The Global Warming thread.

[JTA]

If we can get everyone to agree for a few days to flip their AC units around pointing outside on full blast we could probably cool the world down a few degrees centimeters.

But don't tell that to those knuckleheads at NASA.

[Seth Milner]

If we can get everyone to agree for a few days to flip their AC units around pointing outside on full blast we could probably cool the world down a few degrees centimeters.

But don't tell that to those knuckleheads at NASA.

[Vrede too]

We'd be really hurting if it wasn't for all that ice dumped out of coolers onto the ground after BBQs, picnics, camping trips, keggers and tailgating. Party on!

[Seth Milner]

If we can get everyone to agree for a few days to flip their AC units around pointing outside on full blast we could probably cool the world down a few degrees centimeters. But don't tell that to those knuckleheads at NASA.

I suppose that if you had central a/c, you'd just open your windows? :-0?>

[billy.pilgrim]

an advantage to driving on Fridays is Ira and Science Friday on npr. Yesterday guest Pamela Silver discussed her bionic leaf.
How long until we can produce the plastic raw material with our home solar panels and our home bionic leaf to feed our home 3-D printer to build our own home and our own new solar panels.

Watch out chinese guys, your jobs are next


http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/m ... -a-bionic-...



http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... sunlight-w...



Bionic Leaf Makes Fuel from Sunlight, Water and Air
A tree's leaf, a blade of grass, a single algal cell: all make fuel from the simple combination of water, sunlight and carbon dioxide through the miracle of photosynthesis. Now scientists say they have replicated—and improved—that trick by combining chemistry and biology in a "bionic" leaf.
Chemist Daniel Nocera of Harvard University and his team joined forces with synthetic biologist Pamela Silver of Harvard Medical School and her team to craft a kind of living battery, which they call a bionic leaf for its melding of biology and technology. The device uses solar electricity from a photovoltaic panel to power the chemistry that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, then adds pre-starved microbes to feed on the hydrogen and convert CO2 in the air into alcohol fuels.

[Seth Milner]

I'm getting a headache.

[billy.pilgrim]

an advantage to driving on Fridays is Ira and Science Friday on npr. Yesterday guest Pamela Silver discussed her bionic leaf.
How long until we can produce the plastic raw material with our home solar panels and our home bionic leaf to feed our home 3-D printer to build our own home and our own new solar panels.

Watch out chinese guys, your jobs are next


http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/m ... -a-bionic-...



http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... sunlight-w...



Bionic Leaf Makes Fuel from Sunlight, Water and Air
A tree's leaf, a blade of grass, a single algal cell: all make fuel from the simple combination of water, sunlight and carbon dioxide through the miracle of photosynthesis. Now scientists say they have replicated—and improved—that trick by combining chemistry and biology in a "bionic" leaf.
Chemist Daniel Nocera of Harvard University and his team joined forces with synthetic biologist Pamela Silver of Harvard Medical School and her team to craft a kind of living battery, which they call a bionic leaf for its melding of biology and technology. The device uses solar electricity from a photovoltaic panel to power the chemistry that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, then adds pre-starved microbes to feed on the hydrogen and convert CO2 in the air into alcohol fuels.

is it possible that science can solve all the problems it creates? Is this part of the climate change cure?


I may be taking to myself and giving Seth a headache, but this seems so way cool.

[Vrede too]

It may be possible when science it put to solving problems for the good of all over the long term, but that's never been its chief focus and/or effect.

[Seth Milner]

I may be taking to myself and giving Seth a headache, but this seems so way cool.

You're not giving me a headache, changing technologies give me a headache; I can't keep up

[JTA]

If we can get everyone to agree for a few days to flip their AC units around pointing outside on full blast we could probably cool the world down a few degrees centimeters. But don't tell that to those knuckleheads at NASA.

I suppose that if you had central a/c, you'd just open your windows? :-0?>

Are you an engineer!?

[billy.pilgrim]

If we can get everyone to agree for a few days to flip their AC units around pointing outside on full blast we could probably cool the world down a few degrees centimeters. But don't tell that to those knuckleheads at NASA.

I suppose that if you had central a/c, you'd just open your windows? :-0?>

Are you an engineer!?

you must not know any engineers. an engineer would run a duct system from the registers to the window.

[Seth Milner]

If we can get everyone to agree for a few days to flip their AC units around pointing outside on full blast we could probably cool the world down a few degrees centimeters. But don't tell that to those knuckleheads at NASA.

I suppose that if you had central a/c, you'd just open your windows? :-0?>

Are you an engineer!?

You must not know any engineers. an engineer would run a duct system from the registers to the window.

I'm not an engineer, but I am practical. Why spend all that money installing duct-work when you can simply open a window?

[Vrede too]

Reporting These Broken Temperature Records Is Probably As Tiring As It Is Reading About Them

This past June, once again, was the hottest June on record, according to data released Tuesday from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). June 2016 was 1.62°F hotter than the average global land and ocean temperatures....

This is the 14th consecutive month of record heat for the globe. Reports that the earth broke another monthly high average temperature record have become alarming in their repetitiveness. This year, May, April, March, February, and January broke records. Before than, 2015 saw month after month break or shatter monthly average temperature records, dating back to February.

2016 is also shaping up to again be the hottest year on record, with January-June being the hottest first half of any year ever recorded — 1.89°F above average for land and ocean, and 3.17°F above average for just land areas.

The last time the world experienced any month where it was cooler than average was December 1984, when President Reagan was finishing up his first term. The last time the world experienced a June colder than the 20th century average of 59.9°F was 40 years ago, in 1976.

“Overall, 14 of the 15 highest monthly temperature departures in the record have all occurred since February 2015,” the report noted, “with January 2007 representing the one month prior to February 2015.”



... Arctic sea ice also hit a record low for June, with the average sea ice extent for June hitting 530,000 square miles, or 11.4 percent, below the 1981–2010 average. And Antarctic sea ice extent was also below average, with June 2016 ice coverage ranking as the 13th-smallest on record....

[Vrede too]

Dahr Jamail | In Arctic, Ancient Diseases Reanimate and Highways Melt as Temperatures Hit "Frenzy" of Records

[Vrede too]

billy.pilgrim's getting drenched right now. Let us know that you're okay when it's over, billy. We'll get just a little of Hermine on Friday.

[Vrede too]

Transparent solar panels are 50 times more productive than regular photovoltaics

Pretty cool if it works as claimed, if production isn't very polluting and the cost isn't prohibitive.

[rstrong]

Dahr Jamail | In Arctic, Ancient Diseases Reanimate and Highways Melt as Temperatures Hit "Frenzy" of Records

We have a network of winter roads across northern Manitoba and Ontario, with a limited season to use them to restock communities each year. That season keeps getting shorter and shorter in recent years.

Meanwhile way up in the arctic on the North-West Passage, cruise ships were unthinkable until just recently. A few years ago it opened up to smaller "adventure tours" type cruise ships. Now the giant cruise ships that you normally see in the Caribbean are sailing the North-West Passage.

The Crystal Serenity has not encountered any ice so far in the Northwest Passage.
Crystal Cruises has already announced it will return to the Northwest Passage next season and other cruise lines are planning similar trips.

While the Republicons are busy denying climate change, others are having to deal with it.

[Vrede too]

... While the Republicons are busy denying climate change, others are having to deal with it.

Fewer and fewer of them are still denying climate change, though almost none have had the balls to admit that they were wrong. Now, they're equally stupidly still denying that humans are causing climate change.

[Seth Milner]

While the Republicons are busy denying climate change, others are having to deal with it.

Silly statement.

So your analogy is "if the 'Republicons' would stop denying climate change, others wouldn't have to deal with it"? Fire off a letter to them damn Republicons!

One would think that with your brilliance on all matters, you would have figured out that climate changes have been occurring for eons, long before modern humans inhabited the planet. The fact that humans in great numbers are here now, their presence and carelessness does not help the situation any.

The fact that no major shifts in weather patterns or temperatures have appeared suddenly in our lifetimes doesn't mean it hasn't or won't happen again.

[rstrong]

Once again Seth Milner attempts to impress us with his ability to completely miss the point...