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“Nigel_Spumoni
Posted April 23rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment

Oh - and some facts for Willis (way back in Post #34) on the original topic of this thread. You know, skewed data collected with biased, complex instruments like thermometers & weather balloons.”

So, stop using skewed data.

Use real, scientifically collected data that even the lesser descendants of apes can understand.

My data is accurate. Stop lying to bolster your argument and act like an adult.

“For a gasoline tax, the most detailed analysis available of
indirect costs is found in The Real Price of Gasoline by the
International Center for Technology Assessment. The many
indirect costs to society—including climate change, oil industry
tax breaks, oil supply protection, oil industry subsidies, and
treatment of auto exhaust-related respiratory illnesses—total
around $12 per gallon ($3.17 per liter), slightly more than the
cost to society of smoking a pack of cigarettes. If this external
or social cost is added to the roughly $3 per gallon average price
of gas in the United States in early 2007, gas would cost $15 a
gallon. These are real costs. Someone bears them. If not us, our
children. Now that these costs have been calculated, they can be
used to set tax rates on gasoline, just as the CDC analysis is
being used to raise taxes on cigarettes.”

1. Global surface temperatures have increased about 0.74°C (plus or minus 0.18°C) since the late-19th century, and the linear trend for the past 50 years of 0.13°C (plus or minus 0.03°C) per decade is nearly twice that for the past 100 years. The warming has not been globally uniform. Some areas (including parts of the southeastern U.S. and parts of the North Atlantic) have, in fact, cooled slightly over the last century. The recent warmth has been greatest over North America and Eurasia between 40 and 70°N. Lastly, seven of the eight warmest years on record have occurred since 2001 and the 10 warmest years have all occurred since 1995. (NOAA)

2. Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have found that 2007 tied with 1998 for Earth’s second warmest year in a century. (NASA)

3. Global mean sea level has been rising at an average rate of 1.7 mm/year (plus or minus 0.5mm) over the past 100 years, which is significantly larger than the rate averaged over the last several thousand years. (NOAA)

4. Pre-industrial levels of carbon dioxide (prior to the start of the Industrial Revolution) were about 280 parts per million by volume (ppmv), and current levels are greater than 380 ppmv and increasing at a rate of 1.9 ppm yr-1 since 2000. The global concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere today far exceeds the natural range over the last 650,000 years of 180 to 300 ppmv. According to the IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES), by the end of the 21st century, we could expect to see carbon dioxide concentrations of anywhere from 490 to 1260 ppm (75-350% above the pre-industrial concentration). (NOAA)

-To absorb the costs of nuclear waste disposal
-To decommission plants when worn out
-To insure reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks

Bottom line: building new nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market (one that includes wind, solar, geothermal, ocean energy, etc.) is simply not economical.