is never settled. Thats why its called ‘re’search !

jmt1984

by the guy who invented the internet, and got a “D” in one of his high school science classes. The amazing gullibility of people not only in this country but apparently around the (not warming at all and in fact more likely cooling) globe never ceases to amaze me.

See? You’re a Republican and therefore: Anti-Science.

(Oh, and this post is dangerously close to driving Andi Sullivan ver.2 a/k/a LGF Charles Johnson to mock RedState again.)

The media has already gone in 8 years from global warming to global change.

So how long before we go from global change to global cooling?

As I have said before, they cannot even accurately predict the weather 10 days from now and they want to tell us how things will be in 50 years? It is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard someone utter.

Science by its very nature is ALWAYS being challenged… you would have thought the academics and Harvard graduates would have known this…

Every single human being’s life is being altered as we speak, by the religion of the Environmentalists…….. based on a theory of nonsense. Time to speak up the rest of you scientists….. as my Dad used to say after being in WWII, “no Guts….no Glory.” Surely there are brave people out there to point out that the ‘emperor has no clothes’….. as Obama struts his Cap and Trade policies around.

as is global cooling. It’s been happening over the life of our planet and there is plenty of scientific evidence to support it.

The core debate is on whether human civilization exacerbates the warm/cool cycle. I like your point on quantum physics to shed light on how our science works. You could also add the “end of oil in 30 years” scare of the ’70′s and the CFC induced “hole in the ozone” scare of the ’80′s.

All of these were based on an observable effect but the causality de jour was eventually debunked or at least minimized after further advances in scientific study.

Advances in measurement instrumentation (my field) has progressed immensely in the last half century. Each year we make order of magnitude advances in our ability to measure what we’ve never dreamed we could measure before.

If one looks into the measurement side of the whole climate change issue there is a great deal of question regarding protocol and instrumentation. I won’t go into it now. Maybe sometime I’ll do a diary on it.

The point is that there is no definitive truth yet. No one can yet state as fact that global warming either is or isn’t caused by man. I do know that the University grant system favors the man caused hypothesis. And what research scientist couldn’t use some bucks?

The basic problem, to elaborate, is the data they are attempting to use is not empirical data. That is, the data cannot be collected by another and tested finding the same results. Most of this centennial data they are using was not at all standardized and collection was done in many places by ministers, farmers, and other various and sundry individuals who weren’t scientists or calibrators of instruments. Furthermore, most of the data being collected today doesn’t conform to uniform standards either. They have changed collection points throughout the past thirty years and so they are comparing apples and oranges. There simply isn’t enough understanding of the climate to warrant a wholesale alteration of our economies.

see the OZONE scare post further up this thread…..

Vivace tidal-generators: Vivace hydro-power: These new Tidal waters Electrical Generators are for lower speed forces (easy close to shore locations). Why is this important? Well, the original (and for some reason unimaginative yet what people have been stuck on) Windmill or Propeller shaped/driven generators need higher forces to work yet if the forces are too great they rip-apart. Prop-gen Tidal often turns nice natural Tidal Current Flows into Tidal CHURNS which lands up killing as many fish as the number of KW they put out (yes, exaggeration but being silly to make the point). The same goes for the Wind-generators, why we NEED to be moving to DRUM-wind-generators over Propeller ones (but the POLITICS have dictated these things, NOT SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY), thus far.

This new method may be put into practice off the coast of Detroit (Detroit River, potentially into some of the Lakes also) in order to produce power. This new method is “supposed” to be easier to produce, maintain, more reliable, etc…. but we will see. FINALLY, we may see a reasonably priced (and therefore, viable) option for Tidal Power.

Yes, Tidal forces are generally more reliable than WIND force power generation.

see also: unintended consequences (Democrats always ignore) and Climate $cam

Lord knows he’d like to use ‘em.

I just wish the MSM would stop using the misleading adjective “alternate”.