[snip ad hom to many people on this thread]

By the way, did you see the IEEE-USA 2009 policy advice announcements,
http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/positions/energypolicy.pdf
including:

“IEEE-USA’s New National Energy Policy Recommends Ways United States Can Break Its Addiction to Oil, Mitigate Climate Change” ?

Engineers deal with facts. Like all other scientific and technical professional bodies whose member’s expertise bears directly on the challenge of Climate Change, the 215,500 members of IEEE-USA have published their collective conclusion that Climate Change is real, due to human activity and that acting wisely now can limit how bad things get.

The members of IEEE-USA had quite a varied and spirited response on both sides of the USA H1-B visa issue. There is no real opposition to the IEEE-USA Climate Change Policy Advice announcement.

Engineers deal with facts. Human Caused Climate Change is a fact which isn’t going away, better get used to it.

By the way, that bathtub ring around the Reservoir behind Hoover Dam is 120 ft tall now. Some people can’t catch a clue even when it is that obvious.
http://www.arachnoid.com/NaturalResources/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/06/06/state/n000030D16.DTL

Breaking your addiction to oil can save money. According to ICBC most auto owners in my province spend Cdn $230 per month on fuel. It costs me either Cdn $35 or $70 to put gas in my Yaris each month, depending on whether I fill it up once or twice. Even at that low fuel consumption I have saved nearly a kilobuck a year since it replaced the mini-van we previously owned. The Yaris burns half as much fuel for the same distance and holds all 5 of us when we go somewhere as a family.

I use transit to commute to work each day, like my 2 oldest children. My employer pays the entire cost of my “transportation” expense, saving money over subsidizing a parking spot by $105 per month.

Many of the younger IT folks at work are quite serious about avoiding the use of personal autos. One asked me how long I had been commuting by transit. When I said since 1985/Feb he smiled and said that was almost as long as he had been alive.

I also use my transit pass evenings and weekends, particularly for short trips to the 4 supermarkets and 3 malls within 15 minutes travel time by transit from my home. My wife often borrows the transit pass, leaving the Yaris at home.

What is so difficult about driving less and saving money, while reducing carbon emissions?

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/daily.html

The missing areas change from day to day so that you can, if patient, fill in where the whole picture.

“Glenn, I would double check your site. It also looks contaminated. Ice doesn’t melt in square, triangle, or rectangle shapes.”

I beg to dicker. Today the ice appears to have made a nice diamond shape over the Pole.
http://iabp.apl.washington.edu/maps_daily_ncepice.html

Translating the current ASMR graph into “NSIDC speak”, I would judge we’re at about “the fifth lowest ice extent in five years”. Translation into straightforward English: The ice has built back up to where it was five years ago at this time.

Transitioning to the DMSP F17 satellite “may” be a plan, but the AQUA satellite and teh

IBD has a comment on the concept of a Department of Energy and what it’s mission should be, as long as we (since Jimmy Carter) have one.

Dave S

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=328317915759660

Also, check their daily cartoon…

The recorder that just failed more than likely is gone for good, but there’s a small chance it could be restored to service.

F13′s age is almost triple the design life, so it’s had a good run.

Well, for a certain value of truth, both can be true, it all ends up on what one would believe.

Rutgers or our lying eyes. We seem to be prejudiced towards our eyes.

Not according to this site:
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_rankings.php?ui_set=1

If the Administration’s Science Secy, Dr. Chu, is promoting using white paint on roofs, what do you bet that some of his cronies back at Berkeley have the franchise on getting Government money to promote or produce the product?

These guys don’t flap their lips for free.