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[somedaybitch]

huh. bet that'll put a dent in Al's day.

According to the new data published by NASA, 1998 is no longer the hottest year ever. 1934 is.

Four of the top 10 years of US CONUS high temperature deviations are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (1998, 2006, 1999). Several years (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) fell well down the leaderboard, behind even 1900. (World rankings of temperature are calculated separately.)

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[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

perish the thought that we might have to do something as simple as, I dunno, use only what is needed, and pollute as little as possible? I think that goombah and the rest show the same problem that many a corporate manager shows: Emergencies NEED management, therefore I can only show that I am managing IF it's an emergency. nobody cares if you are just doing the logical thing... They can talk trends and argue everything, but you fall to splitting hairs when you do that, because everyone wants a limit. "Well how much is the maximum I can pollute?" The temperature deviations are very difficult to capture, and what they mean relative to everything else, is difficult to say. I came across a number that said that 40% of the gasses from a volcanic eruption are CO2, so that amounts from one eruption are HUGE, many times everything else. Does anyone know how much CO2 is in the high atmosphere? Yeah? no. Does anyone know how jets spewing CO2 into the high atmo, in addition to the contrails they make, actually affect the CO2, and the temp? Oh, now I am asking the hard questions...

Basically you can figure out how much CO2 is made by a gallon of gasoline, by knowing how much carbon it contains, and how much O2 will be required to burn it, and viola! you know how much CO2 is made by a car, in theory. But you can't measure it high in the atmo, or know where that CO2 there came from, and there isn't an indication of how that will ACTUALLY effect warming, or if it does.

But you can drive only when needed, you can turn off the lights when you leave a room, you can use the brain you were born with to make a decision about things, instead of choosing not to decide.

but then preachin' to the choir, ain't I?

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

si. ;)