Comments for The Cost of Energy

Comment on TCOE is moving! by Mark Shapiro

Mark Shapiro — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:04:40 +0000

THanks, Dan.

Worth watching,

Comment on Uncle Carl speaks to all of us by Greg Wellman

Greg Wellman — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:34:34 +0000

Lou, this is way off topic here, but do you know how to contact whoever is moderating over at Joe Romm’s? I chose to ask you because you appear to be white-listed there (you just had a comment appear on the thread I tried to comment on an hour ago).
My comments simply never appear. I don’t know when this started – I was a semi-regular commenter there for years. I’m a climate realist (which, as Neven would say, means “alarmed”). My latest attempted comment was just to point out that the TSI graph really needs an explanation of the ratio between solar irradiance and solar forcing ((1-albedo) * cross section / area).

Comment on Big doings at Lake Vostok by Daniel Bailey

Daniel Bailey — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:34:25 +0000

I'm partial to this version of The Thing myself (James Arness is unrecognizable).

Comment on TCOE is moving! by Daniel Bailey

Daniel Bailey — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:28:21 +0000

@ Mark Wipneus' most recent PIOMAS works can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/piomas/piomas-trnd4.png and here: https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/piomas/piomas-trnd6.png @ Lou: Looking forward to all the new changes, including the new affiliation you hint at...

Comment on Big doings at Lake Vostok by Sasparilla

Sasparilla — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:16:29 +0000

It’s okay Lou, no bear dragon issues, just release of deathly pathogens from the anoxic lake. The pathogens have never interacted with mammalian physiology before and while they haven’t seen the light of day for millions of years, they soon will….

Comment on Big doings at Lake Vostok by Per

Per — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:30:49 +0000

A relevant film reference here would be John Carpenter’s “The Thing” (watch the original 1982 version not remake from 2011). A really great movie set in the Antarctic, with scientists having to deal with something terrifying found under the ice. I recently watched it, and was surprised how well the movie still stands today.

Comment on Big doings at Lake Vostok by Dan Moutal

Dan Moutal — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:34:56 +0000

Well having your brain sucked out through ones ear certainly explains certain people’s behaviour, so I doubt anything they find down there will be unique

Comment on TCOE is moving! by Mark Shapiro

Mark Shapiro — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:40:19 +0000

BTW, how does Wipneus’ monthly sea ice volume (with exponential trends) graph (from PIOMAS data) look nowadays?

You know, the really scary one?

I haven’t seen an update since yours (and Neven’s) posts in Sept.

Comment on Top selling vehicles in the US by Sasparilla

Sasparilla — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:15:20 +0000

Good points Lou, I can’t imagine buying and driving a full size pickup (both for their expense and gas expense), blows my mind. It’s nice to see that the SUV’s are now basically off that list.

Comment on Top selling vehicles in the US by Mike Malone

Mike Malone — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:00:21 +0000

WooHoo! Watch out!

Some of the criminally stupid are also criminally belligerent and criminally rage-prone.

- Mike