Science Stuff

[Haggis@wk]

Karpen’s Pile: A Battery That Has Been Producing Energy Continuously Since 1950.

Okay, you brainiacs, comment please

[jamiebk]

gold and platinum eh.....doesn't sound cheap to build

[analog]

hmmmm gold and platinum are different metals and sulfuric acid is an electrolyte; sounds like a battery to me.

For you AGW skeptics here's another article by that Eschbach fellow.

I think he's nailed it.

His conclusions:

So, those are my results. I hold that they are derivable from my hypothesis that clouds and thunderstorms keep the earth’s temperature within a very narrow level. And I say that these results strongly support my hypothesis. Clouds, thunderstorms, and likely other as-yet unrecognized mechanisms hold the climate sensitivity to a value very near zero. And a corollary of that is that a doubling of CO2 would make a change in global temperature that is so small as to be unmeasurable.

In the Northern Hemisphere, for example, the hemispheric average temperature change winter to summer is about 5°C. This five degree change in temperature results from a winter to summer forcing change of no less than 155 watts/metre squared … and we’re supposed to worry about a forcing change of 3.7 W/m2 from a doubling of CO2???

The Southern Hemisphere shows the IPCC claim to be even more ridiculous. There, a winter to summer change in forcing of 182 W/m2 leads to a 2°C change in temperature … and we’re supposed to believe that a 3.7 W/m2 change in forcing will cause a 3° change in temperature? Even if my results were off by a factor of three, that’s still a cruel joke.

emphasis mine - a.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/28/s ... nsitivity/