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I am totally not impressed with this jobs bill. We need to stop this shit and fully fund NASA NOW. NASA has shown the greatest return on investment of any program other than vaccination and K-12 education, and the morale boost was incredible. Now we are letting much of it slip away just...

http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2008/09/temperatures-plummeted-in-2008.php I think it is because The Sun, the big guy in the sky, has been quite (a slightly lower energy output and very little sunspot activity) for 10 years now. Since the energy absorbed by the earth depends on how...

Further update: This comment from Halldór Björnsson of the Icelandic Met. Service goes right to the heart of the accessibility issue: Re: CRU data accessibility. National Meteorological Services (NMSs) have different rules on data exchange. The World Meteorological Organization...

Really: Please provide the bona fides of the most of the people who signed the petition, cause I seriously doubt many even have the necessary expertise to even quantify the inputs for the model. As I understand it, the investigator was trying to show the context of the data the in the same...

Funny the skills of the Danes, the Chinese, and the French don't seem to be dropping despite their extensive, extensive, extensive government programs.

I am just going from memory here, but I seem to remember that the reparations that were required from Germany for the 1st world war were so high that they bankrupted the German economy, and brought down the Democratic German Government and then Hitler (who was a talk show host) gained...

Got a little problem with time and reading comprehension here don't we: the seattle times artical says: [qoute]It all started a year ago, when Porcaro, a 32-year-old mom with two boys, was summoned to the Seattle office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). She had been flagged for an...

Yeaper the goverment never does anything right yada yada yada. https://inlportal.inl.gov/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1269&mode=2&featurestory=DA_101047 The real foes of little/medium business are the financial parasites and BIG BUSINESS. Ask my old company that had a cushion of two...

I guess that those non-conforming loans that Goldman and Bear and Leaman was packaging in tryches, that the Bush Dept of Justice went to court to keep the states from regulating had nothing to do with it. Yeah. And also I seem to remember a top on about July the 17th of 2007. Not Jan...

Having witnessed a spin off of Bettelle Labs try to raise money to manufacture in the US, the problem was not that startups were worried about costs in the US, it was that Wall Street thinks it sees its highest return on capital from manufacturing in China. The US investment banks would not...

That and all the other personally observed factors I wrote about. I agree it is complicated. The last time the carbon was this high was (about 14 million years ago ) we had an extinction event, but the high carbon was probably caused by a meteor that hit Germany and caused widespread...

Would you care to elaborate on that?

It is the nature of trying to get the public's attention. For part of the last centruy there were miles of bare earth and gullies around smelting operations in Sudberry, Ont and Copper Hill, NC. BS, before scrubbers. Now the vegetation has grown back. I am pretty sure we could engineer...

[/b] Climate change conspiracies: Stolen emails used to ridicule global warming Climate sceptics are blamed for disrupting crucial negotiations, say scientists. By Michael McCarthy in Copenhagen and Jonathan Owen Russian computer hackers are suspected of being behind the stolen...

I beg to disagree. The solution (scrubbers) were applied and were effective. We engineered our way out of the problem, and we can do it again if the hysterical ostriches will get out of the way. And by the way, Off Topic, I don't know of any country that has a large precentage of...

By all means go to Asia. I since the Yallow and the Ganges both originate in tropical glaciers, I suggest that you go take a look at where they are today, vs say in 1990. They are MILES back from where they were in 1990. Yep, you REALLY want to be in China when the Yallow runs dry 3...

Right! PhD in Creative Golf, or Advanced Relative Smoozing. Engineering physics, heat transfer and physical chemistry always were the flunk out courses. Not surprised, that they found 31,000 who flunked them.

WE HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING A MINIMUM IN SUNSPOT ACTIVITY FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS!!! NOW! not 700 years in the future. NOW. If Earth's climate reacted to the low (almost NO) sunspot activity as it has in the past, we would have experienced a world wide decline in temperature over the last 10...

Xpurt: I too have wondered about the predictions of doom but if you thought with anything other than your wallet and your gonads, and studied a bit of celestial physics and heat transfer, you would check the sunspot cycle, which has been at a historical minimum for the last 10 years. The...

+1 Pretty much. Add to that that the original source of capital for China was Wall Street and Walmart, and much of the trade deficit gets recycled back to those entities.