A supergrid is needed. If energy can be shuttled cross country the dips and peaks are handled by controlling flow, and linking these systems with short term weather prediction systems enables a degree of delivery to be high reliability. That is the start. Take power where available and...
The MSME will open the door to more interesting work if you like the technical aspect. In my view it is worth it
just to have that option. Additionally it will give you the tools to understand the how and why of the way things work a bit better than a bs alone.
It's a good movie as things go these days. Actually if you didn't notice the science problems
you might love the movie. So I expect the lay people to like it as they should.
Here is what bothers me.
The science problems could have been mostly fixed VERY easily and still make just as...
GTT
""A little bit both Burger et al. and Stockwell er al concluded that all statistical reconstructions would tend towards a hockey stick""
Surely not this bit of nonsense...
What would the standard of proof look like.
Many have brought up the complexity of modeling the Earth and I am convinced to an extent that is may not be possible
to predict just what is going to happen.
But surely if the climate became 'different enough' one day we might conclude the one time...
Cranky
There are trees that do well on poor soil improving it as they grow. Black Locust comes to mind as it is a nitrogen fixing tree.
I wonder how much impact we could make by planting as much open area as possible with fast growing trees and then
burying them when they mature. Sounds...
"" The temperature has probably risen but that isn't the same as energy""
Raise the temperature of a system and it will contain more energy afterwards. Why do you think otherwise.
""That the IPCC claims that a stable system as old as the earths oxygen and nitrogen atmosphere has a net...
IRstuff
So true, and partly my point. Considering the equation brings up a framework to think about the issue.
Several random terms are there and as you pointed out more may be needed.
It needs modification but how about we discuss the terms and their influences and what to add.
Another...
For the purposes of discussion shouldn't we quantify the basic model of climate we are debating.
To my thinking it is something like this.
Static steady state model WRT carbon dynamics.
Tss = Tsspr + Rnss + K(C - Cnss) + Rp
Tss : The steady state value of the Earths temperature with carbon...
""I don't believe that the FFs we burnt yesterday are changing the climate today""
I would say that are trapping some additional heat today.
"" is that if burning FF is the worse thing we've ever done, why are we still doing it ?""
Well it takes public acceptance to voluntarily cut back. And...
Change jobs whenever it strikes you.
I have several friends who got comfortable at a company and stayed the whole duration, now their skills are
limited. They know what goes on at their company really well but they are older and have little leverage
to move into jobs with different skill sets.
""Even then, it was also clear to me that unless we had a better way to redistribute wealth, the people with no skills or education (which there will always be) would end up on the scrapheap- the profit would go into the hands of the business owners and society at large would be responsible for...
