Posts by Gareth Ward
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I am going to go out on a limb here and say that I do not agree with the CO2 = Global Warming hypothesis. Studies have shown that, although there is a correlation between CO2 levels and Global Warming, a rise in CO2 follows a rise in temperature so CO2 cannot be the cause.
Ha, did you read your own link though Steve? It's pointing out the well understood realities around the CO2 warming lag. Lets just quote straight from that article:
This proves that rising CO2 was not the trigger that caused the initial warming at the end of these ice ages - but no climate scientist has ever made this claim. It certainly does not challenge the idea that more CO2 heats the planet.
What seems to have happened at the end of the recent ice ages is that some factor - most probably orbital changes - caused a rise in temperature. This led to an increase in CO2, resulting in further warming that caused more CO2 to be released and so on: a positive feedback that amplified a small change in temperature. At some point, the shrinking of the ice sheets further amplified the warming.
Models suggest that rising greenhouse gases, including CO2, explains about 40% of the warming as the ice ages ended. The figure is uncertain because it depends on how the extent of ice coverage changed over time, and there is no way to pin this down precisely.
Not to turn this into yet another interwebs AGW thread, but the historical CO2/warming lag is well understood and doesn't contradict AGW at all.
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Garth George claimed in his Herald column to have been making plans to stockpile the old bulbs.
Wow Garth, elaborate plan. I'm going to stockpile the bulbs! There, plan done.
Do I dare ask WHY he was going to? Scratch that, the less exposure I have to that bitter old thoughtprocess the healthier I'll be I imagine.
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Just don't stick an incandescant back in that socket, get a good CFL.
Oh yeah, definitely. We only buy CFL's now.
Thanks, think it was Signature Range one so Foodtown are the supplier effectively.Isn't there some great little NZ company producing really good ones, bulbs that have a much higher "brightness output"?
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Hilarious post, possibly one of the best blog posts I've read in quite a while. Agree with Russell that it just makes you angry all over again though - insanity, absolute cave-man insanity.
Also, Andrew - are there some kind of warranty periods on the squiggly bulbs? I thought part of the "sell" was their extended lifetime but I had one that can't be more than a few months old stop working the other day and come out with a slightly blackened base. Can I take that back for a replacement? -
Wall Street hearts the Obama bank plan
And thankfully Obama has seen some sense and suggested he will oppose this godawful retrospective 90% tax on contractually agreed retention bonuses.
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On a completely different track: what was that final score in the Blues vs Chiefs game on Saturday again?
I believe it can only be accurately represented via a logarithmic scale, and SANZAR haven't been able to find one yet...
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Anyone who tub-thumped about how we should be more like ... Ireland should be turning in their pundit pass about now.
What, are you kidding me? They just achieved a little something called a Grand Slam Six Nations win pal. If that's not clear evidence of the benefits of laissez-faire and the trickle-down benefits of corporate tax incentives then you've clearly been blinded by the vast left-wing media...
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with the considerable added fizz of Icelandic machismo.
Not a sentence you regularly have to call upon I imagine.
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1. Cycletrack - we have to realise that this is a national track coming from our Minister of Tourism. It won't be about being able to cycle to work or get around on a bike in your everyday. It will be a Central Otago Rail Trail en masse. That has a very different "social business case" to it.
2. May be the wrong place to put it, but I'm looking for an article/register/discussion of which firms have signed up to the 9-day fortnight thing (well, which employees have signed up)?
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She got quite shirty when I noted that she was back in NZ & had been for some time.
ALOL.
And is this Rich Poole the one from Fine Wine Delivery?