With all of the acronym posts today, I was reminded of one of my favorite books.
So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear?
You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that
grow around you
So long, so long and thanks
for all the fish
The world's about to be destroyed
There's no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the planet dissolve(around you)
Despite those nets of tuna fleets
We thought that most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots and your
pregnant women
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long and thanks
for all the fish
If I had just one last wish
I would like a tasty fish
If we could just change one thing
We would all learn how to sing
Come one and all
Man and Mammal
Side by Side in life's great gene pool
(oooohhh oooohhh oooaahhhhh- ah ahh)
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long and, !Thanks!
for all the fish!
Oh, I'm still here. I'm not going anywhere. Well, I should say that I am going somewhere this week. Many of our state representatives and house of representatives, while all Republicans are holding town halls this week all throughout rule Kansas and Missouri. And I'm taking the week to go and watch. And video tape. I'll be back soon enough. I'll still make comments. So, I'm not going anywhere.
I figure I can just cop a squat on my cell phone or whatever.
But for now, in light of SLATFAF, an environmental update:
While Fox News decided that it's all bunk (based on an unfinished, leaked report that scientists can't verify anything about http://www.foxnews.com/... )
It's OK though.. because we'll just use a ton of airconditioning.
http://www.economist.com/...
Yet rising incomes in poor countries are associated with American-style spending on air conditioning there. Between 1995 and 2004 the proportion of homes in Chinese cities with air conditioning rose from 8% to 70%. Asia already accounts for more than half the global air-conditioning market, and China alone for 70% of production. Sales of air conditioners there, boosted by government schemes that also encourage purchase of more efficient models, have rocketed. Global warming will further stoke demand. Research in the Netherlands (see chart) by Morna Isaac and Detlef van Vuuren reckons that energy demand for air conditioning will rise forty-fold this century.
Given that dirty coal-fired plants still produce some 70% of China’s current energy output, anything that stokes its electricity consumption is particularly damaging in global-warming terms. But with the use of air conditioners rising inexorably, their share in energy consumption is rising too, with the added trouble that heatwaves bring sudden spikes in use, meaning that spare capacity has to be built in to provide for summer peaks in power demand. The big blackouts over swathes of India in the summer of 2012 were widely blamed on its burgeoning middle class’s desire to keep cool. That may be unfair: though air-conditioning certainly stokes demand, political meddling in the power industry hampers its ability to keep the current flowing.
So, you know, burn some coal to output some energy, put it into airconditioning, add more heat, subtract more heat.. this seems to be a working cycle.
Anyway, it's January 28th in Kansas and a brisk 70+ degrees outside. We haven't seen a real lay down snow this winter and precipitation has sucked for the farmers.
But lots of other places are having normal years.
As the map show, rising thermometers are not confined to the U.S. Australia is currently experiencing an extreme heat wave. The country is caught in the grip of extreme heat and summer temperatures have hit new highs. Records have been set for the national average maximum (104.5°F) and the highest national average (90°F). Australian Bureau of Meteorology has added new colors to its map to denote a range up to 129°F.
http://seekingalpha.com/...
I've always wanted a new heat map that included a heat range of up to 129 degrees. That sounds like fun.
But we can just burn more coal and more put up bigger air conditioners. The new ones don't even use those bad fuels, and hell, clean coal works.
SOOT—also known as black carbon—heats up the atmosphere because it absorbs sunlight. Black things do. That is basic physics. But for years the institutions that focus on climate policy have played down the role of pollutants such as black carbon that stay in the atmosphere for a short time, and concentrated on carbon dioxide, which, once generated, tends to remain there. That may soon change.
On January 15th, the fifth day that smog-darkened Beijing’s air-quality index was registering “hazardous” (see article), the most comprehensive study of black carbon yet conducted was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. It concluded that the stuff was the second-most-damaging greenhouse agent after CO2 and about twice as bad for the climate as had been thought until now. The implications are profound.
http://www.economist.com/...
Oops.
It's OK though. Doesn't prove anything. Just a bunch of anecdotal and not so anecdotal data.
Golf Course is open today. In January.
SLATFATF, suckers.