don't fear volcano's cause Thor loves you!

I see in the news, Alaska has another volcano spewing today.  This will get the knee slapping climate science haters going again with their sure to convince you line........"It's not humans causing the CO2 rise, it's volcanoes".  Not true!  Not since the industrial revolution have volcanos made more greenhouse gas than man, maybe not since 250 million years ago when volcanos were as thick on the land as pimples on a prom date.

Humans are releasing 27 gigaton of CO2 a year.  Volcanoes average .2 gigaton a year.

Queen of crazy needs your attention, now

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coal is stupid appreciation day, more junk science from the fringe

The little boat that could, and these two guys, stopped a coal shipment today, and launched http://www.coalisstupid.org  Today a little civil disobedience got the attention of people all over the upper eastern seaboard.  Check out the site, jump on the take action button, and the why we do this page, religious it appears.  You know, I like religion when it does good things for the earth and it's critters.

don't do koch

The Koch brothers will soon be the owners of 3 of the biggest news papers in Florida, also Chicago Tribune and LA times, one of the largest Spanish language papers, the biggest radio station in the US, and a handfull of little papers and some significant internet news connections. Tell the pushers no, that stuff ruins lives, hollows out brains.

junk science from the fringe, rats and radioactive isotope

I'm not a scientist, and neither are 99.?% of the climate deniers.  So.... my credentials are no weaker than theirs.

Recently I wrote not all carbon is equal.  Scientist can take samples of CO2 and determine if it came from fossil fuel, or a dead rat.  Dead rat carbon is what you want to breath, not coal or car gas carbon.

First, we don't make CO2 breathing, my stupid business associates are always saying stop breathing if you want to stop global warming, then they slap their knee. We take it in when we inhale, then out, it's the same, we didn't filter or add to it.  OK, got that.

14C is a radioactive isotope of carbon.  It is only found in carbon which has been sheltered from galactic rays, below the surface.  Carbon that has been cycling around the earth in and out of trees, oceans, grass, rats, that carbon has had the 14C hammered out of it by "the force" or some magic guy in the sky.

So, next time your uncle says they can't prove CO2 comes from human activity, think of C14, and every tailpipe smokestack and kiln is spewing it out.  That is pollution.  That adds to greenhouse gases, and increases a little tiny teenzey bit the atomic poisons in the sky.  The tree that falls and rots, that CO2 is not pollution, it was here before, and absent C14.  When they drill down for ice samples, or amber, or mud samples from a thousand years ago, it's all good CO2.  Out there on the tundra, the sea, and in balloon 5 miles high know that there is a geek (or his mechanism) with a tiny little butterfly net scooping up CO2, and most of it has our fingerprint on it.

Mauna-Loa Observatory, where the first 400 ppm of CO2 was recorded last week.  Temperature follows CO2.  CO2, Methane, water vapor and other greenhouse gasses let sun rays through but reflect back infrared rays.  This is good, this is why we have the goldielocks atmosphere.  But as they increase they make the atmosphere more dense, slowing the heat loss to space, rising the temperatures.  Stephen Hawking says we can end up with some regions on earth reaching nearly 200° and a very acidic atmosphere.   Oh, what does he know, he never played football.

Energy Democracy - The Socio-Economic Case

10,000 years of farming practice flipped by the court

Monsanto won a lawsuit against a farmer yesterday in the Supreme Court.  That farmer is bankrupt now, he owes more than his farm is worth.  All because he saved a little bit of last years harvest for seed, that is how farming worked for the 10,000 years BM (before monsanto).
Monsanto has carved out a new right for products.  Single use, this is going to be big.  You break the law if you reuse the seed, you must buy seed from them each year.  Monsanto seeds are poison resistant, plant them then wash the field in chemicals.  No anyone with cancer?
Can Ford get in on this, you should have to repurchase your car if you use it a second time.  What about Music, buy a CD and it plays once.  For the fridge and toaster, same.  I think the public is going to soon find the Monsanto patent model spreading to other things.