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A Fiery Czech Is Poised to Be the Face of Europe Decades later, Mr. Klaus, the 67-year-old president of the Czech Republic — an iconoclast with a perfectly clipped mustache — continues to provoke strong reactions. He has blamed what he calls the misguided fight against global warming for contributing to the international financial crisis, branded Al Gore an “apostle of arrogance” for his role in that fight, and accused the European Union of acting like a Communist state. As a former finance minister and prime minister, he is credited with presiding over the peaceful 1993 split of Czechoslovakia into two states and helping to transform the Czech Republic into one of the former Soviet bloc’s most successful economies. But his ideas about governance are out of step with many of the European Union nations that his country will lead starting Jan. 1. While even many of the world’s most ardent free marketeers acknowledged the need for the recent coordinated bailout of European banks, Mr. Klaus lambasted it as irresponsible protectionism. He blamed too much — rather than too little — regulation for the crisis. A fervent critic of the environmental movement, he has called global warming a dangerous “myth,” arguing that the fight against climate change threatens economic growth. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/world/europe/25klaus.html?_r=1 I think I will like this guy.
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 25, 2008 4:55 am)
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Replying to: alltorque (Nov 25, 2008 5:29 am)
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 25, 2008 7:28 am) |
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An interesting article that actually mentions other GHG's such as methane and nitrous oxide. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-11-25-greenhouse-gase- s-record-highs_N.htm Methane is about 30X more potent than CO2 as a GHG. I wonder whether the methane is mainly due to human-leaks, or more likely natural venting? |
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Do the GW models of the climate include the methane mentioned above. Maybe; but I doubt they include things like the following. http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2008/11/cosmic-ray-hots.html What effect does this extra radiation have on heating the atmosphere or ionizing it and creating chemical reactions in the air? Oh how little we understand, and yet Mr. Gore and his paid-for-scientists would have you believe we must drastically change our lifestyle.
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Replying to: kernick (Nov 25, 2008 1:32 pm) |
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Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition... engines. a 4 cylinder VW diesel is used to study the HCCL... link title A local university is into research efforts link title "The Smart Little Engine That Could," Sensing a new automotive Future, by Erica Klarreich Forefront, College of Engineering, University of California Berkeley fall 2008, pg 16-21. |
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Not only are the air temperatures been really cold around here (which could be discounted as weather, and not climate), as expressed in the following article; but the ocean temperatures which are far harder to change because of their mass are colder than normal. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2008-11-25-turtle_N.htm And it is only Fall! The only people who like winter are the skiiers and plow-drivers; so I say again let's forget about keeping the Earth this cold. |
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Replying to: kernick (Nov 26, 2008 9:09 am)  They did let me drive an Oshkosh once! MORE POWER !!! We are able to drive up to the snow SKI and drive out of the snow,( in as little as 2 hours: Actually 4 hours) The 3 or four total winter seasons I have so called LIVED 24/7 in the snow was enough to last my lifetime, and I was dragged kicking and screaming to those. ( for 2 years, I was stationed 90 miles south of the Army's Artic training Headquarters, 10th Mountain Division- USA's version of Siberia?) Watching your car rust in front of your eyes was not my idea of fun.
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