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To: Brumar89 who wrote (71378)	8/7/2016 12:59:01 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Ask A NASA Climate Soothsayer Posted on August 7, 2016 by tonyheller NASA’s Bill Patzert says that there is no evidence hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, floods or drought are getting worse, but they definitely will in the future. “Now, direct evidence of the footprint or the fingerprint of global warming: we’re seeing more frequent, more intense, and longer lasting heat waves. As far as hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires, floods, and drought, the evidence is definitely not in. The consensus among almost all scientists is that it’s a small fingerprint, not a large footprint. “But what is true is that in this country, in the United States, we live in many areas with great risk to drought, to tornadoes, to hurricanes, and so part of the dialogue is not only extreme weather and global warming, but is the amount of risk we can tolerate. Now looking to the future, global change, global warming – it definitely is accelerating and it will have an impact on extreme weather, but at this point, not much.” I’m not surprised that he says extreme weather will get worse in the future, because his ongoing employment undoubtedly depends on saying that. But what baffles me is his assertion that heatwaves are getting worse. All of the data indicates that US heatwaves have become much less intense, less frequent, shorter, and covering a smaller area than they were 80 years ago. Even the EPA recognizes this. High and Low Temperatures \| Climate Change Indicators in the United States \| US EPA The bottom line is that empirical data shows no evidence extreme weather is increasing, yet scientists cling to this BS because …. their jobs, prestige and funding depends on it. They boldly appear before the public and make claims which are utter nonsense. There has been no increase in extreme weather, period. Alarmists are terrified by the lack of hurricanes, because it shows that their models and understanding are complete garbage. The U.S. coast is in an unprecedented hurricane drought — why this is terrifying – The Washington Post

To: Brumar89 who wrote (71378)	8/8/2016 9:34:36 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86355

Say what??? Going from Houston to Dallas in a Leaf would require two stops with charging times totaling 20 hours. As I've noted, driving range and recharge times haven't really improved for EV's over the past century. That's always going to be a problem for EV's. Drivers need to plan their driving around their battery needs. The author of that story doesn't know anything about electric cars obviously! I guess he never heard of fast charging or superchargers. Actual total charging time with fast chargers is less than two hours.... LOL! Eric USA Electric Car Sales Up 48% In July August 7th, 2016 by Zachary Shahan Originally published on EV Obsession. Energy independence is creeping into the US passenger car market more and more, led by Tesla Motors but also by ZEV mandates in 9 states and resulting EV efforts from a few auto companies. In the month of July, electric car sales surged 48% — mostly on the back of Tesla, but also due to big jumps in sales of the Chevy Volt, BMW i3, Ford Fusion Energi, and Chevy Spark EV. Other EV models also saw sales growth, but their relatively small volumes make them rather insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Based on my estimates of Tesla deliveries (which are based on several statements from Elon Musk and Tesla official reports as well as slight regional variation assumptions from month to month), Model S deliveries remained stable, but Model X deliveries (which were nonexistent in July 2015) surged following a production ramp at the end of quarter 2. As always, nobody outside of Tesla knows the exact percentage of deliveries that go to the USA versus Europe, Asia, and Australia, but I roughly estimate that based on Tesla/Elon Musk statements on the 2015 split and the projected 2016 split. As noted above, several other EV models had great showings in July 2016 versus July 2015. In order of percentage growth, here are a handful of models worth highlighting: Chevy Spark EV +484% Chevy Volt +83% BMW i3 +58% Ford Fusion Energi +57% Facing the pending arrival of the Chevy Bolt and Tesla Model 3, the Nissan LEAF lost sales again in July compared to the year prior, but it didn’t fall that much this time — just 9.5% (from 1174 to 1063). It’s unclear how the BMW i3 managed to escape the downtrend in July, and even surge by 58% (>500 sales), but I’m guessing that was due in part to a fleet sale or two. (Perhaps LAPD deliveries occurred in July?) The year-through-July rankings show the Tesla Model S and Chevy Volt clearly in the lead, followed by a close race between the Tesla Model X and Ford Fusion Energi for #3, and then with the Nissan LEAF solidly holding onto the #5 spot. Overall, you can see in one of the tables below that fully electric car sales were up 48% in July 2016 (compared to July 2015), plug-in hybrid sales were up 49%, and overall electric car sales were thus up 48.4%. That’s a big improvement over year-through-July growth, which shows fully electric car sales up 4%, plug-in hybrids up 44%, and all electric car sales up 19%. Overall, electric car sales climbed to nearly 0.9% of overall US car sales (including SUVs, pickups, etc.). Have a look at the tables below or charts at the top for more details. (Note that I removed Fiat and Hyundai EVs from the sheets since they do not report EV sales and California ZEV rebates have run out, leaving me with no decent way to estimate their sales.) See all of our electric car sales reports on one page. Related: Tesla Model 3 Already Gobbling Premium Gas Car Sales, It Seems cleantechnica.com