Environment - August 2007

I was told by my Stock Broker that I should put all my money in company's that produce Air Conditioning products due to the onslaught of Global warming.

2007-08-30 14:37:21 · 8 answers · asked by hawk_barry 6 in Global Warming

A wired ball mouse or a wireless optical mouse.
We should all do what is necessary to help the environment.

2007-08-30 14:15:09 · 9 answers · asked by joe s 6 in Green Living

I am suppose to go on a ski trip to Utah this January. I was told today that due to global warming there is not going to be any snow. Should I sell my tickets now before everyone finds out?

2007-08-30 14:04:06 · 14 answers · asked by hawk_barry 6 in Global Warming

The U.S. already knows how to make eletrical cars yet everyone continues to pollute. We could make a difference in our enviorment if they started to only make eletrical cars.

2007-08-30 13:55:56 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

I am afraid of suddenly loud thunderclaps.
I would hug my stuffed bunny til the stuffing came out during these storms. When I was dating, my girlfriend would hold me during these storms to comfort me. I can't find a girl down here in NC.
NASA just predicted that thunderstorms are going to intensify due to global warming. I wish I had a plush animal or a girlfriend to hug now.

2007-08-30 13:54:22 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

My orange juice and soy milk containers don't have the little triangle printed on them, can they still be recycled?

What can be recycled, and what can't?

2007-08-30 13:41:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

The vintage tin kind, or the more modern cloth-like kind?

2007-08-30 13:02:12 · 8 answers · asked by mandieshaw13 3 in Green Living

2007-08-30 12:56:14 · 13 answers · asked by uboherb 3 in Other - Environment

How is it that Scientists can make Margarine for a substitute for butter, in which , by the way is only 2 molicules away from plastic, But Scientist can not make water, H2O? would that not solve the worlds problem for water shortages?

2007-08-30 12:47:41 · 5 answers · asked by acot_anthonym 4 in Conservation

Referring to this term commonly used today, is it just a coincidence that this invokes the more omnious term, "holocaust denier", or do those who use it actually feel that there is a connection in character between those who deny the existance of man-made global warming and the murder of six-seven million Jews by the Nazis in WW2.

2007-08-30 12:44:41 · 14 answers · asked by Erik 2 in Global Warming

or do you admit that it plays a role in global warming?

do you admit that the 30% increase in CO2, 50% increase in CH4, 18% increase in NOx, and infinite % increase in alkyl halides over the last 100 years is caused by human activity?

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/stateofknowledge.html

http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/thomas.wolosz/global_warming.htm

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pns/current_ghg.html

2007-08-30 12:00:15 · 12 answers · asked by PD 6 in Global Warming

There is an absolute slam dunk correlation of temperature with reconstructed Total Solar Irradiance. There is a correlation with increased solar activity and CO2 increase. The ACRIM TSI composite shows sustained increase in solar activity since the Mid 1980's. Most reconstructed TSI datasets show a 1 watt/century sustained increase. Some datasets show a 3 watt/century gradient.

If I run the wavetran model at 280 PPM : Out = 228.812
If I run the wavetran model at 380 PPM : Out = 227.807
Difference : Out = 1.005

That is only 1 watt since we started burning oil.

Wavetran Program
http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/cgimodels/radiation.html

ACRIM Composite (Sattelite Measurement 30 Years)
http://spot.colorado.edu/~koppg/TSI/TSI_Composite.jpg

Reconstructed TSI ( 100's of years)

N. Scafetta1 and B. J. West1,2
http://spot.colorado.edu/~koppg/TSI/TSI_Composite.jpg

2007-08-30 11:58:12 · 11 answers · asked by Tomcat 5 in Global Warming

Do you agree that this world may becoming to an end with polluting? If you want your future children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and further on to live in a better world? Al Gore tried to say something to us and most of us hardly even listened. Sure there are some few "good" things people to about global warming, but that is just a few. Don't you agree that we should start doing more than just a few things to help our planet Earth?? For us and our future generations?

2007-08-30 11:37:07 · 11 answers · asked by Tara 4 in Global Warming

Wow, more proof that "man made global warming" is a farce and nothing but insane scare tactics by lefties and commies.

Michael Asher
August 29, 2007 11:07 AM
In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the "consensus view," defined as humans were having at least some effect on global climate change. Oreskes' work has been repeatedly cited, but as some of its data is now nearly 15 years old, its conclusions are becoming somewhat dated.

Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently updated this research. Using the same database and search terms as Oreskes, he examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. The results have been submitted to the journal Energy and Environment, of which DailyTech has obtained a pre-publication copy. The figures are surprising.

2007-08-30 11:36:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Mr. Jello asks this question - "is objective science dead"? Considering that he's blocked virtually everyone who isn't a global warming denier, isn't this question a tad bit ironic?

Is objective Jello dead?

2007-08-30 10:54:24 · 13 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

An analogy - take a school hall full of kids, ask them what's the capital of France, 999 say Paris and 1 says Rome. Would anyone believe the kid who said Rome was correct?

Is this what passes for science these days? What if 999 said Boston? Would that make it true? Of course not. It doesn't depend on the number of people who say something. It just takes one person to look up the data to find out what the right answer is.

At one time the consensus declared the Earth was the center of the universe. I'm grateful to that one man who did the research and determined that wasn't right.

Consensus "science" should be banished by the scientific community. There should be substitute for Objective Science.

2007-08-30 10:41:46 · 7 answers · asked by Dr Jello 7 in Global Warming

just spent a month travelling lall over Florida and up to North Carolina and Atlanta, i think i only ever saw 1 type of recycling, no households seem to do it thats not very good is it,and was looked at as though i was mad when i mentioned it!
in Chester Uk where i live we recycle all our household rubbish it gets collected by the council every week

2007-08-30 10:19:34 · 40 answers · asked by lilian c 5 in Global Warming

Increased fuel needed for A/C versus open window drag.

2007-08-30 09:55:31 · 8 answers · asked by edf105 1 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

I've got this friendly acquaintance, who is pretty well off (wealthy) and it seems that everything this touches turns to gold. He's given me advice in the past and it's always been dead on. Anyways, he NEVER gets involved in businesses, he usually starts and runs them and then sells them for mega bucks. But this thing (Ignite) intrigued him to the point that he spent a year looking into it, then decided to join and now is pretty pumped about it and has since sat me down and explained it to me and showed me this: http://andrewski.igniteinc.biz Anybody know of any other regular folks who have done well with this energy deregulation opportunity?

2007-08-30 09:41:14 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

With the emphasis on saving money with not spending as much on gas...any idea how much electricity these electric cars will be eating up to charge.

2007-08-30 09:31:21 · 5 answers · asked by jeremyascent 1 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Peak oil will be the problem of most everyone alive today. The US is past peak oil, as are most of the countries in Europe. Mexico is expected to hit peak by 2010. Russia and the unknown middle east supplies are expected to peak around 2015. The BUSH administration expects peak oil production to hit somewhere between 2015 and 2020. After that its gonna be a fast slide down to cayoss for most of the industrial world. Sure, BP and Arch Coal are building a coal to gas facility in the midwest, but that won't be online for another 5 years and is nowhere near enough to supply the country with oil.

2007-08-30 09:21:50 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-08-30 09:16:58 · 15 answers · asked by flaflounder049 1 in Global Warming

I'm doing a book report and using the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) where it says on the summary for policy makers on page 6. I think i'm reading the wrong graph, (I hate graphs), but its the one that says "Global Average Temperature" and is a steep slant upward. I looked to the left it looks down on the left as much as it is up on the right. But the numbers are real small on the side (.5 degrees). Is this right? Global warming means .5 degrees?

2007-08-30 08:41:27 · 12 answers · asked by james 2 in Global Warming

2004 - Oreskes [geology background] examines 928 scientific journal articles and determines that 75% agreed with the consensus view (either implicitly or explicitly), 25% took no stand one way or the other, and none rejected the consensus.

2005 - Peiser [anthropology background] surveys 1117 papers including Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities papers, and also including editorials (not reviewed by Oreskes). Peiser determined that 40% agreed explicitly or implicitly, 57% were neutral, and 3% rejcted the consensus. He later backtracked to say that only 1 paper (less than 0.1%) actually rejected the consensus, and it was an editorial, not a scientific paper.

http://www.norvig.com/oreskes.html

2007: Klaus-Martin Schulte [medical researcher?!] examines 528 papers (unknown search criteria?) and finds 45% agree (implicit + explicit), 48% take no stand, and 6% reject the consensus.

So basically the only issue is whether papers are implicitly accepting the consensus or neutral.

2007-08-30 08:26:27 · 10 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

Some politicians like Newt Gringrich are now asking fellow conservatives to stop resisting scientific evidence of global warming.

Has Newt discovered that fighting the misconceptions of the majority is a losing political battle?

After all, if the majority of the people believed the Earth was flat and the Sun revolved around it, what political purpose would it serve to oppose them?

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Do you agree?

2007-08-30 07:38:08 · 5 answers · asked by Dr Jello 7 in Global Warming

Here's a discussion of the journal that it was published in.

http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/aug/policy/pt_skeptics.html/

Note that ES&T is about as mainstream as it gets. It's the Wall Street Journal of the environmental business, published for many years by the American Chemical Society, a large and very diverse organization, not known for environmentalism. More here:

http://pubs.acs.org/journals/esthag/about.html

The study found that 32/528 papers (about 6%) question the reality of man made global warming. I wonder how many of the 32 also came from "Energy and Environment"?

2007-08-30 06:50:23 · 8 answers · asked by Bob 7 in Global Warming

Top five most cited papers (out of 6,793 since 1988) in science journals that mention global warming according to Web of Science http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi as of Aug 30th 2007. Is there any interest in seeing articles 6-10?

1. DECADAL ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN VARIATIONS IN THE PACIFIC http://www.springerlink.com/content/m5711482u6554132/fulltext.pdf
2. THE GLOBAL CARBON-DIOXIDE FLUX IN SOIL RESPIRATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO VEGETATION AND CLIMATE http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1034/j.1600-0889.1992.t01-1-00001.x?cookieSet=1&journalCode=teb
3. Ecological responses to recent climate change http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v416/n6879/pdf/416389a.pdf
4. Climate response to increasing levels of greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v376/n6540/pdf/376501a0.pdf
5. Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v408/n6809/pdf/408184a0.pdf

2007-08-30 06:34:12 · 6 answers · asked by EnvChemist 2 in Global Warming

2007-08-30 06:32:41 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-08-30 05:40:47 · 6 answers · asked by adamap 1 in Green Living

Ethanol has been touted as an Alternative Fuel, although some say there are emission problems connected to its use. Ethanol, in our country, is primarily made from corn, and corn and corn syrup are important ingredients in much of our food products. Thus, the production of Ethanol is blamed for the rising prices in food. However, most of us do not know a soul using Ethanol as fuel, and there is only one gas station in Michigan offering Ethanol as an alternative choice. So why would Ethanol take the blame for the prices going up in food?

2007-08-30 05:25:12 · 16 answers · asked by Me, Too 6 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles