Comments on: Energy and Global Warming News for June 27th: Dust-Bowl-ification spreads to southern Italy; Clean energy by Nobel Prize-wining Grameen Bank; DC Metro crash symptom of crumbling infrastructure

By: dhogaza

dhogaza — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:51:09 +0000

It appears that Carlin plagiarized most of the report, right down to the figures. Again, some martyr. But it appears that Senator Inhofe is taking up his cause, and Pielke, Jr, who should really know better, has already gone on record embellishing the martyrdom of Carlin.

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:27:10 +0000

Asteroid Miner — I fear you overrate the average adult American’s knowledge of geography.

By: Gail

Gail — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:55:43 +0000

Andy you are correct, see my blog. What is happening here in NJ makes me wonder whether much of anything can survive climate change, which is happening too fast for trees to adapt or migrate.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:56:03 +0000

Regarding species movement northward from climate change: there is going to be as much or more of a west to east movement in North America as there will be south to north as areas outside of the tropics dry out. I predict that much of the U.S. eastern deciduous forest and the southern pine forests will be devastated by punctuated droughts and begin to look a lot like central Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Mesquite and other “brush” or more likely some invasive plants such as autumn olive will take over from the trees that now dominate east of the Mississippi.

By: Asteroid Miner

Asteroid Miner — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:19:53 +0000

“The Sahara Desert is crossing the Mediterranean.” If we could get THAT story into the Main Stream Media TV newscasts, it would really help turn things around.

By: Asteroid Miner

Asteroid Miner — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:15:32 +0000

Leland Palmer: How much diesel fuel does your plan require to move all of that vegetation? I see a huge absence of numbers and mathematics in your plan. I also see that you have done no research into bomber planting. I notice the farmers never plant corn and wheat that way. It is easy to come up with “armchair” ideas. It isn’t so easy when you actually have to carry it out. Why don’t you raise capital and start a company to do all that stuff? I double dare you to actually do something instead of just write posts. Put your own money where your mouth is.

By: paulm

paulm — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:33:46 +0000

The world is going the way of the Aral Sea.

David Suzuki’s Big Picture is definitely worth a read.

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:18:14 +0000

PaulK — Nothing wrong with RSS. Just remeber that it is lower troposphere, not surface.

By: dhogaza

dhogaza — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:08:28 +0000

Well, the interesting thing that comes from that is climate change wasn’t on Carlin’s plate, and other work he was supposed to be doing (a database project) was late and his boss was a bit annoyed at him over that.

Some martyr.

By: Yuebing

Yuebing — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:52:08 +0000

Here are some of the emails between Carlin and superiors at the EPA regarding Carlin’s cut and paste report. Carlin must have been on vacation when the Supreme Court ruled CO2 comes under the Clean Air Act.

http://www.eenews.net/ public/ 25/ 11519/ features/ documents/ 2009/ 06/ 25/ document_daily_03.pdf