Thursday, March 25, 2010

Congress’ Chances of Getting a Transportation Bill Passed This Session: 0 » INFRASTRUCTURIST
...voting for a gas tax increase is akin to political suicide. As such, the Obama administration is staunchly against raising the tax, as is every member of Congress who wants to get re-elected. Ray LaHood summed it up perfectly at a recent briefing: “It’s easy for people who are not elected to talk about raising the gas tax. They don’t have to face the voters.”
The UK Met Office appears to have ‘disappeared’ their winter forecast « Watts Up With That?
Their original warm winter forecast seems to have been scrubbed from the web site
[Nothing prevents hurricanes like starting a worm farm]: Save the planet! Cancel the trains and make worm farms instead | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
I will start a worm farm this year
Climate Common Sense: Study: Greenland ice loss accelerating- Another Beat-up
We can see that the current Greenland temperature has a long way to go to reach the levels measured between 1940 and 1960 (without SUV's) and is in no way unusual. The loss in Greenland ice in 1940 must have been much more than current melting but alarmist "scientists " would not be interested in that although it would be of vital concern to a real scientist interested in changes in Greenland ice .
Even soil feels the heat: Soils release more carbon dioxide as globe warms
The evidence below is weak but if it is correct it is yet more evidence that a climbing CO2 rate is the RESULT of warming, not the cause. There are two other apparent ramifications: 1). Results like this mean that the anthropogenic fraction must be readjusted. Is man's annual contribution 4%? 3%? Less? 2). This latest natural emission estimate shows that previous source/sink models have been inadequate, as usual

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