telegraph uk: energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world engineers have performed their magic once again.
the world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared.
tony hayward, bp's chief executive, said proven natural gas reserves around the world have risen to 1.2 trillion barrels of oil equivalent, enough for 60 years' supply and rising fast.. "there has been a revolution in the gas fields of north america.
the anthropogenic era started 8,000 years ago not in 1950 or 150 years ago like some believe.
Well it's funny how the last Ice Age ended a whole whopping 15k years ago. Must be woolly mammoth farts.
And wow, geez. Maybe we need a little warming up.
BTS
telegraph uk: energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world engineers have performed their magic once again.
the world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared.
tony hayward, bp's chief executive, said proven natural gas reserves around the world have risen to 1.2 trillion barrels of oil equivalent, enough for 60 years' supply and rising fast.. "there has been a revolution in the gas fields of north america.
Ooooo! Pretty charts. Look at those glaciers go!
One of the panicky claims of global warming catastrophists is that some sort of "unprecedented" melting and retreat of glaciers is occurring tied to anthropogenic global warming. I have seen anecdotal evidence for a while that this melting of glaciers began long before the 1950-present "anthropogenic" era, but I had not seen anything systematic on the topic until I discovered this study by L. Oerlemans et al as published in Science in 2005. Download Oerlemans 2005 as pdf. His results look like this (click to enlarge):
His data for the last decade is a little squirrelly because the data sets he uses are slow to update, but the overall picture is pretty clear — a pretty steady 150+ year history of steady retreat, with the only change is slope being a flattening rather than an acceleration of the curve. Here are a few individual glaciers he highlights:
One is again left in a quandary - if recent glacial retreats are due to anthropogenic warming, then what cased the retreats before 1950 or so? And, whatever caused the earlier retreats, what made this natural effect "switch off" at the exact same instant that anthropogenic effects took over?
Update: Here is a piece of annecdotal evidence to match, a map from Alaska Geogrpahic on the retreat of the glaciers at Glacier Bay
telegraph uk: energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world engineers have performed their magic once again.
the world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared.
tony hayward, bp's chief executive, said proven natural gas reserves around the world have risen to 1.2 trillion barrels of oil equivalent, enough for 60 years' supply and rising fast.. "there has been a revolution in the gas fields of north america.
hen there is the testimony of the Natives who have been living in Greenland
Did you say GREENland? Why the heck did they call it GREEN if it was so much colder centuries ago?
Yes there are flukes-glaciers that grow but they are the exception.
Wow, those nonexceptional common run of the mill glaciers are simply a-mazing! They were able to anticipate our CO2 emissions by over 150 years! Glacier Bay Alaska, off of the USGS site:
But really, the fix is in. Our emissions are directly tied to the quality of our rock music. As you can see, the proliferation of sucky bands will inevitably change the situation. Correlation equals causation. RockandRollthropogenic global warming is the cause of our troubles. The Witnoids were right!
he couldnt bring the olympics to chicago but he accomplished this coveted award after only a few months in office.
somebody out there sees this man as doing what the planet needs.
perhaps.. but i for one am not as shocked as most.
However, some don't approve.
There is news that the Norwegian parliament is going to change the nature of the NPP committee after this selection, considering it a debacle. That's got to be more than a bit embarassing for the winner.
Some runners up include Chinese Human Rights Activist Hu Jia. He imprisoned for campaigning for human rights in the PRC, not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China's communist system. also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama. (Not to mention the symbolic value of awarding a Chinese dissident on the 20th Anniversary of the Tianenmen Square Massacre.)
Greg Mortenson, founder of the Central Asia Institute has built nearly 80 schools, especially for girls, in remote areas of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past 15 years - not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, a philosophy professor in Jordan who risks his life by advocating interfaith dialogue between Jews and Muslims, also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
Afghan human rights activist Sima Samar. She currently leads the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and serves as the U.N. special envoy to Darfur and is apparently also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
as a true scot, i'm deeply passionate about most things scottish, any possibly one of our small nation's most successful export is my main favourite - our single malt whisky heritage.. i'm writing this while savouring a 12 year old highland park - distilled in the orkney islands, the most northerly distillery in scotland.
it is one of my favourites - it was my late father's favourite tipple.
yet, only 500m from my house is scotlands oldest legal whisky distillery - glenturret, in crieff.
Highland park is truly superb, and a great value for the money. It is a big scotch.
These Europeans are again demonstrating their insularity. They do not understand the United States.
http://www.politickerny.com/5603/dear-norway-you-can-shut-now
They are not helping us here.
The poster beksbeks! She would do no harm!
Hijabs make awesome cumrags. Let the reader use discernment.
Rock on.
How many of that 25% are Koranimals? I.E the fundamentalist variety? I suspect that the fundamentalism is to an extent a reaction towards Western modernity. If this is a correct hypothesis, then fundamentalism will probably be more common in the Muslim population residing in the West.
