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It's both funny and disheartening when people uses a Google or Wikipedia University degree to argue subjects surpassing their education. :( The legalistic approach: "Not proving it to my satisfaction - I win by default". Reality isn't bound to opinions. Luke 16:31 "He said to him, 'If...

Before taking seriously anything published by The Heartland Institute, one should find out more about them, including their role in denying the harmfulness of tobacco use. By their works ye shall know them. Rob "Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the prim...

Pretty much the reaction I expected. Don't get me wrong, it's not that the publication isn't without merit, it has issues to take note of (and some that should have been omitted). But it doesn't have a stand-alone scientific coherency or foundation to establish predictability, it's a (speculative) ...

Why is it, They Can dig a 25 mile tunnel through the alps, to make an easy way for cars and trucks around a mountain. But they can't dig a 15 mile tunnel for free electricity? Mark Because it is not cost effective. As long as there are cheap fossil fuels and it's not killing the "desirable&quo...

I glanced over the PDF you recommended - sorry, a fair amount of it is not real science. Testing attributes of systems of of context of the whole system as a proof of failure, questionable interpretations of data. The change from mercury thermometers to digital thermometers to explain away discrepan...

If given a choice between a model that says solar activity has nothing to do with terrestrial climate and datasets that do show a correlation, I'd go with the actual observations. A simulation is not a substitute for actual data and observations. http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/solar/lassen1.html ...

The rover has been driving backwards for going on two years now, since the front wheel failed.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/06/solar-cycle-24-are-suns-cycles-a-factor-in-global-warming.html#more ...The simulations show that the effects of cosmic rays from the sun are barely 1% of what they'd have to be to explain what we've seen. The scientists are even one step ahead of the &qu...

Spirit doesn't have the equivalent of 4WD???? One tire is spinning while the other is not?? Don't tell me that the engineers for the motor control system were incapable of designing a simple synchrounous drive. Why didn't they? I bet the managers didn't let them or they had to perform 1,000's of ho...

North land mass. Has more land in its summer. The south of the planet has not much in its summer.. But this changes, our north summer at the moment we are further away from the sun. Has any body taken this into account? Mark I think you are referring to the "precession of the equinoxes", ...

Trade winds also effect ocean levels.

aristarchusinexile wrote:More man made hot water coming .. By 2030 China plans on having 130 nuke plants operating. What is India planning?

25% nuke power by 2050 is India's plan.

orin stepanek wrote:Has anyone noticed? The reflection fo the Moon; Mars; and Venus almost appear brighter in Mullica than they do in the sky! What causes this?

Orin

Artistic liberties in optical corrections.

It looks like the contrast in the darker lower left quadrant was kicked up for artistic balance.

orin stepanek wrote:It's real; and here's the recipe! 8)
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/ ... oup-232690

Orin

Sounds good.
Are we coming to your house for dinner?

Sorry, the endothermic increase is the Earth system is caused by particulates and IR absorbing compounds in the atmosphere. Do the math,(or argue the math). 1,366 watts/ m^2/day hitting the Earth against the 12 terrawatts/day used by humans (90+ % created by fossil fuels @ 20% efficiency) 20% effic...

There is no indication that "creating heat" is a problem. The amount of heat created by all human activities is vanishingly small compared to the heat put into the system by the Sun. Vanishingly small? When some scientists are saying 4 degree rise is enough for catastrophes? I must repeat...

What ought to be the eye opener for reasonable objective people is the fact that those twenty or so models all overestimated the current world average temperature. If they truly were as you say just dealing with variables that are too complex one would expect that they'd be all over the map. They'r...

I live at 38.25N, 122.45W and 82dF in January (dead of winter) is extremely warm and set a record high for the day. Then in March 98dF set another record high just before spring (technically still winter). Then more 90+ deg temps in April setting more local records. Someone did a search on high and...

BMAONE23 wrote: "Today, compared to 90 years ago…warming" Gee, if things are just getting warmer and warmer, we should be setting new records all the time, huh? Then why has there been no new record high temperature for any continent since 1974. You're gonna love my reference! (Hee hee) h...

gpobserver wrote:I think it might be worthwhile to present this graph to give a longer view into the past than just the past century or so:

So, what is the source of this data, is it records from one city, estimates from world wide core samples ... are we comparing apples to apples?

sounds like the makings of war to me. Only if competing parties see that there is money to be made on the migration .. in Babylon is found the blood of all who were killed on the earth. If AGW turns to be true, it is the ensuing wars over resources that will be the killer of man more so than starva...

I'm waiting for results from the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), for every one answer there will be ten new questions.

Innocent until proven guilty is a a hard sell with billions of lives at stake. How many lives do you think would be at stake if we start wars over CO2 regluation? A two foot rise in sea level would conservatively displace 27of 150 + million people from Bangladesh to other stressed areas, sounds lik...

We have AGW computer models with reliabilities that aren't meeting "everyone" expectations, so, is there an statistical "reliability threshold" that will satisfy "everyone's expectations? Without a defining a greenhouse gas thresholds is stating the Earth will always be self...

Did anyone check the scale of these photos?