[posted by autoscheduler] I’ll be offline most of today and tomorrow, but may check in via my cellphone. If you have story ideas, news, etc be sure to flag the comment for a moderator’s attention. – Thanks, Anthony
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Anybody got any information about how the Polywell fusion work is going?
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 has hit near the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/09/03/magnitude-7-4-quake-hits-new-zealand/
First!
Is this about Birkeland’ s currents? (as for the ropes above).
Mods, how about a thread on Dr Roy Spencer’s new paper finally published in the JGR?
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/Spencer-Braswell-JGR-2010.pdf
Unless there already was one and I missed it?
Anthony-
Thoughts & prayers with you.
I’m sure we’ll all be good little kiddies and won’t muck up the sandbox in your absence.
tallbloke says:
September 3, 2010 at 11:31 am
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/28/congratulations-finally-to-spencer-and-braswell-on-getting-their-new-paper-published/
An unrepentent Pachauri says:
And for those new here at WUWT, I’ve just posted the third of my Introduction-To series. This one’s about the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO:
http://bobtisdale.blogspot.com/2010/09/introduction-to-enso-amo-and-pdo-part-3.html
In a previous thread we commended on the virtues of France for producing about 80% of their electricity needs from nuclear energy.
Here Fransh is spending €10b on wind farms to produce 3GW by 2015 (6GW by 2020),
http://blog.cleantechies.com/2010/08/30/france-to-have-3000-mw-of-offshore-wind-by-2015/
Food riots in Mozambique – blamed on high wheat prices due to Russian drought and cut off of exports. Even tho there is more available now than 2-3 years ago. Go figger. Sounds to me like the commodities traders are responsible, rather than mother nature. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5f6f94ac-b6bc-11df-b3dd-00144feabdc0.html
“If Rajendra Pachauri goes, who on Earth would want to be IPCC chair?
No future chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can ever feel safe if Dr Pachauri is driven out”
…. and further nauseating drivel:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/sep/03/rajendra-pachauri-ipcc
Forgot to say, my comments are via Benny Peiser’s CCNet.
Dave Wendt says:
September 3, 2010 at 11:51 am (Edit)
tallbloke says:
September 3, 2010 at 11:31 am
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/28/congratulations-finally-to-spencer-and-braswell-on-getting-their-new-paper-published/
Thanks Dave.
Two thousand years ago most people were of average intelligence. Now a days, 2010, most people are still of average intelligence.
I am now a professional climatologist.
Ahhh, an open thread. Having just gotten zambonied over at Climate Audit on a different subject, I’ll try this one in friendlier waters.
From our friends at SeanceDaily:
“Climate Change Implicated in Decline of Horseshoe Crabs”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100830131344.htm
Ah, of course. Why not. Causes everything else, doesn’t it?
Well, look what happens if you read beyond the headline…
“A distinct decline in horseshoe crab numbers has occurred that parallels climate change associated with the end of the last Ice Age…” (emphasis mine).
Whew, had me going there, feeling even guiltier about living a modern lifestyle. Glad I read on.
There’s more…
“The new research also indicates that horseshoe crabs numbers may continue to decline in the future because of predicted climate change, said Tim King, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey and a lead author on the new study published in Molecular Ecology.”
Well, let’s see. From Wikipedia…
“Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as living fossils, as they have changed little in the last 445 million years.[7] Forms almost identical to this species were present during the Triassic period 230 million years ago, and similar species were present in the Devonian, 400 million years ago. (However, the Atlantic horseshoe crab itself has no fossil record at all, and the genus Limulus “ranges back only some 20 million years, not 200 million.”[20])”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limulus_polyphemus
Yessir, over fishing? Yep. Culling for medical research and products? Yep. Habitat destruction? Yep
But now what’s the culprit? AGW! Where’s that grant application form?
Survived millions of years, but now being destroyed by a degree or so.
(BTW, missed the other thread, best wishes Anthony.)
re: French wind turbines…dumb, dumb, dumb. If a power source isn’t used for base load, (except peak stations) , it shouldn’t be connected to the grid. Redo the economics with even a 90% (still inadequate for base load) availability through co-generation, then we’ll talk. New nuclear technology promises to re-burn nuke waste, with the resulting waste staying hot for only about 300 years (10 + half-lives), a walk in the park to store, geologically speaking
A well-known climate change skeptic has changed his mind regarding the importance of global warming, and in his new book, he is urging the spending of over $100 billion annually to help fight warming.
http://www.dailytech.com/Leading+Climate+Change+Skeptic+Recants+Wants+100B+to+Fight+Warming/article19500.htm
Follow the money…
I think the article mentioned below is extremely important. It has direct consequences
for estimations of ice cap melting and therefore also for predictions of sea levels.
Maybe a thread at WUWT?!
Nature Geoscience study: melting of ice caps twice as slow as previously thought!
Glacial isostatic adjustment has been very imprecise and underestimated in the past. Mass losses in Greenland, Alaska/ Yukon and West Antarctica need sigificant revision. Melting is occurring twice as slow as thought.
Nature Geoscience 3, 642 – 646 (2010)
Published online: 15 August 2010 | doi:10.1038/ngeo938
Link: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v3/n9/full/ngeo938.html
Well I think it would be a hard sell to blame climate change for whatever horseshoe crabs are doing. Aren’t those critters best part of a billion years old or so, so if there has been climate change I would guess they have seen it. Well perhaps they are only 250 megyrs old; so thay haven’t seen quite as much climate change.
I project that HS crabs will outlast humans.
John M says:
September 3, 2010 at 12:55 pm
“From our friends at SeanceDaily:”
Seance?
A meeting of people to receive spiritualistic messages. Did you mean to misspell it?
Now, here’s a good idea!
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/green/Gym-Takes-Powerful-Stance-102104054.html
Myron, It was either that or ScienceDoily.
JAE, maybe they should just bypass the middle man and hook those things up to the shock therapy electrodes.
I posted that I knew what the P in Jeff P stood for & my Comment was erased..The P was for Profesionalism..GEEEZZZ….23 degrees at 76 north on the Healy Cam is the Lowest temp I have seen yet. My Sept 6th date for the Melt to a trickle Stands…Does the Freedom of Posts exist here?..we will see….
[Reply: Moderation is not always instantaneous. Sorry it took 19 minutes this time. ~dbs, mod.]
Tonyb and I found some persuasive patterns from investigations we started some time ago. It was something I learned a lot from and although we’ve both moved on we thought it was worth turning into a blog post.
http://diggingintheclay.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/in-search-of-cooling-trends/
[reply] Now posted as a new thread – thanks.