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     Aesquire |
Madduck, you got it right. There are cycles longer than the "11 year" one. They are less understood, but real. I'm hoping the "mini ice age is nigh" folk are wrong. Unfortunately I agree with them. I think that's the trend. It's a pity that the Climate Con folk have done so much to slime the reputation of Science. Wolf! Wolf! | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367248/thing s-we-know-just-aint-so-mona-charen Happy New Year. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367133/maryl ands-low-energy-chill-jillian-kay-melchior The poor always suffer the most when Command Economy is tried. Ask a Russian. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367178/lates t-biofuel-nonsense-jatropha-robert-bryce Energy density is the most overlooked factor in the whole "alternative" energy field. ( by reporters and politicians, anyway ) It's really simple. In the bad old days when you wanted something moved, you pushed/picked up/pulled it with your own muscles. Humans can put out up to 1/3 hp for short bursts, but figure 1/4 hp per 180lb guy for reference. Then we domesticated animals. It takes a whole team of people to pull a plow, but just one or a few Ox. The TERM Horsepower, where do you think that came from, eh? Wind power, water power, gave us far higher energy density than animal power. Yes, a windmill take capital to build, but it doesn't need to be fed and pastured. A water wheel can work trip hammers all day and night. etc. Those hammers can be bigger and heavier than a blacksmith can wield, so heavier and larger metal can be shaped.... etc. etc. Steam! More power per cubic yard than a water wheel, portable too. Downside, Fuel. Internal Combustion! More power in a smaller space and less weight than a steam engine. ( all other things equal ) Downside, more precision in manufacture needed. Turbines! More, smaller, lighter... Get the drift? The more concentrated the power available to DO WORK to the average guy, the better a life he has. The richer society is, and the more work one man can do. Electricity lets you separate the power source from the working tool in a lighter, safer way than drive shafts and belts. ( see pics of Early factories... lots of one armed orphans in those days ) Fission gives you power orders of magnitude more concentrated, Fusion, even more. Solar, wind, even with electricity to remote the power Collector from the tool, are huge, clumsy, and expensive, compared to a steam engine. But to be fair you have to include the woodcutters, coal miners, and Deep Sea Oil Rig folk in your total cost of use. But you will never have a solar powered motorcycle that has the operational abilities of one that uses a Mr. Fusion.... even though both use Nuclear Fusion to operate. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2 013/12/12-maps-that-changed-the-world/282666/#comm ents Maps are not the territory. Many people confuse the model for the reality, the explanation for the facts, the sales pitch for the item. Math describes. Yet many things in the universe appear to be mathematical creations, like the DNA coding that creates the fractal nature of your blood vessels, the "coding" for a solar system and the spacing of the planets...... well, lets just say that our understanding of Creation is imperfect, and those who tell you different are charlatans who probably want to rip you off. I especially like the West Wing clip. Maps are also fun. With a map you can plan a voyage, consider distant cultures, imagine adventure, and, sometimes, find you way home. | ||
| Sifo |
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| Aesquire |
http://www.steynonline.com/5865/sex-at-sunset The dystopian futures of Science Fiction are here. Now. While I worry ( as I assure you, the Communist Dictators there do ) about China's massive sexual problem, the Japanese have quit having sex? The Eloi & Morlocks...... What's China's sexual problem? Decades of "one child" policy. When you only have one kid to help you when you get old, it's natural to pick the sex as male, so they will make more and be more able to help you. If they will..... So there are an insane number more men than women in China. China has an ongoing propaganda/taboo against Homosexuality, so we have literally millions of Chinese men who's only chance of getting laid is to leave. Currently the ones getting laid have left for......here. Many of my customers are students from China, and the only place they have ever had a chance to get laid, especially with a girl from China, is here. The alternative, no doubt being seriously considered by the Party Leaders in China, is conquest. So far it's been a fairly subtle thing, unless you have been conquered, and I bet the vast majority of Americans still think China is in it's looking inward phase from the Mandarin days. Sorry. Wrong. The only real question is when. The realities of conquest China knows well. For centuries they would absorb and make Chinese those who invaded, and if they take over, say, Australia, the immigrants from China would while having their way with the ladies, and killing off the male competition, would absorb Australian values and lose their desire to be ruled by the Party. So, for a few years, at least, Australia doesn't have to really worry about Chinese direct amphibious invasion. The ones that arrive by airliner aren't that big a problem. Japan, Indonesia, India..... they are in the crosshairs. based on natural resources and ability to stop China, the island nations south of Japan are likely to be absorbed. But. Indonesia is more and more Islamist, so, while that doesn't make them any harder to take over, it makes them more and more difficult, and useless, to rule. When the fastest growing religion on the planet produces the most violent and useless people..... you get.... Today. Happy New Year. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/clima techange/10546128/Worlds-climate-warming-faster-th an-feared-scientists-say.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-ushers-in-2014-with -record-low-temps-snow/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-de ep-freeze-as-cold-as-uninhabited-planet-1.2479967 Australia is stealing our heat! | ||
| Reindog |
The frenzy about Climate Change (global warming or cooling, your pick) is nothing but an unscientific, political grab of Statists who want nothing short of absolute power. Anyone who states "the science has been settled" is NOT a scientist. Galileo, go back to your room. | ||
| Sifo |
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| Aesquire |
There are these huge "gyres" in the oceans. We didn't put them there. They are a natural part of the ocean circulation. We did however dump a lot of garbage in the ocean, and some of it floats. Guess where it ends up if it doesn't wash up on the beach? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage _patch There is concern with wild life, and some plastics break down into toxic chemicals that get into our food chain. I'm not saying this is the #1 ecological crisis on the planet. It's not. It is, however, real. ( unlike the results of numerous computer models that con men use to try and tax you for being in a civilization. ) It's also something that may have solutions that will require cooperation from many nations, and even action that only the richest can afford. ( like China ) However, real world problems are being ignored because of the con-man possibilities of taxing folk for breathing, the lust for power and wealth by the rich behind the Greenies. There's also the simple fact that marxist governments have the worst pollution in the world. Because of the nature of a system designed to create & maintain an aristocracy with no control by the "masses" there is little incentive to clean up the messes left behind by badly managed industrial processes. The Soviet Union killed a Sea. East Germany still has huge areas that are toxic wastelands, and China has laid out a haze of dirty, carcinogenic smoke across the planet since WW2. ( we won't mention the rivers. ) IMHO the reason these nations get a free pass by the Western Press is that the "media" believes, correctly, that they will be punished for telling the truth, and they have an ideological reason to lie in favor of the worst and most murderous folk on the planet. ( they want to be that aristocracy, here, and many already believe they are ) | ||
| Aesquire |
http://pjmedia.com/blog/david-suzuki-earth-martyr/ | ||
| Sifo |
Funny how selective news organizations can be when doing reports. I guess the old "who, what, where, when and why" no longer apply. Simply ignore the bits that don't fit your agenda. Frozen Out: 98% of Stories Ignore That Ice-bound Ship Was On Global Warming Mission | ||
| Chauly |
Tom, you'd LOVE talking to my rationalizing, ditzy, global-catastrophe-loving sister: "The ice that they are stuck in is sea ice, not glacial, and that changes all the time..." I'll tell her that they're not really stuck in "real" ice, and all they have to do is wait! | ||
| Sifo |
I'm not going to predict the fate of the ship. It could get freed with a good wind shift. Of course their summer will be waning shortly, and it could wind up crushed like a tin can. Either way, the irony is fantastic!  | ||
| Hootowl |
Glaciers? Pack ice vs. ice shelf maybe. | ||
| Hootowl |
Scratch that, I was thinking north pole. There's land under the ice at the south pole, so there are glaciers, which are distinct from sea ice. | ||
| Sifo |
Glacial ice is changes just as sea ice does. Glaciers in retreat have gotten all the news in recent decades. Glaciers that have grown in that time frame have mostly been ignored. I'm not sure if that's because of the media picking what they report, or if it's because the "scientists" have spent all their time focusing only on the retreating glaciers. I suspect it's both. The reality is that only a very small percentage of glaciers of the world have even been surveyed. Be careful explaining any of that to your sister though. Facts could cause a schizophrenic embolism. | ||
| Chauly |
The "Inconvenient Truth" isn't the first, nor the last:  The H.M.S. Erebus & H.M.S. Terror attempted to navigate the Northwest Passage (I know, the Other Arctic!) and vanished mysteriously. The crews left the ships, and all died trying to go South for the winter... (see "Franklin Expedition" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition ) This etching is from expeditions in the Antarctic under the command of James Clark Ross. The Ross Ice Shelf is named after him, and Mt. Terror is a volcano in the same area. (Message edited by Chauly on January 03, 2014) | ||
| Aesquire |
The Russian ship's crew and the Global Warming folk have been evacuated. The Ship's crew is hanging around in the hopes of saving the ship, and the GW folk are going to end up back home. The Chinese ship was still stuck last I heard, but they hope to escape. Weather is not climate. Still. Damn cold, eh? Lot's of new records. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/weather-winter-c old-frecord/2014/01/04/id/545173?promo_code=F269-1 &utm_source=americanthinker&utm_medium=nmwidge t&utm_campaign=widgetphase1 Hang on. This week is going to suck. ( for the east half of the US ) | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id =1&objectid=11181470 Forest needed to cover carbon footprint of icy rescue Snerk. I know I just wrote of being courteous to other's faiths..... but damn. | ||
| Blake |
LOL Yikes! A mere two weeks into Winter and AccuWeather is forecasting 9F here in Kilgore, Texas on Tuesday morning. Plants are going to suffer. I don't recall ever hitting single digits here before. Maybe RT's rule about never moving north of interstate 10 is more prudent than I used to think. I was just out enjoying a ride on the Uly yesterday! Someone please give Al Gore a nice swift kick to the groin. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-forgo tten-revolution-by-lucio-russo.html The history of technology is a prime hobby of mine. Not real big on Ancient astronauts. Maybe, but the lines on the Plane of Nazca can easily be seen by hot air balloons, and the tech for them is decent cloth & rope, not microprocessors. Incans had decent cloth and rope. The first recorded use a balloon to scout was in 1794 in France, then shortly after in the American Civil War. Rome could have used them, but didn't know how. India could have conquered the planet with gunpowder weapons long before Christ, but didn't know how. Tomorrow, civilization may fall because we've forgotten how. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Verily, I say onto you - this shiate has been engineered and designed for a long time. Reading up on the 'Mankind 2000' movement that was started by egg headed geeks, financiers, and social meddlers from the 60's you can see the line and lie of thought that has brought us to this; it was continental shift in its steady persistence - and now to deny 'climate change' or Global Warming you are seen as a person that thinks the world is round when the administrations are preaching it is flat. Educate yourself - we have been duped for entirely too long. (PS I never bought global warming - the statistical data was always cooked and not impartial ) | ||
| Reindog |
(On Global Warming): "The science has been settled" -- Al Gore. That is the language of fascism and tyranny. Science is never settled. Galileo, go back to your prison cell.  | ||
| Hootowl |
Shall we go for three? http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/01/05/coast-guar d-ship-to-attempt-to-rescue-2-icebreakers-in-antar ctica/?intcmp=obinsite | ||
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| Aesquire |
Lovely day at work. -27f windchill. Reindog's 'toon above nails it. Want to commit suicide? Go to Iran ( or many other places ) and mock the Prophet Mohammed. Or go to D.C. and Mock the Prophet Gore. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-catast rophe_773268.html?page=1 http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/01/07/scientists- reject-claims-of-record-cold-being-caused-by-globa l-warming-time-mag-blamed-polar-vortex-on-global-c ooling-in-1974-special-report/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/5/oba mas-use-of-executive-orders-to-change-climate-p/?u tm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS So let it be written, so let it be done. | ||
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| Hootowl |
So what? The solution is the same: Give me your money. |
