[Delacon]

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[JRandomFreeper]

How good are methane emissions?

A friend wanted to know. Really.

/johnny

[re_nortex]

I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 40's and 50's when the moniker "Smokey City" was applied to the region. I know for a 100% certainty that the smoggy haze was a symbol of prosperity for everyone and nearly full employment for all.

The efforts led by liberal David Lawrence and his DemonRAT toadies were a precursor to the business-crippling EPA. Sure, they cleaned up the air a tad but they utterly killed the vitality of the once-thriving steel industry and sent the Western Pennsylvania economy into the ditch for decade upon decade. The exodus from the region still continues because of the misguided actions of these early environmental extremists.

[allmost]

Warmth is were we live, oetzi’s don’t just fall out of mountains.

[TigersEye]

Now let us consider the question of warming: If it is occurring — and I believe it is, based not on disputable temperature measurements but on sea levels, which have risen two inches in two decades —...

I hate to rain on this guy's parade but that's baloney.

Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud

Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.

From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.

That is less than 3/4" per decade over the last century. More importantly that is a significantly slower rate of rise than the average for the last 18 millennium.

[Moltke]

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[painter]

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