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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

April 29, 2009 02:55 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Some Advancements in Solar Power

Posted By Dave Snope
A truly cost effective solar power system would be very exciting. I hope they are tremendously successful. U.S. scientists have said that by 2050 we could generate solar energy at a cost of 2X of carbon-fuel generated electricity. IF we spend a half-trillion dollars. It's about 6X now.

April 30, 2009 02:39 PM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Saturn V model launch video

Posted By Dave Snope
Incredible! That's an extreme hobbyist.

May 3, 2009 05:47 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

NYT Admits Wrong about 1995 Climate Coalition

Posted By Dave Snope
Allright, I specifically avoided using the inflammatory word "lie".

But eloquent scientist Lord Christopher Monckton (Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) doesn't hold back, calling the NY Times author "disingenuous" and "mendacious":
http://www.webcommentary.com/php/ShowArticle.php?id=moncktonc&date=090430

May 6, 2009 02:38 PM Forum: Politics

Interesting comments regarding criminal killed

Posted By Dave Snope
One of the officers demanded that the man drop the weapon, Defillo said. Instead, he turned and pointed the gun at the officers.

That's as far as I need to read in the story. I've never found comments below online newspaper articles to be made by the sharpest knives in the drawer. Waste of time.




May 19, 2009 12:20 AM Forum: Politics

Nice Ruling from Supreme Court

Posted By Dave Snope
A good berm on the slippery slope. Nice to see we aren't turning into Sweden. Yet.

May 19, 2009 12:22 AM Forum: Politics

Ah Joe, come on...

Posted By Dave Snope
The only responsibilities that man should have is managing the sales team at a car dealership. A Chrysler dealership.

May 22, 2009 03:31 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Do something vs. Do nothing- take a look

Posted By Dave Snope
Since I am one of Pasken's annointed Stupids, I feel it is my duty to translate this scientific research paper for my fellow Stupids. Here goes:

Elite Scientists made simulation model that says more CO2 equals higher temperature.
Model given fancy name on Powerpoint slides for sponsors.
Scientists add more CO2 than they had put in their previous simulation run.
Scientists run new simulation with higher CO2 in, and got higher temperature out.
Newspaper scribblers go wild! Warn of massive disasters. Elite Scientists renew sponsorships.
(Repeat forever)

All non-sim people with real thermometers that show temperature goes down while CO2 goes up are Stupids. Stupids pay the taxes that fuel the Elites' infinite loop above.

Edited to add photo of the Elite Scientist's protoges.

May 28, 2009 07:54 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Do something vs. Do nothing- take a look

Posted By Dave Snope
Here is an unfortunate picture of these MIT Center for Global Change scientists with their "Wheel of Climate" (H/T WUWT)

http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/files/articles/prinn-roulette-4.jpg

Come to think of it, more unfortunate than that photo is the name that they chose for themselves "Center for Global Change Science". Seems self-determining, which infers bad science. But maybe it's just bad english.

May 29, 2009 02:22 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

The stratosphere has been cooling for 30 years!

Posted By Dave Snope
Very interesting. I haven't heard of this. Please keep us informed on this theory.

I don't doubt the data at all and it comes from a reliable source. I'm just waiting for someone to prove a correlation between CO2 data and atmospheric temperature for anything other than 1980-1998.

http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005-08-18/dioxide_files/image002.gif

May 29, 2009 05:46 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Deaths and Global Warming

Posted By Dave Snope
But it has been cooling. FWIW, there was a study done a few years ago that said that cooling would cause a 10:1 casualty rate over warming. That's just the way it rolls on earth.

It used to be that malaria was malaria, diarrhea was diarrhea. Now it is called climate change.

It would be interesting to compare the per-capita rates of famines in the cooler 1950-60's to the warmer 1990's and 1930's. The data would be fraught with peril, though, because famines are rarely caused by a shortage of food.

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