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Scientists just found out where the Earth is most sensitive to climate swings - and the news isn't good | New Zealand Herald

 

Marine Viruses May be Linked to Coral Bleaching | Science World Report

 

"And that's where the research came up with worrisome results. "We find ecologically sensitive regions with amplified responses to climate variability in the Arctic tundra, parts of the boreal forest belt, the tropical rainforest, alpine regions worldwide, steppe and prairie regions of central Asia and North and South America, the Caatinga deciduous forest in eastern South America, and eastern areas of Australia," the researchers reported. [...] "
"But predicting when and where such transitions will occur remains a challenge," he added. In this regard, the new research just gave scientists many new tips to pursue."

Most of the damage reported in this article is the result of man CUTTING and CLEARING, not warming.
I got the impression they were not saying a whole lot in the article, expecting people not to read past the alarmist headline, a AGW ploy often used!

 

It's nearly 3500 miles from Bikini Atoll to Hamilton, NZ. The last test by the US was in 1958. In the 1970s the French tested a-bombs on Mururoa Atoll, which is a bit less than 3000 miles NE of Hamilton.

 

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Almanac/Testing.shtml

US did test on Christmas Island in 1962, 3202 nautical miles from Hamilton, NZ

distance calculated by great circle distance formula.

sin L1 X sin L2 + cos L1 X cos L2 X cos dif in λ
Result is a sin, so need to inv sin then multiply the degrees and decimal by 60 to get minutes of arc.
1 minute of arc of earth's surface = 1 nm.
Don't have a lamhda symbol on keyboard for longitude. Now I do!

Maybe we can have a lamhda smiley?


Never mind. found out how to do it on keyboard. λλλ

 

Wild Corporatists I Have Known.

Ironically, the original purpose of government regulation was to protect corporations from tort law. The corporations begged for it. Now they complain about it, or rather have people do so on their behalf. Similar story with civil rights. It wasn't until we started treating corporations as people that we were compelled to start treating people as people. Perhaps some day, as a result of multi-national corporations lobbying for and being granted immunity from the actions of sovereign states, we may some day stop descriminating, dehumanizing, and massacring people based on their lack of passports, visas, or citizenship.


God couldn't provide us
with both free will and justice,
so he also gave us irony.

 

I visited your lovely province of New Brunswick a couple of years ago, but I knocked at your front door. I did not climb in through your window like a thief. Please respect the wishes of American citizens to be treated in like manner.

 

Hmmm. Not sure if you understood my meaning, but that's ok. Not sure I do either half the time. It wasn't directed at one country or another either, just the human condition. It was in reference to the "Nature Faker" controversy of Teddy Roosevelt's day, and a few other things before and since, which I am still reading about. If I waited until I read and understood it all before commenting I would never comment at all, not that that would neccessarily be a bad thing. I wish we all had more time. Cheers.

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/naturefakers.pdf

 

Any day, the inferior Russian computers may make a mistake and decide that the US has already launched a pre-emptory attack against Russia. The US warning system has made that same sort of mistake many times and a number of times they have gotten just minutes away from launching a retaliation before the mistake was discovered.

 

We got laser "star wars" satellites to shoot them down if they launch.

"The "drones" interact using radio and can move together in packs, much like the chess club to the Episode III premiere. These satellites goes to show that nerdy Star Wars kids grow up to be nerdy Star Wars adults that work for NASA"

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Interesting article on changing currents in the North Atlantic. I find this very interesting towards our understanding of the past 20,000 years as well as our understanding of the present and future.

The gist of it, is that this is just about as complex as things can get. The density of water varies with salinity as well as temperature. Climatic change causing changes in fresh water influx from Greenland can cause major shifts in the ocean currents, which in turn causes major shifts in climate. Then there is the whole turbulence thing, which even on a large scale, big ocean eddies, can be hard to model. The mind boggles. Not directly part of the article, but one wonders how species of migrating birds, salmon and other fish, sea mammals, have been adapting over the past 20,000 years. Hope to get up there some day in a small boat and take in all the wonder.

Recent increases in Arctic freshwater flux affects
Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning
circulation
Qian Yang, Timothy H. Dixon, Paul G. Myers, Jennifer Bonin, Don Chambers & M.R. van den Broeke

http://labs.cas.usf.edu/geodesy/articles/2016/yang_etal_2016.pdf

 

"Worry is the interest paid on trouble before the principle is due."
Don't be a worry wart, it inhibits your immune system.
Don't voluntarily stress yourself. Stress kills!

I'm hoping the "cold fusion" 400 day test is a success. Completes end of march.

Then we can all abandon fossil fuels. Climate can do naturally what it's always done. The alarmists will be out of business and occupied defending themselves in civil courts.
And I, my wife, and my little boat will go fishing.
And God is in His heaven and the universe unfolds according to His plan.

 

Wrong again. Or is this more of your 'humor'?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weapon

 

You are out of date.
The Reagan "star wars" system never was deployed, but the research opened many new fields of inquiry and research, resulting in many new technologies.
We have anti-missile satellites for quite some time.

Not a lot of information has been released to the public, except they're there, been tested, and work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon

"The Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser (MIRACL) is an experimental U.S. Navy deuterium fluoride laser and was tested against an Air Force satellite in 1997.
In 2011, the U.S. Navy began to test the Maritime Laser Demonstrator (MLD), a laser for use aboard its warships.[20][21]
In 2013 the U.S. began field testing a directed-energy weapon it calls the Laser Weapon System.[22]
Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response, or PHaSR, is a non-lethal hand-held weapon developed by the United States Air Force[23] Its purpose is to "dazzle" or stun a target. It was developed by Air Force's Directed Energy Directorate.
Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) is a weaponized deuterium fluoride laser developed in a joint research project by Israel and the U.S. It is designed to shoot down aircraft and missiles. See also National missile defense."

But discussing the weapons wasn't my point.


MY POINT IS DON"T WORRY!

 

appears the 400 day test, got shortened up, because reactor depleted fuel 50 days sooner than expected. But a success! We'll have to wait for further developments and news.
I predict IF this technology is viable and affordably available on the market, it will revolutionize society by such a magnitude, the computer revolution will seem merely like discovering a new restaurant by comparison!

http://www.e-catworld.com/2016/02/1...si-production-cost-in-kw-is-very-competitive/


" Mats Lewan @matslew

Historic event: Yesterday the 1-year 1MW #Ecat trial was completed. No official results yet, but sources say it's been successful. #LENR
10:54 AM - 18 Feb 2016 "


"1 MW E-Cat Plant Watch Thread [UPDATE #41 — 350 Day Test is Over, Mats Lewan’s Sources Say Success]
Posted on February 18, 2016 by Frank Acland • 1499 Comments

Since there are beginning to be more frequent references to the 1 MW E-Cat plant that we have been told will be installed and be open to visitors at some point (perhaps this year, according to Andrea Rossi), I thought I would create a dedicated thread to the topic which I will update as needed, like I have done with the thread about the third party report. It keeps all the information together and I think makes things easier to find.

UPDATE #41 (Feb 18, 2016)

Mats Lewan hears the test was successful:

A comment on the Journal of Nuclear Physics by Andrea Rossi announced that the 1 Year test of the E-Cat Plant has been completed.

Andrea Rossi
February 18, 2016 at 4:31 AM
Gerard Mc Ek:
The charge size has beene refined with the experience in thousands of experiments and, obviously, also on the base of theoretical considerations.
Yes, the test of 350 days is finished, yesterday the ERV has completed his tests.
Now it will take about a month to know the results from his report.
No more information about the 1 MW E-Cat that made the tests from now until the publication of the results will be allowed.
Warm Regards,
A.R.

The ERV is the “Expert Responsible for Validation” who is apparently an outside independent entity with experience in nuclear engineering and testing.

So the charge substitution process mentioned below was not an interruption to the test, but signaled the end of the test, and presumably it will continue to be used.

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UPDATE #40 (Feb 17, 2016)

In an update on the Journal of Nuclear Physics today Andrea Rossi stated that there is currently an important operation taking place with the 1 MW E-Cat Plant:

Andrea Rossi
February 17, 2016 at 7:44 AM
Blanche:
Wed Feb 17 2016, 07.43 a.m.
1 MW E-Cat : charges substitution on course
E-Cat X: in good standing, very promising
Warm Regards,
A.R.

I’m pretty sure this means that the charges used in the E-Cat reactors in the 1MW plant have lost efficiency to the extent that they can no longer be used. Rossi has said he had hoped that the charge could last for a full year, but it sounds like that’s not the case. This will mean that there will be more down time for the plant and will probably push back the ending date for the test quite a few days. Rossi has said in the past that it will take a few days at least to change the charges in the reactors."