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  "the Hybrid Hunta."

  iz spelld 'Junta'.  ;)

  "Yes, brush all that under the rug, Democrats, because it prevents you from getting the pork and earmarks put into your blue wallets!"

  My oft repeated proposalis to simply end ALL energy subsidies and market protections, and replace subsidies for renewable energy by simply having our governments pay Certified Carbon Offsets for their own greenhouse gas wastes.  It pays for itself, it's self-deleting, and the Free-Market^TM figures out where best to spend the money.  It's probabvly not enough to get us back down to 350ppm of CO2, but it's a good start.  And while we're at it, kill the Farm Bill; the changing climate will be too weird to be picking winners and be wrong anyway.

  "Could this be said:  At some point the total number of CO2 molecules will be active, charged up from an infrared ray, and unable to absorb any more?"

  That is a very interesting question, I don't have an answer, but it probably relates to logarithmic (not one-to-one) relation between CO2 Levels and Global Temperature.

  "However, when you say "Climate mechanisms stop reacting", I really need a bit more specifics..."

  Inertia. To be more exemplific (NEW WORD!), the brakes in your car don't create an instantaneous stop.

  This is STILL not a Signiature!

  On Is the IPCC so wrong their theories contradict a basic laws of physics? posted 1 year, 1 month ago 23 Responses

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  Sequestration

  of carbon molecules which store energy in their connections can eat up some of the expected outgoing IR radiation....but Eventually there will -otherwise- be equilibrium, as other Climate mechanisms stop reacting to the CO2 temp forcings, and give up latent energy as heat.

  WRT satellites to measure such changes....well Al Gore wanted to launch DSCVR aka Triana aka GoreSat to do just that.  But a certain political faction, who was in love with Hating Al Gore, would have nothing of it...that and the Shuttle crashed again.

  This is STILL not a Signiature!

  On Is the IPCC so wrong their theories contradict a basic laws of physics? posted 1 year, 1 month ago 23 Responses

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  Depends

  jabailo,
  It depends upon which Layer of the Earth you are looking at.  The Troposphere, closest to the surface, is warming.  But the Stratosphere, next layer up, is cooling a little; likely this is because less heat is transferring to the outer atmosphere due to increasing greenhouse gasses preventing as much.  If the Sun's luminosity were increasing, the Stratosphere would be warmer too.

  Models have predicted all this, observations confirm it.  And of course, the Climate Cranks use the cooling stratosphere to argue that GW is a myth.

  This is STILL not a Signiature!

  On Is the IPCC so wrong their theories contradict a basic laws of physics? posted 1 year, 1 month ago 23 Responses

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  Hammocks

  install some hooks in the ceiling.  When sleepy, attach hammocks.  Enjoy.On Umbra on air mattresses posted 1 year, 3 months ago 9 Responses

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  Versus other subsidies?

  are those 'cleaner' power generating methods also receiving general subsidies given to non-'cleaner' generation plants?  Such as subsidized price of tons o coal in China.

  If so, no subsidy for 'cleaner' coal should be given if that is the case.

  Getting rid of the subsidies for fossil fueled energy is the best first thing which can be done.  Arrange leverage there, then help them be cleaner...they will have plenty more incentive.On U.N. clean-energy program criticized for not funding clean energy posted 1 year, 3 months ago 1 Response