Posted in Climate Change, Movie Reviews on Jul 18th, 2007
I watched a bit of the Live Earth concert. There were several bands I hand never seen live. When my son got bored with the music we put in the DVD, “Last King of Scotland”. Last King of Scotland is a great movie but you should not watch it with young children. Forrest Whitaker deserved [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Apr 25th, 2007
China will pass the United States as the world’s biggest source of greenhouse gasses this year, an official with the International Energy Agency was quoted as saying. China had been forecast to surpass the U.S. in 2010, but its sizzling economic growth has pushed the date forward, the IEA’s chief economist… Source: Digg – Blog: [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Apr 24th, 2007
I must admit that I was inspired to take a close look at our energy consumption and estimated CO2 emissions after reading this Popular Mechanics article, Energy Family Part Four: Power Pioneers – Popular Mechanics. Since I am engineer I had to have some calculations. So I went over to the EPA site and pulled [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Mar 15th, 2007
Anthropocentric climate change is a problem. The question is, what kind of problem is it? Many people claim that it is an environmental problem. Some claim that it is a technological, scientific, or even moral problem. Others vigorously contend that is it not a “problem” at all. I believe that, first and foremost, anthropocentric climate [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Dec 7th, 2006
AP – In a “sneak peak” revealing a grim side effect of future warmer seas, new NASA satellite data find that the vital base of the ocean food web shrinks when the world’s seas get hotter. Link to Warmed-up oceans reduce key food link (AP) I guess the most surprising thing about this article is [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Fun Facts on Dec 4th, 2006
Temperature measurement using modern scientific thermometers and temperature scales goes back at least as far as the early 18th century, when Gabriel Fahrenheit adapted a thermometer (switching to mercury) and a scale both developed by Ole Christensen Rømer. Fahrenheit’s scale is still in use, alongside the Celsius scale and the Kelvin scale. Source: Temperature [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Nov 27th, 2006
Whenever I look at new climate change reports I wonder if we are one step closer to explaining the universe or just a tiny step ahead of chaos. My gut feeling is that chaos is laughing nearby. My wife is a fan of the McLaughlin Group. One of the little games we play to make [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Nov 18th, 2006
Isn’t it interesting when experts make grand predictions and then turn out to be wrong? For all of the rhetoric used by the drive-by legacy media, you’d think they’d be apologizing this year for doing so…. What am I talking… I just want to point out that there were ZERO hurricanes to hit the U.S. [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Nov 15th, 2006
Do stalagmites grow from the ceiling or the floor of cave? Time is up – they grow from the floor of caves (stalactites grow from the ceiling), but the key is that they grow over long periods of time. Some stalagmites are thousands of years old and if they are in just the [...] Link [...]
Posted in Climate Change on Jul 3rd, 2006
Don’t Believe the Hype Al Gore is wrong. There’s no “consensus” on global warming. I feel like I am constantly being bombarded with global warming stories and my skeptic antenna is constantly tingling. The greater the volume for the argument, the more I doubt it. The volume is loud. My reaction to the global warming [...]
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