On the other hand, the current most-likely prediction for 2100 AD is that sea levels will, at most, rise by about the height of the middle of the hubcap on that car to the right - and might not rise at all by then.
I had one, too. Great gimmick toy.
I also had the Johnny Seven OMA (One Man Army) and the Agent Zero Radio Rifle.
I also had the Johnny Seven OMA (One Man Army) and the Agent Zero Radio Rifle.
...or local organic farmers bought a few million ladybugs and dumped them all over the place, changing the population the "natural" way. The normal "dose" of bugs like that is in the "thousands per acre" range.
It's a bit much to assume that a 0.5 C change in temperature would alter insect population dynamics so much, while ignoring things like "natural" agriculture which moves them around by the billions.
It's a bit much to assume that a 0.5 C change in temperature would alter insect population dynamics so much, while ignoring things like "natural" agriculture which moves them around by the billions.
As far as the ladybugs go, they might look to see how popular the ladybug has become for aphid control - and notice that the red/black ones are more popular than the black/red ones. With enough people buying them to protect their roses - or tulips! (in packages of 1000 or more), you get a population color shift over a wide area.
Here's a little counter for you: [climateaudit.org]
The interesting this is how Hansen et al had a "C" scenario, which is the only one that's even close. It's above observed measurements. Oops. This is especially odd, since Hansen's "most likely" scenario - the one that all of the catastrophic predictions are taken from - is failing miserably.
The "C" scenario, by the way, trends to about a 2 degree increase over the next century or so - if we weren't in a ten year "flat to cooling" spot on the charts, which is counter to the last few years of the estimate of the curve...
The interesting this is how Hansen et al had a "C" scenario, which is the only one that's even close. It's above observed measurements. Oops. This is especially odd, since Hansen's "most likely" scenario - the one that all of the catastrophic predictions are taken from - is failing miserably.
The "C" scenario, by the way, trends to about a 2 degree increase over the next century or so - if we weren't in a ten year "flat to cooling" spot on the charts, which is counter to the last few years of the estimate of the curve...
Well, since the "short term" (20 years or so) models of the early 1990s have been off (by about 100% - we're seeing no appreciable warming right now, which puts us below the bottom estimate for the old global warming scares), and the new "medium term" (80 years) models have been getting downgrades from the 5C-7C range to the 1C-2C range, they have to come up with something suitably dire. Even better if nobody now living can check their predictions.
Batman wouldn't support or oppose it.
The Joker or the Scarecrow? They'd love it. A bunch of unprotected young people, some with expensive stuff, hanging around a dark city park at night? SCORE!
Not to mention the rest of the baddies, like Poison Ivy ("let me help you reclaim this park for nature") or Two-Face ("I'll either kill half of you, or support your cause. Let me toss this coin first, though").
Then, of course, it's Batman time.
Superman would drop by to lecture them on civic responsibility and tell them to clean up their mess. Green Arrow would be camping out and giving speeches, and the Hawk and the Dove would be standing somewhere on the edge, arguing about it.
The Joker or the Scarecrow? They'd love it. A bunch of unprotected young people, some with expensive stuff, hanging around a dark city park at night? SCORE!
Not to mention the rest of the baddies, like Poison Ivy ("let me help you reclaim this park for nature") or Two-Face ("I'll either kill half of you, or support your cause. Let me toss this coin first, though").
Then, of course, it's Batman time.
Superman would drop by to lecture them on civic responsibility and tell them to clean up their mess. Green Arrow would be camping out and giving speeches, and the Hawk and the Dove would be standing somewhere on the edge, arguing about it.
A correction:
No, Patrick Howley did NOT "escalate the protest" at the Air and Space museum - he merely took part.
Here's a link the the actual story. Try to find anything in there that looks like "escalation," other than managing to get inside a building without fighting a security guard.
[spectator.org]
It's also interesting that you make such a big (and inaccurate) deal about this, after making a pretty weak effort to justify or minimize the bad things that the protesters in New York are doing.
No, Patrick Howley did NOT "escalate the protest" at the Air and Space museum - he merely took part.
Here's a link the the actual story. Try to find anything in there that looks like "escalation," other than managing to get inside a building without fighting a security guard.
[spectator.org]
It's also interesting that you make such a big (and inaccurate) deal about this, after making a pretty weak effort to justify or minimize the bad things that the protesters in New York are doing.
I would have just melted some lead, put them in, let it cool, and used it for a door stop.
On the other hand, Sweden think there's going to be more ice - since they held their icebreaker Oden back from the National Science Foundation this year, forcing the NSF to hire a Russian one.
...and England is buying about three times as much ice clearing supplies for their airports, since they think the winter is going to be much colder.
...and England is buying about three times as much ice clearing supplies for their airports, since they think the winter is going to be much colder.
What they don't tell you is that even the authors of the study don't make the claim that fracking caused the natural gas to enter the water. They also don't mention that many of the homes in the area have had this sort of problem for most of the last century, and that the whole area is riddled with old mines and oil wells.
The last issue is that the studies haven't been finding fracking chemicals in the water - which is a pretty good sign that the gas didn't come from thoseg wells (which, in the case of the Vargson family, are at least a kilometer away).
The last issue is that the studies haven't been finding fracking chemicals in the water - which is a pretty good sign that the gas didn't come from thoseg wells (which, in the case of the Vargson family, are at least a kilometer away).
Or, on the other hand, the "solar output changed" theory actually fits observed data, and doesn't need big changes in computer models. CO2 output dropped because the world wasn't warming (CO2 follows temperature changes).
The fun part will be when it starts getting REALLY cold this winter - the whole world, overall, has had a very mild summer (the US is the one big exception, and our heat wave isn't that bad, historically speaking) or cold winter (southern hemisphere has had snow in places nobody's seen it in decades).
Meanwhile, it's recently come out that a lot of the temperature measuring stations in Antarctica have a design flaw - and some instruments may be overstating local temps by as much as 10 degrees Centigrade...
The fun part will be when it starts getting REALLY cold this winter - the whole world, overall, has had a very mild summer (the US is the one big exception, and our heat wave isn't that bad, historically speaking) or cold winter (southern hemisphere has had snow in places nobody's seen it in decades).
Meanwhile, it's recently come out that a lot of the temperature measuring stations in Antarctica have a design flaw - and some instruments may be overstating local temps by as much as 10 degrees Centigrade...
My favorite bit was when Chloe drew the gun and stunned that guy - she has a great fast draw. Very smooth. Most dedicated action stars couldn't do that well.
Yeah- the frogs are dying from a fungus, which keeps mysteriously appearing everywhere people go to study frogs. Has anyone thought of spraying frog researchers with antifungals each time they come back from the field and before they get to go out to another frog habitat? I think we have a good case for what the vector is...
Glau AND Dinklage in a funny movie with a budget of about $1.98? Oh, yeah. This thing's going to make a profit in the first day of release...
The pilot's on Hulu, so I'd think ep 2 will show up there eventually. It's also on SyFy six times again this week.
...except, of course, that the current sea level rise is pretty minimal. It's so trivial that when a recent measurement added 0.3 millimeters per year (because the continents are still rebounding from the last ice age), it added twenty percent to the current rate.
The whole paper is based on data from two locations on the North Carolina coast. Yes, two. That would be considered a fatal flaw in almost any other field, but in AGW climatology, it's the norm. The data in the study cuts off rather abruptly, too - ten years ago. Which is, oddly enough, about the same time that people started noticing that the warming trend wasn't continuing like the AGW fans had predicted.
Another funny thing: the sea level rise started increasing in the mid 1800s - well before CO2 levels started to increase in the 20th century. In other words, modern sea level rise is NOT caused by heating from CO2 increases.
Of course, the paper has one other huge problem you glossed over - one of the researchers is Michael Mann, of "Hockey Stick" fame. And yes, the paper includes a brand new iteration of the same old hockey stick shaped graph that has been shown to be so false in all of Mann's previous work.
The whole paper is based on data from two locations on the North Carolina coast. Yes, two. That would be considered a fatal flaw in almost any other field, but in AGW climatology, it's the norm. The data in the study cuts off rather abruptly, too - ten years ago. Which is, oddly enough, about the same time that people started noticing that the warming trend wasn't continuing like the AGW fans had predicted.
Another funny thing: the sea level rise started increasing in the mid 1800s - well before CO2 levels started to increase in the 20th century. In other words, modern sea level rise is NOT caused by heating from CO2 increases.
Of course, the paper has one other huge problem you glossed over - one of the researchers is Michael Mann, of "Hockey Stick" fame. And yes, the paper includes a brand new iteration of the same old hockey stick shaped graph that has been shown to be so false in all of Mann's previous work.
The most interesting theory is that they might be "quark novas," stars of just the right size (too small to become a black hole, too large to be a "normal" neutron star), which have a core dense enough to form a "quark soup" inside a large neutron star, which comes apart a few days after the main part of the star goes nova. The outer shell of the neutron star (heavier elements from iron on up) gets blown off at about the speed of light, and the impact of that against the remnants of the first explosion is what makes the super-bright flash.
At least, that's my (limited) understanding of the idea...
At least, that's my (limited) understanding of the idea...
