Comment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by Greybeard
R Gates For CO2 to be warming the oceans, it must of necessity first warm the atmosphere – the greenhouse effect. Since the atmosphere is now not warming, the oceans must be warming for some other...
View ArticleComment on What separates science from non-science? by jcbmack
Interesting blog discussion of these issues by a wide variety of professionals both scientists and not can be found here: http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/471031-climate-change-debate-48.html#post7227149
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by NW
Peter, Another point. For some reason I have a different conception of the cost of raising tax revenue from most of you. While I can and do think about the direct out-of-pocket monitoring costs to the...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by BatedBreath
A carbon text would make sense if both (1) we actually knew CO2 was a serious issue (2) there was some way of preventing its revenue-neutrality being compromised (1) is at least conceivable. (2) is not.
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by BatedBreath
Why is WUWT’s policy of publishing emails such an issue? Anyone who doesn’t like it can simply not go there.
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by Wagathon
At over 80K it is not low — it is higher earners that are a relatively low number… and, a portion of the rate is unlimited. Consider too that compared to earlier times there are far fewer...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by BatedBreath
maxOK If and when fossil fuel seems likely to run low, the price will rise to limit use of it. Taxing carbon on top of this will just force us to needlessly and/or prematurely switch to something more...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by NW
Wag, See here: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=221\\ The first column shows the breakdown of federal taxes paid by income quintiles. At the top are the shares of total...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by BatedBreath
It being a racing certainty that a revenue-neutral carbon tax will very soon just be another (revenue) tax, the way to ensure its effect remain revenue neutral is to reduce or abolish some other tax –...
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by Wagathon
Why doesn't the EPA just make sea level rise illegal? That should help sir up some chaos for the chum to feed on. <a...
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by kim
No, No, No! The ‘moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow’ was June 3, 2008. =================
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by Wagathon
They rise faster than they fall and fall quicker than they rise so the slower the rise the quicker they fall for at least as long as we have been keeping track since after it all began.
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by capt. dallas 0.8 +/-0.2
The “new” solar TSI estimate is 1360.8Wm-2, the annual variation is from around 1321 to 1413 Wm-2. The southern hemisphere oceans benefit from the highest insolation, so an even smaller variation in...
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by steven
I am not suprised there are differences of magnitude in the estimates of ground water/terrestrial storage contribution to sea level. What does suprise me is how the subject was treated in AR4 which was...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by John from CA
To be honest, I think “useless” is a bit harsh. Like a battery, we need a negative to support a positive and there have been a few Green ideas that have some merit. Decentralized power generation and...
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by Latimer Alder
Ain’t That the Truth, Brother! We’ve continually accommodated sealevel rise since the end of the last Ice Age. There is absolutely no reason to think that we won’t be able to do so in the future.
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by R. Gates
Regarding a jacket that you wear and the jacket of greenhouse gases surrounding the planet, there are important differences, such as the fact that the source of heat for the Earth is mostly external...
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by Latimer Alder
Update: I learn that Tuvalu was only first populated about 250 years ago. Bad decision to go there then.. Bad decision to stay there now.
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by Herman Alexander Pope
The GHG explanation is only an unproven speculation. My Theory is much better.
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by R. Gates
This really is very simple Greybeard. CO2 slows the rate of flow of LW radiation out of the atmosphere. Anything that slows the rate of flow will alter the thermal gradient. If the thermal gradient is...
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