Posted on 07/22/2012 8:23:36 PM PDT by neverdem
YOU dont have to be a climate scientist these days to know that the climate has problems. You just have to step outside.
The United States is now enduring its warmest year on record, and the 13 warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998, according to data that stretches back to 1880. No one days weather can be tied to global warming, of course, but more than a decades worth of changing weather surely can be, scientists say. Meanwhile, the country often seems to be moving further away from doing something about climate change, with the issue having all but fallen out of the national debate.
Behind the scenes, however, a somewhat different story is starting to emerge one that offers reason for optimism to anyone worried about the planet. The worlds largest economies may now be in the process of creating a climate-change response that does not depend on the politically painful process of raising the price of dirty energy. The response is not guaranteed to work, given the scale of the problem. But the early successes have been notable.
Over the last several years, the governments of the United States, Europe and China have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on...
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Even natural gas, a hotly debated topic among climate experts, helps make the point. Thanks in part to earlier government investments, energy companies have been able to extract much more natural gas than once seemed possible. The use of natural gas to generate electricity far from perfectly clean but less carbon-intensive than coal use has jumped 25 percent since 2008, while prices have fallen more than 80 percent. Natural gas now generates as much electricity as coal in the United States, which would have been unthinkable not long ago...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This article proves that going back 2000 years to the Roman Empire, we are in a cooling pattern.
Yes, one of my physics professors way back when admonished us young skulls full of mush with TINSTAAFL, There is no such thing as a free lunch. And for those who don’t get it, BOHICA, Bend over, here it comes again.
Thanks for the link!
Now what does the Marxist New York Times think you should do
about this non-crisis crisis?
All you have to do is allow them to create a one world
tyrannical, unelected, unaccountable government wherein
your are a subservient slave to them and they will save you.
WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE....send some of the WARMTH to us here in Western Oregon....high of oh, maybe 65 today....it’s JULY 22nd!!! Normally it’s in the low 80’s....and low 50’s at night (tonight forecast for 48!!!
Damn that Conservation of Energy thing. Someone needs to pass a law!
Took the words out of my mouth! Here in Seattle my furnace came on in the middle of the afternoon. It’s set at 68.
Just be grateful that it's not calledWHITE MAN-made global warming.
The mind boggles that the author actually wrote this.
(Or am I the only one that sees a problem with such a statement...?)
Nah. These roads will not only generate power, they will use some of that energy to power the cars via electro-magnetic induction. The cars will also be on AUTODRIVE with a GPS linked computer which (by law) does all driving on highways.
Everyone will be free to gawk at the passing scenery.
and there will be flying cars too, and unicorns, and... life will be found on the moon.
EGGSactly Batman. I just watched an eye opening documentary called: Windfall.
It was a shocker. Touched on all sorts of issues involving wind power that I never even considered.
Hahahaha...awesome...now THAT graphic made me laugh.
I STILL want my flying car, darn it.
The mind boggles that the author actually wrote this.
(Or am I the only one that sees a problem with such a statement...?)
It's one of the reasons for a barf alert. There were others.
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