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Comment on Puzzle in the Atlantic by Guillermo Gefaell Chamochín

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Both locations are just at the border of the continental shelf. I do not know if that means something.


Comment on What should renewables pay for grid service? by Punksta

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Similar to how landlines work(ed). Inroduce a monthly fixed cost, and lower the usage cost, such that the new combination of costs leaves the conventional users’ bills unchanged. This will mean the renewables users are being properly charged. Which is both inherently fair, and avoids a death spiral.

Comment on What should renewables pay for grid service? by Vaughan Pratt

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Since PL clearly enjoys being blunt, perhaps it is only appropriate to respond in kind.

Mr Lang is one small cog in a giant wheel that in a number of parts of the world has had great success in opposing solar PV. The scale of this opposition is mind-boggling, and well described at

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-solar-20140810-story.html#page=1

Those states in the US that are having great success in preventing solar PV such as Florida (which has even more sunlight than California) and other south-eastern states have succeeded in limiting their residential solar PV to about 0.1% of the level in California, thanks to energetic lobbying by affected utilities.

From Peter Lang’s perspective, Florida’s residential solar PV installation rate is to die for. His nightmare is that Australia might end up like California instead of Florida.

There is no rational reason why Florida should have so little PV compared to California other than vested interests and politics. That does not stop opponents of solar PV from creatively dreaming up reasons against it regardless of whether they hold any water. So far all such arguments I’ve seen are clearly ridiculous. If they were not, Californians with a thousand times as many residential PV installations as Florida would have noticed by now.

Comment on Puzzle in the Atlantic by climatereason

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I would suggest it’s called milky sea effect. It’s phytoplankton drifting in ocean currents.

It was noted by the Vikings and I think Jules Verne wrote of it.

I can’t paste a link from my tablet but googling milky seas effect will bring up the info
Tonyb

Comment on Puzzle in the Atlantic by Ken Konetski

Comment on What should renewables pay for grid service? by Punksta

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<i>There is no rational reason why Florida should have so little PV compared to California other than vested interests and politics.</i> There could be a rational reason. Perhaps it is the case that there no rational reason why California has so much PV in the first place, other than than green-ideology vested interests and political correctness.

Comment on Puzzle in the Atlantic by beththeserf

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No Tony, more mysterious.

Comment on Puzzle in the Atlantic by Latimer Alder (@latimeralder)

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Behold the Prophecies Have Been Fulfilled!

Satan’s Gas has Summoned the Climate Change Monster from the Deep and Made Manifest its Ectoplasm!

Surely the Last Days are Come..and Thermageddon is Upon Us All!

Deniers! Tremble Before its Awesome Power!

Temperatures up from 287.1K to 287.7K! Sea Level Up By 4 Inches! pH Down by 0.02 Units! (if you squint a bit and suffer from chronic confirmation bias).

Nothing Could Withstand These Wild Unprecedented Changes!

Prepare Ye for The End of Life.

We’re Doomed


Comment on Puzzle in the Atlantic by Cicely Anne Calvert

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Judith,I am not an old salt but I recognise Plankton scum when I see it. When deep cold nutrient rich water comes to the surface there is a race on to digest all these wonderful goodies that will allow photosynthetic microscopic fauna and flora to multiply and become the beginning of some wonderful food chains that end up with Filter feeding whales and all those big fishes that we love to catch and eat.

Comment on Puzzle in the Atlantic by mosomoso

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In my youth we blamed anything which spoiled the surfing or fishing at Yamba on Big Breakwater, which was pushed through by the Country Party for Big Sugar. For major climate events like the rains of the 1950s and heat/drought of the 1960s we blamed A-bombs, Sputnik, Commos and the bloody Yanks. Silly, because we now know that the major climate shifts of the mid-century never actually happened.

Comment on Puzzle in the Atlantic by Latimer Alder (@latimeralder)

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I guess ‘Plankton Scum’ is like ‘Denier Scum’, but a bit greener?

Comment on Puzzle in the Atlantic by beththeserf

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Let alone those others waaaaaay back, moso, that
Tony Brown goes on about. Only the hockey stick
is real.

Comment on Week in review – policy and politics edition by jim2

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From the article:

“Eight Great Myths of Recycling” exposes the errors and
falsehoods underlying much of the rhetoric in support of man-
datory recycling. Daniel K. Benjamin points out that recycling
has always been one way of dealing with waste products, but
that Americans have lost their perspective on waste disposal.
The goals of reduce, reuse and—especially—recycle have
become the only acceptable ways of disposing of trash.
Benjamin’s essay show why this view is based on misconcep-
tions of mythic proportions.

Benjamin is professor of economics at Clemson Univer-
sity and a senior associate of PERC—the Center for Free Mar-
ket Environmentalism. He heads PERC’s graduate fellows pro-
gram and is a regular contributor to PERC Reports with his
column “Tangents—Where Research and Policy Meet.”
Benjamin’s most recent book is The Economics of Public Is-
sues (2003), written with Roger Leroy Miller and Douglass C.
North.

This essay was stimulated by a popular series of lectures
given by Benjamin at teachers’ workshops sponsored by
PERC and the Foundation for Teaching Economics. It is part
of the PERC Policy Series, which includes short, readable
papers on environmental topics. The papers are edited by
Jane S. Shaw and produced by Dianna Rienhart. Mandy-Scott
Bachelier is in charge of design. This and other papers in the
series are available from PERC on its Web site, wwww.perc.org.

http://www.perc.org/sites/default/files/ps28.pdf

Comment on Week in review – policy and politics edition by jim2

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Somebody’s got to do it.

Comment on Week in review – policy and politics edition by ristvan

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OBama’s Everglades appearance was ironically symbolic. I live about 10 miles from its eastern edge. And that symbolizes the real problems. dyking lake Okeechobee to prevent another hurrican induce flood disaster that killed thousands in Belle Glades, a city that should never have been built where it was. It was because laborers were needed for the vast sugar cane farms immediately to Okeechobee’s south, drained by canals to the sea, because folks erroneously thought the Everglades was a swamp and not a wide, shallow river flowing south from Orlando. Stupidity piled on stupidity.
Just like CAGW.
And, neither the US government nor Florida has come up with the money to buy back enough sugar cane land to re-establish the natural flow corridors that Crist negotiated and the sugar companies agreed to. THAT should have been the text of his Earth Day speech. That it wasn’t tells you everything you need to know.


Comment on Week in review – policy and politics edition by ristvan

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Saw that. Partly agree and partly disagree. Aluminum can recycling, no issue. 95% stored electricity. Steel scrap recycling generally, sure. (Steel cans, more dubious because of the tin content, but probably.) Glass depends on energy prices. Only about 25% the energy to recycle cullet compared to making new glass. But glass is not a uniform thing. Colors alone are a problem. So ups major sorting cost. And ups trans costs since glass is hollow until crushed after sorting. Plastic, depends on the price of oil and gas precursors. There are six basic plastic types. Maybe two make sense recycling at $100/bbl equivalent. (Polar fleece is made from recycled milk jugs.) Paper, after deinking cost, hardly ever makes sense. Nice biofuel, though. Maybe we can sell it to UK’s Drax?

Comment on Week in review – policy and politics edition by Steven Mosher

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“Which is patently false. As Gary stated, one could deliberately adjust some years up and some years down a me still get this result. Note I’m not saying this was done, just pointing out that Mosher’s original statement is indeedcontent free. As is his follow up.”

Once again the conspiracy nuts are let loose,

Have a look at our code. THERE IS NOTHING IN IT THAT CHANGES ADJUSTMENTS AS A FUNCTION OF TIME.

same goes for NCDC code.

when you know that the code cant and doesnt do this, then noting that the mean is zero tells you something.

Thankfully Roman M will be on the panel and hopefully he will

totally DESTROY once and for all the nut job right conspiracy driven GaryM wing of the skeptics.

The cool thing is that I have Roman Ms code for doing temperature series

hehe..

Comment on Week in review – policy and politics edition by aneipris

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Interview with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy: “Climate Change Is Personal”

Our leaders are clueless zealots, corrupt hypocrites, and vapid morons. How does a country destroy itself. Gradually at first, then suddenly. (Thanks to E. H. and The Sun Also Rises.)

I fear the suddenly phase is looming. If the corrupt Clintons manage to sleaze their way back into the White House again, that just might do it

Comment on Week in review – policy and politics edition by Ragnaar

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“We have built a society, an agricultural system, and cities and everything we do based on assumptions that basically, the climate is not going to change. The fact that we have so much infrastructure right near the shore is because we didn’t expect the sea level to rise.” That would be under the category of personal responsibility. That CO2 emissions should be reduced to protect people who took risks locating where they did is subsidizing risk. If someone wants less risk, they should pay for it or adapt. My office is on a small 140 acre lake within a 1000 acre sub watershed. It all exits though a roughly 2 x 3 foot culvert. I believe the watershed district employee said they observed a maximum flow of 14 cubic feet per second last year after some heavy rains. I watch the ditch and culvert entrance and keep them clean. With extreme rainfall, it’s possible my parking lot would wash out as my lake attempts to get to Lake Minnetonka. That’s a risk I am comfortable with. The situation is complicated by the fact that I don’t own the lake or the outflow ditch arguably increasing my risk.

Comment on Week in review – policy and politics edition by JCH

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I’ve always thought that BEST was doomed for wingers because of its name. With a name like BEST, it was doomed to be a whole bunch like GISS. So I’m hoping they actually make a new series called WORST.

Then we will have the BEST and the WORST. But now I learn Roman may prevent them from actually producing the worst one, so it might not live up to its name.

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