Another Comment on Comments
The blog has generated quite a few comments lately, which is great. This is an open forum where all views are welcome, and I sincerely appreciate everyone's interest. I do, however, again want to review some rules of the game.
Obviously, no profanity will be posted, and I've talked in the past about no name-calling; however, personal attacks that do not include name-calling are also not permitted. I reserve the right to not post any comment that is too personal in nature--or I may merely remove the part that appears to be a personal attack if the rest of the post will add to the discussion.
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A Global Warming Taboo
In 2006 I spent about 25 hours per month doing research on global warming. I wrote an article: Stopping the Arctic Thaw � a new calculation. This article is a summation of that research.
I could not get this article published because I would not bend to publishers� demands and give the article a nice Hollywood, everything will be OK, ending.
Even though 99% of my research is solution oriented, it is that 1% where I say all life on earth will end unless immediate aggressive action is undertaken. That part is journalistic taboo.
I have technical ability in this area and my research is unsponsored, unaffiliated and unbiased. I just followed where the research took me.
Doctors deliver death sentences every day but they work from a track record. This is the first time we have gotten our earth into this degenerated condition. We have little history to reference and predict.
I posted this article at my company website: www.showersmartfaucet.com/shower10.htm/. Feel free to copy and send to a friend. Also feel free to publish.
Posted by Michael Lucking | February 21, 2007 11:46 AM
Not sure how this article upon research relates to a comment on comments but, I was intrigued enough to read the article.
I congratulate you upon your research and ingenuity in trying to develop a solution. I must admit that I never considered increasing artic wind as a part of the problem. I also have never heard about the trapped methane in artic ice. I am a touch skeptical of this though, as if there was that much available, I suspect that an energy company would already be tapping it somehow. Though I know that this is a geology question, how did the methane get trapped? If it is a matter of happenstance, then I wonder what happened when the glaciers that covered Canada and the northern part of America melted? It seems to me that the incumbent release of methane would have tipped the planet into warming long ago. As I recall, that really is not borne out in the record.
As far as the concept of using windmills to convert the kinetic energy to electrical thereby reducing the wind potential heating, not sure how effective that would be considering probable height limitations due to the overall construction.
To seriously say that "all life on earth will end if nothing is done immediately" is a bit fatalistic. As I recall, this exact same statement was made, and considered to be rational by scientists at the time in the 1970's as related to Global Cooling. Not trying to belittle the comment but the general public has heard this about a multitude of issues.
Posted by Darren | February 21, 2007 3:31 PM
Laura,
I plead guilty!
Posted by Anonymous | February 21, 2007 4:47 PM
Laura,
I agree with you when you say you reserve the rights to publish comments.
But there's no need to say Stup... or whatever to a person to make a comment offensive. Darren said: "I congratulate you upon your research and ingenuity in trying to develop a solution." Ingenuity: that would be really upseting to me if I was the one who carried out all that research.
Sometimes, an ironic prhase could be more offensive that calling someone all the names.
Emiliano
Posted by Emiliano | February 24, 2007 1:26 AM