Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-08 Thread Chuck Sites
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Chuck Sites cbsit...@gmail.com wrote: Heartland is funded by Koch, and other deep pocket anonymous donors. I have to give them some credit -- tactically speaking, they are quite

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-07 Thread Chuck Sites
Yes Eric, I understand the thought. Deniers should be allowed their opinion like everyone should. There is a danger though in letting the deniers push propaganda as scientific fact. It's propaganda by the big energy corps I fear. I wouldn't be surprised to see a few planted trolls on here just

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-07 Thread Craig
On 02/07/2013 02:19 AM, Chuck Sites wrote: Hi Craig, and fellow vortexians, I'm looking at your graph on temperature anomalies and every data point is above 0. Shouldn't some of you anomalies be negative. You have 16 years of positive anomalies but not a single negative. I think that

RE: [Vo]:OT Global Warming -- NO PERSONAL ATTACKS!

2013-02-07 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Sites [mailto:cbsit...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 11:07 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming Vorl bek says: Look at this authoritive website for answers, and it points to a rightwing funded propaganda machine called whatsupwiththat. Congratulations

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: So what causes Volcanoes and El Nino Jed? I assume that is a joke. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-07 Thread ChemE Stewart
Not really, I believe the sun can trigger both of them On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: So what causes Volcanoes and El Nino Jed? I assume that is a joke. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-07 Thread Chuck Sites
closed for a week and a couple of members being banned. Do you want to see that happen again? Dave -Original Message- From: Chuck Sites cbsit...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 2:02 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming The reality of AGW

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Chuck Sites cbsit...@gmail.com wrote: Heartland is funded by Koch, and other deep pocket anonymous donors. I have to give them some credit -- tactically speaking, they are quite effective at mobilizing public opinion. Eric

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
Sunspots also correlate with higher rates of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The average CME is 1e+12 kgs of energetic stuff. Don't you believe that stuff affects Earths energy balance also? On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, Chuck Sites wrote: Sunspots do reduce the solar input

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Craig
On 02/06/2013 02:48 AM, Chuck Sites wrote: Sunspots do reduce the solar input and during peak sunspot activity it can be as high as 15% more or less. Think about it. Sunspots are dark; Dark spots emit less light. So more sunspots, less light. Less light, less Solar input. Less solar

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Terry Blanton
Earthworms? And I thought it was termite and bovine flatus.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
You forgot cows On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Earthworms? And I thought it was termite and bovine flatus.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:44 AM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: You forgot cows Leave my wife out of this.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
Ouch! On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:44 AM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: You forgot cows Leave my wife out of this.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
I guess bovine=cow, duh Is she Holstein? Jersey? Did you meet in a field?... On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, ChemE Stewart wrote: Ouch! On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'hohlr...@gmail.com'); wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:44

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:03 AM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: I guess bovine=cow, duh I thought you were joking. Whew! Is she Holstein? Jersey? Did you meet in a field?... Kobe. Massage parlor.

RE: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chris Zell
Blah, blah, blah..living from paycheck to paycheck. The discussion begins and ends there, simply by defining what the phrase means. With greater advances in automation soon, that phrase will often become 'welfare check to welfare check'. But fear not for the climate ! The Drudge Report

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Craig
Please stop hijacking this discussion. Thanks, Craig On 02/06/2013 09:27 AM, Chris Zell wrote: Blah, blah, blah..living from paycheck to paycheck. The discussion begins and ends there, simply by defining what the phrase means. With greater advances in automation soon, that phrase

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
Speaking of cows and CMEs... I believe some of those energetic particles/micro black holes/ball lightning/plasmoid particles expelled from the sun are causing cattle mutilatios on Earth. The low momentum ones move towards heat, like a cow's butt. Keep an eye on your wife, especially when it is

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Vorl Bek
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:36:38 -0500 ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of cows and CMEs... I believe some of those energetic particles/micro black holes/ball lightning/plasmoid particles expelled from the sun are causing cattle mutilatios on Earth. The low momentum ones move

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Alexander Hollins
Sunspots look dark because they are cooler, not because they put out less light. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Chuck Sites cbsit...@gmail.com wrote: Sunspots do reduce the solar input and during peak sunspot activity it can be as high as 15% more or less. Think about it. Sunspots are

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
Exactly, and just like on Earth, most low pressure atmospheric disturbances, as gasses are collapsed and condensed are very cold. Same thing when you collapse and condense Hydrogen in the sun's atmosphere. In space orbiting particles less than 1e+20 kg are very hot because there is no

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Brad Lowe
AGW supporters have a number of mostly derogatory names for people who aren't on board with their theories: Deniers, skeptics, lunatics, morons, anti-science. A lot of us in the skeptic camp aren't so much skeptical of the science (although there is plenty to be skeptical of, as predictions have

RE: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chris Zell
Please stop referring to economic considerations of climate change as 'hijacking'.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Brad Lowe ecatbuil...@gmail.com wrote: It doesn't help that Al Gore's graphs showing a hockey stick increase in temperatures (and hurricanes) has been flat-lined for a decade.) That is incorrect. Temperatures have increased in line with mainstream global warming predictions. Please stick to

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Vorl Bek
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 15:40:49 -0500 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Brad Lowe ecatbuil...@gmail.com wrote: It doesn't help that Al Gore's graphs showing a hockey stick increase in temperatures (and hurricanes) has been flat-lined for a decade.) That is incorrect.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Brad Lowe ecatbuil...@gmail.com wrote: One thing we can agree on: Any solution proposed to fight global warming will cost trillions of dollars (short of a breakthrough in LENR, or a nuclear renaissance). I guess so, but to put it another way, any solution will *earn* trillions of dollars.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread James Bowery
The tragic thing is that the economy actually would benefit if half the unemployed were paid to dig holes in the ground and the other half paid to fill the holes in. This is the result of insane political economics. So it is true that even if there is no global warming, paying unemployed people

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com wrote: I don't follow. Did the predictions of increased temperature say that there would be no increase for the past 16 years, which is the case? It is a myth that temperatures have not increased in 16 years. The people making this claim started with the

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Craig
On 02/06/2013 04:08 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com mailto:vorl@antichef.com wrote: I don't follow. Did the predictions of increased temperature say that there would be no increase for the past 16 years, which is the case? It is a myth that

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: The tragic thing is that the economy actually would benefit if half the unemployed were paid to dig holes in the ground and the other half paid to fill the holes in. That would be something like war. WWII was a tremendous boost to the U.S. economy, even

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chuck Sites
Hi Craig and other vortexers. I would like to respond to several of your comments. First on the issue of Solar Irradiance or the solar forcing as it's described in the computer models. it is certainly the main contributing factor to heat of the atmosphere. No doubt about it. Sometimes it

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Craig
On 02/06/2013 04:20 PM, Craig wrote: On 02/06/2013 04:08 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: It is a myth that temperatures have not increased in 16 years. The people making this claim started with the highest outlier point 16 years ago. See: I don't agree with that, but you can see it here:

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Craig cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a graph: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4QESdNmbCJSbFFScjJZdUhWdU0/edit?usp=sharing So the temperature stall is still above the 50 year trend line, and can continue flat for quite some time before it falls below the first standard deviation.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
They have known causes, such as volcanoes and el nino So what causes Volcanoes and El Nino Jed? I am not saying that CO2 does not have a contribution to our climate, I just want us to all realize we are a freckle on the Sun's butt and at its mercy whenever it decides to fart. Stewart

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Harry Veeder
The reality of AGM is often presented as a no-brainer and that deniers are just plain stupid. However, this shows that global warming is not transparently self-evident and that an additional level of analysis is required to tease out the proof. I personally think the climate scientists speak down

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chuck Sites
The reality of AGW IS an no-brainer, and it IS the deniers that are plain stupid. That is a fact jack. Tere are 2 scientist that say so against your 5.Give it up deniers, you lost this debate in like 2009. Chuck On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chuck Sites
Vorl bek says: Look at this authoritive website for answers, and it points to a rightwing funded propaganda machine called whatsupwiththat. Congratulations for proving the point that the deniers are idiots. Best Regards, Chuck On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Chuck Sites cbsit...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations for proving the point that the deniers are idiots. I'm sympathetic to the idea that climate change deniers are in denial. But everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, and to be honest it doesn't seem like

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chuck Sites
Hi Craig, and fellow vortexians, I'm looking at your graph on temperature anomalies and every data point is above 0. Shouldn't some of you anomalies be negative. You have 16 years of positive anomalies but not a single negative. I think that proves the point that temperatures are trending

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
:02 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming The reality of AGW IS an no-brainer, and it IS the deniers that are plain stupid. That is a fact jack. Tere are 2 scientist that say so against your 5.Give it up deniers, you lost this debate in like 2009. Chuck On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1

Re: [Vo]:OT - Global Warming

2013-02-05 Thread Alain Sepeda
I'm more conservative tha many on tha subject. ther is no doubt that a pile of stupidiy, of scientific errors, of biased data and interpretation, exist on both side. It is surprising tha having suffered in LENr about pathologic consensu, funding propelled corruption of scientific method,

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-05 Thread Brad Lowe
It isn't just AGW we need to worry about... EAGW Earthworm-Accellerated Global Warming is the new hot topic in Climate Change Research. http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/02/global-worming-are-earthworms-accelerating-climate-change This is peer-reviewed hard science, so please refrain from

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Brad Lowe ecatbuil...@gmail.com wrote: It isn't just AGW we need to worry about... EAGW Earthworm-Accellerated Global Warming is the new hot topic in Climate Change Research.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-05 Thread Chuck Sites
Haha. Yeah I saw that story, It's just bait for the deniers (or contrarians), or just weird science to normal folks. For that matter, mushrooms exhale CO2.Trust me, worms are not the cause of global warming. I want to reply to Craig's comments and to argue scientifically against his

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-05 Thread Craig
On 02/06/2013 12:27 AM, Chuck Sites wrote: Haha. Yeah I saw that story, It's just bait for the deniers (or contrarians), or just weird science to normal folks. For that matter, mushrooms exhale CO2.Trust me, worms are not the cause of global warming. I want to reply to Craig's

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-05 Thread Chuck Sites
Sunspots do reduce the solar input and during peak sunspot activity it can be as high as 15% more or less. Think about it. Sunspots are dark; Dark spots emit less light. So more sunspots, less light. Less light, less Solar input. Less solar input should mean less average global temperature

Re: [Vo]:OT - Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread Chuck Sites
I'm probably going to make a few enemies, but the deniers of global warming (skeptic is too kind, Contrarian is more like it) really need to head over to NOAA.gov or Climate.gov and see what all of many different satellite data are showing. First, let's answer Craig's comments about not knowing

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread Alexander Hollins
Falling technology to lower levels due to slow degredation, and burning (literally) of our infrastructure won't end up being more greenhouse gases? On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: **

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: I see little need for strident warnings when a coming failed global economy will reduce emissions dramatically . . . That does not follow at all! Per capita emissions are much higher in Mexico and China than they are in the U.S. and Japan. Poverty

RE: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Zell
Rich nations can afford. No, they can't. That's the point. Their populations are suffering and it's going to get much worse. Nor do developing nations operate in a vacuum as markets are now more tightly correlated than ever, contrary to many predictions. Virtuous cycle? That would be

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Per capita emissions are much higher in Mexico and China than they are in the U.S. and Japan. Poverty causes pollution. Rich nations can afford things like nuclear power, wind power, electric lighting and modern hybrid automobiles. To be a little more concrete, look at the recent

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: ** Rich nations can afford. No, they can't. That's the point. Their populations are suffering and it's going to get much worse. If we would start to address the problems we will grow richer, not poorer. In the past when we built the

Re: [Vo]:OT - Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread Craig
On 02/04/2013 04:59 PM, Chuck Sites wrote: The bottom line is I just don't understand the thinking of the Global Warming Deniers, the contrarians. Global Warming is so blatantly obvious in the data, observations, theory and models that the only reason I can think that anyone would argue

Re: [Vo]:OT - Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread ChemE Stewart
Craig, I agree with your thinking. We are intrinsically connected to the sun thru sunspots, solar flares CME's as well as the solar wind and typical radiation . I think Earth is just a nodal battery in what is primarily a dark matter/entropic Matrix... On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Craig

Re: [Vo]:OT - Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread mixent
In reply to Craig's message of Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:37:26 -0500: Hi, [snip] Since there is no logical way that temperature changes could drive solar activity, then solar activity is driving the temperature to some degree. That's the only thing that makes sense. CO2 may be affecting it somewhat,

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: ** Rich nations can afford. No, they can't. That's the point. Their populations are suffering and it's going to get much worse. Nor do developing nations operate in a vacuum as markets are now more tightly

Re: [Vo]:OT - Global Warming

2013-02-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Craig cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what's known: * CO2 is increasing -- pretty much in a linear fashion. * CO2 is a greenhouse gas. But CO2 is an extremely small percentage of the total atmosphere; something like .039%. It's also not a very strong greenhouse gas. Water vapor is

Re: [Vo]:OT - Global Warming

2013-02-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: The reason is both political and based on the very slow response of the earth system to any change man might make. This makes no sense to me. The earth system is responding to CO2. Suppose we quickly remove the CO2 from the atmosphere, with a

RE: [Vo]:OT - Global Warming

2013-02-02 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Thanks for the summary Craig... I like it when Vorts take time to look into an issue and then report back and provide references... Here's a link to a site which keeps track of the peer-reviewed papers which present the skeptical side of AGW: 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic

Re: [Vo]:OT - Global Warming

2013-02-02 Thread Edmund Storms
Nice analysis, Craig. However, I think the wrong issues are being discussed. I think we can agree and a wide range of date show that the average temperature of the earth is going up, the ocean levels are rising, and the pH the ocean is shifting in a more acid direction. All of these