Global Warming

Hundreds, possibly thousands of fires (locations marked in red) were burning in South America when the MODIS on NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead on September 25, 2007, and captured this image. The most intense fire activity was in Bolivia, where fires are concentrated in the Santa Cruz Department, in the southeastern part of the country.

Although naturally occurring fires can occur in the savannas and dry woodlands of southern Bolivia and northern Paraguay, this type of intense, widespread burning is likely the result of human activities. Agricultural fires (for example, fires for brush or crop-residue clearing) can get out of control and spread to surrounding forests and other natural areas. Thick smoke is hanging over much of the scene.

I think we need to prioritize our fight on global warming with the cheapest most effective things being done first, starting with thee atrocities. We can talk about gas taxes and carbon taxes sometime in the future, after we clear the planet of these obvious problems.

Ponder the Maunder, the way the sun is sleeping these days, it's getting interesting. Click on the link "Space Weather" on the left to see what is going on today.



Refresher, where the ice was 20,000 years ago, and the ice didn't melt because of CO2.

Carbon dioxide did not end the last Ice Age

Deep-sea temperatures rose 1,300 years before atmospheric CO2, ruling out the greenhouse gas as driver of meltdown, says study in Science.

Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past inferences from ice core records.

“There has been this continual reference to the correspondence between CO2 and climate change as reflected in ice core records as justification for the role of CO2 in climate change,” said USC geologist Lowell Stott, lead author of the study, slated for advance online publication Sept. 27 in Science Express.

“You can no longer argue that CO2 alone caused the end of the ice ages.”

Deep-sea temperatures warmed about 1,300 years before the tropical surface ocean and well before the rise in atmospheric CO2, the study found. The finding suggests the rise in greenhouse gas was likely a result of warming and may have accelerated the meltdown – but was not its main cause.

That last sentence, agrees with what most say today, CO2 lags warming. What alGore says is not worth reading.