Comments on: Why is this so hard?

By: Study

Study — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:21:09 +0000

Saw your Blog bookmarked on Reddit.I love your site and marketing strategy.

By: SJBill

SJBill — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:54:42 +0000

Google vid moved: now at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831

CO2 into air makes fizzwater. Worry about the sun, Eric, honestly. It changes. Really.

Respects-
-SJBill

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:11:12 +0000

JPS’s experiment quote is exactly right. We are essentially pumping vast quantities of Carbon directly out of the earth and into the atmosphere. It won’t destroy the world, but a lot of evidence says that it will make it a more unpleasant place to live.

Ah well, I’m going to go outside and enjoy this 75 degree, early March day. Meanwhile, maybe you’ll find this interesting: http://www.norvig.com/oreskes.html (Peter Norvig is a very well respected computer scientist).

By: Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:58:12 +0000

I’m an Electrical Engineer. Back in the eighties we were installing digital microwave links in Europe to support our troops stationed there. We experienced significant outage time on one long link in particular. A number of climate scientists were consulted and wrote learned essays on atmospheric Inversion layers and suggested we fund all sorts of long-range studies to discover methods of mitigating the problem. I noted that these scientists had never visited the sites in question, and that similarly configured links were not experiencing the similar outages. A quick visit to the site soon revealed the problem to be an antenna flange separation. Repair of this purely mechanical problem eliminated our outages completely. Undaunted, our climatologists claimed that Inversion layers were still a major problem which could recur at any time, and even suggested that our fix might have actually been due to a particular type of Inversion that created an atmospheric duct! I guess you can’t blame them for trying.

By: Bugsyinsc

Bugsyinsc — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:29:46 +0000

Longtime lurker, infrequent poster here. Ladies and Gentlemen, I must commend you on an excellent post and discussion. A civil conversation on a very controversial suject without name calling, cussing and other, generally distastful, comments. There is still hope for mankind! BZ

By: MaxDamage

MaxDamage — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:19:59 +0000

I’ve been reading that it’s now our meat-based diet, rather than our SUV’s, that are the culprit. Why, if we only adopt a vegan diet this pesky Global Warming problem is solved! Apparently the authors of this study conveniently forgot about the 70 million Bison that used to belch and thunder methane across the plains of yore.

Before we start thinking of solar power in any great quantity, remember that the Earth is solar powered already. Every square foot of sunlight devoted to electricity or boiling water is energy that’s not going into photosysthesis or heating the soil or oceans, so as it scales solar provides its own unwanted side effects.