How relentlessly are global average temperatures rising? Try this for an indicator: Australia's Bureau of Meteorology recently had to add two new colors to the upper range of the temperature scale used on its forecasting maps, which were previously capped at 50-degrees Celsius, or a whopping 122-degrees Fahrenheit.
The scale now runs to 54-degrees Celsius, or 129.2-degrees Fahrenheit. The move comes as climate models suggest approaching heat patterns that will rival the existing record of 50.7 degrees.
This colorful tidbit of news comes on the heels of data in the United States showing 2012 to have been the hottest on record -- by a staggeringly wide margin. According to the media watchdog group Media Matters, the news was spread far and wide -- except, perhaps not surprisingly, on Fox News, which all but ignored the milestone.
Amid the bleak optics, meanwhile, the climate-action advocates who brought you the humorously blunt and ultimately viral mock-advertisement called "Exxon Hates Your Children" are set to give the video its television debut on Friday. For those hoping the campaign might counter the Fox News blackout and reach the climate-ambivalent, well, that seems unlikely. The ad will only air on left-leaning MSNBC, and during the already very climate-conscious programming headed up by Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes.
Still, as outgoing EPA administrator Lisa Jackson sees it, most folks are getting the message. "Americans are back to believing that something is happening with our climate and that mankind has a role to play in that," she told USA Today. "These are not natural phenomena."
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Complacent.
You don't say "Let's all sit down and share ideas with the arsonists" when your house is catching fire. And in this case, the "house" is the whole planet.
We are running out of time. Please try to understand that.
They must really care about families when they literally destroy entire ecosystems and leave people with oil laden water to drink and bathe in.
We SHOULD feel guilt. Because we've been buying the lies. Because it's comfortable. Because we don't like being "scared" even when the danger is real.
But we're being criminally foolish. WE HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO. And if you think that we can't end up with mass starvation and the end of civilization as we know it, you have no knowledge of history....and how often smug complacency has destroyed civilizatons all over this world.
Duh.
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http://coal2nuclear.com/Repairing%20the%20Air.pdf
A certain crusty, that's-my-opinion-and-I'll-stick-to-it Berkeley scientist said for years that GW was a bunch of bunk. The Kochs gave him funds to do a study. (Check the funding for almost any climate "denier" scientist and you'll find black energy money in the background.)
The scientist did the research. And said that he'd been 100% wrong, GW is real, it's happening and it's accelerating.
Oops.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
The evidence is SO OVERWHELMING that even Exxon can't lie and be believed anymore.
The massive deficit which will leave our children with massive debt which is a certainty is a non issue.
not as some BS ideology wants it to be -- your ideology won;t save you, let alone anybody else!!
physics has ZERO respect, or concern, for human ideology ...
She draws her power from a Bio-Diesel fueled Capstone Microturbine generator, and a UQM 150KW prime mover and super-safe Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries.
In 2007, Young assembled a team to modify his 1959 Lincoln Continental to enable it to run on electricity. The goal was to inspire a generation by creating a clean automobile propulsion technology that serves the needs of the 21st century, reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a new low while delivering performance that is a reflection of the driver's spirit.Â
By creating and demonstrating this new clean power technology, Lincvolt hopes to show a way to reduce the demand for petro-fuels enough to eliminate the need for war over energy supplies, thereby enhancing the security of the USA and other nations throughout the world.Â
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynT_1l0kclA
About twelve years ago, I sketched an idea for a microturbine/electric hybrid luxury car with NiMH batteries (which were state-of-the-art at the time). So, I purchased a high-powered GE FB4001 electric motor and two Honda Civic Hybrid battery packs. Searching the Web, I then discovered the Capstone microturbine, but never got around to finishing my project.
Since then, I have been delighted to see the rollout of Tesla's all-electric Model S luxury sedan. Its lithium batteries offer a range of 265 miles. This eliminates the need for an onboard turbine generator, in my opinion.
On the other hand, I think the turbine/electric hybrid could be ideal for over-the-road trucks and other heavy, long-range vehicles.
Thanks for the link to Neil Young's project website. I'm gonna check it out. :-)