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GeraldRube
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I see you are paying an average of $3.40 total http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data...wrgp/mogas_home_page.html We are currently paying $7.97 for the very same. Imagine the impact on the economy. That is a heavy price to pay---we still have about 6 million people out of work--and the POTUS and unconstitutional govt we have in place will not allow drilling in the US  |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Check this out
----------------------------------------http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/graphs/HadCET_graph_ylybars_uptodate.gif They are not really desperate to show warming. The blue lines are the annual anomaly with the trend downwards and last year being 0.6 below zero. Now that's got to hurt when you fully back the idea that the Globe is warming in a catastrophic fashion. But the final bright green line is what really takes the biscuit That's an annual anomaly based on the year to date - that date being, right this minute, the day before yesterday - the 2nd March. 61 days into the year they are saying it's worth putting an extra bar of the graph to show this years provisional anomaly figure. The year is 16.7% old The anomaly is year to date 1.19C up to the 2nd March Let's see what difference a day makes to that "annual anomaly"  Dave  |
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David Autumns
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1.13C - a drop of 0.06C in the "annual anomaly" in one day. If this rate of decline continues the annual anomaly will be -17.05C by the end of the annum
----------------------------------------This outlandish claim has as much credence as graphing the 2011 annual anomaly as 1.13C or even 1.19C in March ! here's the change in the graph since this morning  If they want to put something in for 2011 how about the past 12 months? This would give an annual CET temp for March 2010 to Feb 2011 of 9.325C which is -0.175C with respect to the 1961-1990 mean But which hides the decline?  or  I'll leave it with you  Dave [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Mar 4, 2011 6:09:50 PM] |
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David Autumns
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Wow have a look at this today
----------------------------------------http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/SDO_Self_Updating_6.htm That intruder in the images that looks like someone is up there blocking out the camera with his thumbs ........ It's the Moon !!!!!! |
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David Autumns
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If you still think I am overly concerned about the direction of this whole Carbon insanity thing have a listen to this from BBC Radio 4's Today Programme
----------------------------------------It's a portion of an interview with Steve Holliday the Chief Executive of the UK's National Grid <--- the part of the power system that distributes electricity around the UK -- [Today] We want it to be there and provide power when we need it We have to change our behaviour and consume it when it is available -- Can't believe what you have just read and asking yourself "Isn't that what the National Grid and Steve Holliday are there for to keep the power on and reliable?" Take a listen http://www.autumns.co.uk/power.mp3 Then have a look at the first post in this thread Keep crunching while the lights are still on UK Dave [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Mar 5, 2011 11:19:21 PM] |
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David Autumns
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Looks like the German's have had enough
----------------------------------------http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,749199,00.html It goes on The controversy looks set to trigger yet another debate over the feasibility of using biofuels on a large scale. Many environmentalists and politicians have long harbored doubts as to whether biofuels actually do result in a reduction of the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. Not only is significant energy used in the production of the fuel, but it isn't uncommon for forestland -- a natural absorber of CO2 -- to be clear-cut for the planting of biofuels crops. Critics have also questioned the use of farmland for automobile fuel in an age of skyrocketing food prices. |
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David Autumns
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those CET "Annual Anomalies" keep going down
----------------------------------------2nd March 1.19C 3rd March 1.13C 4th March 1.10C 5th March 1.05C That's what happens when you call out Jan, Feb and 5 days in March as being representative of a Year |
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David Autumns
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Sky at Night's 700th Programme goes out tonight
----------------------------------------Something that has been constant throughout my life (and quite a while before) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/03/the-sky-at-night.shtml Patrick Moore not only being ever present through the Moon landings, the Viking Landing on Mars http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html, the Voyager Probes http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ the 1999 Solar Eclipse and the various comets we have seen such as Hale Bopp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hale%E2%80%93Bopp , but he also plays an awesome Xylophone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=703AFmOd80o Here's to Patrick. Thanks for bring us the wonder of the Universe to us for the last 57 years [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Mar 6, 2011 11:01:31 PM] |
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GeraldRube
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Space Is Stealing All Of The Earth’s Heat--- https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/03/0...g-all-of-the-earths-heat/
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littlepeaks
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