Posted on 02/27/2008 8:18:28 PM PST by EPW Comm Team
Futures market for carbon credits just tanked. Hedge fund managers are trimming their hedges. Smokestack industries are making a comeback. Automakers are trimming mileage estimates. The fossils are fueling a resurgance. The Kennedys are now in favor of offshore wind turbines. Ice skaters have been taken off the endangered species list. Algore is considering adding rooms to his mansion and upgrading his SUV to 8 cylinders. Jobs, jobs, jobs!
So, what will they try now? “Pollute for Marxism?”
I love irony.
Obviously the Gore enema is working.
Ain't that the truth! If one breaks you'rr supposed to evacuate the room. You can't use a vacuum to clean it up once the dust settles as this will spread it around the room. You're supposed to use stiff paper to pick it up and they say that you may have to remove a piece on the carpet if you have children or pets (or like to get it on on the floor, I suppose!!).
So much for "green" technology.
“It was soo cold this morning in PA I saw two beagles jump starting a rabbit.”
ROTFLOL!!!
What a huge opportunity this is for McCain. If he were smart, he would cite this data and back way way off his global warming stance and eliminate one issue of difference between himself and the base. He already finessed the Bush tax cuts issue by saying letting them expire would be a tax increase which is true and he is against any tax increase.
“Global Cooling Underway”
No kidding.
The only thing keeping me warm this winter, are my hot flashes.
It was so cold in Texas this morning I saw a politician with his hands in his own pockets.
My wife calls it her "personal tropical vacation".
I read somewhere that in the last 30 years the total square miles of ice shelf collapse in Antartica is around 7000 sq/miles. Divide that into the 4.5million sq. miles that makes up Antartica. Now average in the thickness of the shelves at 300 feet thick vs. the average thickness of the ice that covers the continent at 7000 feet thick and do a new calculation.
It’s about the same as pulling 1 hair off your sheep dog.
Your numbers give 1/15,000, and I think a sheep dog has more than 15,000 hairs. Probably more like 300,000, so I'd say you're off by an order of magnitude, which isn't that bad really ... just say 10 hairs!
That's not the point of these collapses, though. These ice shelves were ( as I understand ) many thousands of years old, and seeing them collapse was like seeing chips flaking off an edifice. In such a case, it's no comfort that these chips represent a small fraction of the total mass. They are a harbinger of things to come.
He does look rather Satanic.
I got into a discussion with my biology professor on Monday. I told him the ice flows were increasing in mass. But being the rabid global warming alarmist, he told me that wasn’t true. Well now I hope he actually reads the reports and shoves them. :-)
I think you forgot the thickness.
Divide 7000 by 4.5m and you get .0015% of the square miles.
Factor in the avg. thickness of the ice @ 1.326 miles deep = 5.967 million cubic miles of ice.
At 300’ thick the ice is .059 miles deep x 7000 miles sq. and you get 398 cubic miles.
This equals .0000667% of the total land mass.
My calcs might be wrong... its late.
i will be the first one with torch and a pitchfork when some idiot goes “OMG Global Cooling! Ice Age! we much increase our carbon emissions to compensate!”
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