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Post by EasyEd on Jan 14, 2013 9:07:29 GMT -5
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Post by Boz on Jan 14, 2013 10:33:54 GMT -5
I am awesome at this. I scored three goals in the underwater hockey tournament down in a pool in Turks & Caicos a couple years ago. I am prepared, baby!
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Feb 22, 2013 10:22:36 GMT -5
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Post by Boz on Feb 22, 2013 10:54:41 GMT -5
My new nightmare: ghost snakes. Thanks a LOT, Austin!
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Mar 4, 2013 15:33:16 GMT -5
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Post by SFHoya99 on Mar 4, 2013 16:30:30 GMT -5
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Post by quickplay on Mar 4, 2013 17:21:11 GMT -5
That kind of aggressive stupidity has to be exhausting. Or maybe a bicycle left him at the altar or something when he was younger.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Mar 5, 2013 8:17:10 GMT -5
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Mar 5, 2013 9:03:14 GMT -5
Almost as stupid as asking if asteroid was caused by global warming.
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Post by EasyEd on Apr 29, 2013 9:20:19 GMT -5
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Post by rustyshackleford on Jun 2, 2013 15:17:02 GMT -5
There's no paper linked or referenced and nothing in an ADS search that supports those claims with a model or anything: ADS author queryThese particular scientists work on sunspot and flare activity and while there are a number of proxy studies which link the de Vries cycle (the ~200 year periodicity) with changes to the climate there's definitely not even a consensus that the de Vries cycle is a real phenomenon (it's almost always found in earth based proxies as opposed to actual sunspot data (though sunspot data is obviously less complete and reliable on the scales required)) and certainly not one which suggests it can have that great an influence on climate.
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Post by EasyEd on Jun 6, 2013 18:18:52 GMT -5
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Post by SirSaxa on Jun 8, 2013 9:22:26 GMT -5
W. Post, June 7, 2013: Climate science tells us the alarm bells are ringingExcerptsBy Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth, Published: June 7 Michael Oppenheimer is a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University. Kevin Trenberth is a distinguished senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
In a recent op-ed for The Post, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) offered up a reheated stew of isolated factoids and sweeping generalizations about climate science to defend the destructive status quo. We agree with the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology that policy should be based on sound science. But Smith presented political talking points, and none of his implied conclusions is accurate.
The two of us have spent, in total, more than seven decades studying Earth’s climate, and we have joined hundreds of top climate scientists to summarize the state of knowledge for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the World Climate Research Program and other science-based bodies. We believe that our views are representative of the 97 percent of climate scientists who agree that global warming is caused by humans. Legions of studies support the view that, left unabated, this warming will produce dangerous effects. (This commentary, like so much of our work, was a collaborative process, with input from leading climate scientists Julia Cole, Robert W. Corell, Jennifer Francis, Michael E. Mann, Jonathan Overpeck, Alan Robock, Richard C.J. Somerville and Ben Santer.)
Man-made heat-trapping gases are warming our planet and leading to increases in extreme weather events. Droughts are becoming longer and deeper in many areas. The risk of wildfires is increasing. The year 2012, the hottest on record for the United States, illustrated this risk with severe, widespread drought accompanied by extensive wildfires.
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Post by SirSaxa on Jun 8, 2013 9:29:54 GMT -5
Chasing IceChasing Ice is a remarkable film. James Balog led a team of photographers on a 3 year project (still ongoing) to use time lapse cameras in the most remote and harshest environments to capture the rapid decline of glaciers. It is an amazing accomplishment and a stunningly beautiful film with an important message. ABOUT THE FILM Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of climate change. Using time-lapse cameras, his videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jun 10, 2013 15:13:45 GMT -5
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Post by rustyshackleford on Jun 10, 2013 16:30:44 GMT -5
If there are any real teeth to containing CO 2 emissions the trick is going to be how to convince China (and India) to reduce their emissions - that was a roadblock even during Kyoto.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jun 11, 2013 12:36:11 GMT -5
Indeed this is the problem!
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jun 24, 2013 13:12:09 GMT -5
Pardon my French: The understanding of anthropogenic warming and cooling influences on climate has improved since the TAR, leading to very high confidence that the effect of human activities since 1750 has been a net positive forcing of +1.6 [+0.6 to +2.4] W m–2. Improved understanding and better quantification of the forcing mechanisms since the TAR make it possible to derive a combined net anthropogenic radiative forcing for the first time. Combining the component values for each forcing agent and their uncertainties yields the probability distribution of the combined anthropogenic radiative forcing estimate shown in Figure TS.5; the most likely value is about an order of magnitude larger than the estimated radiative forcing from changes in solar irradiance. Since the range in the estimate is +0.6 to +2.4 W m–2, there is very high confidence in the net positive radiative forcing of the climate system due to human activity. The LLGHGs together contribute +2.63 ± 0.26 W m–2, which is the dominant radiative forcing term and has the highest level of scientific understanding. In contrast, the total direct aerosol, cloud albedo and surface albedo effects that contribute negative forcings are less well understood and have larger uncertainties. The range in the net estimate is increased by the negative forcing terms, which have larger uncertainties than the positive terms. The nature of the uncertainty in the estimated cloud albedo effect introduces a noticeable asymmetry in the distribution. Uncertainties in the distribution include structural aspects (e.g., representation of extremes in the component values, absence of any weighting of the radiative forcing mechanisms, possibility of unaccounted for but as yet unquantified radiative forcings) and statistical aspects (e.g., assumptions about the types of distributions describing component uncertainties). From the IPCC report 2007: www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/tssts-2-5.html#table-ts-2
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Post by hoyainspirit on Jun 24, 2013 14:10:00 GMT -5
Pardon my French: The understanding of anthropogenic warming and cooling influences on climate has improved since the TAR, leading to very high confidence that the effect of human activities since 1750 has been a net positive forcing of +1.6 [+0.6 to +2.4] W m–2. Improved understanding and better quantification of the forcing mechanisms since the TAR make it possible to derive a combined net anthropogenic radiative forcing for the first time. Combining the component values for each forcing agent and their uncertainties yields the probability distribution of the combined anthropogenic radiative forcing estimate shown in Figure TS.5; the most likely value is about an order of magnitude larger than the estimated radiative forcing from changes in solar irradiance. Since the range in the estimate is +0.6 to +2.4 W m–2, there is very high confidence in the net positive radiative forcing of the climate system due to human activity. The LLGHGs together contribute +2.63 ± 0.26 W m–2, which is the dominant radiative forcing term and has the highest level of scientific understanding. In contrast, the total direct aerosol, cloud albedo and surface albedo effects that contribute negative forcings are less well understood and have larger uncertainties. The range in the net estimate is increased by the negative forcing terms, which have larger uncertainties than the positive terms. The nature of the uncertainty in the estimated cloud albedo effect introduces a noticeable asymmetry in the distribution. Uncertainties in the distribution include structural aspects (e.g., representation of extremes in the component values, absence of any weighting of the radiative forcing mechanisms, possibility of unaccounted for but as yet unquantified radiative forcings) and statistical aspects (e.g., assumptions about the types of distributions describing component uncertainties). From the IPCC report 2007: www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/tssts-2-5.html#table-ts-2Say what?
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Post by Boz on Jun 24, 2013 16:16:47 GMT -5
Pardon my French: The understanding of anthropogenic warming and cooling influences on climate has improved since the TAR, leading to very high confidence that the effect of human activities since 1750 has been a net positive forcing of +1.6 [+0.6 to +2.4] W m–2. Improved understanding and better quantification of the forcing mechanisms since the TAR make it possible to derive a combined net anthropogenic radiative forcing for the first time. Combining the component values for each forcing agent and their uncertainties yields the probability distribution of the combined anthropogenic radiative forcing estimate shown in Figure TS.5; the most likely value is about an order of magnitude larger than the estimated radiative forcing from changes in solar irradiance. Since the range in the estimate is +0.6 to +2.4 W m–2, there is very high confidence in the net positive radiative forcing of the climate system due to human activity. The LLGHGs together contribute +2.63 ± 0.26 W m–2, which is the dominant radiative forcing term and has the highest level of scientific understanding. In contrast, the total direct aerosol, cloud albedo and surface albedo effects that contribute negative forcings are less well understood and have larger uncertainties. The range in the net estimate is increased by the negative forcing terms, which have larger uncertainties than the positive terms. The nature of the uncertainty in the estimated cloud albedo effect introduces a noticeable asymmetry in the distribution. Uncertainties in the distribution include structural aspects (e.g., representation of extremes in the component values, absence of any weighting of the radiative forcing mechanisms, possibility of unaccounted for but as yet unquantified radiative forcings) and statistical aspects (e.g., assumptions about the types of distributions describing component uncertainties). From the IPCC report 2007: www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/tssts-2-5.html#table-ts-2I think both James Inhofe and Al Gore should be locked in a windowless room with this paragraph until one of their heads explodes. Whichever one survives gets to set U.S energy/environmental policy for the next 30 years. It's the only fair way.
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