07-02-2017, 11:46 AM
(06-17-2017, 08:55 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: [ -> ]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ign=buffer
Which just shows that the free market will take care of the problem, no government intervention required.
(06-17-2017, 08:55 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: [ -> ]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ign=buffer
(07-02-2017, 11:46 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: [ -> ](06-17-2017, 08:55 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: [ -> ]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ign=buffer
Which just shows that the free market will take care of the problem, no government intervention required.
Quote:http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/t...arge-14027
… “ Tesla announced today that it will build the world's largest lithium-ion battery system to store electricity in Australia. The 100-megawatt installation—more than three times as powerful as the biggest existing battery system—will be paired with the Hornsdale Wind Farm near Jamestown, operated by the French renewable energy company Neoen, in a deal with the state of South Australia. The Tesla battery should smooth out the variability inherent in sustainable power generation schemes.”…
(07-07-2017, 02:30 PM)radind Wrote: [ -> ]Tesla to build titanic battery facility
… “ Tesla announced today that it will build the world's largest lithium-ion battery system to store electricity in Australia. The 100-megawatt installation—more than three times as powerful as the biggest existing battery system—will be paired with the Hornsdale Wind Farm near Jamestown, operated by the French renewable energy company Neoen, in a deal with the state of South Australia. The Tesla battery should smooth out the variability inherent in sustainable power generation schemes.”…
(07-10-2017, 12:37 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: [ -> ]So called "Climate Activists" need to take a chill pill. Now I know some of the hyperbole is meant to grab the attention of the masses, 90+% of whom have only a high school level of scientific training at best.
Will AGW have effects? Yes! Has there been temperature rise over the past 150 years and will it continue for some time to come? Yes!
Will the ongoing melt, which commenced at the onset of the current interglacial, continue apace until the end of the interglacial? Absolutely!
These are scientific facts.
(07-24-2017, 11:10 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: [ -> ](07-21-2017, 11:28 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: [ -> ]In my experience, especially online, I see a high number of deniers who do not acknowledge human-caused climate change. In fact most of them make the disreputable, dishonorable statement that they believe in climate change; it's happened for eons. So it seems to me that most "skeptics" are deniers. There are some climate change activists and prophets who are extreme, but it is they who are small in number. Here is one whom I know about, Guy McPherson, who can be considered extreme and out of the mainstream of climate science:
http://www2.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/n...d=11756300
But he is a distinct minority. And Bill Nye is not one of the extremists. Most climate change scientists and activists are right on target. What is scientism and phony in scientific "discussion" of climate change? The idea that models have to be exact in their predictions in order to matter. No, they don't. Science is not certain or exact, especially when it comes to predictions of this kind. No model is going to be exact; what is the case is that they have been correct in essentials; climate change is happening as they predicted, and will happen as they predict.
Exactly how much climate change and global warming will occur depends on certain factors, chief among which is whether the base of ignorant Americans who put Trump and other Republicans into office will continue to be allowed to get their way. That's #1. And in general, the difference will be decided by what humans (in both politics and business/lifestyle) do in the next years and decades. It seems certain that some level of catastrophe will occur, and some already has occurred, given our denial so far, and given the rope we have given to deniers so far to hang us with.
CO2 output of the US as well as a number of other Western industrial countries, as well as Japan, peaked a few years ago. What will determine the CO2 output profile will be the behaviors of China, India, Brazil, Russia, etc, etc.
In other words, the US no longer matters vis a vis AGW.