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Politics : The Exxon Free Environmental Thread

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To: Land Shark who wrote (8306)8/14/2011 11:52:24 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 49017
 
Well, you and the experts said Global Warming was coming. Look what arrived instead nzherald.co.nz
Snow in Auckland. I was right and you were wrong, along with Mann Made Warming and Mr "hiding the decline" and destroying the data rather than sharing it as required by law.

You obviously don't understand science. It's not about a priesthood keeping the sacraments safe from the heathens. Science welcomes heretics who falsify hypotheses. As Einstein said... it takes only one person to prove him wrong. It didn't matter [to him] how many scientists agreed with him. That's a real scientist.

24 years ago, I observed huge amounts of carbon coating surfaces in London and Belgium. It was soot from millions of diesel burning furnaces and engines. My yellow Lada had little rivulets of yellow in the morning where dew had trickled off, washing away the soot. The sky was covered with contrails blocking the sun, reflecting light back out.

The amount of carbon was enormous. Leaves were dull with it, with light all being absorbed rather than reflected. All that extra energy was, of course, warming the air. That probably confused climatologists who have only recently noticed that carbon on the ground [and in the air] absorbs light.

In New Zealand, the leaves were bright and shining, I still enjoy the shiny leaves of NZ. One has to ensure skin is protected from the high intensity sunshine though or skin cancer results [in melanin deficient people].

In China, the air is so thick with goop that I witnessed the sun set at about 20 degrees above the horizon on a "clear" blue day. It went a deep red and simply vanished into the sky behind the vast soup of particulate muck. That sooty air of course is absorbing light, not reflecting it.

<Snow has fallen in downtown Auckland for the first time in 80 years as a 'once in a lifetime' polar blast spreads across New Zealand, forecasters say.
Widespread reports of snow emerged this afternoon as bitterly cold and stormy conditions set in around Auckland.

Weatherwatch.co.nz this afternoon confirmed snowflakes had fallen in Auckland city centre for the first time since the 1930s.

Its head forecaster Philip Duncan said snow flurries could hit amid expected bitterly cold conditions this evening.

"If Auckland is getting reports of snow flurries now at the warmest point of the day that makes you wonder about what might be coming tonight.

"There could be some snow flurries in Queen Street, but it won't settle."

Mr Duncan said 'graupel' - a soft hail that resembles snow - along with hail and sleet were also falling across the city.

He said snow would settle at heights of 200m and fall to 100m in Auckland overnight.

The storm was a 'once in a lifetime' event and similar conditions had not been seen in the city since the 1930s, he said.

Meanwhile, snowfall is being reported in downtown Wellington.
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