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The Best Way To Dry Your Hands

Posted by Average Voter on Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:34:55 PM
   Here you will find an in-depth study into drying your hands and why air dryers are better than paper towels. It is definetly alot more information than any one person could want to know on the subject.
 
The author talks about the Dyson Airblade, which is pretty cool. When you put your hands in the machine it focuses air blowing in a thin strip that literally squeegees the water off your hands.
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Global Warming Book Wins Top Science Writing Prize

Posted by Average Voter on Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:00:43 PM
   This writing should be located under Science-Fiction in the book stores due to its subject matter. But instead you will find it next to books on quantum physics and string theory; real science.
 
Past winners of the prestigious award have included Professor Stephen Hawking, Jared Diamond (twice), Bill Bryson and Stephen Jay Gould.
The Junior Prize for children’s books, also worth £10,000, was awarded to Rebecca Gilpin, Leonie Pratt and their illustrator Josephine Thompson, for Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do.
 
Quite the literary science clientele to be listed with.
The junior prize winner is the book most people need to read. It has real science that anyone could learn, and it is not going to be full of baseless conjecture and half truths.
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Some Hot Air For Al Gore

Posted by Average Voter on Sunday, June 22, 2008 10:58:48 AM
   Americans for Prosperity launched a hot air ballon and flew over Al Gores house with a message: "Global Warming Alarmism: Lost Jobs, Higher Taxes, Less Freedom." 
 
Just having a little fun I suppose.
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The Canadain Hurricane Center

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, June 13, 2008 5:30:37 PM
   I wonder how many people they have on staff at the Canadian Hurricane Center? I wasn't even aware that Canada had enough hurricane issues to even fund this place.
 
   Here is the outlook for the U.S. and possibly Canada so far this year of hurricanes:
TC Activity
 
   They are still saying we are going to have a rough season this year.
 
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Bush Didn't Lie-People Didn't Die?

Posted by Average Voter on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:39:21 AM
   The Washington Post has finally came out and said it...Bush didn't lie to anybody. This is a little off topic for me, but this is almost to much to believe. But for one of the most left-leaning publications in the U.S. to write a story on how the tired old mantra never had any truth to it is quite amazing.
Thanks to Senator John D. Rockefeller (D-WVa.), this whole Bush lied, people died business got started.
 
   But dive into Rockefeller's report, in search of where exactly President Bush lied about what his intelligence agencies were telling him about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and you may be surprised by what you find.
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On Iraq's nuclear weapons program? The president's statements "were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates."

On biological weapons, production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories? The president's statements "were substantiated by intelligence information."

On chemical weapons, then? "Substantiated by intelligence information."

On weapons of mass destruction overall (a separate section of the intelligence committee report)? "Generally substantiated by intelligence information." Delivery vehicles such as ballistic missiles? "Generally substantiated by available intelligence." Unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to deliver WMDs? "Generally substantiated by intelligence information."
 
   Well, what can I say? Politics are ugly and Bush took his on the chin like a true President.
 
The next obvious question is, how can we hold Senator Rockerfeller responsible for his 'lies'.
 
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The U.K. Discusses 'Personal Carbon Credits'

Posted by Average Voter on Monday, June 09, 2008 11:07:44 AM
   What seems like a good idea to some, is actually another way for the government to control another aspect of your life.
In Great Britain, they are discussing a measure to have personal carbon credits that you use to purchase energy. That almost sounds communistic doesn't it?. Now that is probably not the british governments intent, but once you give them that power, getting it back is rarely ever possible.
 
   Which leads me to an article the other day that Charles Krauthammer wrote. He thinks taxing gas to drive fuel effeciency is a good idea, then at the end of the year you would get that tax back. First, if you take the money then give it back, what is the incentive? Secondly, who gets the interst off the taxes? And lastly, how long would it be until the government started asking to keep some of it? After the first year? After the first month?
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Al Gore Trying To Score?

Posted by Average Voter on Sunday, June 08, 2008 11:53:27 AM
      Let's see, Al Gore is pushing global warming and the senate global warming cap and trade bill, and he owns a 9.5% stake in one of the largest carbon credit trading organizations in the world. And this is after Mr.Gore's spokesman said they did not take part in owning carbon credit companies.
I don't know what the big deal is, sounds like he is just making a good investment!
 
   Radio talk show personality Glenn Beck had Noel Sheppard from Newsbusters on his program to talk about it.
Actually, I am surprised that Al Gore doesn't own lock-stock-and-barrel several cap and trade companies.
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Mistakes In The Global Mean Temperature Datat

Posted by Average Voter on Sunday, June 08, 2008 11:32:31 AM
   It would seem we have an error in the data:

A longstanding puzzle in Earth’s climate record has just been solved. Between 1940 and 1970 — right in the middle of a steady, post-Industrial warming trend — global mean temperatures mysteriously dropped, with the most precipitous drop in 1945. Experts have debated a handful of explanations, including an increase in anthropogenic sulfate emissions that blocked sunlight and anomalous atmosphere-ocean interactions. But a new study suggests that the story is much simpler: An abrupt change in how scientists measured temperatures above the ocean, not the climate itself, explains the slump.
 
   Lead author of the study, David Thompson of Colorado State University in Colorado Springs found out how those measurements were being done.
 
   From 1942 to August 1945, 80 percent of observations came from U.S. ships, which took their readings of sea-surface temperatures as seawater entered the engine cooling system. At the war’s end, ships from the United Kingdom resumed data collection as well. Within a year, half the observations in the record were British, with only 30 percent from U.S. ships. British sailors collected sea-surface temperature readings by dropping uninsulated buckets from the deck, reeling them up full of water, and measuring the temperature. While the engine room method tends to inflate measurements a bit because the water is near the hot ship engine, the bucket method tends to deflate them as the water cools when contacting ambient air, the team wrote. So that baffling mid-century downturn, they say, is an artifact of instrumentation.
 
   If this is how we measure sea temperature, than I think the whole record is up for debate. But they address that too.
 
Although the changes "could be another source of skepticism for those inclined to be skeptical” about climate models, Forest says, it won’t change most scientists’ verdict on the last hundred years: The world is warming. More scrupulous study only underscores their confidence. Forest, for one, is excited. “We’re going to continue to see updates in the next decades as we come up with more clever ways to analyze the data,” he says. “That’s the way the science moves forward.”
 
   Since the temperatures are going to be corrected upwards, it will be more in line with the upward trend which bodes well for the believers rather than the skeptics. As for the ways in which data is collected, I would think they could come up with a more 'clever' idea.
 
 
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Ever Heard Of Methanogens?

Posted by Average Voter on Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:48:48 AM
   A group of New Zealand scientists have broke the genetic code of those pesky little methane producing microbes that live in cattle and sheep. This could be the first step in figuring out how to control that methane.
 
   You are all aware of course, that cattle are the number one contributor to global warming.
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Kyoto Enforcement Branch Meeting

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, June 06, 2008 10:56:27 AM
  The fifth meeting of the enforcement branch of the compliance comittee regarding the Kyoto treaty is set to meet from June 14th-16th in Bonn, Germany. The nations of Canada and Greece are in trouble because they have been found in non-compliance, and will no longer be able to be apart of the special Kyoto club.
 
Here is what they say about Canada:
 
6) The following consequences apply to a Party for non-compliance with registry requirements:

a. Declared to be in non-compliance;

b. Required to submit a plan to address its non-compliance in 3 months (see para. 5);

c. Not eligible to participate in the market mechanisms (Article 17, Emissions Trading;

Article 12, Clean Development Mechanism; and Article 6, Joint Implementation).

• This means that such a Party cannot sell and transfer credits, and cannot acquire any

credits.
 
It also said in the statement that if they don't make up their shortfall of emmission reductions by 2012, they will have to reduce their current shortfall plus another 30% to be let back into the club! Man, are they mean or what?!
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Global Warming Bill Dead

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, June 06, 2008 10:23:06 AM
   The senate republicans held off the Warner -Lieberman bill by a vote of 48-36. Four democrats joined the republicans to drive the final nail. But don't worry, I have a feeling this bill or one very similar will to it will be back next year when the chances of it passing will be better.
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Hurricane Forecasters Sticking To Their Guns

Posted by Average Voter on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:31:24 PM
   Hurricane forecasters are not going to change their minds about this year being another busy hurricane season.
Maybe the third time (year) is the charm.
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More Thoughts On The Warner-Lieberman Bill

Posted by Average Voter on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:14:56 PM
   Here is another great article on the climate change bill being debated in the senate right now, this one from the Wall Street Journal.
As he explains, we might need to get used to it because, as we know, both presidential candidates are proponents of man-made global warming and want this legislation passed.
 
This paragraph here should about scare the you-know-what out of you:
 
   But carbon auctions raise another problem when it comes to Washington. Revenues from the auctions are likely to be fish bait to industries that might qualify for some of them. Sen. Joe Lieberman estimates that the market value of all permits under his bill would be about $7 trillion by 2050. That sum would go into what he calls a Climate Change Credit Corporation, which, operating outside the budget process, would invest in various plans for developing alternative energy. You can bet that lobbyists for ethanol, nuclear and "clean" coal are already salivating at the prospect of a similar fund emerging from a bill championed by a President McCain or President Obama.
 
   Our government creates some kind of climate change credit union who has a budget of trillions of dollars, and can pick and chose who gets the money. How long before the government had to look into possible corruption charges in this credit corporation.
But since we will be living with one of these two presidential nominees that support this kind of legislation, he creates a way of reducing the possibility corruption.
 
   That's why it's important that all revenues from carbon auctions be cycled back to citizens. And rather than launch another endless debate over how and to whom – a payroll tax cut for people earning under the median wage, or a cut in capital gains? – it would be well to agree to the simplest possible formula: Every adult citizen should receive an equal share. If the carbon auction yields $150 billion in the first year, for example, each of America's 150 million adult citizens should receive a Treasury check that year of $1,000.
 
   Now that is a government working for the people...at least in a overly large and complex way. Obviously it would be better that we found a free market solution that did not have the government messing with public money. But they know better than us, and we will, if not with this bill, than with another, give them control over yet another 'problem' that needs to be dealt with.
 
 
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James Hansen Crying The Blues Again

Posted by Average Voter on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:40:42 PM
   Over at NRO, they have put up a post on NASA's James Hansen who is making news again because he is once again being "muzzeld" by the Bush administration. And it is no wonder since we see below where he is getting his support, ignoring the fact he is already getting paid by the federal government. .

   Then, as now, his complaining is absurd on its face: the only thing he’s been told is to leave policy to the policy people, and speak as NASA only about the work he does for NASA. Meanwhile, he continues to collect Heinz-Kerry lucre, has apparently been underwritten by George Soros, and otherwise uses his taxpayer-funded perch as an ideological activist.
 
 He should be fired from NASA if you ask me 
  Do you think Mr. Hansen is an Obama supporter? Just curious?!
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Wasp Stings On The Rise In Alaska Because Of Climate Change

Posted by Average Voter on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:11:36 PM
   More wacky environmental news for your entertainment.
It seems that the number of wasps in Alaska have increased ten fold.
 
   Wasps used to be an uncommon sight in Fairbanks until two years ago. Then huge numbers of them swarmed on the city, ten times more than normal. The number of stings grew so bad that outdoor school events were cancelled, 178 patients were treated in hospital for stings and two people died.
A study now reveals that wasp stings across northern Alaska have increased sevenfold over the past few years.
 
   So, a town with the population of 83,000 or so has 178 cases of wasp stings that need hospital attention? Maybe all those people had allergic reactions to the sting. But I am thinking that .002% of the population having severe reactions to wasp stings and sadly two people dying from them doesn't constitute an article in the London Times or any kind of scientific study to suggest that global warming is to blame.
We don't need a study to blame it on global warming! It's not even up for debate anymore, right?
 
   I like this guys response to the article:

Another unfounded "climate change" charge. I live in Fairbanks. The wasps were bad two years ago because the wasp population follows the gnat population. The gnat population ballooned, subsequently the wasp population boomed. This year, the Arctic hare is booming!

ACF, Fairbanks, USA
 
I would buy that long before man-made global warming.
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