Damn.
Steven Den Beste spent a good deal of time explaining the engineering constraints of “alternative energy” but only six people in North America understand what the fuck he’s talking about. Frances Porretto explains it in terms even your humble narrator can understand. Read, or I’ll show up at your house dressed like a sumo wrestler and crap on your lawn. Don’t fuck with me, I have your IP address.
IN other news, The fine folks at Climate Skeptic have continued to dismantle “accepted scientific data” such as the splicing of temperature data and tree ring size. Turns out this is horseshit, as I expected. I’ve been having some fun with some of the dim bulbs there, who, lacking actual verifiable fact supporting their stupidity, turn directly to ad hominem. It’s a hoot, try it.
It’s interesting to me how they love to come up with “solutions” without really having a solution, if that makes any sense. Theoretically, these thoughts are nice, but in practice, perhaps are just not feasible. Don’t tell Al Gore that though.
Every time I see that Honda commercial for the car that runs on hydrogen fuel cells, I laugh. They claim it has “zero emissions” yet it’s byproduct is water vapor. I hate to inform them that water vapor is technically an emission. Wouldn’t it be funny if we converted all our cars to hydrogen fuel cells, then found out a hundred years down the line that all the extra water vapor in the atmosphere was causing environmental damage, or even better yet…global warming?
I lurv Climate Skeptic.
Here’s another one. They (the warmistas, mostly, if you must know) claim that the pre-industrial atmosphere consisted of (in part) 280PPM of CO2. And they (same “they”) say we have 385 PPM now.
But… not really. If you check the chart of readings, 385 is the MAX reading they get, and find LOTs of places where there’s as little as 300PPM.
Shouldn’t take much math to figure out what that does to a claim that a doubling of CO2 concentration has lead to a 1 degree C increase in global average temperature. Doubling? Really?
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Og — I understood Den Beste. Do I still need to read Porretto? :)
Showoff. Yes.
Er…I also understood Steven’s articles.
I already read Poretto tho.
I do a lot of blogging about climate issues. But I also do a lot of blogging about stupid issues. So it’s not really a “climate blog”; it’s a “whatever happens to interest me enough to make me write about it” blog.
Its location on livejournal is therefore appropriate.
Atomic Fungus for anyone that cares.