jdeere5220 wrote:




Ha, we know better. The frequency and intensity of these severe weather events is growing as predicted by the IPCC. Right now we have the Australian deluge as the lastest example, only months after their dust bowl and the Pakistan flood. A 1C rise in ocean temperature is an astronomical amount of energy and the vast increase in atmospheric water vapor provides all the potential energy you need to drive these kinds of severe weather events.

Scientists see climate change link to Australian floods
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70B1XF20110112

You think this is getting bad? Just wait 20 years. Locally, the loss of the northern icecap is going to play havoc with our weather.

You think this is getting bad?

It was the wettest December on record for Queensland and for eastern Australia as a whole, the second-wettest for the Murray-Darling Basin, the sixth-wettest for Victoria and the eighth-wettest for New South Wales. For Australia as a whole it was the third-wettest December on record. This followed an extremely wet spring, the wettest on record for Queensland, New South Wales, eastern
Australia and the Murray-Darling Basin, meaning many catchments were already wet before the flooding rain. It was Australia’s wettest July to December on record. The continued rains in the first half of January have resulted in Victoria already exceeding its January monthly record.

Sam Shelton, director of research programs at Georgia Tech's Strategic Energy Institute, was long skeptical of Range Fuels' plans and technology.

"It was too damn big a risk for an apparently unproven technology and the due diligence I personally performed on Range would not entice me to invest in it," Shelton said Wednesday. Shelton was invited by Range a few years back to check out its operation in Colorado where it was based.

"Government should not be in the venture capital business selecting technologies," he added.