Scientists have observed an increase in carbon dioxide’s greenhouse effect at the Earth’s surface for the first time. Quote: The researchers, led by scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), measured atmospheric carbon dioxide’s increasing capacity to absorb thermal radiation emitted from the Earth’s surface over an eleven-year period at two locations in North America. They attributed this upward trend to rising CO2 levels from fossil fuel emissions. Quote: They found that CO2 was responsible for a significant uptick in radiative forcing at both locations, about two-tenths of a Watt per square meter per decade. They linked this trend to the 22 parts-per-million increase in atmospheric CO2 between 2000 and 2010. Much of this CO2 is from the burning of fossil fuels, according to a modeling system that tracks CO2 sources around the world. There you have it. In situ experimental confirmation of AGW.
I am thoroughly enjoying the space i continue to occupy inside of your large vacuous head, theres lots of room in here.
Is this why I'm swimming in my pool in December? Ongoing methane leak near Los Angeles is the "worst environmental disaster since 2010 BP oil spill" Popular Posts Follow Boing Boing Twitter / Facebook / RSS Methane gas has been leaking from a storage facility in California’s Aliso Canyon since October 2015 at a rate of 110,000 pounds per hour. You can see the plume in this infrared video shot on December 17, 2015. So far, 1,700 homes have been evacuated. The Southern California Gas Company thinks it will be able to stop the leak "by late February or late March." From Motherboard: Part of the problem in stopping the leak lies in the base of the well, which sits 8,000 feet underground. Pumping fluids down into the well, usually the normal recourse, just isn’t working, said Silva. Workers have been "unable to establish a stable enough column of fluid to keep the force of gas coming up from the reservoir." The company is now constructing a relief well that will connect to the leaking well, and hopefully provide a way to reduce pressure so the leak can be plugged.
Q Climate sceptic Maurice Newman says world leaders embracing junk science The former business adviser to Tony Abbott accuses world leaders of acting like ancient druids and pursuing ‘collectivist visions’ at the cost of ‘private choice’ http://www.theguardian.com/australi...man-says-world-leaders-embracing-junk-science ... He lamented that “without a Tony Abbott in Canberra or a Stephen Harper in Ottawa, no world leader utters a peep in protest”. A noted climate change sceptic, Newman has accused western capitalist societies of giving up on rational thinking. “They embrace junk science and junk economics and adopt wealth-destroying postmodern pseudo-economics, which teaches that taxpayer subsidies can produce desirable ‘economic transformation’ and faster growth,” Newman wrote in the Australian. “Pigs may also fly. ... UQ
Q Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science Sting operation uncovers two prominent climate sceptics available for hire by the hour to write reports on the benefits of rising CO2 levels and coal http://www.theguardian.com/environm...e-exposes-sceptics-cast-doubt-climate-science ... The campaign group assumed another false identity, posing as an Indonesian energy consultancy, to approach Frank Clemente, a retired sociologist formerly at Pennsylvania State University, to commission a report countering damaging studies on Indonesian coal deaths and promoting the benefits of coal, according to the email exchanges. ... UQ
Oh and none of the professors who are touting climate change get paid to write about climate change and the dangers of it??? Oh wait a minute.
Good thinking! That's quite true! So what actually are " the benefits of rising CO2 levels and coal " , scientifically?
fc is an annoying troll. calling me a liar when I present science to back up my opinions. I hardly ever make statements that could ever even be seen as lies if they were false. So what actually are " the benefits of rising CO2 levels and coal " , scientifically?[/QUOTE]