Thursday, April 07, 2011

Winter Snow Is Caused By Cold | Real Science
However, there is a very good correlation between snow extent and cold. The plot below shows Rutgers North American snow cover vs. the UAH US temperature anomaly. Cold winters have more snow, and warm winters have less snow.
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This is intuitively obvious. A cold winter brings snow further south.
EU plans to link emissions trading scheme with California | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The estimated value of transactions on the EU ETS was €72bn (£62bn) in 2010 and the California cap and trade scheme could be worth $10bn (£6bn) by 2016, according to Point Carbon.

But the European scheme has been fraught with problems including over-allocation of allowances resulting in windfall profits for energy corporations and allegedly fraudulent "missing trader" transactions worth €5bn. The scheme has also been subjected to cyber attacks.
AMA quacks on climate
Since Florida and air and water temps have not changed significantly, they obviously can’t be responsible for respiratory and cardiovascular disease. The comment about the elderly is farcical, since warmer temps is why many migrate to Florida in the first place. So what about dengue fever?
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Now that Aflac has fired comedian Gilbert Gottfried, the former voice of its famous duck mascot, maybe Aflac can hire the AMA.

1 comment:

SOYLENT GREEN said...

I've asked this before. So I'll rhetorically beat a dead horse...

Since when are states (Calif) allowed to enter into international treaties (EU Carbon Ponzi Scheme)?