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The Greenest Lawnmowers

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, September 05, 2008 10:39:02 PM
   Consumer Reports Green Choices has this list of the greenest lawnmowers on the market. My Toro lawn mower placed ninth in the self-propelled division. It was also a Consumer Reports Best Buy!
 
   At Jalopnik, we have a monster riding mower...can you say redneck.
 
 
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Speaking Of Cars

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, September 05, 2008 10:13:41 PM
   Here is some more info on the NEV, or neighborhood electric vehicle, that is all the rage; so much so that several states now have laws making it easier to drive them on the main roads. Via Instapundit
 
At least 40 states have now passed laws to permit NEVs to operate on many state roads with more working on new regulations. Meanwhile, some 40,000 NEVs are operating nationwide, says the Electric-Drive Transportation Association. Kentucky and Massachusetts are considering regulations to permit low-speed vehicles (LSVs) on state roads. LSV is a federal designation that includes NEVs, and also some gas-powered vehicles.
 
For running around the neighborhood? Not a bad idea. But if I get stuck behind one of these on the road to my neighborhood, we are going to have a problem.
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The Greenies Have To Love The New Prius

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, September 05, 2008 9:40:32 PM
    Over at TriplePundit, we learn of the new 2010 model Toyota Prius that will have as an option solar panels on the roof. Now my first thought was, "pandering to the greenies" and that turns out to be exactly what it is.
 
Of course, the car would need to be parked in the sun, and if we continue this logic, if it isn’t parked in the sun, keeping it cool wouldn’t be as much of an issue.
Air conditioning systems put quite a load on the engine and reduce efficiency. Nonetheless, the idea of solar panels on a Prius is, as one anonymous Toyota insider put it,
"more of a symbolic gesture. It’s very difficult to power much more than that [AC] with solar energy”
 
   The funny part is that the solar panel option will probably cost you a couple thousand doallrs and will collect enough sunlight to power the overhead dome light. No matter; Toyota will  sell quite a few with and without solar panels.
 
It isn't much to look at though...
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Let's Blame It On Asia

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, September 05, 2008 5:55:49 PM
   Some particles floating around in Asia are going to raise the temperatures in the heartland of the U.S.

"What they do about their pollution can affect our climate," said study co-author Hiram "Chip" Levy, a senior scientist at NOAA's fluid dynamics lab in Princeton, N.J.

This pollution will likely create three "hot spots" in the world: the central United States, Europe around the Mediterranean Sea, and Kazakhstan, which borders Russia and China. In the United States it's "a big blob in the middle of the country" stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, Levy said.
 
How could they possibly know that? The article doesn't go into the specifics. But it would seem to me that, like most other things related to the study of climate change, it is nothing but conjecture and theory and they will change their minds later.
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The IPCC Is 20 Years Old.

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, September 05, 2008 11:43:56 AM
   On August 31st, the IPCC turned 20, and I missed the party! Darn it!
 
 
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Not Buying This Warning

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, September 05, 2008 11:35:08 AM
   The U.S. Geological Survey is warning that the giant Sequoia trees in California will die off faster because of warming temperatures.
 
   "The first effects of climate change that we're likely to see is that the giant sequoias will have trouble reproducing because their root systems don't work as well when temperatures warm," said Stephenson, a research ecologist with the USGS Western Ecological Research Center. "After that, I wouldn't be surprised if in 30 years we see their death rates go up." 
   I am simply not buying that claim. Here is a tree that has been around since before Christ (see graph below) and has seen temperatures all over the board, and basically needs a forest fire for reproduction.
 
 
 Obviously it has been warmer in the past, so why would they start to die off now?
I think maybe these people who work for the U.S. Geological Survey need something to do, and this line of work is relevent in today's environmentally deluged world. 
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20 Foot Sea-Rise A Sham?

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, September 05, 2008 10:58:33 AM
   Can you believe that Al Gore lied to us about 20 foot sea level rises in this century? That is the claim in a new study out by  the University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research's Tad Pfiffer.
   Predictions that sea levels will rise 20 feet in the next century are wildly exaggerated, but a more realistic 4- to 6-foot rise still could put homes under water for hundreds of millions of people.
That's the conclusion of Colorado scientist Tad Pfeffer, whose work on the subject appears in today's Science magazine.
 
   Only Al Gores faithfull minions bought that garbage anyway.
 
   Gore points out the increase in wildfires, the melting glaciers and gradual drying up of all continents as undeniable proof of global warming. The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has doubled in the last 30 years and global sea levels could rise 20 feet by the end of the century, creating tens of millions of refugees, according to his documentary.
 
But don't be fooled...
 
The bad news is that sea levels could rise 3 to 6 feet in the next century. That means that cities along every major river delta on the globe could be under water by 2100.
 
Those folks better get flood insurance.
   
 
 
 
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