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MalibuGuru
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 12:14 am Post subject: |
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coboardhead
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 9:14 am Post subject: |
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mrgybe wrote: | coboardhead wrote: | Malibu
Please explain how record snowfall in the Sierra effects sea levels or even how it is related? This is curious. |
Why is the melt of record snowfall any different to melting glaciers? |
You're a finance guy. You've looked at the stock market graphs. Minor up and down noise is not significant. It is the overall trend that we study.
Now, if the average amount of snow, on a yearly basis, were to continue to increase decade after decade it might indicate something related to a climate change.
Malibu likes to point out every cold spell and every big Sierra storm to prove it's all weather. This is silliness. It would be like me pointing out our grass died for the first time in 20 years at 9300 feet (too warm and sunny this year) as proof of global warming.
There is also the matter of scale. 90% of the surface fresh water is stored on the Poles, Greenland and inland glaciers. Then you look at other bodies of water like the Great Lakes. You can pretty easily see that yearly fluctuations in snow and rain have very little effect on the overall distribution of fresh water.
It seems that so many will nit pick data to fit their politics or prejudices (both sides). I guess this is human nature. But, it is always good to step back across the room and look at a graph from a distance without all of the "noise" of minor variations and insignificant data points. |
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mrgybe
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 9:24 am Post subject: |
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So it seems you have answered your own questions. The melting of record snow in the Sierras does have an impact on sea levels and is related. Whether that is a temporary impact is a different matter, but your attempt to ridicule Malibu was misplaced. His statement was not at all curious. |
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coboardhead
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 9:40 am Post subject: |
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mrgybe wrote: | So it seems you have answered your own questions. The melting of record snow in the Sierras does have an impact on sea levels and is related. Whether that is a temporary impact is a different matter, but your attempt to ridicule Malibu was misplaced. His statement was not at all curious. |
Huh? I never said that the record snow levels IN SOME LOCALS had an impact on sea levels. I have no idea if the yearly distribution of less than 2% of the freshwater on earth (if you consider groundwater) either effects, or is caused by sea level rises. I don't even know how much of the run off makes it to the sea, how much of the snow simply evaporates, or is absorbed by aquifers.
Malibu didn't ask a question. He made a statement that the snow increases in PARTS of the earth will cause sea levels to drop. I find this math curious.
It is impossible to discuss potential effects of global warming (or global cooling) or global non-change (Whatever it is or isn't) with people who don't understand the effects of scale and the interpretation of data. This is why I've thought it was a joke to even try and argue climate change, or not, with most on this forum. Got sucked in again. |
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MalibuGuru
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 11:15 am Post subject: |
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This beautiful machine is capable of scrubbing C02. The more we release, the more it scrubs. How can your binary models really comprehend so many variables? Far too complicated for my simple mind. You are clearly far more intelligent than me CB.
I do not jest. |
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nw30
Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 6485 Location: The eye of the universe, Cen. Cal. coast
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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MalibuGuru wrote: | This beautiful machine is capable of scrubbing C02. The more we release, the more it scrubs. How can your binary models really comprehend so many variables? Far too complicated for my simple mind. You are clearly far more intelligent than me CB.
I do not jest. |
The warmers accept global warming the same way the CBO (and Chuck Schumer) scores healthcare proposals, not taking unknown variables into account, like human behavior in regards to healthcare. With the healthcare proposals it's all about how many people will loose their healthcare which could endanger their health, but not considering how many people will quit their healthcare insurance in preference to paying for whatever they need, when they need it, not risking their health in the process.
With global warming, it's a linear result w/o considering all the unknown fluctuations that can and do occur, so many unknowns, here is an example of that.
https://www.iceagenow.info/sea-levels-are-falling/
Let the source bashers freak, I don't care, and read the comments after the article while you're at it. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17744 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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More nonsense from the poorly educated. Now NW makes this up:
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The warmers accept global warming the same way the CBO (and Chuck Schumer) scores healthcare proposals, not taking unknown variables |
Scientists and those capable of critical thinking actually look at data. That seems to give Republicans hives. |
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boggsman1
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sure you applauded the CBO when it panned the Obama budgets and the Trillion dollar deficits it produced...The CBO has been around for over 40 years, and like the GAO, is one of the only mechanisms tax payers(like myself) have to help determine if we're being fleeced. Criticizing the CBO when its findings are politically inconvenient exposes your thin political bias. |
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nw30
Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 6485 Location: The eye of the universe, Cen. Cal. coast
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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boggsman1 wrote: | I'm sure you applauded the CBO when it panned the Obama budgets and the Trillion dollar deficits it produced...The CBO has been around for over 40 years, and like the GAO, is one of the only mechanisms tax payers(like myself) have to help determine if we're being fleeced. Criticizing the CBO when its findings are politically inconvenient exposes your thin political bias. |
People who consider the CBO as the end all of all things being accurate, are the same people who believe in big government.
Which in itself is ironic, beings that the same people who believe in big government (the democrats) are also the same people who are all of a sudden treating Russia as being the big evil empire. That same Russia has a big government, they have their hands on everything, who until Trump was elected, was the darling country of the left.
As for Obama's budget, that just showed that EVEN the CBO couldn't buy into his budget, it was that bad. |
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MalibuGuru
Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9293
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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boggsman1 wrote: | I'm sure you applauded the CBO when it panned the Obama budgets and the Trillion dollar deficits it produced...The CBO has been around for over 40 years, and like the GAO, is one of the only mechanisms tax payers(like myself) have to help determine if we're being fleeced. Criticizing the CBO when its findings are politically inconvenient exposes your thin political bias. |
Their calculations do not take into account a 30% reduction in premiums. Nor, skinny plans. Nor, a tight job market....which has begun costing me big bucks. Since Trump was elected, my payroll is up 20% |
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