[ExI] Climate models

[William Flynn Wallace]

Seen today in the New York Times:  artificial photosynthesis.  How about
that?   bill


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com>wrote:

> For now, gas and oil fracking is a nearly ideal solution. It's just great,
> what those people have done. We should thank them.
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> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:00 AM,  John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > I have to say all this doesn't exactly give me confidence that I should
>> bet
>> > my life on the fact that although they make lousy 17 year predictions
>> > climate models make wonderful 100 year predictions.
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>> It doesn't matter or effect what we should be doing one bit.  Running
>> out of cheap energy is far more serious than climate.  It will hit
>> sooner and cause more problems, including human deaths, than the worse
>> climate predictions.
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>> What we need is at least one really cheap and abundant source of
>> energy.  It can't be carbon based because there isn't enough left that
>> can be obtained at a low enough price.  Ground solar and wind will not
>> do it because there is no apparent way to get the cost down low
>> enough.
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>> Here is a dumbed down version of my thoughts on how to solve the problem.
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>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5iotdmmTJQsSzVYQ2Q0YUtCMERRczdYSXMtUWphUl92aHFN/edit?usp=sharing
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>> Keith
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