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http://www.climatecrocks.com In 1982, Mike MacCracken, then a senior researcher at Livermore Laboratory, gave a lecture at Sandia Labs on the subject of global climate change.
I talked to Dr. MacCracken not long ago at the University of Michigan,and asked him, if he were to give the lecture today, what would be changed, and what would be the same.
check out this video and more at
http://glimpsescience.net/ Mike's lecture starts here, 1 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYIk4cjsMb0 James Hansen at TED
http://climatecrocks.com/2012/03/08/james-hansen-at-ted/ More on Global Sea Ice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRc_9nNTZg0 Dr. Julienne Stroeve on Polar ice, Spokane Community College, 2009
http://www.scc.spokane.edu/?scigeollec Andrew Dessler on Water Vapor feedback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JpcfzxrL4M Andrew Dessler on Water Vapor and Clouds
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-decade-clouds-positive-climate-feedback.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CavtDvGk8mM
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FletchOMG! We were still watching those Bell Telephone Science movies in school in the 70s. "Our Mr. Sun", anyone?
Fletch*promote
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GeeSussFreeKI have come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter what your gas waste product, the fact that it is a gas makes it a problem in knowing exactly the effects you can/will have. Even if all vapor waste products were chanced from carbon to water, it might still have a large effect on weather and climate in large enough quantity. This is why I have come to regard nuclear byproducts as the greatest byproduct ever produced by energy production, because it is mostly a solid/liquid. You can deal with a solid directly, and with a little engineering and know how you can eliminate or transmute it. You can compare that with our own human waste products; if you need to secrete you liquid or solid waste, we have ways of capturing and processing them. However, if you need to fart, you have no choice but to soil the very air you need to breath shortly. Vapor waste, even if non-toxic, is nearly impossible to control with in our current understandings of the physical sciences. If you must make waste, make sure it is solid or liquid, we can deal with that shit...
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alcomsays...Sounds like we're f*cked. I totally believe think this era will be regarded as the Age of Stupid. The fact that this was added to the "Controversy" channel confirms it.
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