NON-FACT: "2004 was the warmest on record"
Where? Certainly not on Planet Earth! The peak temperatures recorded during the past 2 millennia were during the Medieval Warm Period [abot 1000 to 1400 years ago!]
The temperature record? Proxy temperature records from ice cores, tree rings, etc. See Moberg, et al for details.
The only thing I know about Dr. Barnett and his Scripps paper is that the study has not been published and therefore has not been subjected to careful outside analysis.
Rule One: If it is published in "Science" or written by a "Science Correspondent" it isn't science.
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, a modulation technique for transmitting large amounts of digital data over a radio wave. OFDM works by splitting the radio signal into multiple smaller sub-signals that are then transmitted simultaneously at different frequencies to the receiver. OFDM reduces the amount of crosstalk in signal transmissions. 802.11a WLAN, 802.16 and WiMAX technologies use OFDM.
It allows a lot of chatter!
You seem to have figured it out! The "scientists" who support this farce are mostly hacks who haven't a clue about climate. They think that what they experience today is climate. When we start to talk about millennial-scale ocillations and century-scale variability, it gets awful quiet on their side of the table! The evidence is clear and grows more compelling every day: the Northern Hemisphere some 900 to 1400 years ago, when there was 100 ppm less CO2 in the atmosphere than there is currently, was as warm as, or warmer than, it has been since that time. In other words, the current temperature isn't a big deal and it is actually cooling down! Kyoto is hype made for bureaucrats who want to levy taxes on the rich folks!
Here are just 2:
British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle said that implementing restrictions in CO2 emissions would be 'ruining the world's industries and... returning us all to the Dark Ages.' "It is my opinion that the only people who would be affected by abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol would be several thousand people who made a living attending, in attractive places, conferences on global warming."
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Dr. Craig Idso of The Center for CO2 Science
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and many others!
Your simple X+Y= equation has a flaw. Numerous studies of every plant species that we can imagine proves that nitrogen and carbon dioxide fixation increases quite dramatically with increased atmospheric CO2 levels. The quantification is difficult for me to do at this time, but others have done it. See http://www.co2science.org for a lot of data or links.
There are two mags that masquerade as responsible scientific journals: Science and Nature. Both are given to publishing Politically Correct Propaganda, aka PCP. They very deliberately exclude anything that doesn't fit the worldview of their organization.
Any child of the 60's already knows what PCP does to mental processes! I suspect that a steady diet of PCP is probably injurious to the truth.
Parker, Stott, et al are probably "real scientists" although the definition is a bit fuzzy. I believe that their tunnel vision is a bit larger problem than they would like to admit. The problem of modelling climate is so vast that there are very few people who would even claim to have an intuitive grasp of what comprises the model and what the model is/is not competent to tell us. Studies of chaos theory have shown us why our long term [3-12 month] weather forecasts are so woefully, laughably wrong.
Just when we digest that, someone comes along and pretends to be able to tell us just what impulse caused a phenomenon that is not at all evident. We have reliable records that prove rather conclusively that there was rapid global warming during the 19th century which slowed to a complete reversal by the 1950s. Since then, there is evidence that some cooling has occurred. The fact that 2003 was a hot summer in Europe may be interesting, but has no probative value when one is trying to prove global warming [or cooling!]
As for records in Europe: Their temperature records are rather spotty prior to 1800 and there was no effective calibration until 1895 or so.
The best indication of temperatures we can find in human records of the north of Europe are the ice-free dates kept for ports.
Far better, long term records are available from ice cores, sediment cores and tree rings. These are also available worldwide and can be compared without mind-numbing mental gymnastics!
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The climate models in use today are hoplessly inadequate. Thye simply ignore cloud cover over the ocean and several other factors! Their cheif use seems to be by the UN agency, IPCC, to scare people and try to get more power over their lives and $$. Take a look at the work of the Drs. Idso at co2science.org. They point out that CO2 is actually improving crop yields and has the potential to be a big benefit to us. [The SOFeX results are exactly what we had predicted and rather an eye-opener when one looks at the small area seeded and the mass of CO2 sequestered!] But, I digress...climate is a long term thing that must be considered on a millenium scale not a puny 100 years. The earth seems to be warmed by increased solar irradiance and cooled by the dimution of solar irradiance. Humankind's puny effects are rather laughable. Keep the home fires burning, they aren't going to change a thing!
You got it! Move to Texas first [So. Padre Island is a good beach place], telecommute for a bit while you enjoy the sand, then head for JA land! One huge advantage is that you lose all of that California income tax!
Don't form a corporation in Japan! The paperwork is beyond incredible!
Simply doing business as "Some snazzy name" is okay in Texas and elsewhere.
If the lawyers really want to push you on this point, form an LLC. It's cheaper, fewer forms and stuff, no registered agent fees, etc. and no tax complications. Enjoy Japan. What a land and such nice people!
Judging by the billions that are on order, I'd say that Wal Mart and others are serious about them! They are inventory control thingies and don't really have any practical use as theft controllers at the door [hard to turn off a completely passive device that doesn't respond to a magnetic field!] When you have a few billion $$ in inventory, saving a few % of it is a big deal!
Unless you have a multi-century long memory, you may have missed the fact that we have this sort of change on a cyclic basis. It is driven by variability of the sun, not humankinds puny contributions. Google for Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm period to see what man has NOT wrought.
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NON-FACT: "2004 was the warmest on record" Where? Certainly not on Planet Earth! The peak temperatures recorded during the past 2 millennia were during the Medieval Warm Period [abot 1000 to 1400 years ago!] The temperature record? Proxy temperature records from ice cores, tree rings, etc. See Moberg, et al for details. The only thing I know about Dr. Barnett and his Scripps paper is that the study has not been published and therefore has not been subjected to careful outside analysis. Rule One: If it is published in "Science" or written by a "Science Correspondent" it isn't science.
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, a modulation technique for transmitting large amounts of digital data over a radio wave. OFDM works by splitting the radio signal into multiple smaller sub-signals that are then transmitted simultaneously at different frequencies to the receiver. OFDM reduces the amount of crosstalk in signal transmissions. 802.11a WLAN, 802.16 and WiMAX technologies use OFDM. It allows a lot of chatter!
You seem to have figured it out! The "scientists" who support this farce are mostly hacks who haven't a clue about climate. They think that what they experience today is climate. When we start to talk about millennial-scale ocillations and century-scale variability, it gets awful quiet on their side of the table! The evidence is clear and grows more compelling every day: the Northern Hemisphere some 900 to 1400 years ago, when there was 100 ppm less CO2 in the atmosphere than there is currently, was as warm as, or warmer than, it has been since that time. In other words, the current temperature isn't a big deal and it is actually cooling down! Kyoto is hype made for bureaucrats who want to levy taxes on the rich folks!
Here are just 2: British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle said that implementing restrictions in CO2 emissions would be 'ruining the world's industries and ... returning us all to the Dark Ages.' "It is my opinion that the only people who would be affected by abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol would be several thousand people who made a living attending, in attractive places, conferences on global warming."
####
Dr. Craig Idso of The Center for CO2 Science
####
and many others!
Your simple X+Y= equation has a flaw. Numerous studies of every plant species that we can imagine proves that nitrogen and carbon dioxide fixation increases quite dramatically with increased atmospheric CO2 levels. The quantification is difficult for me to do at this time, but others have done it. See http://www.co2science.org for a lot of data or links.
There are two mags that masquerade as responsible scientific journals: Science and Nature. Both are given to publishing Politically Correct Propaganda, aka PCP. They very deliberately exclude anything that doesn't fit the worldview of their organization. Any child of the 60's already knows what PCP does to mental processes! I suspect that a steady diet of PCP is probably injurious to the truth.
Parker, Stott, et al are probably "real scientists" although the definition is a bit fuzzy. I believe that their tunnel vision is a bit larger problem than they would like to admit. The problem of modelling climate is so vast that there are very few people who would even claim to have an intuitive grasp of what comprises the model and what the model is/is not competent to tell us. Studies of chaos theory have shown us why our long term [3-12 month] weather forecasts are so woefully, laughably wrong. Just when we digest that, someone comes along and pretends to be able to tell us just what impulse caused a phenomenon that is not at all evident. We have reliable records that prove rather conclusively that there was rapid global warming during the 19th century which slowed to a complete reversal by the 1950s. Since then, there is evidence that some cooling has occurred. The fact that 2003 was a hot summer in Europe may be interesting, but has no probative value when one is trying to prove global warming [or cooling!] As for records in Europe: Their temperature records are rather spotty prior to 1800 and there was no effective calibration until 1895 or so. The best indication of temperatures we can find in human records of the north of Europe are the ice-free dates kept for ports. Far better, long term records are available from ice cores, sediment cores and tree rings. These are also available worldwide and can be compared without mind-numbing mental gymnastics!
The climate models in use today are hoplessly inadequate. Thye simply ignore cloud cover over the ocean and several other factors! Their cheif use seems to be by the UN agency, IPCC, to scare people and try to get more power over their lives and $$.
Take a look at the work of the Drs. Idso at co2science.org. They point out that CO2 is actually improving crop yields and has the potential to be a big benefit to us. [The SOFeX results are exactly what we had predicted and rather an eye-opener when one looks at the small area seeded and the mass of CO2 sequestered!] But, I digress...climate is a long term thing that must be considered on a millenium scale not a puny 100 years. The earth seems to be warmed by increased solar irradiance and cooled by the dimution of solar irradiance. Humankind's puny effects are rather laughable. Keep the home fires burning, they aren't going to change a thing!
You got it! Move to Texas first [So. Padre Island is a good beach place], telecommute for a bit while you enjoy the sand, then head for JA land! One huge advantage is that you lose all of that California income tax! Don't form a corporation in Japan! The paperwork is beyond incredible! Simply doing business as "Some snazzy name" is okay in Texas and elsewhere. If the lawyers really want to push you on this point, form an LLC. It's cheaper, fewer forms and stuff, no registered agent fees, etc. and no tax complications. Enjoy Japan. What a land and such nice people!
Judging by the billions that are on order, I'd say that Wal Mart and others are serious about them! They are inventory control thingies and don't really have any practical use as theft controllers at the door [hard to turn off a completely passive device that doesn't respond to a magnetic field!] When you have a few billion $$ in inventory, saving a few % of it is a big deal!
Unless you have a multi-century long memory, you may have missed the fact that we have this sort of change on a cyclic basis. It is driven by variability of the sun, not humankinds puny contributions.
Google for Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm period to see what man has NOT wrought.