Copyright © 2013 Knight Sac Media. All rights reserved.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=23540This thread is meant for serious discussion on environmental issues and promotion of a sustainable planet. Are you a member of what is know as the "Tree Huggers Society" or care about environmental issues? Well you have come to the right place. What's your issue? As moderator I do ascribe to fr...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.pnghttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=2354038013210LLCFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289152705/25/2013 11:58:24 AMWharf Rathttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289147635/24/2013 10:55:27 PMRock_njSolar Breakthrough: Silicon Wire-Array Solar Cells Convert 80% of Sunlight to Electricity rocknj.hubpages.com  This could revolutionize solar. Imagine 80% efficient solar cells that are less expensive to make than conventional solar cells? Solar would be ultra cheap and efficient.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289147555/24/2013 10:42:26 PMno name chump"Slow change doesn't attract attention.... " Good point...pay attention smokers. "One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-quarters keeps your doctor alive." - Written in ancient Egyptian Tomb (from favorite quotes thread here on S.I.)http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289137495/24/2013 1:05:37 PMLLCFWell there is no alarm about obesity rates and deteriorating health... Just some background noise and dithering about loosening FDA rules for expwrimental drugs or the hottest new restaraunt chain. Slow change doesn't attract attention.... Perhaps when an unusual number of people are having heart attackes or heat stro...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289135855/24/2013 12:14:18 PMno name chumpLandfill Harmonic _ The World Sends Us Garbage..We Send Back Music http://www.1190kex.com/pages/whatyoumissed.html?article=11321112#ixzz2UE7DE0vMhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289135715/24/2013 12:08:15 PMno name chump...and yet, there is no alarm about it? Stand clear of the coasts....head up into the mountains in a wet part of the world....and hope for the best.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289135655/24/2013 12:07:12 PMLLCFOh, I'm just speculating.... Phase transitions can happen very quickly in the lab and all but what that means on climate scale who knows.... It just seems to make common sense that when/if the buffer(ice) is used up, the real movement (temp increase) will come. The larger temp increases at the pole isn't goo IMO... ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289112275/23/2013 11:42:11 AMno name chumphttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289098105/22/2013 4:53:40 PMno name chumpGreen Power Science: greenpowerscience.com  The way old-timer ham radio operators used to play and create.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289097805/22/2013 4:39:26 PMWharf RatChina agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016 Beijing’s thaw over greenhouse gases seen as major step in battling climate change Tom Bawden [graphic] Tuesday 21 May 2013 The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289087005/22/2013 9:54:00 AMLLCFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289045485/20/2013 11:25:23 AMEricClimate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds Of more than 4,000 academic papers published over 20 years, 97.1% agreed that climate change is anthropogenic guardian.co.uk[graphic]http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288996135/17/2013 1:08:36 AMWharf RatU.S. Geological Survey: Warmer Springs Causing Loss Of Snow Cover Throughout The Rocky Mountains By Joe Romm on May 16, 2013 at 7:16 pm [graphic]A new U.S. Geological Survey study finds, “Warmer spring temperatures since 1980 are causing an estimated 20 percent loss of snow cover across the Rocky Mountains of wes...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288994905/16/2013 11:07:48 PMWharf RatFish Are Fleeing Climate-Warmed Waters And Heading For The Earth’s Poles For more than 30 years, ocean fish and mammals have migrated away from warming equatorial waters and toward the poles, providing more evidence climate change has already had broad global consequences. [ Washington Post] Fish and other sea life...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288994835/16/2013 11:03:34 PMRonhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288906095/12/2013 11:42:14 PMWharf RatMeteorite crater reveals future of a globally warmed world Lake sediments recorded the climate of the Arctic during the last period when CO2 levels were as high as today Damian Carrington guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 May 2013 14.00 EDT [graphic] Satellite view of lake El'gygytgyn the largest unglaciated deep lake ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288886745/11/2013 12:20:01 PMLLCFI saw a black helicopter drop this off at Yahoo offices.... I've pulled together all my "specialists" (bloggers that hang out in basements making shit up) to analyze the "pixels" and other high tech words and concepts to prove that it is a FRAUD!! news.yahoo.com  -gggg- DAKhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288866035/10/2013 10:40:13 AMLLCFMay have to do with population as well... folks in cities pushed for emissions (and still do) faster than out yonder. It's kinda humerous when rural states rail on urban lawmakers for their activist approach... like they have a freakin clue. Besides, what happened to "state and local government".... I thought that w...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288776325/6/2013 10:49:37 AMLLCFCould be glacial phase transition? One would expect a stabilizing effect on overall temperature as glacial melt speeds up no? DAKhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288776105/6/2013 10:42:41 AMLLCFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288761675/5/2013 1:02:44 PMWharf RatNOAA: In 2012, Waters Off Northeast U.S. Coast Were Warmest In 150 Years By Joe Romm on Apr 28, 2013 at 12:24 pm [graphic] Northeast Shelf Regions: Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB), Southern New England (SNE), Georges Bank (GB) and Gulf of Maine (GOM) A new “Ecosystem Advisory” from NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Cen...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288636074/28/2013 8:19:22 PMWharf RatHow the burning of fossil fuels was linked to a warming world in 1938 This month marks the 75th anniversary of Guy Callendar's landmark scientific paper on anthropogenic climate change [graphic] English engineer Guy Stewart Callendar who expanded on the work Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and developed the t...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288534124/23/2013 10:37:30 AMWharf Rathttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288515954/22/2013 1:03:51 PMNo Mo Mohttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288515884/22/2013 1:01:33 PMWharf Rathttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288497974/21/2013 2:19:00 PMLLCFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288355654/15/2013 9:32:33 AMLand Shark25 March 2013Last updated at 04:25 ET Prof Sir John Beddington warns of floods, droughts and storms [graphic]By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent, BBC News [graphic]Prof Beddington fears more flooding is likely Continue reading the main storyRelated Stories Climate target 'is unrealistic'Climate model forecast is rev...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288078633/30/2013 7:04:39 PMno name chumpClimate science - A sensitive matter The climate may be heating up less in response to greenhouse-gas emissions than was once thought. But that does not mean the problem is going away economist.com  OVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have co...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288049523/28/2013 5:06:48 PMno name chumpHistorically, the sulfur content in diesel fuels for highway and nonroad vehicles was limited to 0.5% (wt.) by ASTM specifications. The milestones in US environmental regulations limiting sulfur levels in diesel fuels can be summarized as follows: Highway Diesel Fuel500 ppm: Sulfur limit of 500 ppm = 0.05% (wt.) becam...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288048713/28/2013 4:40:00 PMWharf Rat Making Sense of Sensitivity … and Keeping It in Perspective Posted on 28 March 2013 by dana1981 Yesterday The Economist published an article about climate sensitivity – how much the planet's surface will warm in response to the increased greenhouse effect from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, including amplify...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288042693/28/2013 12:27:00 PMWharf RatGlobal warming predictions prove accurate Analysis of climate change modelling for past 15 years reveal accurate forecasts of rising global temperatures Duncan Clark guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 27 March 2013 12.56 EDT [graphic] Predictions of rising temperatures due to human-induced climate change have proved accurat...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288036243/28/2013 5:54:56 AMWharf Rat"The Earth is on track to becoming the hottest it has been at any time in the past 11.3 millennia, " and the madding crowd goes wild... Watts is Whopping Mad (Crazy) after Marcott et al - Must be the Heat! Update 2+So far there are now three four five sixseven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fiftee...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288001733/26/2013 12:02:12 PMno name chumphttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287985073/25/2013 1:21:20 PMGlenn PetersenAs Pollution Worsens in China, Solutions Succumb to Infighting By EDWARD WONG New York Times Published: March 21, 2013 [graphic] Sim Chi Yin for The New York Times Smog veiled the China Central Television Building in Beijing last week. Air pollution hit record levels in north China last month. _______________ ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287932583/22/2013 10:34:19 AMRonJeff Masters takes a look at changing weather patterns, especially heatwaves and drought: wunderground.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287721533/11/2013 12:27:41 PMRonThe Earth is on track to becoming the hottest it has been at any time in the past 11.3 millennia, a period spanning the history of human civilization, a study published Thursday has found. rawstory.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287660223/7/2013 4:07:19 PMRonhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287606983/5/2013 10:31:16 AMRonNorth Dakota's Bakken Shale- opportunity and cost ngm.nationalgeographic.com  "We don't talk about climate change here."http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287564313/2/2013 6:22:34 PMSun TzuCanadians take notice! Wade Davis: Gorgeous photos of a backyard wilderness worth saving ted.com  http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287491522/27/2013 10:02:42 AMRon Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington Sunday for a rally to press President Barack Obama to take concrete measures to help fight global warming. The protesters want Obama to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would bring oil from Canada’s tar sands to Texas and order the Environmental Protection A...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287313552/17/2013 2:03:35 PMRock_njWhat Is A Vapor Intrusion Investigation? | Identifying Indoor Air Pollutants One of the biggest changes in environmental regulation and compliance in recent years are the growing concerns and regulatory actions regarding vapor intrusion from ground water contaminant plumes that can lead to elevated indoor air pollutan...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287305492/16/2013 5:11:18 PMWharf RatNeither do I, but sometimes ya gotta go places you've never been before. I've done that with ventilators. Sometimes it even works. A last resort beats no resort.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287260292/14/2013 1:37:23 PMLand Sharkhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287260182/14/2013 1:32:40 PMWharf Rat[graphic] Whatever it is, it sure as hell better be reversible B4 it starts an ice age.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287260092/14/2013 1:29:58 PMLand SharkNo alternative to atmospheric CO2 draw-down Posted on 14 February 2013 by Andrew Glikson This article suggests that the current atmospheric CO2 level is already triggering amplifying feedbacks from the Earth system and therefore, in themselves, efforts at reduction in atmospheric CO2-emission are no longer suffici...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287259762/14/2013 1:19:17 PMWharf RatSecret funding network pushed climate change denialism, opposed environmental regulations By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian Thursday, February 14, 2013 9:04 EST Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $120m (£77m) to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind clim...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287258852/14/2013 12:48:59 PMLand SharkScience Groups Push Obama for Climate Change Summit Published: February 8th, 2013 [graphic] By Lauren Morello Six scientific societies are asking the White House to hold a national summit on climate change. In a letter delivered to President Barack Obama on Friday, days before his annual State of the Union addr...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287186702/11/2013 10:57:05 AMRonhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287171982/10/2013 1:04:36 PMLand SharkA Climate Sensitivity Tail Posted on 6 February 2013 by dana1981 A blog post by climate scientist James Annan and his comments on Andrew Revkin's Dot Earth blog have drawn a lot of attention, despite not being particularly controversial. For example, "...a high climate sensitivity [is] increasingly untenable. A v...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287096662/6/2013 11:26:02 AM