I’ll be offline anywhere from 48-72 hours. The reason?
My lovely wife has another GA surgery scheduled for tomorrow at Stanford, hopefully the last one, and while I’ll have some sporadic Internet access, I don’t plan on focusing on anything but her. We are leaving today and I’m in transit while you read this as this is an automatically scheduled posting.
Guest authors and moderators may fill the void if you wish. If not, no worries.
Please, keep it civil.
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Wish your wife and you all the best.
Imagine IF the Arctic sea ice extent ‘recovers’ to the ~1979 level and global mean temperatures go on a downward trend; where would the debate be? What would James Hansen say? Monbiot? Schmidt? Would they admit that they were wrong? Highly unlikely.
After all is said and done – global warming has always been good for the planet. Global cooling has always been frowned on by most life forms [see tropics].
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1193833
tvtropes has a page about Global Warming. It’s rather funny.
” debate among the media and the general public rages on over veracity. Politicians and academics on both sides repeat “does not” and “does too” again and again using various synonyms and scientific citings to make it sound less like a playground brawl.”
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GlobalWarming
Best wishes for you and your family.
If only the CAGW crowd used the sort of rigor that the high energy physics scientists use http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/07/particle-discovery-physicists-abuzz/?test=faces
the people that are contacted here state that unless they get the statistical range down to 5 standard deviations it is just real interesting not real evidence currently at 3 standard deviations.
I’ll add my prayers and best wishes. Hope all goes well. Your family is your top priority.
Best wishes to your wife and you, Anthony.
Our prayers for all involved.
Food vs. Fuel. Old argument, I know, but the facts are starting to come out even in the NYT. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/science/earth/07cassava.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
“Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears”
But last year, 98 percent of cassava chips exported from Thailand, the world’s largest cassava exporter, went to just one place and almost all for one purpose: to China to make biofuel. Driven by new demand, Thai exports of cassava chips have increased nearly fourfold since 2008, and the price of cassava has roughly doubled.
Each year, an ever larger portion of the world’s crops — cassava and corn, sugar and palm oil — is being diverted for biofuels as developed countries pass laws mandating greater use of nonfossil fuels and as emerging powerhouses like China seek new sources of energy to keep their cars and industries running. Cassava is a relatively new entrant in the biofuel stream.
But with food prices rising sharply in recent months, many experts are calling on countries to scale back their headlong rush into green fuel development, arguing that the combination of ambitious biofuel targets and mediocre harvests of some crucial crops is contributing to high prices, hunger and political instability.
This year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported that its index of food prices was the highest in its more than 20 years of existence. Prices rose 15 percent from October to January alone, potentially “throwing an additional 44 million people in low- and middle-income countries into poverty,” the World Bank said.
Suggest linking via Google news to get past the NYT register wall. Search on Biofuel .
Best of luck to you both.
Give your wife a hug
All the best
G’luck
You and your wife are getting some major prayers. God Bless You.
My best wishes.
Best wishes to you and yours.
I, my beloved Libby, the intrepid Killowatt, and all the birds on the feeder wish you and your wife well.
Contrary to what the warmists seem to think most anti global warming folk are ardent conservationists. Therefore I suggest that all, warmists and anti, check out the Decorah Eagle nest cam. Be sure to watch the Utube stuff.
Best of luck to you and your family, Anthony. Our prayers are with you.
Best wishes of a speedy recovery to your spouse.
Our prayers are with your family, always. No worries, all will behave or we’ll introduce them to… the gatekeepers. Right ctm?
as always, family first.
We will keep you both in our prayers.
best wishes to mrs. watts. take it easy, anthony.
Best wishes to your wife.
Best wishes to you and your spouse. Hope all goes well and recovery is swift.
P.S. A second to TheFlyingOrc’s earlier observation. I’m not sure if this will be effective in counteracting it, but I think a reminder, at the end of each post, to keep it civil and avoid snark might do wonders.