Predictions of catastrophic climate warming based on climate models can’t stand up to scientific scrutiny. Bob Cohen’s letter (Additional comments on the IPCC Report) is correct. According to German climate scientists (Professors Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt and Dr. Sebastian Luning), who helped start the IPCC, climate models are incomplete because they can’t model the sun’s electro-magnetic effect on the Earth’s cloud cover. The need to include this was underscored in experiments by solar physicists at CERN, the world’s largest physics research center. It explains eons of correlation between the sun’s electro-magnetic cycles and climate change. Meanwhile, the Earth is far greener now than in pictures from space in the 1960s.
The practical problem with the models is the inability to process increasing amounts of data. The Earth’s climate is a bounded chaotic system that defies prediction within a few degrees decades into the future. Even in the worst case, the U.N. and Harvard University have concluded that the Earth could be cooled by half a degree for $2 billion spent per year by spraying ground-up salt over parts of the ocean to reflect the sun. However, long before that could ever be needed, we will have converted to a hydrogen economy. When hydrogen burns, it produces oxygen and water and eliminates the need for unaffordable toxic batteries to store power when wind and solar don’t work. Investments in this would be a far more fruitful area for the U.N. and countries to focus their attention.
Well said, Mr. Kahl. It appears a few people skipped those science classes. After all, people have already lived past the Rapture and Al Gore’s first end of the world prediction in 2016. All predictions of the end of the world due to global warming have not rung true. In 2008, didn’t “experts” predict the Arctic was to be ice-free by 2018? Al Gore had to come up with a second end of the world prediction because his first prediction failed miserably (sorry, I don’t know which year Mr. Gore’s world will end – for the second time). If people are really worried, they should live it up for the next 9 years because AOC in 2019 predicted the world would end in 12 years. To be fair, with bungling Biden, the world may end this year.
There was a north west passage in the Medieval warming 1000 years ago and there's a reason Greenland was called Greenland then when the Viking grew crops there. In the prior Roman warming and the Romans grew grapes in the British Isles.
Ed - you may be onto something with hydrogen production. In the Netherlands, large solar systems have been constructed but cannot yet be connected to the grid because of capacity limits. Instead, an entrepreneur has decided to build a solar energy powered hydrogen plant next to the now disconnected solar system and will be storing and selling hydrogen at that site. Eventually, he expects to construct pipelines to serve truck farms and taxi dispatch centers. His idea avoids costly and less efficient storage battery systems. Before my retirement when exploring large solar systems for the University of California system, we were repeatedly informed by the utilities that interconnection with their grids required lengthy and costly engineering studies. It seems that the hydrogen manufacturer in the Netherlands may have found a solution that may not need expensive electricity transmission systems that BTW, are subject to significant line losses. Americans are typically provincial and are loath to admit that there are other technologies being developed in other countries that could be superior to anything that is developed here but here is an example that could be explored.
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Well said, Mr. Kahl. It appears a few people skipped those science classes. After all, people have already lived past the Rapture and Al Gore’s first end of the world prediction in 2016. All predictions of the end of the world due to global warming have not rung true. In 2008, didn’t “experts” predict the Arctic was to be ice-free by 2018? Al Gore had to come up with a second end of the world prediction because his first prediction failed miserably (sorry, I don’t know which year Mr. Gore’s world will end – for the second time). If people are really worried, they should live it up for the next 9 years because AOC in 2019 predicted the world would end in 12 years. To be fair, with bungling Biden, the world may end this year.
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There was a north west passage in the Medieval warming 1000 years ago and there's a reason Greenland was called Greenland then when the Viking grew crops there. In the prior Roman warming and the Romans grew grapes in the British Isles.
Ed - you may be onto something with hydrogen production. In the Netherlands, large solar systems have been constructed but cannot yet be connected to the grid because of capacity limits. Instead, an entrepreneur has decided to build a solar energy powered hydrogen plant next to the now disconnected solar system and will be storing and selling hydrogen at that site. Eventually, he expects to construct pipelines to serve truck farms and taxi dispatch centers. His idea avoids costly and less efficient storage battery systems. Before my retirement when exploring large solar systems for the University of California system, we were repeatedly informed by the utilities that interconnection with their grids required lengthy and costly engineering studies. It seems that the hydrogen manufacturer in the Netherlands may have found a solution that may not need expensive electricity transmission systems that BTW, are subject to significant line losses. Americans are typically provincial and are loath to admit that there are other technologies being developed in other countries that could be superior to anything that is developed here but here is an example that could be explored.
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