Re: [Vo]:Global Warning

2007-04-23 Thread thomas malloy
PHILIP WINESTONE wrote: Not only that, but Jeff didn't deny that global warming wasn't happening (although that in itself is questionable - if we're allowed to question the sacred GW Scriptures); he was simply saying that the evidence (evidence, mind you) is that global warming has happened

Re: [VO]:Global warning caused by humanity is NOW 'Unequivocal'

2007-04-23 Thread thomas malloy
Paul Lowrance wrote: Evidence For Human-caused Global Warming Is Now 'Unequivocal' February 2, 2007 I agree, what we are discussing is the cause. I contend that we are seeing the convergence of several factors, solar irradiance, volcanic activity, and possibly a change in the aether, all of

[Vo]:Forces in refraction effects

2007-04-23 Thread David Jonsson
I am really disappointed at Wikipedia users for not having anything on the Fizeau effect. It is intuitive and logical. Anyway I wonder if there is a force on a transparent medium as a beam enters it from a region of lower refractive index. Since the beam is slowed down I just assume there would

Re: [Vo]:Most efficient small diesel ?

2007-04-23 Thread Michel Jullian
Hi Jones, I am not an expert, all I can tell is that diesel cars of all sizes have become much more popular than gasoline cars over here in Europe, because gazole is considerably less expensive than gasoline, plus consumption is lower, plus the engine lasts longer, plus more recent models

[Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread Jeff Fink
Al Gore is poised to make millions if not billions off of “global warming”. He puts some chart in his movie saying it is now the warmest ever and you buy it as gospel. There are some flakey snake oil salesmen out there, and the gullibility of some on this forum scares me. It has been much

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread PHILIP WINESTONE
Then there's the small matter of two Canadian scientists who utterly refuted the thinking/mathematics behind the so-called hockey stick graph that showed how much we puny humans have influenced climate since the Industrial Revolution. These chaps have been all but totally ignored, but it's

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread John Berry
Balls. The argument that us 'puny humans' can't effect the environment isn't based on science, it's just a philosophy if you could call it that. (It's a stupid ignorant assumption you are happy to risk the world to) One thing you have to note is that there are 6 Billion of us puny humans, the

Re: [Vo]:Forces in refraction effects

2007-04-23 Thread Jones Beene
--- David Jonsson wrote: I am really disappointed at Wikipedia users for not having anything on the Fizeau effect. It is intuitive and logical. ... and generally in the USA, the more general effect goes by another name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect ... or are you referring

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread Paul Lowrance
No offense intended, but this topic is one of few that I take ***extremely*** seriously. I will be out right blunt and tell you that nearly all your statements are out right fuzzy logic -- Jeff Fink wrote: Al Gore is poised to make millions if not billions off of “global warming”. He puts

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread Paul Lowrance
PHILIP WINESTONE wrote: --- Then there's the small matter of two Canadian scientists who utterly refuted the thinking/mathematics behind the so-called hockey stick graph that showed how much we puny humans have influenced climate since the Industrial Revolution. These chaps have been all but

[Vo]:[VO]; CEN News 4/23/07

2007-04-23 Thread R.C.Macaulay
BlankHowdy Vorts, Cold Fusion makes its case in Chicago by Steve Ritter, an article in Chemical and Engineering News, is an interesting read, both in context and construction. Context we understand. Construction is another. A careful study of Ritter's composition of text is very revealing.

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread Steven Vincent Johnson
Then there's the small matter of two Canadian scientists who utterly refuted the thinking/ mathematics behind the so-called hockey stick graph that showed how much we puny humans have influenced climate since the Industrial Revolution. These chaps have been all but totally ignored, but

[Vo]:The lessons of cold fusion applied to global warming

2007-04-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Let me repeat some of what I have said before. I do not know enough about the technical issues surrounding global warming to judge whether the effect is real or not, or -- assuming it is real -- whether it is caused by people, by nature, or by some combination of the two. However, I do know

[Vo]:Real world Flop ear mule

2007-04-23 Thread john herman
Dear Vo., Please read the portion of the text, below. THEN please read comment that follows. THEN.PLEASE offer some contribution[s] as opposed to rant, guess Theory. AND: Please read embedded text[s] . - Therefore when evaluating the net

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread thomas malloy
John Berry wrote: Balls. The argument that us 'puny humans' can't effect the environment isn't based on science, it's just a philosophy if Did you watch the video John? Volcanoes pump out 10 times as much CO2 as all human activity. The big volcano you mentioned blocked out the sunlight

RE: [Vo]:The Fallacy of arguments against Global Warming

2007-04-23 Thread Jeff Fink
_ From: John Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:12 AM To: vortex-l Subject: [Vo]:The Fallacy of arguments against Global Warming The problem with augments against Global Warming is they lack pragmatism. There are in the end 2 types of arguments

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread Paul Lowrance
thomas malloy wrote: John Berry wrote: Balls. The argument that us 'puny humans' can't effect the environment isn't based on science, it's just a philosophy if Did you watch the video John? Volcanoes pump out 10 times as much CO2 as all human activity. The big volcano you mentioned

RE: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread Jeff Fink
-Original Message- From: Paul Lowrance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:36 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW No offense intended, but this topic is one of few that I take ***extremely*** seriously. I will be out right

Re: [VO]:Global warning caused by humanity is NOW 'Unequivocal'

2007-04-23 Thread Paul Lowrance
After writing computer simulations for several decades now I have a good understanding of such simulations. The computer will dominate science. :-) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/07084302.htm What's fascinating is recent simulations show the known amount of human caused CO2

RE: [VO]:Global warning caused by humanity is NOW 'Unequivocal'

2007-04-23 Thread Jeff Fink
The moon is just about the only other thing we can look at. Mercury is too close to the sun, the other planets are cloud shrouded, and everything else is likely too small to get a good reading. But, you are right. We should see the same effect of elevated temps on the moon if solar activity is

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread Paul Lowrance
Jeff Fink wrote: Again I wonder. What happened to the ice age we were threatened with in the late 70’s. Please show your references of leading climate scientists make such claims. You don't remember it? It was all over the news and in magazines during the late 70's. If I hadn't

RE: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jeff Fink wrote: Listen, neither you or I are climate scientists. Therefore it's only logical to listen to the mass majority of PhD climate scientists. It is the liberal way to silence dissenting voices. The size of the mass majority is skewed because the esteemed potential dissenters

RE: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread Jeff Fink
Also you said I recall a news caster six weeks before saying that Europe had just experienced the warmest autumn in 500 years. You recall a news caster making a statement?? The newscaster reported a statement. I don't know if he named a source. The item was obviously intended to hype GW

[Vo]:Wikipedia article on the 2004 DoE panel on cold fusion

2007-04-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_DoE_panel_on_cold_fusion This is surprisingly comprehensive. I have to admit, the Wikipedia main article on cold fusion is holding up remarkably well against skeptical attacks. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion People such as Pierre

Re: [VO]:Global warning caused by humanity is NOW 'Unequivocal'

2007-04-23 Thread Paul Lowrance
Jeff Fink wrote: Mercury is too close to the sun Indeed, and if the sun is radiating X% more radiation then Mercury should be hotter. Are you suggesting Mercury is always in front or behind the Sun so we can't measuring it's blackbody radiation??? I'm curious where you get such

Re: [VO]:Global warning caused by humanity is NOW 'Unequivocal'

2007-04-23 Thread John Berry
Jeff, how sure are you that GW is nonsense? Are you pretty sure? Is there a 10% chance it's real? 5%? 1%? one in a million?? At what point do the odds become justification for polluting out planet more? On 4/24/07, Paul Lowrance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Fink wrote: Mercury is too close

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread Nick Palmer
This Mars warming up is a red herring. The source of that idea is one man but it has been seized upon by the GW deniers as the basis of the latest in a series of last minute revelations that they have trotted out - designed to protect the status quo and muddy the waters. Most planetary climate

Re: [Vo]:The Fallacy of arguments against Global Warming

2007-04-23 Thread John Berry
On 4/24/07, Jeff Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- *From:* John Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, April 23, 2007 10:12 AM *To:* vortex-l *Subject:* [Vo]:The Fallacy of arguments against Global Warming The problem with augments against Global

Re: [VO]:Global warning caused by humanity is NOW 'Unequivocal'

2007-04-23 Thread Paul Lowrance
A new documentary, Green: The New Red, White, and Blue was just released on April 23 2007. DTMS, Discovery times channel is broadcasting this documentary right now. Listen to it and tell me man contributed CO2 is not the cause of Global Warming! Even Arnold Schwarzenegger states it's

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread PHILIP WINESTONE
You can always tell a good intelligent scientific discussion, because it always starts with balls. Something Newtonian I guess. CO2 affects the environment and so does water vapour. CO2 also causes growth in plants, so we should be getting lots of nice green stuff in our gardens. Then

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread John Berry
Balls! On 4/24/07, PHILIP WINESTONE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can always tell a good intelligent scientific discussion, because it always starts with balls. Something Newtonian I guess. CO2 affects the environment and so does water vapour. CO2 also causes growth in plants, so we should

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread John Berry
To expand on that, notice how the last thing Philip is interested in doing is refuting the evidence that CO2 and Temperature are linked. Or that CO2 is rising. The core of the argument is never argued. On 4/24/07, John Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Balls! On 4/24/07, PHILIP WINESTONE [EMAIL

Re: [Vo]:Global Warning

2007-04-23 Thread Nick Palmer
Oh, forgot to mention - Of course CO2 rising followed ocean temperature changes (due to natural events) IN THE PAST. That is only to be expected. Those who point to this as some sort of proof that CO2 has no effect on global warming, and that the GW scientists have it back to front, are

Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW

2007-04-23 Thread thomas malloy
Paul Lowrance wrote: thomas malloy wrote: John Berry wrote: I think what you meant to say is that volcanoes have in the past erupted to produce more CO2 than humanity ***for a given duration***. Oddly enough you're missing a huge factor, Duration. IOW, humanity continues to pump out a

[Vo]:CF compared to a chimera

2007-04-23 Thread Harry Veeder
from http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2007/straight_2007-04-05.cfm Sometimes a Nobel is given to a guy who¹s a flake but probably deserves it anyhow. One case in point is Cambridge University professor Brian Josephson, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics in 1973 for predicting how