Skeptical Science, really you couldn't find something from a reputable site? Those SS clowns delete posts they disagree with and edit articles after comments are posted. Even the IPCC AR5 acknowledges the discrepancies between the model projections and observed temperatures.
What's the sacrifice though? Having cars that either get really excellent fuel economy or run on battery power? Forcing electrical utilities to switch to separate billing for grid-tie and power consumption, so that customers that want to put solar panels on their roofs aren't shafted in order to have overnight electrical service from base-load power? Mandating emissions inspections based on original standards at the time of manufacture on all vehicles newer than 30 years, so that gross-polluting vehicles that are not running right are either fixed or taken off the road? Most of these things don't have all that much cost, and for some of them, they're a cost that the individual should have borne anyway.
All of the measures you've listed are too insignificant to have any real effect on atmospheric CO2 levels, it's just inconsequential feel-good posturing.
Sorry but it just doesn't scale in an economical manner, who's going to sort it out? Our county recycling center went belly-up and they used jail-inmate labor! There just isn't that much waste in agriculture to make biofuels competative, and convertables in residencial wastes is just too sparse. Biodiesel is great stuff, good fuel, better parts cleaner/degreaser. Nontoxicity, safe but the supply is unreliable because the feedstock is valuable.
The only argument for space-based is "it's a way around NIMBY". PG&E did some serious research into it, as there's just no where in Northern California they're allowed to build a new power plant, and demand keeps rising. The main reason the plan failed is still NIMBY: They'd need a 1-block receiving station for the incoming power, and could never get that approved. Fuck California.
At some point in time, the electricity will get so expensive only the 5%ers will be able to afford to keep the lights on; about that time being a NIMBY will become as un-PC as being a Terrorist, a Racist or a child molester.. Trust me everyone will either forget about Agenda 21, or fit new power plants into it!
It also means no cellular phone reception, if you think people are pissed about not being able to share their data plan instead of paying for hotel WiFi, wait to see what happens when their cell phone will not work and they have to pay root rates for using the phone!
If your employees are using "your" network to get on the internet via WiFi, for personal crap like facebook, slashdot, personal Email, facebook ect, they should be connecting to the WiFi host located in the DMZ; connecting to a WiFi inside the private firewall is just crazy!
You mistake quantity of farm land as being equivalent valuable, which as long as you aren't farming in Manhattan is ludicrous. I can purchase 150 acres right now for less than $100k.
Dude you better buy that shit, farm acrage around here is 5 to 6 times that, and 150 acres for sale that's contigous is very rare.
Give up 10% of their money to taxes and spread it around the population and they will be immeasurably safer. But I think their greed just gets the better of them. As it has over and over and over for centuries.
And there we go, we're not talking about an income tax, we're talking about a draconian confiscation and redistribution of wealth. Furthermore why is NASA straying so far from aeronautics and space?
Look again all that red over Indonesia and the Philippines is from volcanism, all that red over Greenland and Iceland is from volcanism, all of that red in the north Pacific Ocean is volcanism. All that red in the South American and African equatorial regions is from the rainforrests. You have to go to China to see Anthropogenic CO2 levels high enough to be in the red.
In other words, every Senator who isn't either a subject-matter expert or an arrogant person and who doesn't want people to think he is in one of those two groups must abstain if this comes to a vote.
Personally I think this was just a way for the Democrats to help Warren Buffet keep his massively profitable oil transportation by rail business intact by making the vote on the KeystoneXL unpalatable to the Republicans.
NASA seems to think that climate change is being caused by human activities and they back it up with a lot of references to studies on the matter. IMHO, we're never going to convince people to change their behaviors or give up their luxuries. If we want to make a difference we need to develop the technologies that make it more advantageous to adopt the renewable solution (like kick-ass cars and cheaper home energy).
The Nasa climate scientists (Gavin Schmidt) who claimed 2014 set a new record for global warmth last night admitted they were only 38 per cent sure this was true.
In the early days of the auto industry, the managers would pick workers out of a line to work for the day; if your worked good, you'd get picked again.
IANAL but I think that pesky coma between "violation" and "with an annual maximum of $1.5 million" stops the per violation part and start the annual maximum part without regard to the number of violations.
They sent the info to 14 different companies, HIPAA violation is due to willful neglect and is not corrected, Minimum Penalty, $50,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $1.5 million; Maximum Penalty, $50,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $1.5 million; is a $1.5M fine going to phase either the USG or that rogue's gallery of internet advertiser's? We probably spend more than $22.5M on brake pads for fighter jets each year.
Well lets see there's only the platypus, the corroboree frog and the birdwing butterfly for poisonous critters, so I'd be much more worried about the venomious critters down-under.
Methane degrades into CO2, in fact, so in simulations I did (Archer and Buffett, 2005) the radiative forcing from the elevated methane concentration throughout a long release was about matched by the radiative forcing from the extra CO2 accumulating
what's a 'long release'?
I don't know, if your curious read the paper,
D. Archer, and B. Buffett, "Time-dependent response of the global ocean clathrate reservoir to climatic and anthropogenic forcing", Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 6, pp. n/a-n/a, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004...
; my assumption from the context of the article (Much ado about methane) is more toward decades to continuous rather than months to years.
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Global temperatures are now outside the model's 95% confidence band, that means the models have failed.
According to past predictions, The Arctic Ocean was ice free last year and there was never to be any more snow in Great Britain either.
Skeptical Science, really you couldn't find something from a reputable site? Those SS clowns delete posts they disagree with and edit articles after comments are posted. Even the IPCC AR5 acknowledges the discrepancies between the model projections and observed temperatures.
What's the sacrifice though? Having cars that either get really excellent fuel economy or run on battery power? Forcing electrical utilities to switch to separate billing for grid-tie and power consumption, so that customers that want to put solar panels on their roofs aren't shafted in order to have overnight electrical service from base-load power? Mandating emissions inspections based on original standards at the time of manufacture on all vehicles newer than 30 years, so that gross-polluting vehicles that are not running right are either fixed or taken off the road?
Most of these things don't have all that much cost, and for some of them, they're a cost that the individual should have borne anyway.
All of the measures you've listed are too insignificant to have any real effect on atmospheric CO2 levels, it's just inconsequential feel-good posturing.
Sorry but it just doesn't scale in an economical manner, who's going to sort it out? Our county recycling center went belly-up and they used jail-inmate labor! There just isn't that much waste in agriculture to make biofuels competative, and convertables in residencial wastes is just too sparse.
Biodiesel is great stuff, good fuel, better parts cleaner/degreaser. Nontoxicity, safe but the supply is unreliable because the feedstock is valuable.
The only argument for space-based is "it's a way around NIMBY". PG&E did some serious research into it, as there's just no where in Northern California they're allowed to build a new power plant, and demand keeps rising. The main reason the plan failed is still NIMBY: They'd need a 1-block receiving station for the incoming power, and could never get that approved. Fuck California.
At some point in time, the electricity will get so expensive only the 5%ers will be able to afford to keep the lights on; about that time being a NIMBY will become as un-PC as being a Terrorist, a Racist or a child molester.. Trust me everyone will either forget about Agenda 21, or fit new power plants into it!
It also means no cellular phone reception, if you think people are pissed about not being able to share their data plan instead of paying for hotel WiFi, wait to see what happens when their cell phone will not work and they have to pay root rates for using the phone!
If your employees are using "your" network to get on the internet via WiFi, for personal crap like facebook, slashdot, personal Email, facebook ect, they should be connecting to the WiFi host located in the DMZ; connecting to a WiFi inside the private firewall is just crazy!
You mistake quantity of farm land as being equivalent valuable, which as long as you aren't farming in Manhattan is ludicrous. I can purchase 150 acres right now for less than $100k.
Dude you better buy that shit, farm acrage around here is 5 to 6 times that, and 150 acres for sale that's contigous is very rare.
Give up 10% of their money to taxes and spread it around the population and they will be immeasurably safer. But I think their greed just gets the better of them. As it has over and over and over for centuries.
And there we go, we're not talking about an income tax, we're talking about a draconian confiscation and redistribution of wealth. Furthermore why is NASA straying so far from aeronautics and space?
You sat that like the American Civil War never happened.
It is interesting that the super rich flee to the U.S. - the one country whose constitution acknowledge the need for future revolutions.
That's a funny way to spell Grand Cayman!
If you have a more plausible hypothesis, then by all means feel free to share
Look again all that red over Indonesia and the Philippines is from volcanism, all that red over Greenland and Iceland is from volcanism, all of that red in the north Pacific Ocean is volcanism. All that red in the South American and African equatorial regions is from the rainforrests. You have to go to China to see Anthropogenic CO2 levels high enough to be in the red.
All you have to do is look at OCO splash page banner to see that the US contribution to CO2 pales even against geologic sources.
Well we are 38% certain that "2014 was the hottest year on record", it also might be Among the 3 percent Coldest Years in 10,000 years.
In other words, every Senator who isn't either a subject-matter expert or an arrogant person and who doesn't want people to think he is in one of those two groups must abstain if this comes to a vote.
Personally I think this was just a way for the Democrats to help Warren Buffet keep his massively profitable oil transportation by rail business intact by making the vote on the KeystoneXL unpalatable to the Republicans.
NASA seems to think that climate change is being caused by human activities and they back it up with a lot of references to studies on the matter. IMHO, we're never going to convince people to change their behaviors or give up their luxuries. If we want to make a difference we need to develop the technologies that make it more advantageous to adopt the renewable solution (like kick-ass cars and cheaper home energy).
That NASA?
The heat is just thermo-nuclear!
In the early days of the auto industry, the managers would pick workers out of a line to work for the day; if your worked good, you'd get picked again.
IANAL but I think that pesky coma between "violation" and "with an annual maximum of $1.5 million" stops the per violation part and start the annual maximum part without regard to the number of violations.
They sent the info to 14 different companies,
HIPAA violation is due to willful neglect and is not corrected, Minimum Penalty, $50,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $1.5 million; Maximum Penalty, $50,000 per violation, with an annual maximum of $1.5 million;
is a $1.5M fine going to phase either the USG or that rogue's gallery of internet advertiser's? We probably spend more than $22.5M on brake pads for fighter jets each year.
Well lets see there's only the platypus, the corroboree frog and the birdwing butterfly for poisonous critters, so I'd be much more worried about the venomious critters down-under.
It's not that big of a deal since they're going to use the same pathetically weak password on any site that they can still get into.
Methane degrades into CO2, in fact, so in simulations I did (Archer and Buffett, 2005) the radiative forcing from the elevated methane concentration throughout a long release was about matched by the radiative forcing from the extra CO2 accumulating
what's a 'long release'?
I don't know, if your curious read the paper,
;
my assumption from the context of the article (Much ado about methane) is more toward decades to continuous rather than months to years.