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MalibuGuru



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, no doubt that solar/battery technology has off grid application. But, oil is going to 40 or lower. This fuels our economy with cheap energy. This allows us to help African countries and people. Without a building American economy, all people suffer.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The highest temperature ever recorded on the planet was in Death Valley on July 10, 1913 – 134 degrees.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MalibuGuru wrote:
Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world.

On Saturday, the ice extent reached 19.51 million square kilometers, according to data posted on the National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site. That number bested record high levels set earlier this month and in 2012 (of 19.48 million square kilometers). Records date back to October 1978.


So, did you get this from Red State? http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2015/09/16/antarctic-sea-ice-hits-35-year-high/

Your understanding doesn't go beyond clipping conservative talking points. Did you know there was a difference between sea ice and the very large mass of ice on the land? Did you know that there is more to the story?

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Justin Worland
Apr 19, 2017
Antarctica's ice may melt faster than previously thought as result of a newly discovered network of lakes and streams that destabilize the continent's ice shelves, according to new research — making them more vulnerable to collapse.

Scientists have long understood that water from melted ice harm ice sheets by flowing into cracks and refreezing, but that phenomenon was thought to be limited to a small part of the continent. Researchers behind a new study published in the journal Nature this week found that the process has been ongoing for decades and actually occurs across the continent including in places where scientists did not think liquid water was commonly found. The pace of the damage will increase as temperatures continue to rise as a result of man-made global warming.


You can read the rest, but I doubt you will: http://time.com/4745827/antarctica-water-climate-change/
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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By Nichola Groom

LOS ANGELES, June 21 (Reuters) - Major U.S. corporations such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc and General Motors Co have become some of America’s biggest buyers of renewable energy, driving growth in an industry seen as key to helping the United States cut carbon emissions.

Last year nearly 40 percent of U.S. wind contracts were signed by corporate power users, along with university and military customers. That's up from just 5 percent in 2013, according to the American Wind Energy Association trade group.

These users also accounted for an unprecedented 10% of the market for large-scale solar projects in 2016, figures from research firm GTM Research show. Just two years earlier there were none.

The big reason: lower energy bills.

Costs for solar and wind are plunging thanks to technological advances and increased global production of panels and turbines. Coupled with tax breaks and other incentives, big energy users such as GM are finding renewables to be competitive with, and often cheaper than, conventional sources of electricity.

The automaker has struck deals with two Texas wind farms that will soon provide enough energy to power over a dozen GM facilities, including the U.S. sport utility vehicle assembly plant in Arlington, Texas that produces the Chevrolet Tahoe, Cadillac Escalade and GMC Yukon.

The company is already saving $5 million a year worldwide, according to Rob Threlkeld, GM's global manager of renewable energy, and has committed to obtaining 100% of its power from clean sources by 2050.


http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL8N1JC01I

Those who understand markets actually know that what is happening at the margins of supply and demand defines price. That is, enough efficiency renewable energy sources, particularly for electricity and in some markets, and the surplus of natural gas, is partly responsible for lower oil and overall energy prices.

Gnashing of teeth to follow.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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After steadily climbing in 2017, renewable power dethroned nuclear as the leading carbon-free electricity source in the United States, even as lawmakers try to prop up nuclear power with more generous tax credits.


From Morning Consult energy--funded, as I said, by Exxon.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This has got to stop! Doesn't mother nature know that us humans with our superior intellect, are trying everything that we can think of to keep the ocean levels where they belong? They must not be allowed to lower and especially not be allowed to rise, because as we all know the current levels are where they are supposed to be from now on, for eternity. But no, mother nature loves to throw us superior humans curve balls. Damn her!
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Smoke and magma mark the spot! From Japan to Germany, the world's newest islands revealed
>Yaya, discovered in 2013, is a sandy islet in Russia measuring around 1,213 feet long and 410 feet wide
>Four years ago, a volcanic eruption took place in the Pacific Ocean, which gave birth to an island off Japan
>Islands dubbed Sholan and Jadid were born in the Zubair Archipelago in 2011 and 2013 respectively

These newly-formed islands emerging from plumes of smoke and bubbling magma reveal how the earth's surface is constantly changing. 
Over the past decade, several significant land masses have been confirmed, most recently a sandbar off the coast of North Carolina nicknamed Shelly Island.  

Scroll down for some of the newest places making their marks on the map, with many more set to be discovered...

For more than a month in 2015 an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean spewed ash and magma to the surface, and high into the air.
A number of international flights were cancelled amid concerns about the volcano's ash plume but they later resumed. 

The dramatic build-up created a new island, just off the coast of Tonga, in a region known as the Ring of Fire. The island, called Hunga Tonga, was found to be around 0.6 miles wide and composed mostly of ash.
But geologists said at the time the new island was not expected to last long due to its weak structure.

Geologists gained an unprecedented insight into Earth's crust after two volcanic islands emerged in the Red Sea.
The islands, dubbed Sholan and Jadid, were born in the Zubair Archipelago between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula in 2011 and 2013 respectively.
Scientists claimed the tectonic activity that formed these islands could reveal a previously unrecognised volcanically active zone in the region. 
The formation of volcanic islands along mid-ocean ridge systems is still not well understood, the researchers added. 
Beneath the Red Sea is a huge crack in the Earth's crust, known as a rift, where the African and Arabian tectonic plates are moving apart at the rate of around 0.4 inches per year. Sometimes, however, the rift moves apart suddenly – and geologists believe the volcanoes may have been the product of one of these events.

Four years ago a volcanic eruption took place in the Pacific Ocean, which gave birth to a small island off the coast of Japan.
The tiny islet first surfaced in November 2013 next to the island of Nishinoshima, and it kept growing until the two merged into one.
In 2015, the Japanese Coast Guard revealed the volcanic island had grown to 12 times its initial size.
At the time, the new Nishinoshima was found to measure 6,233ft east to west, about 6,397ft north to south and more than 300ft in height, the Japanese Coast Guard told Japan Today.

Yaya is a sandy islet located in the freezing waters of the Laptev Sea in Russia.
It measures around 1,213 feet long and 410 feet wide.
The new island was discovered in 2013 after a helicopter flew over the land mass.
A year later, the research vessel Admiral Vladimirsky explored the island and officially confirmed its existence.  
Drilling showed that the island constituted mainly sand. Despite its small size, scientists said the island will likely exist for many years to come.
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Underscoring the earth's ever-changing face, a new island has been spotted off the coast of North Carolina.
The crescent-shaped landmass off the tip of Cape Point in Buxton started surfacing in spring and now it measures around one-mile long and more than 400 feet wide.
Locals have dubbed the sandbar Shelly Island, because of the vast quantities of shells littering its shores.
Janice Regan, who lives nearby, told the Virginian Pilot that it was actually her grandson who came up with the apt moniker.
She added that the island was just a 'little bump' in April. 
Aerial drone photos taken by Instagrammer Chad Koczera via @chadonka, show how the island now covers a sizeable patch.
Shell hunters, sunbathers, anglers and photographers have apparently been flocking to the new spot.
Kayakers have also been eager to circumnavigate it. However, coastguards are warning visitors to be wary.
Dave Hallac, superintendent of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore which oversees the Cape Point area, said people shouldn't attempt to walk or swim to the new island despite the temptation.
He says it's likely that discarded fishing hooks are lurking in the sands as it's a popular spot with anglers.
Meanwhile, Bill Smith, president of the North Carolina Beach Buggy Association, says that five-foot-long sharks and stingrays 'as large as the hood of a truck' have been spotted surfing in the shallows.
The sandbar was formed through a combination of strong currents and storms. 
Experts say its shape will continue to evolve and it could be gone by next year or grow to connect to the mainland.

For the rest with all the pics~ 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4646952/The-world-s-newest-islands-revealed.html
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I noticed that in the article there was no mention of how all these new island effect the ocean levels. But that's not surprising, it doesn't fit into the paranoid template of global warming, it's just the drip-drip-drip of glaciers that effect ocean levels, new islands and enlarging marine volcanos have nothing to do with it, as us superior humans know. And all that lava that we see flowing into the ocean, not to worry, it just evaporates and disappears into nothing, right?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A candidate for the most deranged--and scientifically ignorant--post of the year.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

he actually tried to think.... it was not posted on alex jones.....

a volcano flow... wow as I said IQ30..... anyone doubt me...

since we need to take baby steps with your intellect. tonight fill up your pool and drop a marble in it and see how much the level changes for a good child measurement representation.

Get it, when the flow is that of a continent in size then it becomes IQ130...

Seriously did your education forget math/logic.

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