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2001-2008 cooling trend!?
Hahaaaaaaaahahahaha... You got no idea of statistics and climate. It's the long term trend, stupid. You could perhaps profit from reading tamino's blog - hehe. The last decade says nothing, and that should be obvious even for folks with no idea of math: Just eyeball the whole graph (it's right in front of your eyes, man!). Eyeballing the Hadley graph you presented plus a little confidence in science should be enough to get it. (And no, those models are not like economics models. People bitching at the "models" are mostly economists, a failed pseudoscience. AGW and it's models is something different, it is natural science, based on the laws of Nature which everybody nonpsychotic trusts.)
My last post here.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On There is no negative feedback in the climate system posted 10 months ago 51 Responsesme too
Tamino even is winner of some 10 worst blog posts award.
PCR is quite a complicated thing, incl. confusing terminology.
The Tamino-Jolliffe "affair" is resolved here:
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/open-thread-5-2/If you're still obsessed with Mann's 1998 hockey stick version, go to climateaudit or visit your psychiatrist.
Quote Jolliffe loc. cit.:
"If there now are people out there claiming that my first post undermines the whole global warming argument, tell me where and I'll refute this misrepresentation as well. Almost any decent statistical model-fitting will give the upward trend at the end of the series, but more importantly there are all the climate models, based mainly on physics rather than statistics, that provide convincing evidence of climate change and the reasons for it. As a statistician, on principle I don't believe anything is absolutely certain, but my view is that the chance of all the climate models having got things completely wrong and that by 2030 the Earth is cooler than in 1950 is of the same order of magnitude as the chance that the USA will decide that independence was a bad idea and ask to be taken back as a British colony by the same date. Not impossible, but I personally wouldn't bet on it."
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On There is no negative feedback in the climate system posted 10 months ago 51 ResponsesLovelock says it: Global heating
But I prefer the more comprehensive "anthopogenic biosphere holocaust". It also paints the denialists in the right corner.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On 'Climate change,' 'global warming,' 'climate chaos' -- what terminology fits best? posted 10 months, 1 week ago 34 ResponsesMo' of Spencer
Just found more of Spencer-debunking by tamino,
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/spencers-folly/
It's about his "Feedback vs. Chaotic Radiative Forcing: "Smoking Gun" Evidence for an Insensitive Climate System".Tamino thinks that Spencer actually believes his stuff.
Looks like one of the finest cases to study the psychopathology of denial.
Much better than the garbled pseudo-maths of "Black Knight" Monckton.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On There is no negative feedback in the climate system posted 10 months, 1 week ago 51 ResponsesWho is tamino?
Who really cares? What counts is scientific coherence. Tamino is obviously a master of statistics and time series analysis. Spencer might have been an eminent scientist or engineer (even Fred Singer once was). But tamino demonstrates by mathematics that Rush Limbaugh's "official climatologist" is out of his wits in recent writings and doesn't get some very basic logics. (A problem every denialist has.)
(See http://www.desmogblog.com/node/1397 for his other affiliations)
On filtering trolls like the infamous kim: This is a necessity if you want to keep the blog readable and keep thread lengths reasonable. Some bloggers and readers like actual scientific discussion, not textual garbage.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On There is no negative feedback in the climate system posted 10 months, 1 week ago 51 ResponsesForget Spencer
From an analysis in
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/a-bag-of-hammers/
"...and it means absolutely nothing except that Spencer really doesn't understand what he's doing."Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On There is no negative feedback in the climate system posted 10 months, 1 week ago 51 Responsesthe math, jabailo,
originated not in economics, but in math and physics. Brownian motion started with Albert Einstein, 1905. (Louis Bachelier's "Théorie de la spéculation", 1900 mostly ignored and technically unimportant.)
When N. Wiener, K. Ito (who died last month), etc. created stochastic analysis there was no "Main Theorem of Asset Pricing". And the Malliavin calculus was not invented to calculate greeks.
Heck, mathy-economist tinkerers dare call "Ito lemma" what actually is the Fundamental Theorem of Ito Calculus... No wonder they lost control.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On Does economics even look at the real world? posted 11 months, 1 week ago 25 ResponsesWith 5.5°C, 100 million + enviro refugees 2100?
Not alarming. They will either have long before starved or killed each other. This is the late Homo S "Sapiens" after all, multiplying its holocaust numbers. Merry Xmas to the trolls.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On Hadley Center study warns of 'catastrophic' 5-7°C warming by 2100 on current emissions path posted 11 months, 1 week ago 7 Responseswrrr...
... and then most politicians and economists still have problems with the idea that Earth is round hence finite (not infinite hence flat).
(Waiting for jabailo to scream...)
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On After Poland talks, a new reality starts to set in, says McKibben; 350 ppm must be the goal posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago 22 ResponsesTshermany...
Politics corrupted by fossil energy & BS car producers. Just like the U.S.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On International youth call out Merkel and Tusk in Warsaw posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago 1 Response2008
jabailo, this is 2008, not 1988.
Denier meanwhile is a well-established technical term in science psychopathology.BTW, did you know the first holocaust deniers were German jews?
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On A taxonomy of denial posted 1 year ago 11 Responses"serious lack of understanding ...
... of people in the auto industry and manufacturing generally."
Hehe.
Yeah, he doesn't understand they want to produce polluting BS tech dinosaurs. Now that they can't sell it anymore thew whine for nanny govt.If anybody lacks understanding of auto industry, then it's U.S. auto industry. (And some German BS manufacturers as well...)
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On Waxman's win signals shift in Congress on climate and energy policy posted 1 year ago 8 ResponsesBS!
wmanny, have a look at http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptic_arguments/models-do ...
(already linked above)http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/06/business-as-usual-in-1 ...
(details scenario changes)That's all from 2006. Now don't say it's therefore invalid.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On 'Hansen has been wrong before'--Maybe, but not about the climate! posted 1 year ago 13 Responsesretroproxy, are you BSing
or can you present us some evidence, citations, or at least name those reputable scientists?
Oh yeah, ceterum censeo: Hansen was rong in his 1988 testimony.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On Killing the myth of the 1970s global cooling scientific consensus posted 1 year ago 4 ResponsesRFK Jr?
http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2008/11/stop_the_rfk_jr ...
"He is NOT a scientist. He does NOT understand science. He does NOT respect science."
"The job at the EPA calls for someone with a keen sense of both ethics and science. Kennedy is not that person."
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On Who should be next head of the EPA? posted 1 year ago 8 Responsesobscene
Someone who spouts off-reality BS like this is either corrupted or mentally challenged. Steve, go home.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On McCain adviser repeats myths about climate change posted 1 year ago 4 ResponsesYeah, jabailo, Welcome To The Madhouse!
...
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On New study finds sun's contribution to recent warming is 'negligible' posted 1 year, 1 month ago 3 ResponsesLiars...
"The American people know when their intelligence is being insulted" -- Inhofe
http://epw.senate.gov/speechitem.cfm?party=rep&id=263 ...Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On Debate part 1: McCain tells the truth and lies at the same time posted 1 year, 2 months ago 5 ResponsesJeff,
- BS. Have a look at the latest comments by george and Jolliffe at Tamino's Open Thread 5.
- OT. You probably hit the wrong thread.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On In 2008, did temperatures drop as much as they rose over the whole 20th century? posted 1 year, 2 months ago 71 Responses- BS. Have a look at the latest comments by george and Jolliffe at Tamino's Open Thread 5.
9/11 1973 or 2001?
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On A 9/11 SAT quiz posted 1 year, 2 months ago 5 Responsessaluki, Viscount Monckton is missing on your list!
(Don't feed trolls, ridcule 'em!)
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On In 2008, did temperatures drop as much as they rose over the whole 20th century? posted 1 year, 2 months ago 71 ResponsesMiskolczi, Gerlich, Tscheuschner...
Hahaaaaaaaaahahahaha.........
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On In 2008, did temperatures drop as much as they rose over the whole 20th century? posted 1 year, 2 months ago 71 ResponsesLet those who pay vote
- It's the outside world that finances the U.S. deficits.
- The outside world also suffers (pays) from bad U.S. policy
That's why we care.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On New Scientist assesses McCain and Obama on science issues posted 1 year, 2 months ago 27 Responses- It's the outside world that finances the U.S. deficits.
We don't have it here in Europe?
What about Vaclav Klaus of Chechoslovakia, or certain politicos from Poland? Ugh, and I don't want to get into ranting about Bavarian barbarians...
The whole thing is perhaps: stupids are easier to govern. +, Morons are easily BSed into investing in BS, that's good for the economy.
U.S. needs no decent science education as long as they got enough money to import scientists from outside. Oops, the money...
Sometimes methinks McBush should win, to complete the neocon wreckage and harvest what they have sown. (E.g. financial meltdown - why burden Obama with that, it's not his fault.) After that, people might perhaps learn.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On New Scientist assesses McCain and Obama on science issues posted 1 year, 2 months ago 27 ResponsesWhat's that actual science?
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On Turns out McCain doesn't care about the greatest threat we face posted 1 year, 2 months ago 6 ResponsesForget H2
Its just BS to please the technophile dreamer and just BS to attract funding for high tech tinkering corporations. A placebo research program.
Want a private Saturn rocket? I, Siemens (etc.), promise to deliver in 10y. Just gimme some research bucks...
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On 'Drill now' Newt on The Daily Show posted 1 year, 2 months ago 11 Responsessarah palin is a ridiculousity
Creationism? Teenage pregnancy advocacy? Flat Earth?
wrrrrrrrrrrrrr... To ROTFL or not to ROTFL...O.K. with Reagan, Quayle, GWB, etc. you are used to ridicu-lousity in politics, but, wrrrrrrrr... don't you see the declaration of mental bancruptcy?
O.K. Poland or Chechoslovakia got similar idiot politicos, but, wrrrrrrrrrrr...
U.S. of Alzheimer???
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On McCain's veep pick talks energy, ANWR, and the improbability of being tapped for VP posted 1 year, 2 months ago 7 ResponsesHonestly,
Dr Amazing, it looks you also don't grasp the workings of science.
If you want to make a career in science you need to be honest and not make up things.
There are, of course, mercenary/ prostitute scientists (e.g. S Fred Singer, Pat Michaels), but they don't do science, but BSing.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On Climate whiplash posted 1 year, 3 months ago 6 ResponsesExplaining French nukular
vakibs, you forgot the French A-bomb.
Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On Why is nuclear energy what 'real men' support? posted 1 year, 3 months ago 26 ResponsesManly like the American SUV.
Manly like greed is manly.
Manly like BS...Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On Why is nuclear energy what 'real men' support? posted 1 year, 3 months ago 26 Responsesnumbers, jabailo, numbers
and very simple math.
But obviously still too complex for the average U.S. senator. Please send more horses to D.C.Mars J. Pictor Florifulgurator, Western Bavarian Forest.
On Since offshore oil is de minimis, why shouldn't Obama and the Dems make a deal? Part 1 posted 1 year, 3 months ago 4 Responses'nother question
How's the bark beetle doing over there, America?
As it renders nonpretty wood, I guess bark beetled trees are of not much interest to conventional "industry"?
I guess there's more bark beetle wood to harvest than you have conventional use for?
Wouldn't it be a huge energy source?
On Are biofuels a core solution? posted 1 year, 4 months ago 201 Responsesbiodigestion and/or/vs. chacoal
Emissions reduction and sequestration must go hand in hand.
As far as I understand, biodigestion is emissions reduction (and a very serious one), whilst charcoal is sequestration.
Soil organic matter breaks down anyway. Charcoal takes significantly longer to break down (if ever, for all practical purpose). Plus: It stores/fixes nutritients (e.g. those delivered from your biodigestor), significantly reducing run off and nitro outgassing. That's why Amazonian char coal soil is still extremely fertile, after 500y.
So, forget about that Swedish study (or look at Folke Günther's blog for explanation) and have a look at terra preta instead.
Of course, just producing char coal from anything would be no help. You should 1) produce from biomass that would decay soon anyway 2) capture the pyrolysis gas for energy production.
Ceterum censeo: I'm still awaiting for the invention of a c21st wood gas car, driving carbon negative.On Could lime absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide? posted 1 year, 4 months ago 15 Responses
Plants absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide
I guess the one and only feasible sequestration method is producing char coal, thus fixating otherwise re-oxidizing plant carbon.
Cf. biochar, agrichar, terra preta.
Some numbers here: http://folkegunther.blogspot.com/
On Could lime absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide? posted 1 year, 4 months ago 15 ResponsesBS tech
That reminds me of the BS compost heap frame at the botanic garden at Regensburg University: Four pillars made of concrete, and boards waterproofed with chemical stuff. Next to that sad thing they have non-impregnated wood logs for insect housing.
I'm waiting for the invention of the compostable compost heap frame, 100% organic.
On Cabins are not 'earth-friendly' posted 1 year, 4 months ago 20 Responsesprobably just some laws of physics
On 'Global warming stopped in 1998'--Only if you flagrantly cherry pick posted 1 year, 4 months ago 170 Responses
Netherlands
Perhaps the first thing to do to get the U.S. getting it's sh*t together is to allow selling hemp flowers there, like in Amsterdam.
The Netherlands are so progressive that even Germans find it mind boggling. They are like a different species of hominid (perhaps the emerging Homo Eusapiens) on a different planet. Unthinkable anywhere else, forgettaboutit in U.S...On Netherlands' response to climate change posted 1 year, 4 months ago 5 Responses
enough BS here
Mac, this thread already has it's share of classic denialist BS talking points. Please move on.On New global warming denier article in Salon posted 1 year, 5 months ago 22 Responses
400000
Another point pro small-organic-farm is that small farms are significantly more efficient (if efficiency is measured as production per area, not per worker). This is a long known "miracle".On The costs of unsustainable agriculture posted 1 year, 5 months ago 31 Responses
Organic = forward / industrial ag = BS
Why should going organic be going backward? We got vastly more knowledge than the old about soil chemistry/biology and the biosphere at large. We know much more about nutritional and medicinal values of plants. Organic gardening can be high science.
From a scientist's perspective, current industrial agriculture is the height of primitivity and stupidity. Heck, we can't even do sustainable ag in the Amazon forest: the farming there being degenerated to the most primitive form of prehistoric agriculture (slash and burn soil exploitation), which the pre-Columbian inhabitants' technique was vastly superior to (their 500y old terra preta soil still being fertile; being mined and sold to gardeners).
Jobless? Hungry? Grow your own! Bored and unhappy? Go play with plants and animals! Getting rid of biophobia can also cure other civilisation neuroses.On The costs of unsustainable agriculture posted 1 year, 5 months ago 31 Responses
Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas
Hey, Global Warming Theory is responsible for the gas price!
Quoth John Coleman:
"You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas.
(...)
So the Global warming frenzy is, indeed, threatening our civilization. Not because global warming is real; it is not. But because of the all the horrible side effects of the global warming scam.I love this civilization. I want to do my part to protect it."
Hehe...On Mainstream media misses connection between global warming and Midwest floods posted 1 year, 5 months ago 120 Responses
BS, jabailo. Paranoid BS.
You got no idea of science.On Hansen marks 20th anniversary of landmark testimony to Congress with renewed call to action posted 1 year, 5 months ago 5 Responses
Fat enough
for a juicy cannibal meal. And you can make diesel out of the fat.
Now serious. Methinks if Americans keep avoiding reality, or (s)elect yet another incompetent/fossil administration, they are indeed doomed. The cliff close ahead. But there are still a few years left to fix things. The dollar is still fat enough. And there are still good brains around.On Conservative arguments to the contrary are intellectually bankrupt posted 1 year, 5 months ago 10 Responses
It's not about environment, but about simple math
- Before you want to consume the last drops of domestic oil, make sure first that you consume them effectively.
- You might consider leaving some resources for your children to exploit, or for the case of emergency.
It all reminds me of the Easter Islanders chopping their last tree before dieing off.On Conservative arguments to the contrary are intellectually bankrupt posted 1 year, 5 months ago 10 Responses
- Before you want to consume the last drops of domestic oil, make sure first that you consume them effectively.
That's why I always wear a helmet
and safety glasses when walking outsideOn 'Global warming stopped in 1998'--Only if you flagrantly cherry pick posted 1 year, 5 months ago 170 Responses
them stoopid scientists
sure have not thought about thatOn Mainstream media misses connection between global warming and Midwest floods posted 1 year, 5 months ago 120 Responses
Total Ocean Heat Content
is best measured via thermal expansion, i.e. sea level rise.On Mainstream media misses connection between global warming and Midwest floods posted 1 year, 5 months ago 120 Responses
Please spare us those BS lists
I could as well produce lists of mathematicians denying HIV/AIDS (e.g. Serge Lang) and even of scientists denying evolution.On Previous warm periods don't mean we're not responsible for this one posted 1 year, 5 months ago 7 Responses
Haha
I haven't read all this thread,
but if you're still debating the temperature trend:Forget about smoothing, cherrypicking, statistics, etc. - just throw your eyeballs on a 50y graph. That should suffice, except you don't trust your eyes (but then you should bother a psychiatrist).
On 'Global warming stopped in 1998'--Only if you flagrantly cherry pick posted 1 year, 5 months ago 170 ResponsesDefining Simple & Natural
For "ordinary" folks it would mean CO2 neutral.
For those really caring, CO2 negative.-----------------
Hey, jabailotrollo got revolutionary new science to offer! Show us details!
What is Earth Expansion?On A look back at James Hansen's seminal testimony on climate, part one posted 1 year, 5 months ago 9 ResponsesGod
he's not evil, but hates fags. Surely we're calling these problems on ourselves for not being hetero enough...
(Perhaps that's a hint to find the 2 Dem Nos?)On Republican members of Congress do not believe in climate change or deem it a priority posted 1 year, 5 months ago 10 ResponsesScience illiterates
It would be intersting what those ridiculousy dummies think about the evolution or the shape of Earth.On Republican members of Congress do not believe in climate change or deem it a priority posted 1 year, 5 months ago 10 Responses
Greenland Ice?
I guess Artic sea ice loss also accelerates Greenland ice loss, thus sea level rise.On Breaking news: Permafrost loss linked to Arctic sea ice loss posted 1 year, 5 months ago 10 Responses
Let the carbon based trade wars commence
With U.S. economy already in recession for completely different causes than nonexistent climate holocaust mitigation, and the U.S. dollar slowly evaporating... it is now time to sound the death knell for the baneful fossil carbon behemoth, U.S.A. Unsheathe yer fibre carbon swords, fight for the future of our children and all other life...On White House says it will veto Lieberman-Warner climate bill posted 1 year, 5 months ago 6 Responses
Living C-negative in Boreal climate, stone age
With sufficiently high forest density and low population, it is no problem to live in frosty heights, even comfortably so and with stone age tech. I've tried it in an Indian tipi and good supply of beech tree branches (except that I used steel pots imported from India and modern boots).
Make a char pit under your fire place and voila you get good ashes-char to add to the garden, plus hotter and brighter fire from the pyrolysis gas. If you only use dead Beech branches, this can account to C-negative living (sequestering char).
I had a micro 2-man sweat lodge integrated in the Tipi. With some snow outside to jump in naked, winter can be real fun.On Hansen: Governors aren't getting it posted 1 year, 5 months ago 10 Responses
Bullshit
that's what politics is mostly about.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/poll_bullshit_is_mo ...Alas, meanwhile (c21st) we can no longer afford it.
We need more scientists like Hansen to introduce politicians and their voters to the science of reality and junior highschool math. Writing those long letters may seem Quixotic/Sisyphean. (But at least it makes me feel a little better about Homo Sapiens, so please carry on, Jim!)
Instead of writing a long letter, it might often suffice to state a simple scientific diagnosis. E.g.: He who
... said that the appropriate policy response to climate change is for the government to open up more public land for mining, to open off-shore areas for drilling, to open the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, and to encourage extraction of oil from tar shale.
is worth one and only one word. Some respected scientist should stand up and state it: Bullshit!On Hansen: Governors aren't getting it posted 1 year, 6 months ago 10 Responsesnot failed...
umm, DrX, biochar is a direct sequestration method, it looks very much. You just can't bury it untreated with humus. That Swedish experiment shows charcoal is recalcitrant enough also in boreal climates: It's the humus that goes away, not the char.
And quite surely the humus goes away because of C/N ratio imbalance.
That expertiment was about charcoal and forest fires, not charcoal and agriculture! Nobody would put carbon into good soil without adding nitrogen (by manure or by legumes).
Of course, for a sequestration method, you need to char woody stuff that would decompose (or burn completely) anyway soon. E.g. those bark beetle eaten forests in U.S. and Canada. Lotsa CO2 emissions potentially to avoid there, plus the energy harvested by pyrolysis.
Not that I'm not for other methods (e.g. biogas). We need a diverse and distributed portfolio of solutions.
Cheers,
FlorifulguratorOn Monday bummer blogging posted 1 year, 6 months ago 17 Responses"failure" of biochar
Meanwhile this thread got linked from a RealClimate discussion:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/fre ...I wonder why some people are so eager to jump on this "failure"-of-biochar story. Perhaps because they prefer rocket science, nucular, or genetic engineering over such a simple stone age tech like charcoal?
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BTW, last year I raised (after germination in normal soil) some garden angelic on almost 100% charcoal (vol, air spacing excluded) which I first had soaked in mostly stinging nettle manure. They did quite well, slightly better than those that accidentally grew outside my garden (poor soil, granite sand/gravel). After re-potting into more humus/compost soil in late Summer and out-potting this Spring, they are now looking almost as good as those raised stationary in my best soil.My garden is 4y old. Before I came there was grass, sands, gravel on yellow granite. My most important gardening tool is the xxl crowbar to break out them rocks. The deep holes I filled with bbq charcoal at the bottom. Since I have not much compost, and the farmer's manure heap is far away, I mix lots of charcoal into the soil I produce, and no longer do I waste my pee.
Things are growing quite well.
You might examine my garden in about 5y to see how biochar works in boreal climes...On Monday bummer blogging posted 1 year, 6 months ago 17 Responsesshampoo...
Huha! Yeah the industrial shampoo BS...
I only got rid of my dandruff after I stopped using "anti-dandruff" and any other shampoo. Good water plus a few drops of teatree oil suffices.
And then there's the soap BS. Used espresso coffee powder does a better job.
I haven't used soap or shampoo for years, and I'm still not stinking.On Pollution may influence baldness, study says posted 1 year, 6 months ago 2 Responsescharcoal as bedding?
I don't think biochar is a failure, not even in boreal climes. (Perhaps I present proof in 10y...)
Using bbq char made from living hardwood trees, as I presently do for lack of other char, is of course BS...
But there are those vast masses of decaying trees killed by the pine/bark beetle (e.g. in Canada). These should be charred. But how to make dust of the big chunks? (I mean, imagine I'm a low tech c21st small farmer, bancrupt ex U.S. middle class, with no industrial equipment). So, perhaps let them cows do the work: Trample the chunks to dust plus add the nutritients?
On Monday bummer blogging posted 1 year, 6 months ago 17 ResponsesDunno if it's such big news...
My 50y old gardening book (Horst Koehler: Das praktische Gartenbuch) tells me that adding too much carbon rich stuff (straw, dry leaves etc.) will at first starve the soil from nutritients: The newly flourishing mircobial life will suck up all nitritients it can get, and only later when it dies gives them back.
See also: C/N ratio, http://compost.css.cornell.edu/calc/cn_ratio.html
So, the right use of "agrichar" would be to first soak it with nutritients (e.g. manure, or e.g. use it in a hominid carbon pissoir) and only then add it to the soil.
And so, I do not mix the carcoal into my compost, but put it under the heap. (I use big-chunk barbeque char there, mainly for aeration and fending off tree roots. (Later use in garden is a longer story.))On Monday bummer blogging posted 1 year, 6 months ago 17 Responses
"economists"
What's so bad with calling those leet folks with their over-simplified flat (i.e. infinite) earth models "quote-unquote experts"?On Clinton sings the faux-populist, anti-intellectual Manichean blues posted 1 year, 6 months ago 5 Responses
"...so what stands in the way?"
God.
IT who allegedly created all living "things" and their crown, Homo S "Sapiens", making believe that Earth is just "things".
IT who distracts Homo S "Sapiens" from looking at Earth, making believe that it is nobler to look at metaphysical skies instead.
IT who makes Homo S "Sapiens" believe that daily bread is handed down from the sky.
IT who makes Homo S "Sapiens" believe that there will be a better after-life anyway.
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I like the interpretation of the Noah story... but still methinks theistic religion won't help. Homo S "Sapiens" needs to appreciate Earth as THE entity that gives and sustains life, and is not just some arbitrary thingy. There's the sacred. Perhaps we need some Earth based religion to motivate Homo S "Sapiens" to keep the global ecosystem running. Thy garden be thy temple.On By caring for God's creatures, we avert a second flood posted 1 year, 7 months ago 20 ResponsesWhattabout the simplest wedge,
population control?On The 14 wedges needed to stabilize emissions posted 1 year, 7 months ago 28 Responses
bah, gravitation, evolution, atomism
its a theory, we're still collecting data.On Skeptic stage dad to impressionable teen daughter: 'MOTIVATION!' posted 1 year, 7 months ago 31 Responses
Deploying "Low Tech": Black revolution!
Gimme serious tech: gimme an old WWII wood gas car, so I can drive carbon negative! But that is probably not high tech enough...
Encourage small farmers and permaculture plus biochar: natural carbon sequestration! But that is probably not high tech enough...
On We've run out of time to wait for an unknown techno-fix to save us posted 1 year, 7 months ago 11 Responsessorry for sounding harsh
The problem seems people just don't want to learn, experiment, care about fire. They just want to consume it, not invest any brainlard in it. The big disconnect with that first big "medicine" of the hominid species. The fireplace is where the naked ape grew his brains. But today at the fireplace Homo S "Sapiens" paradigmaticly exhibits how he lost all wits.
I love spending days and nights outside in the wild at a comfty, clean, smoke free fire place. I need no TV. Fire is interactive multimedia.
But them hominids always have to spoil it. They don't know about a decent fire place because they never ever witness one because they spoil it before. First thing is to throw "paper" in it. Yuck. So I won't bake them chapati bread on the embers (that would be coprophagia). Next thing is to wank the hearth stones with wax, for the stupid need candles for light at the fireplace (instead of just making their f'n smoke burn and give light). Yuck. So I won't make cheese toast on these stones. Then comes the next yuck, etc. etc. ... And so, over many years I've lost most of my mercy.
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Some rules of thumb for making fire:
- Small wood lights big wood
- Fire wants to move upward
- Fire is a smoke burning machine
- Small wood lights big wood
Who needs "paper" to start a fire, ...
... has no f'n idea of fire, and should be kept away from any decent fire place.
--> Use matches to light wood splinters <--
In wet conditions you might add some birch bark as accelerator.Yeah, I know, everybody needs to use "paper". And nobody knows what a decent fireplace is. And any trash resembling paper they call "paper". It stinks like chemo hell when burnt, but paper is paper is paper. And then they proudly use the ashes as fertilizer in the garden. Yuck!
Looks like some sort of mass delusion or dementia ...On Umbra on burning paper posted 1 year, 8 months ago 8 ResponsesBurying char for profit
Perhaps the farmer can measure the carbon content of his soil and get some carbon credits for it?
Other benefits aren't perhaps that easily measurable/redeemable, like nutritient absorption, reduced nitrogeno GHG emission.
But, if those animal factories had to dearly pay for the pollution from their manure dumping/runoff, they might like to pay some "carbon farmer" to suck it up with biochar.
Direct them subsidies to the most carbon efficient farms.On Thoughts from a cellulosic ethanol agnostic posted 1 year, 8 months ago 35 Responses
Yes GreenEng
E.g. decaying wood in bark beetle eaten forests makes them turn into carbon sources. To be exacerbated by global warming.
We could as well burn all that dead wood. Even a complete burn (no charcoal left) would make not much additional GHG, perhaps even less in short sight, for manmade CO2 is less a potent GHG than natural methane. On Thoughts from a cellulosic ethanol agnostic posted 1 year, 8 months ago 35 Responses
Bayerwald Standard Holzöle
During a walk thru bark beetle stressed Bavarian forest I had this vision:
A fleet of small truck sized wood pyrolysis and wood oil (pre-)refinery units drawn by oxen, strolling thru the forest, taking up dead trees and stuff into their cauldrons, producing char coal to be left there, and diverse fractions of wood oil & tar for consumption by civilization. The wood gas would be used for process heat plus gas-turbinic electricity production.
Distributed carbon negative chemical industry. Could that work?On Thoughts from a cellulosic ethanol agnostic posted 1 year, 8 months ago 35 Responses
poor benp, you have no idea of science think
One classic questionable wisdom of economists and politicians is continuous exponential growth. They forget Earth is round (hence finite). Who forgets this steers toward disaster. Basic math/science. Period.
Science should be a tool of politics and economics, not replace them (for they are different realms).
PREDICTING DISASTER IS NOT APPEALING TO DISASTER.
Science is not about morals or values. But who disregards scientific principles has no real morals or values, for he does not care about the real world.
If science challenges economists and politicians by scientificly predicting disaster then this is a principled objection to what politicians or economists are saying. Science can offer ways how things might be reasonably improved, but the decisions (e.g. the money) lay in the hands of politicians or economists. Science is not technology.
First comes the objection, then comes the attempt to change (or research into how to attempt that). Without such objection (first cause of action) that would be meaningless.
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And BTW, the IPCC "consensus" is the least common denominator of what everyone consider sufficiently solid scientific fact. Thus it is necessarily conservative. Meanwhile observations of e.g arctic ice have confirmed this: Catastrophe is way ahead IPCC "schedule".
On Please stop calling them 'skeptics' posted 1 year, 8 months ago 40 ResponsesNarrative #5
Gaia system tipped by hominid CO2 spill into doing chaotic attractor basin jumping driven by amplifying feedback.
Sounds not that catastropho-doomy?On Please stop calling them 'skeptics' posted 1 year, 8 months ago 40 Responses
Green == Efficiency != Windows
Windoze is bloated and uneffective, an obscene waste of computing power. It is all marketing, not sane technology.
But "Linux" is catching up well with Gnome and KDE desktop environments. Dunno why this stuff needs eons to start up and even needs time to exhibit menu icons - on a GHz box. Looks like they need to mimick Windoze to make the dummy user feel comfortable and not get surprised by any comfort, speed, or effective windowing.
But if configured right (e.g. Fvwm2 window manager) it can run smoothly on a 200MHz box.On Wal-Mart discontinues selling green PC in stores posted 1 year, 8 months ago 9 Responses
Denialists of Biosphere Holocaust
I am German, so I know about that H word.
In my youth I often had to listen to and tried to debate folks from my grandparents' (and even +/-WWII born parents') generation who engaged in various forms of Holocaust denial (e.g. relativizing numbers or causes of deaths; see JakobFabian01 above).
Nowadays I often have to listen to and try to debate folks from my parents' generation who engage in AGW denial. The psychology is quite similar. Sometimes it feels like deja vu.This is one reason why I stick with the denialist word.
The other reason is another parallel to Holocaust: Not denial after the fact, but the looking-away while it was in the making.
On Please stop calling them 'skeptics' posted 1 year, 8 months ago 40 ResponsesExtraordinary claims & The burden of proof
Could you "natural causes", "unsettled science", etc. trolls please give us some hint what you are talking about?
E.g.:
What natural causes?
What science gaps?
Why is melting permafrost no evidence?
What's wrong with climate models?
etc. etc.
On Do Big Oil and Big Tobacco share a similar smokescreen? posted 1 year, 8 months ago 26 ResponsesAl Gore's girth
can not make as equally profound insights into nature and outcomes as the pirates theory.On Climate change skeptics say we should note, not hype posted 1 year, 9 months ago 7 Responses
Bunkum never grows old and smelly,
like this myth, it seems.
Is it really still floating around?Or is it just the odd broken-record troll repeating it here and there?
On Climate change myth debunked: scientists did not predict new ice age posted 1 year, 9 months ago 32 ResponsesForest biofuel pyrolysis -> carbon neg. energy
Pangolin said it. Seems still an avantgarde idea?
And if pyrolysis is too high tech (!!!...?), just burn it completely for local heating etc. Here in Germany we have many local heat supply stations burning wood and scrubs from local forests.
Beyond the little sticks there's lots of elder growth to be cut away before the bark beetle gets at it.
Perhaps that makes just too much sense for U.S. style "economic" think...On The 'hell' before the 'high water' in the U.S. posted 1 year, 9 months ago 64 Responses
Gravitation is just a computer model
Jabailo, I know I shouldn't feed a troll... yet: You have no idea of science! Guess how they compute e.g. GPS coordinates: By feeding some theory into a computer model. The difference with climate computer models is that these are statistic and have some unknowns due to subtleties like ocean temp buffering, albedo, etc. But the basic mechanism is the "greenhouse effect" which is known and understood since about a century and as undebated as gravitation or evolution. The global warming trend is nothing you can discuss away (you could as well tell us that earth is flat) and we don't need very sophisticated computer models to understand the rough trend.
IMHO, folks like you are not entitled to use the blessings of modern science; like electricity, computers, air conditioning, antiretroviral drugs (sure you don't believe in virusses because you can't see them) etc. etc. etc.On ... and Bush talks big posted 1 year, 9 months ago 7 Responses
Politics doable: revive economy!
Looks like there's trouble ahead with U.S. economy. Pumping money into stone age (c20th) tech biz won't revive it.
Sell the project as a project to revive U.S. economy and to regain world technology leadership. Renewable/sustainable tech is the tech of the 21st century - no way to evade that fact. So, give it a boost! That that would save the climate (or avoid the worst) at the same time is just a nice goody for them greeny weenies.On Some numerical comparisons posted 1 year, 9 months ago 10 Responses
jabailo-type explanation for idling car
They probably think: Idling the car for 2 minutes does not cost much gas, so idling it for 2 hours would also costs not much.
FloriOn Japan says it can meet Kyoto goals posted 1 year, 9 months ago 11 Responses
Does ethanol require phosphorus?
I forgot the chemistry details, but sure there's no phosphorus in alc. So it should not get lost. Where is the stuff going that's left after ethanol production? Why not simply put it back on the fields?On Can a 'renewable fuel' rely on mining a finite resource? posted 1 year, 9 months ago 19 Responses
Agricultural carbon sequestration
Is it really impossible to grow fuel or food and enhance soil carbon at the same time?
My biofuel vision (a not yet really educated guess) is something like that: No artificial fertilizers. 2 crops planted in parallel: A) Some legume (peanut or jatropha) to harvest oil (bio diesel) and for green manuring. B) Some grass to produce wood gas and wood oil in fancy pyrolysis processors (could be good olde wood gas driven automobiles, home heating, chemical industry, ...). The left over charcoal is to be put back into the ground (terra preta).
So, no bio alcoholing, no biogassing, but doing charcoal!On Researchers find corn ethanol, switchgrass could worsen global warming posted 1 year, 9 months ago 111 Responses
Hmmm
mmmh, the more I think of this, the more I get confused & scared...
This scenario of rebuilding a civilian U.S manufacturing industry does not involve the military industrial complex (MIC). But the MIC would not idly stand by and watch itself deflate. (Before that it would arrange for another presidential assassination...)
Looks like the U.S.-as-we-know-it could well be eaten up by its MIC like the S.U. got eaten up by its MIC (due to Reagan's "ingenious" politics).
The U.S. is a cold war dinosaur that miraculously had survived the cold war (unlike its S.U. twin) - so far.
--Flori (weirdly numbered German)On Converting the permanent military economy to a green economy posted 1 year, 9 months ago 41 Responses
Siemens Transportation systems made in U.S.A
Yeah, looks like Siemens is doing this already, but me dunno if according to the policy you suggest.
I guess this is the way to go for non-U.S. companies if they want to make bucks from U.S. market: The dollar is falling and quite surely keeps falling. So Europeans will find it difficult to sell their stuff in Euros. Better produce in U.S. and sell for Dollars.On Converting the permanent military economy to a green economy posted 1 year, 9 months ago 41 Responses
competitive conversion ?
I just heard here on German radio that Siemens Transportation Systems got a big U.S. order for new light rail cars. (Probably this: http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/02/0 ... )
Siemens is a German company with a century of unbroken experience in manufacturing stuff like this. They actually invented the electric tram.
Is there similar experience remaining in the U.S. military industrial complex? Is there any skill remaining to produce civilian stuff other than airplanes? U.S. can't even produce decent automobiles anymore (without help from Japan). Military industry conversion needs to be able to compete with foreign companies like Siemens.
Methinks the only way to conversion is collapse.On Converting the permanent military economy to a green economy posted 1 year, 9 months ago 41 Responses
Mother Earth neither is flat nor infinite
On Here's your chance to be the Pollan of climate change posted 1 year, 10 months ago 94 Responses
We nourish on Earth. It's not flat.
On Here's your chance to be the Pollan of climate change posted 1 year, 10 months ago 94 Responses
I'm a male Lysistrat
I don't refuse sex, but I refuse making children until that AGW (and overpopulation etc. etc.) thing is resolved. I lost 2 girlfriends after I told them about the obscenity of needing to put children into this century. Aah, but there're 3,000,000,000 girls around meanwhile.On A new play with historical and environmental roots posted 1 year, 10 months ago 8 Responses
Angela Merkel, ummm...
At least she gets that AGW thing (being scientificly educated), BUT,
being yet another Tsherman chancellor, she's a whore of the automobile industry. Now that EU wants to tighten CO2 emission standards, BMW etc. are whining like in the times when the catalysator was made obligatory. And Merkel of course stands behind the tech dinosaurs. And, of course, never will she allow a speed limit on the Autobahn.Unlimited BS tech forever! Dont touch the holy Tsherman BS car!On Vote for the most heroic eco-hero of 2007 posted 1 year, 11 months ago 7 Responses
Money & Power Whores
So, this is not about the psychology of denialism, but about money and power.
George Monbiot says it, http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2228609,00 ...
concluding:So don't believe all this nonsense about waiting for the next president to sort it out. This is a much bigger problem than George Bush. Yes, he is viscerally opposed to tackling climate change. But viscera don't have much to do with it. Until the American people confront their political funding system, their politicians will keep speaking from the pocket, not the gut.On An incomplete roundup of reactions and commentary to the Bali climate meetings posted 1 year, 11 months ago 7 Responses
P.S.
Next time the delegates should bring shit and throw shit instead of just booing. [my anger now vented]On An incomplete roundup of reactions and commentary to the Bali climate meetings posted 1 year, 11 months ago 7 Responses
Clinging to stupid ideas
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Dobriansky
She is a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signatories to the January 26, 1998, PNAC Letter sent to US President Bill Clinton, in which a group of conservatives advocated a US military attack on Iraq.
(...)
In December, 2007 at the Bali summit on climate change she was booed off stage when developing nations sought to strengthen requirements for richer nations to help poorer with technology to limit emissions and adapt to climate change's impacts.
As head of the U.S. delegation, Undersecretary of State Paula J. Dobriansky objected, and was met with a chorus of long and loud booing, almost unprecedented at a diplomatic summit of this kind.
Delegate after delegate took aim at the United States recalcitrant attitude. South Africa proclaimed Dobriansky's intervention was "most unwelcome and without any basis." Meanwhile Uganda said "We would like to beg them" to relent.
Then the delegate from Papua New Guinea Kevin Conrad addressed the US delegate directly. "We seek your leadership," he said "But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way." Following these remarks, Dr. Dobriansky declared that the U.S. would agree to the consensus and be involved in the climate treaty.
[end wiki quote]
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And the White House later disagreed,
but I don't really follow this stupid stuff anymore... (Threw away the TV after the Floridian recount, so I was lucky later to have 9/11 only on the radio. Apropos: Dobriansky sounds very intelligent, serious and charming.)----------------------
So,
methinks she's a money & power whore. Sure she knows about those stages of grief and is beyond denialism and simple-minds psychology. The free market is inherently destructive (assuming an infintely exploitable world and disregarding ecology 101) so these neocon folks run like them stoopid lemmings towards the rim of their world disk. Just some dumb ideology that will die off sooner than later, like any other. Lets hope the death and destruction won't get too bad.---------------------
Just for the f'n dirty fun of it, 2 quotes from http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefen ... (Sept. 2000)
p.1:
the Project for the New American Century is a nonprofit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership.
p.51:
the process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is
likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a
new Pearl Harbor. Domestic politics and
industrial policy will shape the paceOn An incomplete roundup of reactions and commentary to the Bali climate meetings posted 1 year, 11 months ago 7 ResponsesWho are the US representatives...
Who cares? Interviewing them would be a waste of time and precious brain. There are better things to question than the contents of their decrepit brains. Just throw shit at them, wherever you find them! At least shout booh!
Perhaps some satire in The Onion would be worth the journalism.On An incomplete roundup of reactions and commentary to the Bali climate meetings posted 1 year, 11 months ago 7 Responses
Getting angry...
So, the U.S. has declared total war on the biosphere and common sense.
Perhaps the rest of the world should answer it by dropping (not the bomb, but) their dollar assets. Perhaps a collapse of the U.S. economy would force emission reductions like in East Germany when communism collaped there. Ecologico-economists should ponder that possible solution.On Professor Andrew Light laments the unnecessary line in the sand the U.S. has drawn in Bali posted 1 year, 11 months ago 13 Responses
doomsayers!
(...)On Scientist claims that climate models are too conservative in predicting ice loss posted 1 year, 11 months ago 12 Responses
Uranium supply
That other Achilles heel is the limited supply of cheap (!) Uranium. You can't economicly extract Uranium from granite or the oceans etc.
Quote from
http://energiekrise.de/uran/docs2006/REO-Uranium_5-12-200 ...The proved reserves (=reasonably assured below 40 $/kgU extraction cost) and stocks will be exhausted within the next 30 years at current annual demand. Likewise, possible resources which contain all estimated discovered resources with extraction costs of up to 130 $/kg will be exhausted within 70 years.
So, nucular will not make any dent as long as there are no standard breeders or Thorium reactors available. And there's yet another Achilles heel: The time, money and personnel needed for construction...On Nuclear plants require lots of water in an increasingly dry world posted 2 years, 1 month ago 28 Responses
Chrichton
I guessed Chrichton first. But No, just RPJr.
Looks like they´re making progress.On Our old friend posted 2 years, 10 months ago 22 ResponsesFireologic dementia / coprophagia
A characteristic of Homo S Sapiens is that he lives in symbiosis with fire. A characteristic of the Late Homo S Sapiens is that he doesn´t have any clue of real (open) fire any more, for the many fires he uses are hidden in black boxes. This is one aspect of civilization dementia. Sometimes they sit at smoldering logs, call that a camp fire, happily inhale the smoke, and happily forbid you to have a cigarette there. I´ve seen dudes carrying "paper" (i.e. sheet stained with industrial waste) out in to the wild, to use it for lighting their stinky campfire. Before they barbecue their würstels, the plastic wrap needs to be burned, of course. This is coprophagia (eating shit), a typical symptom of dementia.
So, dear Homo S Sapiens, please forget about lighting open fires, unless you intend to use your brain. Yet, even if you manage to you refrain from insulting our species at the open fire, it is not so easy to avoid coprophagia: Seen as a whole, i.e. as species-in-ecosystem, the major business of the Late Homo S Sapiens is eating/feeding shit - the shit produced by the ecosystem over millions of years and dumped as hydrocarbons.On Umbra on burning trash posted 2 years, 10 months ago 7 Responses
tired
The fact that an argument is "tired" is not proof that it is not true.
Ha! It probably is tired because it´s so truthy.On The supposed 'middle way' is debunked posted 2 years, 11 months ago 39 Responses