Posted on 05/24/2023 5:53:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Any new sources of energy, once viable, would be the next to be attacked by the very same anti-energy fanatics.
The word “expert” has joined the lexicon of words that has been abused and overused to the point as to be rendered meaningless, like “racist “.
I believe the coastal mountain ranges and the Rocky Mountains can act as a funnel for hot Mexican air when the wind direction is northbound.
There has been a great loss of tree cover worldwide.
The air is cooler in the shade.
The properties on my Florida street have probably lost over half their tree cover in the past ten years.
“Climate science” is in same league as phlogiston theory.
Remember Obama said the discussion is over and that’s how they’re acting and robbing the taxpayer blind in all the western countries
-> phlogiston
Excellent reference.
Few know of phlogiston.
More than corruption, hawking global warming (aka climate change) gives aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
Up until the early 1970s northern cities often had streets lined with elm trees to keep city neighborhoods cool.
Climate change. The greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind.
phlogiston...Isn't that right up the road from whackistan?
Climate Scientists from the Central Whackistan Baltics are paid to devote their lives to promoting Phlogistan.
In fact 97% of Whackistani scientists believe people are causing phlogistan.
Anthromorphic Phlogistan is destroying the Earth!
Ozone is a greenhouse gas. It is unstable and hence is hard to measure so it does not get talked about a lot.
The Montreal Protocol of 1987 greatly reduced the emission of ozone-destroying gases. Therefore, it is reasonable to suspect that the amount of the greenhouse gas ozone greatly increased afterward and caused air temperature rises in the 1990s, mainly prior to Kyoto.
One of the ways ozone is produced is by hydrocarbon emissions. Hydrocarbon emission ozone clusters around population areas (far from polar ice) and has a protective effect against solar UV.
The greenhouse effects of CO2 and methane are generally inundated by atmospheric water vapor.
Where there is very little water vapor, the greenhouse gas effects of CO2 and methane might become significant.
It may therefore be desirable to prioritize the replacement of hydrocarbon consumption in dry areas such as the American Southwest by solar and nuclear power. It may also be desirable to concentrate cattle raising in wetter areas such as England and The Netherlands.
Trees pull water from the ground and lose water from evaporation from the leaves. When water goes from liquid form into water vapor form , energy is required for that molecular state change that is supplied from sun shining on the leaves and from the thermal energy content of the surrounding air. So when water vapor forms the surroundings lose thermal energy and become cooler.
When water vapor condenses into water droplets the thermal energy is lost and the surrounding air heats up. That is why clouds and especially thunder storms billow upward...it is the (relatively) warmer air rising. This is an important way that heat energy is transferred from the surface of Earth into the upper atmosphere where it eventually radiates into outer space as infrared energy.
So it is not just the shade that makes it feel cooler under a tree. The tree is helping to send thermal energy from the air into outer space.
In determining public policy with regard to electric vehicles and solar power, is is wise to work out from basic science and not from photos like an elephant in a Munich zoo during a European heatwave.
Elephants in Africa and India endure a lot of heat.
At the present 450 ppm CO2, the earth is at an almodt historic CO2 nadir. Quit playing their game. There is no crisis. Actaully declining CO2 levels would be cause for alarm.
The title - and hence the piece - is an oxymoron.
Thanks for the post.
Exceptionally well written essay about the imminent decline in our standard of living.
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