Climate Policy

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And that might make us the first. (EDIT): Also, check this out.
Oh, *I* care. I doubt if the universe does.

Again, in the strange mode of role reversal between Jester and I... I am optimistic. :) I was reading some climate articles in Science Daily today. A couple caught my eye...

Global Warming: Our Best Guess Is Likely Wrong And, what is of concern is that if the model is bunk, then we might get hotter than the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, or colder. "The conclusion, Dickens said, is that something other than carbon dioxide caused much of the heating during the PETM. "Some feedback loop or other processes that aren't accounted for in these models -- the same ones used by the IPCC for current best estimates of 21st Century warming -- caused a substantial portion of the warming that occurred during the PETM." But that actually makes me a bit optimistic, because it somewhat verifies my suspicion that no one really "knows" what it going on. So, our climate change coin toss may be back to a two sided coin, or perhaps its just a choice between hotter and hotter than hell.

Then again, on the same page is a story titled, "Carbon Emissions Linked To Global Warming In Simple Linear Relationship" so what the heck can you believe? :)

Then there was the story, "Global Warming Predictions Are Overestimated, Suggests Study On Black Carbon" which found that the climate models underestimated the amount of black carbon sequestered in different soils.

And finally, a NASA funded study of "Ozone, Nitrogen Change The Way Rising Carbon Dioxide Affects Earth's Water" Which suggests either plants use less water making an environment more productive for other plants, or depending on conditions might create more run off resulting in floods, erosion, and water contamination.