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2014-11-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

Windmills, solar, tidal - all a 'false hope', say Stanford PhDs

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Posted by Iblis 2014-11-21 12:25|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Renewables work fine, as long as you are willing to live in the 6th century.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-11-21 13:48|| 2014-11-21 13:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, rube!

Posted by Raj 2014-11-21 13:57|| 2014-11-21 13:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Another article from the False Hope Department, or is it the Onion, no it's WAPO !

And so the insanity grows...

There’s growing evidence that global warming is driving crazy winters

It may be the timeliest -- and most troubling -- idea in climate science.

Back in 2012, two researchers with a particular interest in the Arctic, Rutgers' Jennifer Francis and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Stephen Vavrus, published a paper called "Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes." In it, they suggested that the fact that the Arctic is warming so rapidly is leading to an unexpected but profound effect on the weather where the vast majority of us live -- a change that, if their theory is correct, may have something to do with the extreme winter weather the U.S. has seen lately.

In their paper, Francis and Vavrus suggested that a rapidly warming Arctic should interfere with the jet stream, the river of air high above us that flows eastward around the northern hemisphere and brings with it our weather. Sometimes, the jet stream flows relatively directly from west to east; but other times, it takes long, wavy loops, as in the image above. And according to Francis and Vavrus, Arctic warming should make the jet stream more wavy and loopy on average – some have called it “drunk” -- with dramatic weather consequences.

Posted by Elmavinter the Elder6079 2014-11-21 14:13|| 2014-11-21 14:13|| Front Page Top

#4 In reality, well before any such stage was reached, energy would become horrifyingly expensive…This in turn means that everyone would become miserably poor and economic growth would cease.

For the true leftist that’s a feature not a bug.

Posted by DepotGuy 2014-11-21 14:23|| 2014-11-21 14:23|| Front Page Top

#5 The problem with renuables is they can't solve everything. They chip away at the problem. Chipping away is a good thing.

The real answer is nuclear power but the greens are too corrupt and hell-bent on removing all power generation from the world.

Barring that solar on the houses in the sunbelt. Wind across the prarielands. Whatever it takes to lessen the drain on the grid and to provide some redundancy in case of catastrophe.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-11-21 14:42|| 2014-11-21 14:42|| Front Page Top

#6 So nobody's up for that. And yet, stalwart environmentalists like Koningstein and Fork - and many others - remain convinced that the dangers of carbon-driven warming are real and massive.

What is the assumption of carbon-driven warming is erroneous?

That, however, means that such expensive luxuries as welfare states and pensioners, proper healthcare (watch out for that pandemic), reasonable public services, affordable manufactured goods and transport, decent personal hygiene, space programmes (watch out for the meteor!) etc etc would all have to go - none of those things are sustainable without economic growth.

There goes the means by which Democratics buy votes. It is also noted that they shoot themselves in the foot by doing everything they can to curb/destroy economic growth.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-11-21 18:02|| 2014-11-21 18:02|| Front Page Top

#7 What if the assumption of carbon-driven warming is erroneous?

What a difference a word can make.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-11-21 18:04|| 2014-11-21 18:04|| Front Page Top

#8 "Simply don't work" > Yeah, which is why I'd supported Nukulaar + Other all these yarns.

Sniff, sniff, + to think it only took 30-plus years + Bilyuhns in Grant $$$ to verify what the Govt has known all along.

Call me when NASA-JPL adopts my concept of Flying Car + Train, or Subway has a "Buy Two Get Two Free" deal.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-11-21 20:39|| 2014-11-21 20:39|| Front Page Top

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