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Please explain how this related to the fact that Europe is facing its coldest winter in 1,000 years?
Please explain how this related to the fact that Europe is facing its coldest winter in 1,000 years?
weather != climate
First, we are in the midst of a major extinction period, just on the impacts of man destroying natural habitats.
The Sixth Extinction (ActionBioscience)
There is little doubt left in the minds of professional biologists that Earth is currently faced with a mounting loss of species that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past. As long ago as 1993, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson estimated that Earth is currently losing something on the order of 30,000 species per year — which breaks down to the even more daunting statistic of some three species per hour. Some biologists have begun to feel that this biodiversity crisis — this “Sixth Extinction” — is even more severe, and more imminent, than Wilson had supposed
Report: U.S. Needs National Strategy for Adapting to Warmer Climes - ScienceInsider
The federal government is way behind on efforts to develop effective strategies to adapt to a changing climate, a new report to the White House says today.
"Even with mitigation efforts, climate change will continue to unfold for decades due to the long atmospheric lifetime of past greenhouse gas emissions and the gradual release of excess heat that has built up in the oceans," the report says. States, cities, and towns could use guidance from the federal government's vast climate science effort on how to prepare for a warmer world, it adds.
Requested by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the report comes out of a 2-day summit held last year that involved both scientists and so-called stakeholders from state and local governments and businesses. These included wildlife managers, water and health officials, city planners, and construction experts. "In the past, meetings like this were just a bunch of academics talking together," said Jack Fellows, an official with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, who helped run the summit and contributed to the report.
Please explain how this related to the fact that Europe is facing its coldest winter in 1,000 years?
Still no facts, just rhetoric, I see.Rhetoric, and mostly hysterical rhetoric at that, is not the same as facts.Get some facts, ol' dingbat.
I'll check in occassionally to see if any facts telling me of an inevitablilty show up.
No, you will check in occasionly to see if there is some way to cast doubt, in the same manner as the tabacco companies. You present the same degree of honesty that they do.
When a White House advisor was asked why Kennedy set a goal of putting a man on the moon within a decade, he said that it was felt that America could not hold it's focus on a national goal for more than a decade. Preparing for global climate change is a major effort that would require bi-lateral support for decades which isn't going to happen until water is 3 feet deep on Wall Street.
It is called rate of change, Walleyes. And, considering the number of times you have stated that you think that NASA, NOAA, and all the foreign equivelents are lying about the increase in temperature, the statement you just made is called covering your ass.
Kooky, you are still one fucking dumb bastard.
Comparative electrical generation costs - SourceWatch
Busbar cost in cents per kilowatt-hour in 2008 dollars:
Coal:
Coal Supercritical: 10.554
Coal Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC): 11.481
Coal IGCC with Carbon Capture & Storage (IGCC with CCS): 17.317
Alternatives:
Biogas: 8.552
Wind: 8.910
Gas Combined Cycle: 9.382 (assumes $5.50 to $6.50/MMBtu for gas)
Geothermal: 10.182
Hydroelectric: 10.527
Concentrating solar thermal (CSP): 12.653
Nuclear: 15.316
Biomass: 16.485
Kooky, you are still one fucking dumb bastard.
Comparative electrical generation costs - SourceWatch
Busbar cost in cents per kilowatt-hour in 2008 dollars:
Coal:
Coal Supercritical: 10.554
Coal Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC): 11.481
Coal IGCC with Carbon Capture & Storage (IGCC with CCS): 17.317
Alternatives:
Biogas: 8.552
Wind: 8.910
Gas Combined Cycle: 9.382 (assumes $5.50 to $6.50/MMBtu for gas)
Geothermal: 10.182
Hydroelectric: 10.527
Concentrating solar thermal (CSP): 12.653
Nuclear: 15.316
Biomass: 16.485
What a dumb question. We're discussing global climate change. The average temperature of the global climate should remain relatively stable after adjusting for solar cycles.When a White House advisor was asked why Kennedy set a goal of putting a man on the moon within a decade, he said that it was felt that America could not hold it's focus on a national goal for more than a decade. Preparing for global climate change is a major effort that would require bi-lateral support for decades which isn't going to happen until water is 3 feet deep on Wall Street.
You do realise, don't you, that the climate is allways changing? Please point to a time in the Earths history when it was static. Any time will do.