Category Archives: Science/Engineering

Carbon Dioxide Mapping

Posted on July 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Carbon Dioxide Mapping

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You might think, with all the AGW hysteria, and the Dems rushing to double our electric bills, that the whole globe would be saturated in CO2. You would be wrong. Sure, this satellite mapping of the earth’s atmospheric distribution of carbon dioxide is a year old. But it’s also the first one ever made, and was assembled from data collected between ’02 and ’08. The first one ever made. Think about that for a minute. I’m no great hand at graphics, but it sure looks to me like the major culprits are California and China. So how about it Speaker Pelosi? How about starting by doubling your energy bills?

Via Baby Troll.

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Global warming, or politics?

Posted on June 28, 2009 | Comments Off on Global warming, or politics?

Surprise, surprise. Barry’s EPA hasn’t done its homework:

"EPA has not done its own evaluation of the global warming theory. Rather, it has relied on analyses by others, mostly the U.N.’s IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report. That report, however, was a political document, not a scientific one."

EPA has, however, quashed an in-house rebuttal of the Dictator’s Club. Can’t have dissension, oh no. That wouldn’t be, uh, scientific.

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Hairnet and giveaway

Posted on June 27, 2009 | Comments Off on Hairnet and giveaway

"As the U.S. House of Representatives [narrowly passed] a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country’s carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming."

Well jolly good for them. Finally some common sense. Not that it will have any influence on our political crooks. Now to see whether the Senate has more honesty. I suspect not. Some think the American electorate will not remember who done this deed when their electricity bills double and the economy craters. I think they will, and the Dems will pay big time.

Hairnet and giveaway is the translation of the bill’s cap and trade title by Steve Hayward at No Left Turns who suspects the last-minute bill has so many loopholes for favored (read big contributor) outfits that it will have no measureable effect on "the risks of global warming." But, come on, we can’t change the climate. How smart do you have to be to figure that out?

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The Electric Jet

Posted on June 16, 2009 | Comments Off on The Electric Jet

Computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra invented much of software technology yet only used a computer for email and browsing the Web. He was still writing with a fountain pen when he died in 2002.

Dijkstra once told me that he would never consent to fly on the space shuttle because he didn’t trust the software that controlled it.

With the coming introduction of the Boeing 787, we’re all pretty soon going to be flying in craft controlled by software. Dave, an Airbus pilot who already does, explains why we shouldn’t worry.

But some still do, and, especially since the loss of AF 447, I must admit that I’m one of them.

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Iran’s green revolution

Posted on June 16, 2009 | Comments Off on Iran’s green revolution

If such it be. We can only hope. Instapundit’s flag is green. Popular Science mag has links to following it all in near-real time, mostly via Twitter (you’ll need a free registration) and Facebook (likewise) and others.

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Remind me NOT to eat at Burger King

Posted on June 9, 2009 | Comments Off on Remind me NOT to eat at Burger King

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Burger King apparently quashed the right of franchisee Mirabile Investment Corporation (MIC), which owns more than 40 Burger Kings across Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, to continue these signs. Nice try, Mirabile. Way to conform, Burger King. No wonder Wendy’s has you beat.

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Kofi Annan, warmist

Posted on June 7, 2009 | Comments Off on Kofi Annan, warmist

I was willing to hear out the warmists on their Chicken Little bit until the Dictator’s Club weighed into it. I mean, come on, this is the outfit whose human rights council is run by tyrants who spend its time condemning Israel, while its Muslim members oppress women, gays, Christians, Jews, etc.

Now comes that paragon of corruption, Kofi Annan, issuing a phony little warmist addendum that draws a sneer from an expert that it is "a poster child for how to lie with statistics…worse than fiction." Isn’t it about time somebody figured out what’s going on here? It ain’t science, that’s for sure.

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