global records are rigged.
I know there were some cold records set east of the Rockies on North America this past winter although not all that many. That doesn't negate the fact that there were also record high temperatures west of the Rockies and when you look at it globally it was a pretty warm winter.
The Koch brothers tried that with Berkeley Earth and that didn't turn out so well (for them). The researchers at BE were pretty much unconnected with the climate science community and use their own methods of adjustment yet their results came out about the same as everyone else.
Until they provide the raw unedited unnormalized data this can't be believed.
Peer review is at the core of any scientific theory or hypothesis. Peer review is required for validation of the conclusions.
You wouldn't know what to do with the raw data if you got it. It is available to anyone who cares to seek it out but it may take some work to get it.
There wasn't near enough snow along the US East Coast and in New England to make up for all of the snow we didn't get on the West Coast this past winter.
Throwing out Argo temps for ship engine intake temp
Homogenizing,
Interpolating,
etc.
I see a lot of hand waving about the temperature adjustments but I seldom see any serious scientifically rigorous challenge that addresses the reasons and methods that scientists give for making the adjustments. If you want to challenge the scientific mainstream you need to use science. Anything else is inadequate.