Posted on 05/25/2019 5:11:24 AM PDT by Libloather
If some of that extra snow is due to global warming, then great, let's have more of it. If not, it's just a natural cycle, so who cares. As for the record cold, that's debatable. Montana's record is -70°F from January 20, 1954. I don't think that will be broken again, and good riddance. It's absolutely nuts to whine about warmer winters.
The argument against has been censored. My search had no contrarians in the list. There used to be a lot of contrarians but they are the ones deleted.
The problem with batteries is the fuels that generate the electricity (that power the plug-in stations); THOSE are often still using fossil fuels.
In all those hosting services there is the opposite of censorship. They try their best to keep you running and published. Now granted if you use Facebook or Twitter or one of those leftist organizations you can rest assured they will at least shadow-ban you.
Yes. Any rapid charging station will be run by fossil. I get a chuckle out of the charging stations with solar panels. The dummies who believe those solar panels are anything more than decoration do not understand energy production at all.
The whole scheme has become smoke & mirrors, and warn young people it is just to get them to voluntarily accept a lower standard of living (no private automobiles or homes, no children, no passing on of an inheritance - since the “green new deal” has provisions in it to take money from white people and give it to non-whites).
From the NYT 2/21/29: “The goal of the Green New Deal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the worst consequences of climate change while also trying to fix societal problems like economic inequality and racial injustice.”
The paper states: The climate change debate has revived and reinforced the belief, widespread among climate skeptics, that volcanoes emit more CO2 than human activities [Gerlach, 2010; Plimer, 2009] and
The nearly 9-hour duration of both the Mount St. Helens and Pinatubo paroxysms gives average CO2 emission rates of about 0.001 and 0.006 gigaton per hour, respectively. Intriguingly, the anthropogenic CO2 emission rate of 35 gigatons per year— equivalent to 0.004 gigaton per hour—is similar. So, for a few hours during paroxysms, individual volcanoes may emit about as much or more CO2 than human activities.
It is true there is much bullshit published in science papers in the name of science. Some things that come to mind are "increased extreme weather" which upon analysis is just weather, nothing special with plenty of historical precedent. But the carbon dioxide source debate is completed for now in science. If you look at the people that cite the 2011 paper, you get papers like this 2012 paper: "Another claim concedes the rise but asserts that its cause is volcanic. For example, Plimer (2009) declares that volcanoes emit far more CO2 than humans. Corollaries of this claim state that emissions from one large volcano, or from seafloor vents, dwarf various human sources. But as Terry Gerlach observes in Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, such claims flatly contradict the science (Gerlach 2011)." https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/WCAS-D-12-00008.1
So while it is true that Plimer's claim is suppressed from google search results, it happens to be wrong. Plimer's book was not scientific, yet it was reviewed and considered by some scientists and found to be incorrect on the Pinatubo claim.
Volcanic ash is " 65% SiO2, 18% Al2O3, 5% FetO3, 2% MgO, 4% CaO, 4% Na2O, and 0.1% S. Thirty seven trace metals are reported including Ba, Cu, Mn, Sr, V, Zn, and Zr" (from a paper about Mt. St Helen). There is CO2 emitted of course, but a low quantity compared to fossil fuel burning, and other manmade sources. The weight of the ash emitted is irrelevant. It is clear that sites like that are incoherent. They make it very easy for Google and others to create algorithms to suppress them. They also make it easy to show how incoherent and unscientific such claims are.
I like Watts Up With That where they often ridicule the spurious correlations and random things blamed on global warming. They also present and debate issues like volcanic CO2. What I do is add "WUWT" to whatever I am searching. I got this nice result just now:
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