Thanks Conspiracy Girl! :-}

My pleasure Seth! I agree 100% about some good sense being enough.

I'm not much of a Francophile, but they DO make the vast majority of their electricity from nuclear and they make it work and work well and safe too. I have no idea what they do with their waste, (sell it to Iran for them to enrich and play with?), but they sure seem to be the model users of the technology.

Hey Mike ... The thought of course is that warmer seas hold less CO2 than colder seas ... Thus there should be an extremely close correlation between SSTs and Atmospheric CO2 ... if this is true ...

Here's the link to the graph ...

http://jennifermarohasy.com/blog/

Looks like an absolutely logical snap until you think about all the Anthropogenic CO2 additions ... Where the hell do they go? And a 21 year moving average for the SSTs? 21 year? That makes it a damned smooth graph ... Just coincidental slopes?

Certain species of algae can double in weight during a single day with a good dose of sunlight and some really nutrient laden nasty water heavy in Carbon Dioxide to grow itself in. The majority of the weight gain is bio-fuel oil waiting to happen. The ideal algae solution would be to use waste water and non-arable land with good solar exposure and grow algae in flowing clear tubes so that that the algae can get maximum solar exposure ... And then the Algae can be processed into liquid fuels that can then be used in our current fueling infrastructure ... minor alterations to our vehicles and we're up and STILL running with little or no downtime. Switchover is easy and gradual. Nuclear would probably still be the best over-all source for an updated smart-grid electricity infrastructure to power our homes and businesses..

Here are some links ...

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Nov 18, 2009 ... Algae oil production on land is expensive, but the costs could go down if brought out to sea.
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Hey Seth, there is no room in science for an ad-hominum, straw-man argument, especially when it is a Non Sequitur! Nobody thinks that money is more important than the health of our civilization, as a whole or otherwise. If you would like to comment on Clouds, CO2 and their relative influences on the overall Radiative Balance, please feel free to jump in. All relevant comments are more than welcome.

For decades there has been the lament of beach erosion ... Venice is sinking and has been for several hundred years. Denmark built dikes and maintains them and has captured land from the seas and sea level rise of inches means squat to the Danes. The whine of Islanders drowning because of a sea level rise of half an inch or an inch per century is almost as inane as the polar bears drowning. The seas were rising LONG before 1970, and the latest indications are that the speed of the rise has slowed and the rise might have even stopped ... Time lags in reporting these things frustrate the hell outta me. There used to be a Glacial Melt site that was awesome ... It detailed all of the glaciers that were melting and the few that were growing, about 92-95 glaciers were in their database ... The last report showed an enormous flip between the number of glaciers melting and the number growing ... I couldn't WAIT for the next update ... Crap! Must have been way too many glaciers growing because they scrapped the site completely. I haven't been able to find it since ... and that was only about 8 months ago.

Mike E >> "You have to look at it statistically -- the number of droughts, the number of wildfires, the number of species migrating, or dying, the number of glaciers losing mass, etc." >> I notice you were smart enough not to include hurricanes! <GG> Did you notice the latest drought reports are now below normal? Species dying? Can you name one from America that has died out since 1970? One from any country anywhere since 1970 that can be directly attributed to GW, let alone AGW? The wildfires in America at least can be way more directly attributed to the Sierra Club's burn-only forest management policy and their willingness to sue any agency that deviates from that burn-only policy. Glaciers? I'm the guy afraid of the miles deep glaciers over Chicago and Montana and the Dakotas and half-way down into Kansas ... The Glaciers have been receding in general since the last ice-age and specifically since the little ice age. And there are all kinds of indications that that melting trend has stopped and a great many Glaciers have started to grow again.

LOLOL!! Reduced emissions had zero influence on my Prius decision. It's saving gas and saving money and saving engine oil and saving brake jobs and putting my tiny dent in that annual 700 billion petro-dollar invisible gorilla stomping around the country killing the economy ... Yanno ... The gorilla that both parties ignore.

Great link/graph Mike thanks!! It looks like the vast majority of the Infra-Red from the sun actually does get absorbed before it reaches sea level. Thanks for the Planck's Law reminder and also for the rotational 2 dimensional intersect plane vs. the 3D, 360 degree globular comparison of the potential radiative sources. That puts the "weak" Earth radiation into a much better perspective with regards to the incoming solar radiation! You can chart that one as a major win for you ... Consider me schooled! ... On this issue anyway. :-) But how then to explain the lack of warming? Negative feedback from cloud formations ... Sme just have to reflect back more energy from the sun than they G/W insulate. Gotta be .... I wonder if this graph will show ...

<a href="http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/CE..." target="_blank">http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/CE...

Here's the link to the clouds vs. CO2 link ...

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2010/01/clouds-domina...

This explains a whole lot of the lack of heating! or even cooling!???