All Solar, Et Al, In 12 Years?

[Cigar]

You know about California tracking and monitoring wealthy people who move out of state, right?

Yes, he's a top construction defects attorney who has a tax department in his law firm, he has a daughter in Phoenix so he is also buying a condo there, he never intends to set foot in California again. At this point most of the homes I've built over the last 50+ years have been sold with the owners going to no or low tax states. On another point I can't get materials out of Canada any more, I have to buy them up there and arrange for a private trucking firm to bring them down, Cardinal Glass is the biggest and best manufacturer of glass and IG units in the country, they now have a plant in Hood River Oregon, if I order windows made in Canada Cardinal makes the IG units in Oregon and ships them to Canada, the windows are fabricated in Canada and I have to make all transactions in Canada and pay and arrange for shipping down, customs gets the information and a California use tax is levied on me, the last home I built I aid $15,000 in use taxes on windows alone. Multi-pane windows routinely have seal failures, even though they are covered by warranty Cardinal will not deliver the replacements to me since they want no business relationship with California, they send the replacements to Canada, I have to arrange for crating and shipment down, which on one window cost me over a thousand dollars.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Okay, you have first hand experience in dealing with totalitarian republic of California where taxation is an art of intimidation and wrongful acts.

Since illegals come across the southern border, why not ship to Mexico and have one of them deliver?

 

[Randolph Kinney]

The “green” forests of the future?​

Is the artificial tree the solution to climate change? There have been a number of stories advocating artificial trees recently. Proponents of artificial trees believe that normal trees haven’t got the capacity to deliver the CO2 reductions they want. They insist we should try to improve on nature, by replacing natural respiration, with industrial scale absorption and disposal of CO2.

If you want to boil the climate crisis down to one simple problem, it’s this: there’s too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere these days.

Here's the skinny: CO2 traps heat. There’s about 40 percent more of it in the atmosphere today than there was in the millennia of human history before the Industrial Revolution, and that number is rising fast, since we just can’t seem to curb our thirst for fossil fuels.

So what if there were a simple solution? What if we had a way to suck that excess the CO2 right back out of the sky?

Well, actually, we do, says Chris Jones, a chemical engineer at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

“These are our best ways of capturing CO2 from the air,” Jones says as he walks under a canopy of trees on the school’s campus. “Trees evolved over millions of years to do this very efficiently.”

“We can reverse the CO2 concentration in the air,” Lackner says. “We cannot reverse the melting of a glacier. We’re already way too late. But we will do it.”

The tunnels of Jones’s cube are coated with a material his team has developed that grabs onto carbon dioxide. As air flows through it, the lattice gradually fills up with CO2.

Jones has a pilot plant in California where he has 600 of these bricks stacked together into a block about the size of a semi-tractor trailer stood up on its end. The system uses fans to blow air onto the bricks, and steam to remove the captured CO2 so the bricks can be reused. The prototype sucks down about 1,000 tons of CO2 per year.

By itself, that’s an inconsequential amount. But it is a start.

Lackner says the eventual goal is to build devices much like a tree that would stand passively in the wind and absorb CO2 as the air blows over them.

No fans are necessary with their approach.

The material sheds the CO2 when it gets wet, so Lackner and his colleagues have also been working on ways to discharge the gas so it can be stored or reused later.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-08-...t-solution-climate-change-these-guys-think-so

The next taxpayer credit will be for a green tree that captures CO2. This artificial tree can't convert CO2 into anything usable like a plant can. Just milk it for the CO2 and like nuclear waste, burry it deep into the ground where it can't get out.

 

[George Hatch]

Ruh roh, the AGW fans aren't going to like the idea of a tech fix that compensates for burning carbons.

ANYWAYS, this just goes back to the idea that the fear/panic button is getting worn out and that the energy-related tech will evolve as we go.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

You're all going to drown like rats from rising sea levels

“Given what we know now about how the ocean expands as it warms and how ice sheets and glaciers are adding water to the seas, it’s pretty certain we are locked into at least 3 feet of sea level rise, and probably more,” said Steve Nerem of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and lead of the Sea Level Change Team. “But we don’t know whether it will happen within a century or somewhat longer.”

All of the sea level rise since 1700 AD is circled at the right hand side of the graph.

The only way sea level rise could approach the high end of the IPCC range is if it exponentially accelerates…

The rate from 2081-2100 would have to average 20 mm per year, twice that of the Holocene Transgression. This is only possible in bad science fiction movies.

They are rising faster than they were 50 years ago. However, they are rising at the same rate that they were 80, 70 and 60 years ago…

There is nothing abnormal about sea level rising by 3 inches over a 23-yr period. Nor is a 3 mm/yr sea level rise over a multi-decade period unusual. There is simply no anomaly requiring an explanation. The claim that the 3 inches if sea level rise from 1992-2015 is inline with 3 feet of sea level rise in the 21st century is patently false and demonstrably disprovable. The accurate statement that sea level is rising faster now than it was 50 years ago is cherry-picking of the highest order. Warning that “it’s very likely to get worse in the future,” is the scientific equivalent of shouting “Fire!” in a crowded movie theater because you constructed a model which predicts that the projection system will burst into flames if it malfunctions at some point in the future.

http://sealevel.colorado.edu/conten...a-level-time-series-seasonal-signals-retained

David Middleton

https://debunkhouse.wordpress.com/about/

 

[Restrain]

Has anyone else noted the planted stories about melting glaciers, villages along the Alaskan coast being flooded, etc, all in conjunction with the Presidents trip to Alaska pushing climate change?

 

[Meandering]

Yup. But the same stories surface every now and then. No glaciers left in Glacier Park. Terrible storms are the result of global warming.

 

[Meandering]

What REALLY lies beneath: First 'nuclear' map of our planet sheds light on Earth's interior and reveals man-made radiation activity

• The neutrino and its antimatter cousin, the antineutrino, are the tiniest subatomic particles known to science
• They also result from radioactive decay deep within the Earth and can also be produced by nuclear reactors
• Map created with data from two detectors - one in Italy and one in Japan - that pick up antineutrino emissions
• This was combined with data International Atomic Energy Agency on more than 400 operational nuclear reactors
• The data from this map could improve understanding of planetary formation processes in the early solar nebula

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3218851/First-global-antineutrino-map-revealed-Detailed-atlas-shed-light-Earth-s-interior-reveal-world-s-nuclear-activity.html#ixzz3kXYC3WHg

Yup, too much hot air around DC.

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[Randolph Kinney]

I'm still waiting for the big El Nino. If and when that happens, we will see homes sliding down hills, road blocked with mudslides, and flooding. Later in the spring, grass will explode in overgrowth followed by summer with the worst ever wildfire season.

All this because the earth is warming caused by ever increasing levels of CO2.

 

[Meandering]

Look out! Forecasters warn El Nino could be strongest ever recorded and urge disaster response teams to prepare

• Conditions bear a resemblance to the huge El Niño event of 1997-98
• Forecast says El Nino conditions are likely to last until January
• In previous El Niño events, California had 150 to 200% increase in rainfall
• It can trigger heavy rains and floods in South America and scorching weather in Asia and as far away as east Africa

Climate models and experts suggest surface waters in the east-central Pacific Ocean are likely to be more than 2 degrees hotter than average, potentially making this El Nino one of the strongest ever.

Typically, the warm air above the eastern Pacific is causing increased precipitation over the west coast of South America and dry conditions over the Australia/Indonesia archipelago and the Southeast Asia region, said Maxx Dilley, director of the WMO's Climate Prediction and Adaptation Branch.
'A mature and strong El Niño is now present in the tropical Pacific Ocean,' the WMO said.

Climate scientists are better prepared than ever with prediction models and data on El Nino patterns, but the impact of this El Nino in the northern hemisphere is hard to forecast because there is also an Arctic warming effect at work on the Atlantic jetstream current.

'The truth is we don't know what will happen. Will the two patterns reinforce each other? Will they cancel each other? Are they going to act in sequence? Are they going to be regional? We really don't know,' said David Carlson, the director of the World Climate Research Programme.

This El Nino could also be followed abruptly by a cooling La Nina, which, along with the advance of global warming, was adding to the uncertainty, Carlson said.

'I think we all think that there's some climate warming signals starting to show up in the El Nino record,' he said.

But he added that it is still unclear how global warming is affected the frequency or magnitude of El Nino events.

Scientists said earlier this summer conditions in the Pacific are now as intense as they were in the summer of 1997, when a massive El Niño was brewing.

While this could be good news for drought-stricken areas such as California, researchers warn it may also lead to torrential and hazardous downpours elsewhere.



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