I Like 'Smooth' Men (1946) ... 4 Steps to Great Listening - Jumping to conclusions. (January 9, 2013 / 27 Tevet 5773) ... (Photo credit: marsmet546)
English: New Zealand Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector 1990 to 2009 in megatonnes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Carbon dioxide concentrations on 500 million year scale Similar displays in Veizer and Shaviv 2003 and in 2001 IPCC Mitchell report (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Arctic September Sea Ice Extent: Observations vs. Computer Model Runs - Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) found that satellite and other observations show the Arctic ice cover is retreating more rapidly than estimated by any of the eighteen computer models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in preparing its 2007 assessments. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Prize together with Al Gore, at a conference in Vienna, 22 June 2009. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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getting a little sick at the comments which suggest that those who
think the anthropogenic 'climate change' message is hyped - sound
familiar ? - are all industry shills. I happened to want to know what
was being reported and written about quite some time ago - including
recollections that in the past 'natural' gas ( a misnomer ) was not
considered a suitable fuel for indoor use.
Now, links which do not all show agreement are not useless - but they sure beat the idea of 'consensus' over the head with a shovel. Nor is the proposition that this is a 'scientific' dialogue hold water. Scientific Method thrives on the clash of ideas and proofs against all challenges.
Do people present a case pushing their interest ? Do fish swim ?
First, the frackking material. opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/09/energy.html
opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/water-wealth-power.html
But these are a sideline for me. If you want to go where frackking has been front and centre for years, try 'Resources for Journalists Who Report on Fracking'
www.texassharon.com/2012/10/20/resources-for-journalists-who-report-on-fracking/
Produced Waters White Paper
leanweb.org/our-work/water/produced-waters/produced-waters-white-paper
I show the same kind of information for AGW and GHGs, where some sites even contend that greenhouse gas is a fictitious concept and that our planetary climate is regulated within certain parameters by the same processes that made it liveable in the first place. But there is no cure when Chicken Little insists the climate is warming and will kill us. (a) You can't prove or disprove a prediction about the future. (b) Neither can anyone show that they understand all the factors that drive climate. That's what computer modeling should be for : to increase understanding of natural processes.
Things are so crazy even the scientific cautions noted by the IPCC get lost in wild 'coverage.' Not that the IPCC - a UN bureaucracy and not a scientific organization - should be seen as a disinterested party.
Since its origins, the IPCC has been open and explicit about seeking to generate a 'scientific consensus' around climate change and especially about the role of humans in climate change fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/18115/
Compiling opitslinkfest.blogspot.ca/p/environmental-challenges.html has not made me an 'expert'. But looking into a situation beats listening to representations which have no better backing than religious speculation has.
You never see an RSS compilation of current thought when people are bemoaning what 'deniers' think. You should. www.climategate.com/
Now, links which do not all show agreement are not useless - but they sure beat the idea of 'consensus' over the head with a shovel. Nor is the proposition that this is a 'scientific' dialogue hold water. Scientific Method thrives on the clash of ideas and proofs against all challenges.
Do people present a case pushing their interest ? Do fish swim ?
First, the frackking material. opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/09/energy.html
opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/water-wealth-power.html
But these are a sideline for me. If you want to go where frackking has been front and centre for years, try 'Resources for Journalists Who Report on Fracking'
www.texassharon.com/2012/10/20/resources-for-journalists-who-report-on-fracking/
Produced Waters White Paper
leanweb.org/our-work/water/produced-waters/produced-waters-white-paper
I show the same kind of information for AGW and GHGs, where some sites even contend that greenhouse gas is a fictitious concept and that our planetary climate is regulated within certain parameters by the same processes that made it liveable in the first place. But there is no cure when Chicken Little insists the climate is warming and will kill us. (a) You can't prove or disprove a prediction about the future. (b) Neither can anyone show that they understand all the factors that drive climate. That's what computer modeling should be for : to increase understanding of natural processes.
Things are so crazy even the scientific cautions noted by the IPCC get lost in wild 'coverage.' Not that the IPCC - a UN bureaucracy and not a scientific organization - should be seen as a disinterested party.
Since its origins, the IPCC has been open and explicit about seeking to generate a 'scientific consensus' around climate change and especially about the role of humans in climate change fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/18115/
Compiling opitslinkfest.blogspot.ca/p/environmental-challenges.html has not made me an 'expert'. But looking into a situation beats listening to representations which have no better backing than religious speculation has.
You never see an RSS compilation of current thought when people are bemoaning what 'deniers' think. You should. www.climategate.com/
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Stuart Smith - Environmental Must Reads
The film Promised Land, directed by Gus Van Sant, deals with exploitation of rural America by oil and gas corporations, made possible by the process of fracking. Fracking has become a highly controversial topic in the last few years, due to both its unchecked and unregulated expansion, and because of the environmental destruction this expansion has brought with it. The film in turn has attracted its own controversy, enduring full throated attacks from the oil and gas industry and their shills. So, how accurate is the film?
Wastewater from oil and gas drilling operations – disposed of deep underground – recently burbled to the surface in Oklahoma. It wasn’t a one-off. Similar contamination from so-called “injection wells” happened at seven locations across Oklahoma and at twelve California locations between 2008 and 2010. Elsewhere, 673 wastewater injection wells in Kansas and 429 in New Mexico failed safety tests, meaning they’re at risk from leaking into aquifers and drinking water, says a recent ProPublica investigative report.
For several years now, I’ve been assessing policies and technologies that might allow the United States and other countries with vast shale deposits of natural gas to harvest this resource with the fewest regrets.
Below you can learn about one nascent technology to watch in 2013: harmless chemical I.D. tags that could make the fluids used in drilling every single gas well individually identifiable, potentially ending fights over the source of any subsequent contamination of water supplies in a drilling area.
The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) publishes its report on facilities for discharge of oil collected following a major oil spill in the sea.
More than 100 blockaders stormed the lobby of TransCanada’s Keystone XL office in Houston this morning. Protesters danced, spilled black ‘tar sands’ balloons and hung neon orange hazard tape to highlight the deadly effects of TransCanada’s corporate greed on communities and ecosystems.
An advisory commission studying whether shale gas extraction should proceed in Maryland called Monday for new legislation to deal with potential abuses in leasing and drilling for the fuel, but environmentalists said so many questions remain about the safety of the drilling method known as “fracking” that they want lawmakers to impose a moratorium until the issue has been fully analyzed.
Town residents Tuesday urged the Town Board to encourage state lawmakers to criminalize the natural gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking.
Ten speakers said the energy industry is seeking to earn profits through a practice they say has been shown to contaminate water supplies. They say the industry has used studies that have been questioned for accuracy, and is not held responsible when problems are found.
Scientists are once again reporting alarmingly high methane emissions from an oil and gas field, underscoring questions about the environmental benefits of the boom in natural-gas production that is transforming the US energy system.
A Kansas City energy company is urging New York and federal regulators to disregard explicit warnings about the structural integrity of two salt caverns that it plans to use to store millions of barrels of highly-pressurized liquid propane and butane.
One cavern was plugged and abandoned 10 years ago after a consulting engineer from Louisiana concluded that its roof had collapsed in a minor earthquake. He deemed the rubble-filled cavity “unusable” for storage. It is now scheduled to hold 600,000 barrels of liquid butane.
When I first began writing about the anti-fracking movement in New York, I was told I must interview James “Chip” Northrup, a Texas oil-investor-turned-anti-fracker with a home in Cooperstown, New York, and another in Dallas, Texas. “Chip,” I was told, had an insider’s knowledge of the industry and was a frequent speaker on the subject in local forums as well as in national and international media.
State lawmakers in Virginia will soon decide whether to give the green light the nation’s first East Coast uranium mine, an operation that promises jobs and security for the nuclear industry, but also fears of long-term contamination by neighbors and opponents.
Legislators at the statehouse in Richmond plan to introduce a bill this month that would overturn a three-decade state moratorium on uranium mining, opening the door to development of the Cole’s Hill site in Chatham, Va., not far from the North Carolina border.
Local and national officials for the NAACP are worried about potentially hazardous waste that’s getting dumped in a Jackson County landfill. Tar Balls, the clean up material from the BP Oil Spill, is getting dumped at the Campbellton landfill. NAACP officials are looking for answers to concerning questions.
Off-reserve aboriginal people are 'Indians' and entitled to same constitutional rights
Melanie Omeniho, president of the Women of the Métis Nation, said the
ruling means that "we will no longer be a part of the political football
that has us being tossed back and forth between the province and the
federal government."
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Google honcho Eric Schmidt gets a rare N. Korean peek at the Internet
CES2013: Ford, Eaton, SunPower and Whirlpool Team Up for Electric Energy Initiative
Ford’s own off-peak electric usage technology – value charging – is
available on all Ford plug-in vehicles, including C-MAX Energi, Fusion
Energi and Focus Electric, via the MyFord® Mobile app. Value charging is
a unique feature that harnesses the power of cloud computing to
automatically charge the vehicle when utility rates are lowest, thus
helping to minimize the cost to charge the vehicle and the potential
ownership costs of an electric vehicle.
Military to charge provinces, communities for disaster relief
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