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Originally posted by orionthehunter
Meanwhile today I was a bit surprised to see someone in my town is getting 130 miles per gallon in their Toyota Prius on some of their trips. They actually call these people a name which I just forgot. They try to maximize their gas mileage in their hybrids by keeping their speed under 40 mph while it's safe to do so and let only the electric motor run so that no gasoline is used. The individual I read about gets about 700 to 800 miles using 10 to 11 gallons of gas. Economics can make us all willing participants in reducing the amount of carbon we use.
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
That's NASA trying to get funding and implicit support for their "Intelligent Archives" artificial intelligence system:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Originally posted by forestlady
The Avenger: So we should believe you just because you say so? Why don't you explain to us why GW is a hoax? And if only 33.3% of scientists believe GW is a hoax, how is that proving that GW doesn't exist?
Originally posted by Zaphod58
One of the interesting things I heard was that CO2 increases AFTER temperature increases, not the other way around.
Originally posted by Realtruth
Conducted by NASA?
So I guess all their testing and space shuttle launches are helping everything?
Why don't these researchers lead by example?
Originally posted by zorgon
First of all the exhaust of those rockets are not greenhouse gases. They burn oxygen and hydrogen and the result is pure water in the form of steam... that is what those billowing clouds are... pure water vapor...
Originally posted by grover
The fact that you mock anyone who thinks that we are contributing to global warming gives you about zero credibility. I really don't care about what you think you have proven, you haven't and considering the vast majority of scientists disagree with you, I doubt seriously that you will.
Like I told muaddib before on another thread about the subject.... who do I believe, the majority of the world's climate scientists or some blow hard at the other end of a modem who claims that he knows what he is talking about?
Originally posted by thelibra
I honestly wish there were a way to convince the less intelligent of the dire nature of humanity's predicament. But they will stand on the railroad track, with me pointing behind them at the train, and they will smugly smile and tell me the train whistle is nothing more than noise, the threat of the train is psy-ops propaganda, and the shaking of the track is nothing more than a regular, mild Earthquake.
Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
Lorne Gunter, National Post
Published: Monday, March 12, 2007
Mars's ice caps are melting, and Jupiter is developing a second giant red spot, an enormous hurricane-like storm.
The existing Great Red Spot is 300 years old and twice the size of Earth. The new storm -- Red Spot Jr. -- is thought to be the result of a sudden warming on our solar system's largest planet. Dr. Imke de Pater of Berkeley University says some parts of Jupiter are now as much as six degrees Celsius warmer than just a few years ago.
Neptune's moon, Triton, studied in 1989 after the unmanned Voyageur probe flew past, seems to have heated up significantly since then. Parts of its frozen nitrogen surface have begun melting and turning to gas, making Triton's atmosphere denser.
Even Pluto has warmed slightly in recent years, if you can call -230C instead of -233C "warmer."
And I swear, I haven't left my SUV idling on any of those planets or moons. Honest, I haven't.
Is there something all these heavenly bodies have in common? Some one thing they all share that could be causing them to warm in unison?
Another of de Pater's colleagues, UC Berkeley mechanical engineering professor Philip Marcus, predicted several years ago that Jupiter's climate was changing, based on the disappearance of the cyclonic storms or spots within the bands. The formation of Red Spot Jr. from three smaller storms is an example of this. The mixing of the atmosphere by these cyclones keeps the temperature about the same over the entire planet, he argued, so loss of this mixing will cause the equator to heat up and the poles to cool.
Telescope is giving astronomers their most detailed view yet of a second red spot emerging on Jupiter. For the first time in history, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a new red spot on the giant planet, which is located half a billion miles away. The storm is roughly one-half the diameter of its bigger and legendary cousin, the Great Red Spot. Researchers suggest that the new spot may be related to a possible major climate change in Jupiter's atmosphere. Two teams of astronomers were given discretionary time on Hubble to observe the new red spot.
When amateur astronomer Chris Go noted the color change of Oval BA in February 2006, we were spurredto observe the planet with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ACS. UC Berkeley fluid dynamicist Philip Marcus hadpredicted climate change on Jupiter based on the evolution of this oval.
Suggestive correlations between the brightness of Neptune, solar variability, and Earth's temperature
H. B. Hammel & G. W. Lockwood
Long-term photometric measurements of Neptune show variations of brightness over half a century. Seasonal change in Neptune's atmosphere may partially explain a general rise in the long-term light curve, but cannot explain its detailed variations. This leads us to consider the possibility of solar-driven changes, i.e., changes incurred by innate solar variability perhaps coupled with changing seasonal insolation.
Although correlations between Neptune's brightness and Earth's temperature anomaly-and between Neptune and two models of solar variability-are visually compelling, at this time they are not statistically significant due to the limited degrees of freedom of the various time series.
Nevertheless, the striking similarity of the temporal patterns of variation should not be ignored simply because of low formal statistical significance. If changing brightnesses and temperatures of two different planets are correlated, then some planetary climate changes may be due to variations in the solar system environment.
Originally posted by thelibra
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I'm already expecting a few of the usual suspects to regurgitate the same naysaying about global warming, and arguments about the hockey-stick graph. I honestly wish there were a way to convince the less intelligent of the dire nature of humanity's predicament.
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