OT: Wild Weather

I read in sci.electronics.design that Mark Fergerson wrote (in ) about 'OT: Wild Weather', on Fri, 7 Jan 2005:

That can be still found if you want it, but it's rare now.

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I'm damn sure it's been hotter at night for the last week or so, though I guess that's the humidity. 'Summer' is the hour or two per day (if you're lucky) that the sun peeks out, says "Hello!" then promptly pees on you. :-)

Ken

If MIT are so convinced why they are recommending building more nuclear power stations as a solution to the problem?

"MIT interdisciplinary research group is recommending limited federal support of new nuclear power plants as a way to reenergize the industry and lessen the potential impact of global warming."

They've got a lot of cows too.

Can you think of a better way to take advantage of the greenies? Recommend nuclear, NOT because of the energy crisis, but GLOBAL WARMING. How can any greenie be against it then ?:-)

...Jim Thompson

I'm glad I'm back at home. I expected New Zealand to be something like Spain. Sunny, 30 degrees Celcius or so in the summer (get a bit of a teint). But now I know why Abel Tasman called it New Zealand and didn't set foot on the land.

Huh- they only spend several hundred million per year to research and advise policy that mitigates global warming- sounds like an acknowledgement of the basic problem to me:

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Forests, volcanoes and cows have all been around for a while, and don't seem to be likely to be the source of the current, relatively rapid, increase in the average temperature of the surface of the planet.

Cows - or rather the bacteria in the their digestive systems - do generate a lot of methane, which is about twenty times as effective as CO2 as a greenhouse gas, but there are quite a few other sources.

------------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

No. The deviation from the expected trends started with large scale rice cultivation in Asia about 4-6000 years ago. Rice paddies are good sources of methane and CO2.

Mt. St. Helens produces only as much S02 as the local coal fired power plant did before they installed latest set of scrubbers. (Western Washington coal is pretty nasty stuff, though).

Mark Zenier snipped-for-privacy@eskimo.com Washington State resident

How can it be rare if it's boiled for 3 or four hours! ;-)

Mark Borgerson

I read in sci.electronics.design that Mark Borgerson wrote (in ) about 'OT: Wild Weather', on Sat, 8 Jan 2005:

It hasn't been boiled yet!

And I would assert that there are those who believe that these trends in temperature measurement are attributable to the buildup of cities around the thermometers.

Cheers! Rich

Well, if insolation on Earth, at 9.3E7 miles from the Sun, is 1 KW/m^2, then how much energy is falling on Venus, at 6.72E7 miles? Isn't there some kind of inverse square law or something?

I'm way too lazy to do the math, but it just seems logical that Venus'd be hotter than Earth.

And I still claim that the impact of human activity is negligible in the face of the cosmological view.

Cheers! Rich

Which problem is that? An ability to typographically errorize?

Start judging me after you purge your post of typos, OK?

Thanks, Rich

I've just had an incongruous thought - There's a "New York" a "New Jersey", a "New Mexico", and so on, but there's also an actual York, and an actual Jersey, and an actual Mexico.

So, where in the world is the original Zealand?

Thanks, Rich

The largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen

Can't use Google?

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Well, half the population does have below-average intelligence.

------ Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Clarence gets it wrong again.

The name of New Zealand appears to be dervied from that of Zeeland, the most southerly of the seven provinces of the Netherlands.

Since it was dscovered by Abel Janszoon Tasman, a Dutchman, historians tend to discount the possibility that it was named for the Danish province with a similar - semantically identical - name.

Google is handy, but you need some background information to get the best out of it.

----------------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen (in Gelderland, rather than Zeeland, but I was born in Tasmania, also discovered by Abel Janszoon Tasman)

Zeeland is a province of the Netherlands. That is the origin of the name.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany