I heard on the news today that since 2001 the temperature here on this earth have stayed the same despite the fact that the co2 level has gone up to some degree. Those that drink the Global Warming kool-aid are at a lose to explain this phenomenon since it is 180 degrees from what they say is happening.
Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.
The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.
Antarctica has 90 percent of the Earth's ice and 80 percent of its fresh water, The Australian reports. Extensive melting of Antarctic ice sheets would be required to raise sea levels substantially, and ice is melting in parts of west Antarctica. The destabilization of the Wilkins ice shelf generated international headlines this month.
However, the picture is very different in east Antarctica, which includes the territory claimed by Australia.
East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week's meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown "significant cooling in recent decades."
Australia Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.
One week we are in a global warming. Next week we're not. Make up my mind!! Personally, I don't believe that there is global warming. And if there is....it is just the process of nature! I wonder if they can take back the Gore's award?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Gore Tells Congress Climate Most Important Issue Ever
Friday, April 24, 2009 9:55 AM
Former Vice President Al Gore, the leading American voice on climate change, urged lawmakers Friday to overcome partisan differences and take action to reduce greenhouse gases, calling the climate issue the most important ever before Congress.
Gore told a House hearing that the Democratic bill that would limit carbon dioxide and other pollution linked to a warming of the earth will simultaneously solve the problems of the climate, economy and national security.
"We are, along with the rest of humanity, facing the dire and growing threat of the climate crisis," said Gore, who argued that Congress must act to "restore America's leadership of the world and begin, at long last, to solve the climate crisis."
Gore, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on global warming, has for more than a dozen years championed the need to address climate change.
The former Tennessee congressman and senator described the bill before the House Energy and Commerce Committee as "one of the most important pieces of legislation ever introduced in the Congress." It calls for a reduction of greenhouse gases by 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, and 83 percent by mid-century. It also would require utilities to produce a quarter of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025.
Gore's backing comes after three days of hearings where experts, Republicans and moderate Democrats expressed concern that the bill, which would establish a cap-and-trade system to cut emissions, will drive up energy costs.
Gore rejected any conflict between addressing global warming and economic well-being. But he urged the House panel to make sure the bill includes provisions to protect people who will unfairly face hardships, such as workers in energy-intensive industries who could lose their jobs and those who face higher energy bills.
He offered the panel a litany of examples of what rising temperatures are already doing to the planet. He spoke of Arctic warming, melting Greenland ice sheets, and how increasingly acidic seas are striking seashells and coral reefs with a type of osteoporosis.
Many of us have accepted the fact that global warming is a catastrophic threat to our environment, our health and our economy. Fewer of us have accepted that global warming will have an impact on us here in New York state. The scientific evidence is clear that climate change, spurred by human emissions of greenhouse gasses, is here now. It is already causing increasingly severe droughts and heat waves in some areas, intensifying floods and hurricanes in others, and triggering more wildfires. Climate change can devastate crops, create drinking water shortages and increase the spread of infectious diseases. As the world’s largest per-capita source of greenhouse gas emissions, it is our nation’s responsibility to take immediate action to curb this pollution. Based on the best available science, the League of Women Voters is working to secure a cap on greenhouse gas emissions that is at least 25 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2020, and 85-95 percent below the 1990 levels by the year 2050. An effective climate change policy will help spur the use of renewable energy, help create green jobs, and help cut our dependence on foreign oil. It must be based on science and it must be enforceable, not riddled with specialinterest loopholes. Please join us by calling on Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to support strong, effective legislation to curb pollution that is causing global warming.
CAROL FURMAN Niskayuna The writer is chairwoman of the Environment Committee for the League of Women Voters of Schenectady County.
US wants to paint the world white to save energy Posted Tue May 26, 2009 12:45pm PDT
LONDON(AFP) (AFP) - US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white, as he took part in a climate change symposium in London.
The Nobel laureate in physics called for a "new revolution" in energy generation to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
But he warned there was no silver bullet for tackling climate change, and said a range of measures should be introduced, including painting flat roofs white.
Making roads and roofs a paler colour could have the equivalent effect of taking every car in the world off the road for 11 years, Chu said.
It was a geo-engineering scheme that was "completely benign" and would keep buildings cooler and reduce energy use from air conditioning, as well as reflecting sunlight back away from the Earth.
For people who found white hard on the eye, scientists had also developed "cool colours" which looked to the human eye like normal ones, but reflect heat like pale colours even if they are darker shades.
And painting cars in cool or light colours could deliver considerable savings on energy use for air conditioning units, he said.
Speaking at the start of a symposium on climate change hosted by the Prince of Wales and attended by more than 20 Nobel laureates, Chu said fresh thinking was required to cut the amount of carbon created by power generation.
He said: "The industrial revolution was a revolution in the use of energy. It offloaded from human and animal power into using fossil fuels.
"We have to go to a different new revolution that can severely decrease the amount of carbon emissions in the generation of energy."
Green homeowner hit with noise abatement order because 40ft wind turbine is driving his neighbours madBy Chris Brooke Last updated at 12:29 AM on 27th May 2009 When Stephen Munday spent £20,000 on a wind turbine to generate electricity for his home, he was proud to be doing his bit for the environment. He got planning permission and put up the 40ft device two years ago, making sure he stuck to strict noise level limits. But neighbours still complained that the sound was annoying - and now the local council has ordered him to switch it off.
The turbine is 230ft from the Mundays' house (far left) in a field owned by the family. Homes of some neighbours who complained are behind the trees Officials declared that the sound - which Mr Munday says is 'the same pitch as a dishwasher and quieter than birdsong' - constituted a nuisance, and issued a Noise Abatement Order. This is despite the turbine being more than 164ft from the nearest neighbour's house, as ordered by the planners. The ruling could have serious implications for the Government's drive to promote wind power and the use of renewable domestic energy if repeated across the country. Electrician Mr Munday, 55, and his wife Sandra, a veterinary nurse, challenged the decision by the Vale of White Horse district council in Oxfordshire. But Didcot magistrates rejected their appeal and they were left to pick up the £5,392 court costs as well. The turbine generated five kilowatts of electricity a day - the equivalent of boiling 300 kettles - and provided two-thirds of the family's energy needs. It also saved them an average of £500 a year in electricity costs. Sandra Munday said she and husband Stephen have been slapped with a £5,000 fine after the turbine caused a spate of complaints Mr Munday, of Stanford in the Vale, near Abindgon, said: 'I am very disappointed. 'We were trying to cut down on our electricity bills and help the environment but have been clobbered for doing so.
'Everyone is encouraged to be environmentally friendly and we wanted to do our bit. We never dreamed that going green would land us in court and £25,000 out of pocket.'
More...Losing the plot... Gardener's fury as he is thrown off his allotment for not growing enough veg
The Government planning inspector granted planning permission on the condition that the turbine did not make more than five decibels of noise above that of the 'prevailing background'.
It stands in a paddock 230ft from the Mundays' four-bedroomed detached house. Stephen Munday claims the hum emitted by the turbine is softer than birdsong or dishwasher But five neighbours complained about the noise after the turbine began generating power in February 2007. Patrick Legge, team leader of the council's environmental protection team, said: 'We accept that the noise did not breach the conditions in the planning application but it was decided that the character of the noise was a nuisance. 'There are no strict overall noise limits but each case is examined by their independent circumstances.' Michael Stigwood, an independent noise and nuisance adviser to the council, told the court that the noise affected people's ability to 'rest and relax'. 'The noise was continual,' he said. 'It's irritating and gets under your skin and is intrusive.' Neighbour Virginia Thomasson, 49, said: 'I can hear it inside and outside my house - at night, in the daytime, all the time. 'I cannot sleep with the window open. 'I am a tolerant person but with this noise it superimposes itself over everything I hear.' Another resident, Michael Brown, 49, added: 'The rhythmic mechanical noise is very irritating and incessant.' Chairman of the bench Liz Holford told the Mundays, who represented themselves in court, that the council's order was 'reasonable and necessary'. Now their only option is to appeal to the High Court - but they cannot afford to do so. According to the BWEA, the wind industry trade body, more than 10,000 small wind turbines have been set up since 2005 and an estimated 600,000 could be installed by 2020.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
British officials are considering the issuance of a carbon ration card to every adult. The card would be used when an individual pays for gasoline, household energy, or airline tickets. Each year, the government would allocate CO2 credits with penalties to those who exceed the allotted energy use. California is considering mandating the implementation of programmable communicating thermostats or PCTs, in all new homes and new heating/air conditioning units. The devices allow power authorities to remotely set the air conditioning or heat levels in your home to a temperature they deem appropriate. And the EPA recently issued an advanced notice of proposed rule making respecting greenhouse gas emissions from cars and stationary sources, which could one day include regulating and/or taxing methane emissions from livestock.
Then why are leaves- green, dirt- brown, bark- brown, birds multicolored, why do sheep/cow/pigs/deer/moose etc fart, burp, pee or even poop.....
I wonder where that leaves us human/mammal/animal/ape-like-thingys???????? lower taxes the lighter your skin color???
now we will all live in a 'white house' and be the leaders of our own domains,,,,IF,,,the government lets us.......
There is an abundance of green ( blue's cousin ) in nature because another color such as red or purple would fatigue the eye ( the rods and coneswould become overly stimulated ). You will also notice that there is relativly very little " real " blue found in nature- probably because of so much of the appearance in the sky and water-
There is an abundance of green ( blue's cousin ) in nature because another color such as red or purple would fatigue the eye ( the rods and coneswould become overly stimulated ). You will also notice that there is relativly very little " real " blue found in nature- probably because of so much of the appearance in the sky and water-
Do we not think that 'evolution/creation' knew what it was doing when everything(or alot of things) were made green/brown/black etc... so here we sit wanting to 'paint the town white'.......the only thing I can say here is---holy crap, I think I need to research more..... the sun is now our enemy????
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Scientists say white roofs could help slow warming BY DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Could climate change be staved off by making the United States look like the set of “Mamma Mia!”? That was suggested in a recent talk by Energy Secretary Steven Chu — although, because he was speaking to Nobel laureates, he did not mention the ABBA musical set in the Greek Islands. He said that global warming could be slowed by a low-tech idea that has nothing to do with coal plants or solar panels: white roofs. Making roofs white “changes the reflectivity . . . of the Earth, so the sunlight comes in, it’s reflected back into space,” Chu said. “This is something very simple that we can do immediately,” he said later. Chu has brought increased attention to an idea that — depending on your perspective — is either fairly new or as old as Mediterranean villages, desert robes and Colonel Sanders’ summer suit. Climate scientists say that the reflective properties of the color white, if applied on enough of the world’s rooftops, might actually be a brake on global warming. But if anybody is seriously considering a global whitewash, “simple” and “immediate” are probably not words that come to mind. “I don’t think that it could ever be done at a sufficient scale,” said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution in Stanford, Calif. He added: “It’s hard enough, in many of the cities of the world, to keep the streets swept, much less to keep the city reflective.” White roofs work because of the physics of sunlight. Dark roofs absorb and hold more than 80 percent of solar energy, while white ones can reflect 75 percent of it away. That makes a white-roofed building cooler and cheaper to air-condition. ..............>>>>...........>>>>.............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar00200
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