Darcey has been busy collecting the imminent disaster global warming headlines. Best so far – “Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012”
That’s right – the process will be complete just five years from now. So, again – who needs Kyoto? It looks to me like this “human-caused global climate change” is a problem on the brink of solving itself.
Idiots.
Well, time to get moving. I’ve got to batten down the hatches in preparation for tonight’s forecasted blizzard.
Headline updated, h/t commentor Rob, who may have just coined the new word of the year ;
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Gee whiz Kate you seem to have collected a bit of an old hackers club here at SDA. I wrote my first program 36 years ago.
Anyway, Ural, fortunately the USNO’s ntp did not fail, the bug shown at tinyurl.com/yd3jnp was only in the web page’s display code (the classic catenate 19 instead of adding 1900 problem that some Perl programmers got wrong – it certainly wasn’t just COBOL Loki).
And don’t forget, the 32 bit Unix time rolls over in 2038, although I’m already running a 64 bit CPU, so I don’t know yet how important that will be.
By the way, some good examples of the kind of problems we run into having to deal with “activists” while making the world a better place can be found in some of the articles at Chemical & Engineering News – pubs.acs.org/cen/index.html
re CO2 Oilsand development is a huge producer. The same tech that is used to force oil up from existing wells , using vast amounts of water, replaces CO2 for water. CO2 stored thousands of feet underground in a contained controlled system. The wells and pipelines exist now. Farmers that have pump jacks in their fields would have instead a CO2 pipeline pushing that downhole vs water. I believe the term is CO2 regeneration.
Check that.. S/b CO2 sequestration
GOOD READ: Goldstein has a good article in todays toronto sun Re: Kyoto Cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
And Al Gore invented the internet,HA!HA!HA!HA!
Suzuki should go back to his fruit flies.
Spend money on Carbon Credit rip off, not!
Uncle Mo and his merry band of thieves should be jailed. Oil for Food anybody?
Reducing energy consumption, developing cleaner fuel technologies and reducing pollution in our own back yards, priceless.
The kyoto doomsday/eco-armageddon fear mongering has collectively been dubbed “climate porn” by some conservative media….I agree that this assesment is relatively correct.
Although there is no denying the climate changes and that there are cycles and we are in a warming cycle now, science is deeply fragmented on the causes….even the small portion of climatologists ( a new science which is highly speculative and theory prone ….like being a weatherman predicting future weather models) there is much disagreement.
The latest climate theory I heard was that vulcanism plus the heavy particulate pollution of industrial west in the last century caused a prolonged cold spell because the particulate pollution reflected heat from the sun causung longer colder winters….now that particulate pollution has been greatly reduced by the industrial clean air practices of the last 45 years, the atmosphere allows more IR wavelengths through to heat the earth causing a warming trend…this paper was just published last year and presented for peer review…as usual the scinetific jury is still hung on it so far….again the scientific community fragmented on agreement.
In all this scientific controversy what really irritates me is everytime I turn on a Canadian MSM channel looking for a weather forcast somehow the talking weather head finds opportunity to remind me that every unexpected change in the weather is because of “global warming”….as if the weather geeks are using this mass hysteria as a convenient excuse for them to hide behind when their forcasts prove inaccurate….wrong forcast?..”oh well, that’s global warming for ya!”
Listening to CBC we get this phenomina expounded and we are lead to beieve through casual innuendo at every possible opportunity that man made global warming is no longer theory but fact and that this is the number one concern of Canadian voters…this is of course BS…I’m a pretty average Canadian voter and I’m concerned with things far more immediate and concrete than theories about weather forcasting. In one 12 haout stint between CBC radio, RCI and newsworld I counter 27 references to “global warming”…this is rediculous and certainlt reveals an agenda.
The point here is that the apocolyptic global warming scare is just that…a scare and when in the hands of politicians and MSM its a weapon to manipulate the public…mostly with fear mongering and doomsday scenarios.
The reality is that recent warming trends are not radical and there is no telling what is causing them or even that we could do(if anything)to effect it if we did know the cause….one thing is certain….if the globe is becoming warmer the first place to look for answers is the solar system’s main furnace….not becoming hysterical over inert naturally occuring gases and transferring huge chunks of wealth to communist nations in a guilt tax placebo.
I believe we should charge a Y2Kyoto import tax on all goods and services coming from non-compliant countries such as China and India.
We can then use the money to buy Y2Kyoto credits and plant trees where all the Walmarts and dollar stores used to be before their prices skyrocketed.
Last summer I think I might have overdone the one tonne challange by a tonne or two and now we’re all freezing our asses off.
I feel so used..
I peg the chances of some pathogen becoming both lethal AND easily transmitted wiping out said billions more likely in the near future than climate change doing it.
whose gonna bury the bodies?
one solution I suggested to colleagues to provide time for permanent solution was to use hexadecimal representation for years starting in 2000.
inspired by my knowledge of how MSDOS store the year portion of a date, adding the tens and units of the date to 1900. why not use Ah (the hexadecimal digit after 9) as the unit?
n.b. decimal sequence is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
hexadecimal, ie base 16 sequence is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
thus, year 2000 would be stored in DOS as 9A, one more year after 99.
ie add 1900 + 90 + Ah(=10 in decimal) yields 2000 for the year.
or some variation in all those records and software that used 2 digits for the year.
it didnt fly, but then again the permanent fixes were coming in thick and fast so the ‘big’ y2k didnt happen.
the sky did not fall because we allocated resources where needed and not according to the doomsayers.
Just sent this letter to Lorrie Goldstein at Toronto Sun:
Mr. Goldstein,
I have long held the views expressed in your article and I am glad that a counter-veiling opinion is finally printed in the Canadian mainstream media.
I am also sure you are aware of the name of the architect of Kyoto, Canadian Maurice Strong, and his connections, direct and indirect, to our governments over the last forty years. His name is thrown about the ‘net with regularity by conservatives and conspiracy theorists; people with too little time and/or resources to commit to a proper investigation of this man. Do our libel and slander laws prevent media organizations like yours from such an investigation? Or is Mr. Strong’s influence (ie. relationships with Quebecor board members, etc.) so great that it causes Canadian media to become mute?
Please don’t misconstrue this letter as an attack on you as I think you are one of the few journalists with skeptical eye on Kyoto. I am only looking to the day when Canadians are made aware of who really forms policy in this country…
Sincerely,
MRV
Ps. If you manage to write anything on Mr. Strong consider a follow-up on the Demarais family called, “Halliburton North: How Powercorp’s connection to the PMO makes the Bush family look like small potatoes”!
why go to hexadecimal when we could have switched to Mussi time and knocked ourselves 600 years behind instantaneously? they do claim to have invented zero, although it has pretty much been established that zero and decimal places are Hindu.
Cows are the answer. Or cows are the problem. I’m sooooo confused. Help Mr. Wizard!
The Syracuse Post-Standard
Ready to Give It the Gas
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
By Alaina Potrikus
Morrisville State College officials are days away from turning the 7,000
gallons of manure their dairy cows produce daily into electricity.
Contractors will be on campus this week to hook up the final connections to the college’s $800,000 biogas digester, a two-chamber machine that extracts gases such as methane from cow manure and transforms the gases into power.
College President Ray Cross was jubilant when he talked about getting the digester on the grid.
“We’re making gas!” he said, pumping his fists in the air.
“As soon as (the contractors) turn it on, we’re good to go,” said Chris Nyberg, dean of the college’s agricultural school.
Nyberg said the digester has been producing biogas since the fall. The machine’s chambers are filled with 240,000 gallons of manure. After it is
hooked up to a generator, the 55-kilowatt machine will produce as much as half the energy the college’s dairy complex uses. Currently, the biogas byproducts are burned off, creating a constant flame that dances three feet in the air.
“It’s sideways when it’s windy,” he said.
The digester is the second step in the college’s efforts to develop academic degrees and research in the field of renewable fuels. A 120-foot-tall windmill has been spinning on the hill behind the dairy barn since 2004, saving the college about $5,000 a year on its electric bill. And the college continues to work on a project that could have tractors and boilers running on New York-produced biodiesel by next year.
“I’m excited for the students of tomorrow,” Cross said. “The way (the digester) is built, there are lots of access ports for study. It fits in nicely with our alternative-energy efforts.”
Don’t forget the killer asteroids…..that was the scare-du-jour for a while as well….
Fortran IV with $JOB Watfor. Yep, I’m a fossil too. Hell, I remember the last Ice age. Used to walk to school in waist deep snow although the waist was smaller and a lot closer to the ground back then. At least I didn’t have to use the dog sled like my pa.
Global warming/cooling, this too shall pass.
I was required to be on (nursing )duty on 1 Jan 2000, because nobody knew what was going to happen. People who worked in water and electricity supply explained to me a year or so later, that all the fuss was cover for extra vigilence against an Islamist terror attack.
They had made some very overt threats, and an alert US customs agent had intercepted a car full exploives, driven by a Pakistani, I think. Bill Clinton took credit for her alertness and diligence, but, after that, and leading up to 2000, there really were increased endeavours in that regard.
So, minor computer glitches occurred. Major terrorist threats were averted. And, no, it makes little sense to bring down an entire economy for a “maybe”.
I am still waiting for British-grown wine grapes to come to market. If you look at the economic history of the years of global warming, you can see that there were, indeed, many upheavals. We ought to be considering what those might be, and investing to benefit from changes. I would not like to buy Florida swampland, but Connecticut beachfront sounds like a nice place to spend my golden years.