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Correction World Citizen: Burnett, however, called the miscalculation "a serious math error" and noted that according to NASA's newly published data
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Correction World Citizen: Burnett, however, called the miscalculation "a serious math error" and noted that according to NASA's newly published data:
• The hottest year on record is 1934, not 1998;
• The third hottest year on record was 1921, not 2006;
• Three of the five hottest years on record occurred before 1940; and
• Six of the top 10 hottest years occurred prior to 90 percent of the growth in greenhouse gas emissions during the last century.
The French at Normandy have found new ways of processing nuclear waste. World Citizen, You haven't seen our environmentalist. I have. I have had to deal with them complaining about a 30,000 acre windmill farm. Too much noise, too many power lines, too many service roads, too many dead birds, ugly eye sores. You don't know much about physics do you. Cold Fusion (only for the gullible). Real Fusion (someday) and anti matter (SciFi). It wasn't just Bush that pushed Ethanol-go read Congress' comments (Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid etc...). No the answer is to build more nuclear plants and more desalination. Going backwards and lowering everyone's standard of living isn't an answer. Its a way to control peoples lives and force politically correct BS on everyone.
Whether American landscape views will appear on Nord Atlantic? Every so water sphere about the capacity of 2000 m 3, and the height 100 m can give power 10 MW for 3 minutes. If filling pumps water with the one I believe loss is managing to fill waters up, we will have it 10 MW driven with sea waves of the electric power.
Building 100 such pieces believe power 1000 of the MW will give it to us it is so much, how many two small atomic power stations. But obvisious it will be green energy. So far windmills only had so for faith, and perhaps now will be finished with the Sphere?
Containers to brine built on shores of oceans into which sea water is being pumped with the help of oceanic waves are newest and the most professional with solution to the production of electricity. Unfortunately there is this very new answer which should quickly be popularized.
By the way, the world's hottest temperatures on record for the last 100 years show 8 of the hottest years on record in the last 10 years, and 4 in the last 5 years. Getting hot enough for you?
The economist recently published a report showing ocean levels rising faster than predicted and ice melts shrinking more rapidly than before.
Any "cooling" you might be feeling in Europe is due to glacial water mixing with salt water and reducing temperature conductivity and changing the currents. So Europe is going back to normal temperatures at that latitude while the Arctic circle becomes a swimming pool of the northern hemisphere. This works on the other side too. Perth is in a massive drought because their rain is now being poured into the ocean. Anyone for some whole wheat bread? May not be around that long, it'll be replaced with rice and soy. Yum.
Interesting that there were fewer comments on this line than in other articles. Perhaps because average citizens (choose a country) don't think much about the energy they consume and what it means. A 350 HP engine in a sports car is about 500 horses of power, but it can go a lot faster than 500 horses ever could. Think of the hay to feed your sports car and you start to come back down to earth. The last 150 years have generated human evolution to heights unimaginable, but at a cost which was always brushed aside as the cost of progress.
Progress must now have benefits, not costs, but that implies complete accounting which is difficult if there are no measurements. CO2 caps don't work in and of themselves, but as tools to measure CO2 so that future accounting can compensate the equated costs. It's a step. A step towards the ultimate goal which should be to reduce EVERYONE's carbon footprint. Developing nations will have access to technologies that developed nations polluted inorder to need to aquire them. There is no excuse for China, India, Brazil or Russia to have to pollute the land as we did and are now paying for. China is already (15 years into "progress") contaminated to the point of declining quality of life (quality of life is what we're all after anyway).
Nuclear: Safe and getting safer. We can't bury the stuff, we have to figure out how to use it (thank you Bob Hargraves). Cold fusion is closer to becoming a reality (as is anti-matter research) which w