Residents in Houston are a bit concerned when Harris County police decided to call off a manhunt of an escaped prisoner because of the heat. The man was arrested for possession and suspected of robbery. However, he was able to get out of his handcuffs during transport and escaped. The police started the manhunt but then called it off because it was just to darn hot.
The escape occurred around noon and police decided the heat was taking its toll on the officers and their dogs. It does not appear that the man waited out of a sense of fair play for the temperature to drop.
Source: Khou
The earth revolves…(evolves is another subject)….therefore it is dynamic…..nothing…stays the same….so expect it..it will happen….Global warming….
“A July 2008 study of the wind farm at Altamont Pass, Calif., estimated that its turbines kill an average of 80 golden eagles per year”
Bdaman,
An article written by an oil lobbyist does not a science make.
^..^*many,
Breastfeeding is good for a baby, but you really should wean them sometime… 😉
Slarti, Oh, you mean like the govt. started subsidizing the infant oil industry a hundred years ago, like that? Sounds good to me. 😉
Roco,
You subsidize investment in green technology so it will be developed – the only way that green technologies will be developed is if there are enough incentives to make their use profitable enough to drive money into research to improve the technology. You can’t just wait until wind or solar is more efficient – money must be spent on research to make it more efficient. Don’t you understand how the market works?
Buddha,
Well, I wouldn’t want Bdaman’s substantive deficiencies to go unnoticed…
Bdaman,
Should we outlaw windows? They might be responsible for as many as 100,000 times more bird deaths per year than were reported at Altamont… (which is apparently among the worst wind farms as far as avian deaths – more modern designs appear to have much smaller avian casualty rates). What about cats? They kill hundreds of millions of birds per year – maybe you should do something about that before you try to make the 10-40,000 birds killed by wind farms into a major issue.
Way to miss the forest for the trees.
Some statistics about bird deaths (disclaimer: this appears to be a wind industry PR firm’s site, although I have seen similar statistics elsewhere):
http://www.currykerlinger.com/birds.htm
(Like here):
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/wind-turbine-kill-birds.htm
(that one even has original sources for all of the statistics).
So, if you really cared about birds, you would forget about wind farms until you had: hunted feral cats in the country to extinction and required all domestic cats to be kept inside (or outlawed them to be safe) – potentially hundreds of millions of birds per year saved, eliminated all above-ground power lines – as many as 174 million, smashed every window in every building in the country – up to a Gigabird saved (that’s a billion birds, by the way… ;-)), eliminated the use of pesticidess – 70 million, outlawed automobiles – as much as 80 million, and gotten rid of lighted communications towers – 50 million. Or could there be another motive for you to try to pretend that 10,000-40,000 avian deaths per year is a big deal?
Actually it’s an answer – like all of his answers – that shows a fundamental lack of comprehension (or denial) about basic chemistry, complex systems and tipping points. He’s not making any argument that he hasn’t attempted before. Like most ignorance, repetition does not make the attempts any more successful, just repetitious. It also doesn’t change that the burden of proof is his to make, i.e. the ball has never left his side of the court.
Until badtroll’s got a new argument that hasn’t been debunked elsewhere on this blog?
I’m perfectly content to let others have at him over climate change. It good practice for them. If I kill all the propaganda trolls for them, that kind of defeats the purpose of illustrations on how to do so that I and other regulars here give on a recurring basis.
However, when he makes a basic error in logic or forensics such as telling Gyges it is “his job” to disprove bdaman’s assertion when it is actually bdaman’s burden of proof to make as claimant, I will point it out.
Just like I’ll point out that it’s not a surprise when a troll for the hydrocarbon industry cheers him on.
But really the main point is that as claimant, it is up to said claimant to make their burden of proof for their case.
Mine is a criticism of bad form.
I’ll let others address the issue of his bad substance.
I’ve seen this show before.
Great Movie FFLEO. I use to use clips of this movie to respond to Buddha.
Shakin the Bush boss
When I read this article, my immediate thoughts reverted to the ‘Cool Hand Luke’ escape scene (depicting hot, humid Florida, which is much like Houston’s heat/humidity) where ‘Dogboy’ tells the warden that Ol’ Blue done died a’chasin’ Cool Hand on the lam.
“Look Cap’n, look what he done to Blue. He’s dead, he’s dead. he run himself plum to death.”
I could not find the specific scene on YouTube (I have the DVD) although here is the trailer, which has the bonus of displaying the buxom car-warshin’ Joy Harmon at the end of the clip.
Roco Welcome to the discussion.
Time Magazine April 8 1977
How to Survive the Coming Ice Age
Time Magazine December 3 1973
The Big Freeze
Archie Bunker sitting in his chair with a SEE-Gar in his mouth.
Mike here’s more on renewables, incredible.
By Christopher Booker
7:30PM BST 18 Jun 2011
The IPCC declares Greenpeace in our time
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is packed with even more hot air than usual, says Christopher Booker
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8584210/The-IPCC-declares-Greenpeace-in-our-time.html
“Here’s the problem. Even if CO2 has no effect on global warming its over discharge into the atmosphere by things like auto emissions and burning coal, would still not be a good thing from a health perspective. This is especially true because there are “green” alternatives to be developed. Your reasoning and those of the opponents is tied up into corporate profits. This concept is short sighted in itself because green energy development would expand industry potential to make money, up corporate profits and create jobs.”
I know I would be happy to have green technology but the problem is that it isn’t yet ready for prime time. When it is ready and it will be someday, fortunes will be made in the private sector. But until then, government subsidies do nothing because of the inefficiency of funding allocation. We don’t know which technology is going to be a winner and typically funds are provided due to political pull and not future profitability.
eniobob,
That is an unfortunate, heart-wrenching story. Sometimes people do things without thinking them through and this was the case here. The charges should be dropped, she needs to be with her kids, and the government needs to assist that family as much as possible.
Bdaman:
“In this press release from the University of Mexico, Dr Velasco forecasts that we’re now headed into a mini ice age that will last 60 to 80 years.”
that is what they were saying in the late 60’s and early 70’s.
Bdaman:
I dont know, it was a pretty good question if you ask me and you gave some figures in your question.
I think the ball is back over the net with some mighty good english on it.
In 1958 it was roughly 320 PPM. How is it that the USS Skate in 1958 and 59 found open water both in the summer and following winter at the North Pole.
President of the Royal Society, London, to the Admiralty, 20th November, 1817
“It will without doubt have come to your Lordship’s knowledge that a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated.
(This) affords ample proof that new sources of warmth have been opened and give us leave to hope that the Arctic Seas may at this time be more accessible than they have been for centuries past, and that discoveries may now be made in them not only interesting to the advancement of science but also to the future intercourse of mankind and the commerce of distant nations.”
Long but good read.
http://www.john-daly.com/polar/arctic.htm
You shouldn’t answer the statement that you haven’t met your burden of proof with a question.
That’s amateur hour evasion techniques.
Buddha what is the comfort zone for PPM of CO2 in the atmosphere?
If this level is achieved does it mean we won’t have stronger hurricanes, or less on average. Not that this is the case now because for three years in a row Worldwide Tropical Cyclone activity is at a 30 year lows. Drought? Floods? Tornadoes?Snow?
The current PPM of CO2 according to CO2now is 394.35. In 1958 it was roughly 320 PPM. I’m sure it was below 300 prior to 1950. Read some of the google book links I posted above or go to google books and search Climate Change. How is it that CO2 PPM was much lower in the early 1900’s than what it is today but yet they had the same concerns as today.
This is especially true because there are “green” alternatives to be developed.
Mike sometimes those green developments are more detrimental to the environment than what they actually produce. While I agree with you from a health perspective green technology is not the sole answer as they would like you to believe. See my comment Bdaman 1, June 18, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Also
On Aug. 13, ExxonMobil pleaded guilty in federal court to killing 85 birds that had come into contact with crude oil or other pollutants in uncovered tanks or waste-water facilities on its properties. The birds were protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which dates back to 1918. The company agreed to pay $600,000 in fines and fees.
ExxonMobil is hardly alone in running afoul of this law. Over the past two decades, federal officials have brought hundreds of similar cases against energy companies. In July, for example, the Oregon-based electric utility PacifiCorp paid $1.4 million in fines and restitution for killing 232 eagles in Wyoming over the past two years. The birds were electrocuted by poorly-designed power lines.
Yet there is one group of energy producers that are not being prosecuted for killing birds: wind-power companies. And wind-powered turbines are killing a vast number of birds every year.
A July 2008 study of the wind farm at Altamont Pass, Calif., estimated that its turbines kill an average of 80 golden eagles per year. The study, funded by the Alameda County Community Development Agency, also estimated that about 10,000 birds—nearly all protected by the migratory bird act—are being whacked every year at Altamont.
Altamont’s turbines, located about 30 miles east of Oakland, Calif., kill more than 100 times as many birds as Exxon’s tanks, and they do so every year. But the Altamont Pass wind farm does not face the same threat of prosecution, even though the bird kills at Altamont have been repeatedly documented by biologists since the mid-1990s.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574376543308399048.html
Hows this for heat:
“A Broward County judge gave a penniless mother a priceless gift this week: freedom.
Angel Smith, 41, had been arrested for leaving her two children in a hot car for two hours while she gave blood to earn money to feed them, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
She was paid around $30 for giving blood, but when she left the center, cops were waiting.
A security guard at the blood donation clinic saw the children – ages 4 and 7 – alone in the car and called police, who arrested Smith on child neglect charges. The children were unharmed and are in the custody of the Department of Children and Families.
But Judge John Hurley said that life had given the desperate mother enough hard times and that she didn’t deserve to serve hard time. Smith was living out of a hotel and had just been laid off.
Smith told Hurley she had $28 in the bank.
“I realize it’s difficult for you, I’m not trying to be hard on you. I knew when I read this (affidavit), life is not easy for you,” Hurley said before choking up and nearly crying on the bench. “I don’t look at you as a criminal, all right, but at the same token, ma’am, you can’t leave your children in the car, that length of time, unattended.”
Smith was released from jail with no bond, but her charges currently still stand.
“You think you have it tough,” Hurley told attorneys in his courtroom. “This woman has to donate her plasma to try and support her kids.”