tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post8019741643363730940..comments2024-03-18T16:10:41.673-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Being Pro-Choice on Abortions, but not on Light Bulbs and ToiletsDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87525096669305045972011-04-04T10:13:08.631-04:002011-04-04T10:13:08.631-04:00The light bulb industry needs a marketeer like Qui...The light bulb industry needs a marketeer like Quirk, who could sell an organic, biodegradable casket if anyone could. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46387225674684611032011-04-04T08:07:54.484-04:002011-04-04T08:07:54.484-04:00I’m emigrating to South Carolina, home of the inca...I’m emigrating to South Carolina, home of the incandescent!<br />(including the bulbs :-) )<br /><br />Regarding CFLs LED Halogen etc alternatives…<br />if they are as great as ban proponent keep saying, then why don’t people buy them?<br /><br />“Expensive to buy but cheap in the long run”…<br />Battery (Energizer bunny!) and washing up liquid manufacturers can imaginatively advertise and sell such products – if they are good enough.<br />So can light bulb and other manufacturers,<br />rather than happily see the end of unprofitable cheap light bulbs, so that they can make money from<br />overly-expensive inferior products that people would not otherwise buy.<br /><br />After all:<br />Why do all the major light bulb manufacturers welcome being told what light bulbs they can make?<br /><br />How manufacturers and vested interests have pushed for the ban on regular light bulbs, and lobbied for CFL favors: <a href="http://ceolas.net/#li12ax" rel="nofollow">ceolas.net/#li12ax</a><br />with documentation and copies of official communicationsLighthousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123172670211101092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11464150577270569732011-04-04T03:12:17.402-04:002011-04-04T03:12:17.402-04:00Weather's pretty far over my pay-grade, Sam. ...Weather's pretty far over my pay-grade, Sam. <br /><br />Around here the old folks used to say, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it."<br /><br />I couldn't get you "Oceans Cooling?" link to work.<br /><br />I'm going to bed; I'll check it out in the morning. G'nite.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67320809853976548482011-04-04T02:58:50.325-04:002011-04-04T02:58:50.325-04:00I read something the other day that said all this ...I read something the other day that said all this flooding caused by unseasonal torrential rain (Australia, Thailand) is due to ocean warming. Something to do with more moisture evaporating into the atmosphere and it all has to go somewhere so it returns as rain over land.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11909950050022113672011-04-04T02:36:46.622-04:002011-04-04T02:36:46.622-04:00Call me Embarrassed. Some
years ago—never mind
how...<i>Call me Embarrassed. Some<br />years ago—never mind<br />how long precisely—having<br />little or no time left in<br />my postdoc, I co-authored a paper with<br />two colleagues that documented a rapid<br />and recent cooling in the watery part of<br />the world (Lyman et al., 2006). Our<br />results were met with a certain amount<br />of surprise and skepticism by the climate<br />science community, but they<br />caused a great deal of excitement<br />among deniers of global warming.<br /><br />...<br /><br />The global array of approximately 3000<br />autonomous profiling floats (Figure 2)<br />now provides temperature and salinity<br />observations for the upper 2000 meters of<br />the global oceans (Roemmich and<br />Gilson, 2008) . In addition, subsurface<br />velocity observations from A rgo are<br />beginning to provide global estimates of the mid-depth circulation (Lebedev et al.,<br />2007).<br /><br />...<br /><br />Since the launch of TOPEX/Poseidon in<br />1992, satellites have observed changes in<br />the height of the sea surface with accuracies<br />of a few centimeters. These satellites<br />provide a critically important estimate of<br />global sea level rise (Beckley et al.,<br />2007), but they have also helped to identify<br />and explain large-scale changes in<br />ocean circulation that have impacts on<br />regional climate, such as El Niño and La<br />Niña (Lombard et al., 2005), the Pacific<br />Decadal Oscillation (Cummings et al.,<br />2004) and the spin down of the North<br />Atlantic Subpolar Gyre (Häkkinen and<br />Rhines, 2004).</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.usclivar.org/Newsletter/V6N2.pdf" rel="nofollow">Oceans Cooling?</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14461473575689560292011-04-04T02:27:39.114-04:002011-04-04T02:27:39.114-04:00A large (~1023 J) multi-decadal globally averaged ...<i>A large (~1023 J) multi-decadal globally averaged warming signal in the upper 300 m of the world’s oceans was reported roughly a decade ago1 and is attributed to warming associated with anthropogenic greenhouse gases2, 3. The majority of the Earth’s total energy uptake during recent decades has occurred in the upper ocean3, but the underlying uncertainties in ocean warming are unclear, limiting our ability to assess closure of sea-level budgets4, 5, 6, 7, the global radiation imbalance8 and climate models5.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74004210144485730112011-04-04T02:18:35.294-04:002011-04-04T02:18:35.294-04:00Tetraether Lipids<a href="http://www.agu.org/journals/ABS/2010/2010GC003308.shtml" rel="nofollow">Tetraether Lipids</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10191811230947119652011-04-04T02:16:51.602-04:002011-04-04T02:16:51.602-04:00The Amazon basin is a major component of the globa...<i>The Amazon basin is a major component of the global carbon and hydrological cycles, a significant natural source of methane, and home to remarkable biodiversity and endemism.<br /><br />...<br /><br />The reconstructed tropical Amazonian temperatures were ∼5°C cooler at the Last Glacial Maximum (∼21°C) compared to modern values (∼26°C).<br /><br />...<br /><br />Moreover, we also illustrate how the soil bacterial membrane lipid record reveals major changes in basin dynamics and sediment provenance during the glacial-Holocene transition, impacting the biomarker reconstructions from ∼11 kyr onward.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26298285805521830512011-04-04T02:09:53.327-04:002011-04-04T02:09:53.327-04:00Having failed to "plug the leak" with Sa...Having failed to "plug the leak" with Sawdust, the Japs are now trying "Shredded Newspapers."<br /><br />Are these the same guys that were in charge of the Macondo leak?<br /><br />Remember the "top kill?" The one with golf balls, and rubber erasors, and jumping jacks, or whatever the hell that was?<br /><br />Did it really take us five years to beat these assholes?Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49559673871261630372011-04-04T01:53:54.654-04:002011-04-04T01:53:54.654-04:00The only way the gov can attempt to justify regula...The only way the gov can attempt to justify regulating lightbulbs is to claim the public interest vis a vis "CO2 induced Global Warming."<br /><br />Eventually (probably with the next Republican President,) this whole "greenhouse gas/global warming" crock is going to have to end up in front of the Supreme Court. What a bunch of nonsense.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29066931390937397652011-04-04T01:06:36.173-04:002011-04-04T01:06:36.173-04:00THE death toll from heavy flooding in southern Tha...<i>THE death toll from heavy flooding in southern Thailand has risen to 40, the government said yesterday, with thousands of people now in temporary shelters.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44891162568202299062011-04-04T00:19:53.205-04:002011-04-04T00:19:53.205-04:00This place needs one of these -
https://www.anima...This place needs one of these -<br /><br />https://www.animaloff.com/?mid=918336<br /><br />Keep the rats away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14200660798427020172011-04-04T00:12:03.630-04:002011-04-04T00:12:03.630-04:00Top female boxer Rola el-Halabi, who is recovering...<i>Top female boxer Rola el-Halabi, who is recovering in hospital after being gunned down by her stepfather before a world title fight, may never return to the ring, her promoter said.<br /><br />...<br /><br />"When I had problems I could talk with him about anything, except when it was about boys. That was taboo," el-Halabi said.<br /><br />El-Halabi, who is undefeated from 11 fights with six knockouts and has held two world titles in her career, had been due to face Bosnian Irma Adler as part of her comeback after a break from boxing.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/sport/boxing/female-boxer-shot-by-stepfather-before-title-fight-unlikely-to-return-to-ring-20110404-1cv40.html?from=smh_sb" rel="nofollow">Unlikely To Return</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9804074871208487942011-04-03T22:03:13.316-04:002011-04-03T22:03:13.316-04:00The Duchy of Normandy, which is in France, was a f...The Duchy of Normandy, which is in France, was a founded by Rollo the Viking in 911, when the Frankish king gave him a land grant.<br /><br />Those Norse, always getting land grants from governments to buy their loyalty. Then living in denial of reality, their own dependency upon government handouts for the basis of their fortune.<br /><br />boob was a racist as he said he was opposed to abortion, except for black babies. He holding a different standard, based upon race, creed or national origin.<br /><br />To paraphrase anon's hero, Mr Huxley:<br /><br /><b>A racist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.</b>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55611106449524834592011-04-03T22:01:41.183-04:002011-04-03T22:01:41.183-04:00Between 2,000 and 3,000 demonstrators had taken to...<i>Between 2,000 and 3,000 demonstrators had taken to the streets after Friday prayers. They threw stones at the UN compound before storming it, and overwhelmed the Nepalese guards, killing four.<br /><br />...<br /><br />The head of the UN office, a Russian, survived the attack by pretending to be Muslim and speaking the local language Dari.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Friday's attack was the worst suffered by the world body since a bomb blast at the UN compound in Algiers in 2007 in which 17 staff died.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2011/04/04/two-die-in-afghan-protests-over-koran/" rel="nofollow">Protests Over Koran</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64492801232272011252011-04-03T21:57:19.833-04:002011-04-03T21:57:19.833-04:00Energy saving lighting doesn’t have to be restrict...<i>Energy saving lighting doesn’t have to be restricted to the interior of your home – you can ramp up savings and reduce your carbon footprint by searching for energy saving garden lighting as well.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63253788580885391092011-04-03T20:50:28.085-04:002011-04-03T20:50:28.085-04:00This is a good way to rollback the overreaching Fe...This is a good way to rollback the overreaching Federal black hand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44790982486709778452011-04-03T19:31:36.969-04:002011-04-03T19:31:36.969-04:00Oh, shit, don't tell Doug.Oh, shit, don't tell Doug.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7773684141536405652011-04-03T19:25:54.106-04:002011-04-03T19:25:54.106-04:00The light bulb idea was the work of genius by Geor...The light bulb idea was the work of genius by George Bush.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.com