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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Jim1348
----------------------------------------Let's see what happens as the snow melts The same dire prediction was claimed in the UK last April a drought that was to last until Christmas http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17690389 ..and from the moment of that prediction it hasn't stopped raining http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/982...ce-as-the-snow-melts.html We have always had extremes of weather Gore or no Gore The Climate of the UK is Maritime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_climate the current warm spell is due to Storm winds bringing the heat up from over the Azores Here's how variable the UK Weather is over the coming weeks http://www.weatherweb.net/wxwebtv2.php If growing crops in the USA is no longer possible maybe the 6.5% of the arable land that is currently being used to produce Biofuel should be turned back in producing food for the Globe's Hungry. http://www.usda.gov/documents/USDA_Biofuels_Report_6232010.pdf Just a thought Dave  [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Jan 30, 2013 7:40:30 AM] |
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Jim1348
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If growing crops in the USA is no longer possible maybe the 6.5% of the arable land that is currently being used to produce Biofuel should be turned back in producing food for the Globe's Hungry. It will, for the U.S. hungry. But don't feel put upon. They almost had to close the Mississippi River a couple of weeks ago due to low water, but were able to blast a channel out of the rocks. I doubt that will hold through August. Maybe you can get an invitation to Kansas to pick up some wheat yourself? (It is the corn that is used for biofuels - a big mistake, but bipartisan.) [Edit 2 times, last edit by Jim1348 at Jan 30, 2013 4:30:45 PM] |
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David Autumns
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Jim1348 the USA is the breadbasket of the World
----------------------------------------It's because of the Biofuel that the food prices rose Worldwide The consequences are Global Much of the unrest in the Middle East was sparked by this dramatic increase in the cost of basic foodstuffs Your crops will be back and yields will keep increasing. Despite what the doommongers predict |
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David Autumns
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Good news
----------------------------------------http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-01-30/u...nment-searching-for-sites The decision may hinder plans to build new nuclear plants in the U.K. .. David King, the former government’s chief scientific adviser, has said the lack of a long term-disposal strategy may jeopardize plans to build new plants. My heart bleeds  |
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Jim1348
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Your crops will be back and yields will keep increasing. Fantastic! Enjoy your rain. |
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David Autumns
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http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2013/013...-different-Study-says-yes
----------------------------------------Human-triggered climate warming appears to leave a unique fingerprint on global rainfall rates compared with natural warming, according to a new study. While rainfall rates increase whether the long-term warming trend is natural or not, the rate of increase appears to be higher during natural warming trends. The result might help resolve a long-standing discrepancy between changes in rainfall projected in global climate models and changes projected by studying the historical record, researchers say. Say what ????? The Great Oz has spoken. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain….the…Great…er…Oz has spoken. I, I, I am the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz. |
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David Autumns
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Ooops nearly forgot
----------------------------------------The January 2013 result is in and the average temperature from 2542 NOAA Weather Stations around the Globe was 2.65C Jan 2011 1.37C Feb 2011 2.85C Mar 2011 6.93C Apr 2011 12.25C May 2011 16.16C Jun 2011 20.45C Jul 2011 22.83C Aug 2011 22.19C Sep 2011 18.72C Oct 2011 13.50C Nov 2011 8.32C Dec 2011 4.78C Jan 2012 3.26C Feb 2012 3.84C Mar 2012 9.71C Apr 2012 12.45C May 2012 17.32C Jun 2012 20.59C Jul 2012 23.13C Aug 2012 22.11C Sep 2012 18.44C Oct 2012 13.28C Nov 2012 7.97C Dec 2012 4.11C Jan 2013 2.65C J-D 2011 12.584C F-J 2012 12.745C M-F 2012 12.795C A-M 2012 13.031C M-A 2012 13.048C J-M 2012 13.145C J-J 2012 13.156C A-J 2012 13.180C S-A 2012 13.174C O-S 2012 13.151C N-O 2012 13.133C D-N 2012 13.104C J-D 2012 13.047C F-J 2013 12.995C Here it is as a forum friendly sized graph that updates hourly  The graph above is (at this moment in time) the result of 46,652,664 individual temperature measurements taken around the Globe since the beginning of 2011  Note all of the above is preliminary. I'm still working through the annual audit at the moment so that we keep comparing apples with apples. |
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twilyth
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About 19USD million per year - that's the current cost of 140 tons (tonnes) of bismuth triiode.
----------------------------------------It's a short article so you should be able to see the whole thing even if you don't subscribe. The idea is that high cirrus clouds are made of ice crystals. Ice crystals at that altitude, somewhat counter-intuitively (for me at least), trap heat. There's a link in the article which I didn't follow so I don't know the mechanism but I'm guessing that they reflect infra-red. Anyway, hit the troposhpere with some powdered BT, it helps the crystals grow larger and they fall out of the sky. Eliminating cirrus clouds would more than cancel the planet wide increase of 0.8C caused by people. Just one little problem. If you use too much BT, you get smaller crystals and the clouds linger longer than they would otherwise. So, do you feel lucky?   |
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David Autumns
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Absolutely no need whatsoever for "geo" engineering
----------------------------------------The Planet is doing just fine at self regulation ... as ever. It's managed along with the great ball of nuclear fusion to support life for millions of years. No reason to suspect that to halt any time in the foreseeable  Dave |
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