The evidence against anthropogenic global warming (Page 598/600)
rinselberg DEC 27, 04:41 PM

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The Growing Climate Solutions Act, sponsored by Sens. Mike Braun, R-Ind.; Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., focuses on carbon-capture technologies in the agricultural sector, while Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Whitehouse have put together another bipartisan bill focused on increasing carbon-capture methods that occur naturally within ocean and coastal ecosystems.

Earlier this year, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., began pushing a new conservative climate policy effort along with seven of his Republican colleagues — meant to rival the progressive Green New Deal — including Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, who introduced legislation, titled the New Energy Frontier, focused on developing carbon-capture technologies.



More online.

"In pursuing historic climate change agenda, Biden may find surprising ally"

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Republicans are pitching their own plans — and the new president may be able to work with them next year.


Adam Edelman for NBC News; December 26, 2020.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pol...rising-ally-n1252234
sourmash DEC 27, 08:18 PM
Nothing in that is the least bit surprising, unless you live in a non-reality based world. Both sides of the establishment hate Trump and love money schemes. Trump dumped the Climate Accords, thankfully.

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Hudini DEC 27, 08:48 PM
Make sure to use climate accords and not treaty. Treaties require a Senate vote, accords do not. Lawyers working overtime to avoid the constitution.
randye DEC 27, 09:17 PM

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Originally posted by Hudini:

Make sure to use climate accords and not treaty. Treaties require a Senate vote, accords do not. Lawyers working overtime to avoid the constitution.



Then you have the Kyoto Protocol, (and it's Doha Amendment) and then the Paris Agreement...

Accords, Treaties, Protocols, Amendments and Agreements. They all boil down to the same thing, *We get played, they get paid*

NONE of it is about "climate".

ALL of it is about global redistribution of wealth.

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rinselberg DEC 27, 10:43 PM
Cold 'blob' in North Atlantic--but it's not a good sign for anyone that's thinking ahead to year 2100.

Some may remember that I was all over the warm 'blob' that was reported offshore from Washington state, Oregon and northern California.

This is a cold 'blob' that is part of a recent report about a weakening of the Gulf Stream, the gi-normous ocean current that brings warmth from the subtropical Atlantic Ocean to northern Europe. The Gulf Stream is a big part of the planet's climate generating system as we know it, and if the Gulf Stream current were to stop or slow down in any major way, that would be a "game changer" for the planet's climate that would directly affect millions of people in the United Kingdom and Europe.

So here's part of this recent report from September 17, 2020.

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Many of the earlier predictions of climate research have now become reality. The world is getting warmer, sea levels are rising faster and faster, and more frequent heat waves, extreme rainfall, devastating wildfires and more severe tropical storms are affecting many millions of people. Now there is growing evidence that another climate forecast is already coming true: the Gulf Stream system in the Atlantic is apparently weakening, with consequences for Europe too.


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In addition to these oceanographic measurements, a number of studies with sediment data indicate that the Gulf Stream circulation is now weaker than it has been for at least a millennium.

These current changes also affect Europe, because the ‘cold blob’ out in the Atlantic also influences the weather. It sounds paradoxical when you think of the shock frost scenario of the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow: but British researchers found that in summer the jet stream in the atmosphere likes to take a route around the south side of the cold blob – this then brings warm winds from the southwest into Europe, leading to heat waves there, as in the summer of 2015. Another study found a decrease in summer precipitation in northern Europe and stronger winter storms. What exactly the further consequences will be is the subject of current research.

However, the latest generation (CMIP6) of climate models shows one thing: if we continue to heat up our planet, the AMOC will weaken further – by 34 to 45% by 2100. This could bring us dangerously close to the tipping point at which the flow becomes unstable.



"New studies confirm weakening of the Gulf Stream circulation (AMOC)"
RealClimate; September 17, 2020.
http://www.realclimate.org/...am-circulation-amoc/

This article appeared originally in German in Der Spiegel: "Das Golfstromsystem macht schlapp."

It's like Vince says... "You know the Germans always make good stuff."

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rinselberg DEC 28, 04:20 PM
"Major climate change measures included in Covid aid bill"

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The Covid-19 relief bill that President Donald Trump signed on Sunday includes legislation to fund investments in clean energy technologies and regulate climate-warming greenhouse gases — a step that offers some hope for the bigger climate ambitions of President-elect Joe Biden.



Lucas Thompson for NBC News; December 28, 2020.
https://www.nbcnews.com/sci...id-aid-bill-n1252422
maryjane DEC 28, 04:43 PM

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This article appeared originally in German in Der Spiegel: "Das Golfstromsystem macht schlapp."

It's like Vince says... "You know the Germans always make good stuff."



From the same good people that brought us Auschwitz, Dachau and Shark Island.
cliffw DEC 28, 07:00 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:
The Covid-19 relief bill that President Donald Trump signed on Sunday includes legislation to fund investments in clean energy technologies and regulate climate-warming greenhouse gases — ...



Why didn't the "clean energy investment" bill legislation include Covid-19 relief ?
sourmash DEC 29, 07:01 AM

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Originally posted by maryjane:
From the same good people that brought us Auschwitz, Dachau and Shark Island.



Yeah, those anti-communist, anti-immigrant, anti-homo, anti-global banker SOBs. We showed their sick arses.
maryjane DEC 29, 07:30 AM
Those 'anti-everyone but themselves'...