Wednesday, June 12, 2013

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Twitter / elonmusk: A long way to go before most ...
A long way to go before most power generation is solar, but the second derivative bodes well
Twitter / VictorB123: @Mlowe1191 @elonmusk Germany ...
@Mlowe1191 @elonmusk Germany is rapidly backing away from their solar project. Was a disaster. They are now on a coal power plant binge
Twitter / VictorB123: @Mlowe1191 @elonmusk But every ...
@Mlowe1191 @elonmusk But every acre devoted to solar in large arrays deprives the ecosystem of sunlight. Changes the habitat.
Twitter / VictorB123: @jw5801 @elonmusk How much ...
@jw5801 @elonmusk How much solar to to power ONE electric arc steel mill?
Twitter / marnanel: Top tip: "Cc" actually stands ...
Top tip: "Cc" actually stands for CARBON COPY. Reduce your carbon footprint by simply listing all your email's recipients in the "To" field.
- Bishop Hill blog - NYT "almost always" exaggerated
Is that last point true? We sceptics "almost always" pick 1998 as the start point? I know Lucia doesn't. I certainly don't. David Whitehouse didn't in his report on the plateau. A brief perusal of the results of a search for "no warming for 15 years" turned up nothing at all.
The warming ‘plateau’ may extend back even further | Watts Up With That?
The El Chichon eruption is interesting because one of the strongest El Nino events, some say the strongest ever, occurred just after it. These two events had an interesting interplay for it seems that the global temperature rise induced by the warm water of the El Nino was offset by the cooling effect of the stratospheric aerosols from El Chichon. It is interesting to speculate what might had happened if El Chichon had not gone off. Would the 1982 El Nino have been as dramatic as the 1998 one? And would it have left in its wake elevated global temperatures, as 1998 seems to have done? What would have been the impact on environmental thinking, and on James Hansen’s global warming warning in 1988?

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