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If you are so smart you would know it is "you're." Very amusing! You don't think you have a right to comment on global politics? Of course you do. Meddling in affairs of other countries is the most American thing you can do! You didn't answer the questions. Did the lobbyists or the law win? William Barr is as corrupt as can be. He kissed Trumps ass and lied for him for years, then told the truth upon his resignation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr "Barr testified that before resigning as attorney general, he had told president Trump that allegations of election fraud were "bullshit." At times during his testimony he could not control his laughter at the absurdity of some fraud allegations, such as the Italygate theory that satellites controlled from Italy had flipped votes from Trump to Biden, and that former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez had orchestrated an election fraud scheme, despite having died seven years earlier. Barr testified Trump never gave "an indication of interest in what the actual facts were," adding the president had "become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff.""

When one starts reading the OilPrice posted article, it becomes evident that bias and agenda are at play in the message of the article, although not many people read anymore...and thus the CIA messages probably work better on TV News and movies. RFE/RL are probably happy that at least they got some mileage on this article. I doubt many folks will read and absorb it, because it reads like a White Paper. What’s In Store For Europe In 2023? By RFE/RL staff - Dec 25, 2022, 12:00 PM CST - https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Whats-In-Store-For-Europe-In-2023.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A person has to use alternative search engines and keywords to dredge up the dirty nitty gritty about RFE/RL Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, and some of the crap they participated in. An easy to find 1977 New York Times article pointing out the ruse is here... Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaganda-network-built-by-the-cia-a-worldwide-network.html http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg Subject Index Files/C Disk/CIA Reporters New York Times Series 12-25-77/Item 07.pdf But there is this aspect to the New York Times... The CIA, the NY Times, and the Art of the Limited Hangout https://steemit.com/news/@corbettreport/the-cia-the-ny-times-and-the-art-of-the-limited-hangout https://www.corbettreport.com/the-cia-the-ny-times-and-the-art-of-the-limited-hangout/ EXCERPT ...The report then goes on to detail a number of media entities that the CIA owned or controlled during the period in question (primarily the 1950s and '60s), including: Radio stations like Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and Free Cuba Radio; Newspapers like The Rome Daily American, The Okinawa Morning Star, The Manila Times, The Bangkok World and The Tokyo Evening News; Magazines and journals like Quest, East Europe and Paris Match. Book publishers like Allied Pacific Printing in India and the Asia Research Centre in Hong Kong. Perhaps more important to the CIA than its control over these media organs, however, were the journalists and editors who were willing to aid the agency in publishing its propaganda. Some were on the CIA payroll directly, others worked on contract. Names dropped in the article range from the familiar—like Tom Braden and William F. Buckley, Jr.—to the long-forgotten. Readers are left with the impression that the agency's propaganda efforts were (emphasis on past tense) more extensive and far-reaching than anyone had imagined to that point.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And so things go in this world....

How likely are bankruptcies in this current climate with prices bottoming out in the industry for basic and service companies? Any tips for doing research or where to look for bankruptcy likelihood or risk? How well situated are companies like FANG, MTDR, HESM, NOA and TGE? I'm not looking for investment advice, just tips on how or where to watch, or if there is some special location, site or forum specific to this industry that watches this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8YbBiq_2yo The Problems with Russia's Gasoline Crisis Run Deeper Than It Seems

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/world/europe/russia-ukraine-drone-strike.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.hk0.3k7x.tUY_VBGBFfSV&smid=url-share Ukraine seems to be targeting oil refineries, not crude oil pipelines, not petroleum storage sites. Why? (1) Crude oil pipelines can be repaired fairly quickly. (2) Crude oil transported on pipelines for export is hereby not disrupted. This is important as such disruption would increase crude prices internationally, damaging the economies of Ukraine's allies. Higher international oil prices would likely benefit Russia more than lower export oil volume would hurt Russia - Russia would come out ahead. (3) Refineries, on the other hand, refine crude oil into it's various fractions: gasoline, diesel, kerosene, etc. Russia, by and large, does not export these refined products to other countries - these are primarily for the domestic Russian market. Putin's war machine - which means Russia - is the primary target. Putin voters are "collateral damage." (4) The Ukrainians are pinpoint targeting the refinery fractioning columns - not the refined petroleum storage bins. Why? Well - the columns are manufactured in the West (largely South Korea), and are under sanctions - they will be most difficult for Russia to replace. Most difficult for Russia to replace . Tears well in my eyes. (5) Russia will now have export more crude to pay for importing refined petroleum products. It's happening as we speak. Spending more rubles on imported refined petroleum products instead of on arms. (6) Don't ever mess with a Ukrainian.

ICE vehicles have upfront manufacturing emissions too, but with no mitigating factors.

Was this the article? EPA Finalizes Heavy Truck Emissions Rule, Looks to Boost EVs by 2032 | Engineering News-Record (enr.com) Cant see where it mandates 60% or that they have to be electric only that they need to conform to the new emissions standards?? Maybe it wasnt this article? Would be useful to post the article Mark.

So you just choose to ignore all of the EPA best practices to reduce SF6 emissions, and ignore the achievements of the National Grid. Thats fine Eco, its your choice to do so, let me know when you and the other ostriches have had enough of the sandpit. You missed this from the EPA Recycle SF6 gas at equipment servicing or disposal. Using gas cart recovery equipment to off-load and transfer SF6 for maintenance and recycling reduces emissions. It is critical to follow correct procedures when using service carts and to ensure that gas carts are properly maintained And you clearly missed this from the national grid link Achievements to date We have reduced our SF6 emissions by more than 80% since the year 2000. We piloted a non-SF6 69 kilovolt (kV) vacuum circuit breaker in 2012 and have since installed an additional twelve 69 kV vacuum circuit breakers. In vacuum circuit breakers, circuits are broken in a vacuum which helps to interrupt the current and prevent arcing which could damage the equipment. So if SF6 emissions have reduced by 80% in the last 24 years where does that leave your "exponential increased SF6"??

There might have been misunderstanding. Electricity has become the basic necessity disregard before, now or in the future. " How it should be generated" might be the topic of dispute... There is a dispute probably because we use the word of absolutism " should" .......... What if we use " could"? There has been a reply/ post regarding a course " back yard meteorology". It shows an experiment that says " if the air is too clean, no obvious or little water vapour will condense to become water". Do you realize most of the modern rain making attempts failed because they added something not suitable e.g. salt, metals etc? Guess what does it take?? '-'

Amidst the diarrheatic text, it is amazing you can identify something said....... But, possibly incorrectly... Servants = people paid to serve the employer and/ or the public The bureaucrates behave as if they are superior crowd working for the government. They forget, they are paid to serve, not just as a YES man to instruction, but also serving the public. So...... They make things inefficient and tell you it is standard operating procedure; they are competing among each other who is performing worse, making many mistakes and not getting caught. Young professional nowadays no longer having what it used to take to be respected. In a Korean drama, it showed a self educated housewife mother of a newborn, was more knowledgeable than doctors who are educated, trained to specialized, worked in a sum of at least 10 years, 15 or more during her baby discomfort...... It is no longer a secret, experts and professional refer mainly to pioneers, retirees and those near retiring ages. Why do they need so many " not servants", by your claim, who can not do the basic, in the government?

You might have confused a) a government b) a government department ( One department of a government) University setting: - in the old days, a clerk used to handle petty cash went in and out of a department. Every year, you have a sum of allocation to one department, say, $100,000. Claims from, e.g. department of Science, are generally: a) petrol for field work b) toll fees c) misc One field trip, normally around few hundreds. Should a lecturer need to buy lab equipment, assesories for experiment, chemical and stuff, the sum usually must not be more than $10,000. Permission from head of department was needed for spending of this kind. ( Individual sometimes would have sponsors or personal research fund). No tax. No adjustment to financial report. No hassle. Do you need an accountant for such a sum? If we enlarge this to one department of a government. Similarly, in the old days, you have allocation of few millions per department. If there were applications for fund, special consideration would be made to finance department. If there was no request for money, the allocation would sit there for years. No new allocation either. With not much activity, do you need an accountant for a department? Yes, you do, of course. You are highly specialized breed. Doing more than one task would fail you. That was before. Now, the governments and servants are taught a new accounting system called "zero up" by year end. By its name, each department must finishes allocation for the year to have new allocation in. So, what do they do? The most 'worthy' spending was a luxury entourage of all families of workers of a department to visit public toilets in England, other European countries and such. Exchange rate was 1 pound to 7. With the new system, they need an accountant to adjust the end sum to zero in all ways possible, yes? Guess, this is how the administrative costs of that gov increased from ~ 290 millions in the 80s and 90s to ~ a trillion recent years ( ~ 900 billions). Same with the rest of professional you mentioned above. Do they have leak roof at every department every day? Month? Year? Or every 30 - 50 years with regular maintenance? Why do they need engineers in every department? Do they have external dealing at every department every day? Month? Year? Or once in a long while? Why do they need lawyers in every department? There has been a latest cult term arisen from how wastage occurs on food at some locations. It is called " st∆p∆d standard operating procedure" incurred from blind following order or copying the private sector blindly. You can do your best to help wherever you can. Or sneeze over it as a numbed bystander and be unconcerned. Your life, your choice.

Hmmm...... Amazing crowd..... Still on bitcoins and cryptocurrency....... A point to ponder: If i purchased one bitcoin for $1. Wanted to sell when it was at $60, 000. Who is to pay? The bank? The platform? The stock exchange counter? That is one coin, one person. If i have 100 coins? $6,000,000 ( 6 millions) If there are 1000 purchasers? $6,000,000,000 (6 billions) The sum is of course larger than that shown, yes? Why is it still going on? Why hasn't it been closing down? That would include those overpriced stocks, likely manipulated to show empty promise of return. Violation of rules has occurred. Yet, it seems no one really knows what to do with it. What are we trying to do?

I am calm, I'm calmly telling you to stop posting opinion and post facts instead! You prefer lies, so I'll put you straight again, thats if youre able to read and comprehend! EU car sales surged by almost 14% in 2023, with over 10.5 million new registrations. Battery-electric sales soared by an impressive 37% and now command close to a 15% market share EU car sales on the up in 2023, with electric models increasingly popular - ACEA - European Automobile Manufacturers' Association

Ron the main difference between the EU and the US is you have 27 different countries with different cultures and values, there is always going to be division, its obvious. The US is 1 country and therefore all states should be as much aligned as possible with similar culture and values. The fact that politically the US has never before (civil war apart) been so entrenched in being either a blue or a red is worrying. EU countries have lurched from 1 disagreement (war) for the last 10 thousand years or more and that isnt going to change unfortunately IMHO.

All good. You might not realize buses in UK drive on special lane for bus only?

There might be a difference between a privately owned company supplying electricity and government owned. Privately owned company has to pay all expenses themselves. Therefore, there is a minimum margin they need to set to break even. Mildly higher to profit. Government owned settings usually set up and paid for during colonialism. The costs paid by the people were usually nominal. Independence of countries granted them the right to manage the budget, sustain the functionality of these settings by having regular check up and maintenance. Shall upon retirement of pioneers, modern generation of management employs too many idling staff, purchases overpriced material, could not maintain things properly but change new ones with lower quality often, then, the costs incurred would be responsibility of the government. These unnecessary costs would not be transferred onto end consumers. The price remains relatively affordable or low for most.

Go on....... define "alkaline" .

Pardon my ignorant... Just curious. 1. Many years ago, a refinery in east coast of a small country showed piles of sulphur accummulated. The operator was asking what to do with it. If this is true, shouldn't sulphur be removed during refinery? Why is there a high content in ship fuel? 2. Recalling this image saw ages ago. When crude oil is heated up, separation happens due to different boiling points of different products. If sulphur, an essential element exists in protein of living things, not burned during millions of high heat and pressure underground, it must have been gasified during heating process. Or no?

1. You did not bother to look at the chart you attached a few times. Same habit like tailingponds, who never read the link he quoted. Brothers of a feather... If you did, why have you not seen: a) from 1980 to 2020, your CO2 is reducing by more than 20% b) your pH, however, has reduced ~ 0.5 in value. 8.55 to 8.50; 8.40 to 8.35 etc. How does this happen? Don't you need increase level of co2 to reduce pH value? It is highly conspicuous that you make up the data and create the chart the way you wish things to be seen. A much worse case than extrapolated. You cheat and lie... 2. A can of carbonated drink e.g. coca-cola, could fit only 0.4% to 1.0% of CO2 under high pressure. Upon opened, the gas would diffuse into the air until a point of near zero. How and where did you get your figure of 30% solubility? Tell you the truth, i nearly failed biology and chemistry being first badge of a few high school science students in a small village. No physics due to no teacher confident enough to teach the subject. Basic account was assigned instead. Improved much with curiosity upon meeting outstanding and dedicated teachers for all subjects in science in one of the best schools in another town 2-3 hours away. Stupidity and insufficiency can be improved when meeting the right teachers. But a cheater, lier will have high tendency to make those personal habits... Being regarded as stupid is nothing to be ashame off. For i too ever transformed failed badges of students, whom other teachers gave up hope to teach them properly, into scorers. But you should be ashame of yourself. Lie to divert the truth. What are you selling any way? There must be something you are getting for being so oblivious?

Owing to active tectonic plates movement these few years, earth quake, volcanic eruption might be too frequent to render unpredictable impact on offshore settings including platforms, wind mill etc. The crack mid 2023 started in Turkey, extended to India Everest. Followed by more than 30 whales stranded at unreachable beach in tasmania ( or australia?). High wave or water predicted by a cult kid to reach east coast of countries in eurasian plate. True enough. Severe flood reported in north east and southern Malaysia. Many fish found stranded by the coast of Japan many weeks later. Volcano erupted in indonesia and unusual volcanic scene in iceland. Unusual High wave reported off the coast of California. Followed by earthquake in Ganshu China and then Japan. Eurasian plate seems to be oscillating. Therefore, offshore settings might be not very steady especially pressure, ground position etc... For those working at offshore platforms, may you be safe. Monitor pressure gauge more frequently than usual to be safe.

1. CO2 is linear, symmetry molecule. 2. Electrons are distributed evenly. Therefore, non polar. It dissolves mildly in water to form weak acid. Mildly not equals to " very reactive".

Ahhemmmnnn..... 😬 Has anyone seen this in the newsletter? "Tuesday, December 12, 2023 The COP28 conference has widened the rift between energy-hungry emerging nations and developed countries seeking to curb their carbon footprint, leading to no tangible progress on climate talk" Very much like every other summits, yes? 😟😣

Did he say how would 43% of global emission be reduced?? Cutting size of population through breeding habits? Cutting back massive development projects? Cutting damaging impact of wild forest fire each year? Are you still thinking on "stop burning fossil fuel", " drive EV" and " plant trees" only? 'o'

Attached an image showing natural tendency of things... " Water evaporates in uniformity as gasified molecule H2O. Upon touching a cold, flat surface, molecules clustered in to water patches of different sizes." Location of origin, attracting force of cluster that draws the similar and the opposite kind, adjacency etc...are factors affecting clusterism. Human beings behave likewise. The bigger the group, the more diverse the group, the tendency to fight and split increases. Are they trying to form a second United States, but of Europe, is interesting itself... England might have done it right. England used to have the largest empire in history. The elders can manage with mild set back. Unless they have chosen the compliances to rule and abide by their orders. They chose abdicated Prince Charles for this reason ( a repeat of movie made during era of war in the 40s or era of Churchill. Roughly on overcoming dyslexic and on lives of royalty back then). So is big spender Rishi. EU council has just released a publication on "road to further expansion of EU"... In there, they are reviewing problems and how to move forward with 13 experts. EU, at this stage of infancy, could go both ways. Turning good, or the other way. Particularly for both leading countries of Germany and France. In the midst of change, anything is possible. Do what you want. But try not to aim at the smallest and the weakest to bully. People won't be interested to know what you are up to. 99.999% are busy earning their dimes and living their own lives. Not many chances to look at their surrounding or time to know what happens outside of their work. But a few might turn curious. They want to know why do you keep aiming at the smallest and impotent. Consequently, they would discover your aims. They either would join you or terminate you and your kind. Therefore, leave it untouched as soon as you can... It should never be your target of ruin.

All you do is spout incoherent nonsense. What inconveniences are you babbling about? Europe is free and the US is continually fighting internally for dominance. I guess you forgot that a couple years ago your crew led a coup and tried to overthrow the government. ESG is a product of people being free to choose what to buy.

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Reading the comments on facebook, realized this technology existed for half to near one century. It must be working well. Pioneers have always been the smartest, most thoughtful, with sustainable foresight in mind, without being taught by schools..... Over the decades, climate change might have been in the mind of many. Therefore, a quick image over the landscape might have shown the following potential risks: 1. The area is hilly, near barren with moss cover, relying most probably on melted snow in the area? Since this is an opened system, would there be a need to consider a) what if there is no snow cover for a few years? e.g. mount kinabalu ( ht > 4000 m) , 2008. b) what if there is no rain or draught? How resilient could we design it to be withstanding the possible risks? 2. Someone mentioned 2 units energy generated but 5 units energy needed to pump water back up..... What if the design is in passive form that enables natural water flow? For example, if the direction of water flow without the hydroplant is from lower reservoir to meet the flow of higher one further down the lake, could there be a way to: a) back flow water from high reservoir to low in passive mode b) water released from lower reservoir generates electricity. c) water flow from lower reservoir meet the flow of higher reservoir ahead, returning water back to higher reservoir passively. If a lake has no flow, would the water be channeled back to the bottom of higher reservoir passively a possibility? I'm not familiar with the location. Just a thought from the concerns raised by past comments.

🤔 Thank you for the thought.... Water pressure at the bottom..... Similar condition when water from high reservoir is flowing towards the bottom of lower reservoir after turning turbine. I' m not sure about the height of each reservoir involved. May be the flow from lower reservoir would meet the higher reservoir in the middle? Or shorter flow distance that sustains the water force after turning turbine from potential height or from wide to narrow tunnel that enables it? If they do not test run a model on it, old problems will always be bugging the old system. A small model of it can probably be built in a day? I have no qualm on why they are willing to spend 14 billions, that used to be hundreds of million, to built something with known existing problems. Just a thought on improvising those problems so that problems won't be repeated to a point of not sustainable. Those engineers might not even have a chance to read this or know what we are discussing....

There could be other things that are more damaging and in need of remediation quickly than worrying about cows farting in natural grazing land or occupying prescious space. 1. Wild fire "Wildland fire experts have described Canada's 2023 fire season as record-breaking and shocking. Over the course of a fire season that started early and ended late, blazes have burned an estimated 18.4 million hectares—an area roughly the size of North Dakota.24 Oct 2023 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov › t... Tracking Canada's Extreme 2023 Fire Season" One year alone loses > 50 million acres.... Something to ponder about and act quickly. 2. Massive urbanization For example, Singapore and most developed countries. ~ or > 80% of total land mass is used for housing e.g. residential, commercial, open space etc. Developing countries are trying their best to catch up with it. What if, this trend is reconsidered? 3. Agricultural land is necessary to provide food. The focal point should probably be on management of the size to reduce possible negative impact from climate change. In other words, make it more sustainable. For examples, a) having trees to divide a very big field. Shall disease strikes, parcels or fields are protected with these separators. b) Or shall temperature is going too high, these trees would be mediating the heat. c) Or, shall sufficient trees are planted or preserved around the farm land, water catchment area can be created to ensure minimal impact during draught etc... Fruit trees are good. Second income shall plenty, or natural fertilizer shall let waste. Bamboo. Fast to grow, minimal effort to care. Potential building material.

We have been accustomed to the knowledge that climate change has hasten the speed of ice melting in the polar region and increased frequency of floating iceberg... Did something today that might accidentally show how iceberg is broken or formed.... This piece of ice was taken out from the freezer. Added a little tape water to melt it mildly. Cracks immediate formed when water touching the ice..... Therefore, could those floating ice formed by having more frequent rain on very cold polar ice? Cracks formed and they broken away. Melting happens because they are in the water... 'o' 'o' Not so much on increment in temperature? 'o' Anyone can verify if frequency of rain has increased over the years in the pole? Someone tried to shoot polar light in a travel documentary faced with cloudy and rainy days that spoilt the plan...

I heard today that Trump is way ahead in the polls against DeSantis so likely will be the republican nominee. I also heard Trump and Biden are neck and neck in the polls for next president. Will the world be watching a rerun of 2 old men battling to be the most powerful man on the planet? Will Trump be the first president to run the US from a jail cell?

Quote:" Let’s call it collusion incorporated drives inflation starving poor people worldwide. " That was probably old school. New game has begun. It is called " total reset"... This game is far reaching than known or mentioned. All players have shown themselves with their respective interest with excitement. Pitiful cult magnetic centre of the globe for blames has been declared inconsequential, insignificant, no longer useful, by all relevant players from now on. In other words it no longer needs to take any more blame on every constipation, incontinence, or such, personal problems induce issues, just because it is never heard or rarely has chance to defense itself. The cult center is now free to start an unknown new life of safety. For a few who owe it money or gifts promised, the coast is cleared ...... Kindly deliver before war begins throughout the world....... 😯😋 For cult solutions, if anyone thinks it deserves to be treated better, fairer, rightly, please reach the center before the next seismic activity begins... 😳🤭👋

No cap in spending and 1 trillion green energy spending? According to common teaching by economists from world bank, " governments must spend to stimulate the growth of economy". The best part is this:" ..... loans stimulate economy.... " No cap = spending carnival ... on money of the richest.... 'o' 🙊

Quote:"....... atmospheric H2O as a driver of climate change...." Uhhh... We must be clearer in what we are saying related to that phrase... According to reports, the trendiest research last year to counter climate change has been to remove water vapour in the air... Those funded research collect water from the air in UK, US, Saudi etc... It could be dew drop net, water gather- filter machine etc....... They claimed it could: a) reduce heat absorbed by water vapour in the air, hence reduce temperature increment b) possibly overcome future problem of water shortage... Farsighted, right? 😕 But the near problem is - there would be not enough water drops to form cloud or such... - The temperature would be hotter, plants would have no rain water, human found ground drinking water or water in reservoires depleting fast and such..... 😯 😣

In replying your statement regarding global warming/ cooling, page 395 has a chart by notsonice, and here, a quote reply over not so nice, n and turbguy... https://community.oilprice.com/topic/23356-green-new-deal-blizzard-of-lies/?page=395#comment-206534 It shows a) global warming and cooling is a cyclical event over hundred thousands of years ago. The globe has warmed up even before human existence. And then plunged into ice age. Therefore, global warming is caused by both natural events historically + human activities in recent century. b) test out how much heat can CO2 absorb and give us a figure how many degrees the increment from 0.003% of CO2 to 0.004% has resulted.... 2. From an image posted from Guinness book of Amazing Nature, over hundred of thousands of years, sea level had changed more than 100 meters, compared to the current affair of 15 cm.

Which part is not clear? '-' You need to empty your preset mind, take a deep breath and read without opinion until you are done reading... Otherwise, you are likely not able read through three words because it is not what you were told, taught, or believe in.... Like Tailingponds.

Found this while rereading <Guiness book of Amazing nature >. ( Click into it and enlarge).... It shows the largest meteor craters on earth and such... More than 90% are found at the magnetic pole axis i.e. hudson bay of the northern hemisphere and venezuela of the southern hemisphere. If, the concept relative attractivity on similar things found in the universe is true, then, meteors might have been attracted to these locations based on similar material composition? Any record shows if they have magnetic characteristic? If yes, Would their magnetic field be able to be used to generate electricity?

Regarding where to place weather station..... Was in an online course organized by World Bank Open Learning Web... Started by showing modern technology used in monitoring weather, rain and such, problems faced etc, they asked question on discussion board. Amidst those high tech thingies echoing out by all other participants, one stupid village kid showered the enthusiasm for high tech thingies with cold water.....:stated these: 1. Vertical Ruler, over a river, showing depth of water with direct reading. ( Compared to complicated digital thing that people here do not know how to use...) 'o' 'n' 2. Measuring Cylinder, to gather and measure amount of rain... Instead of larger container.... 3. Location of stations, at low developed places with trees and river or water reservoir. Proud to mentioned they are solar powered designed by pioneers. Alright, now we have the secrete on why amount of rain is always so little and temperature is always reported as 32'C for the whole week, while actual temperature might have reached 38'C or 16'C.... 'o' >.< On the other hand, Weather report always uses one indicator i.e. capital city of a country. Therefore, they have station in the city. Might not be too badly off chart.

Was on a discussion space regarding "satellite images" once. The title was rapid melting of ice and rising sea level... Posted a question: - what is the percentage of ice coverage during winter? According to another report, ice coverage during winter has enlarged in area covered... 'o' '-' If we give it space to find out why has the sea level arisen, and attribute all to melting of ice, it might not stand at certain point. Mentioned somewhere here by using an example given by a commenter i e. a glass of coke with ice cubes. When ice cube melted, there would be a layer of plain colour liquid distinct from coke. Hence, it affects the water level directly. On the other hand, if ice sheets in the sea are formed from top layer of sea water, than the volume freezes out would not change the ultimate water level when melted. Melting of permafrost would be worrisome. Amount of snow that melts. And expansion of sea volume due to heat absorbed. Not melting of ice. ( You can observe this phenomena by sitting facing sea front connected to an ocean, not water in a strait. The water level further out would look menacingly higher - reaching eye level, than the one hitting the shore - below chin level.....) Despite so, shoreline regression is something not to be ignored in the tropics. Witnessed a regression of more than 50 cm within a short few years living by the coast... According to the elders living there for long, the shoreline was further down 50 meters out into the sea ~ 50 years ago. One could walk to the pile of stones that far out on low tide. This regression is eroding the land and falling trees on occasional unusual high tides. It also caused landslide at the front portion of a home located in a row of 3 houses. ~ 45 cm away from the doorstep.... Australia might have reported similar phenomena where houses purchased by the beach washed away after 30 to 50 years... As mentioned in a book submitted to a scientific committee for joint publication, ozone hole might be the culprit. Why, how, solution provided too. But they have ignored me for years... 'n' >.<

The latest comment seems to be favouring hybrid... This is said to be able to reduce the need for batteries and limited minerals required...

1. The first graph might have shown, global warming happened ~15000 years ago? * Before that was probably ice age period where temperature was declining. The drastic increment line lasted till ~ 10000 years ago. Temperature was relatively static until the point marked closed to 125 years ago? 2. The second graph might have used not so comparable parameters. From our aim: " correlation between global warming and CO2 level and emission", the graph should have: a) temperature recorded b) atmospheric co2 level recorded or emission c) year involved 3. The third graph shows co2 level fluctuated between 180 to 300 ppm before 1950? That represents 0.0003%? Current co2 level is 0.0004%? Deduction: - global warming might have happened way before human knew how to use fire to cook? Or was it way before human existed?

This chart is probably inappropriate... 1. 12 months running mean presumed to be the average of ( highest temperature - lowest temperature) per month? 2. Annual mean presumed to be the average global temperature per year? - you have global temperature always below 0.2'C until post 1980s to be 0.4'C to 1.4 'C? 3. The graph is "temperature anomaly" vs "year"? - shouldn't it be average annual temperature vs year? - by definition, the temperature has been assumed to be abnormal since 1880s? That might have been 30 to 50 years ahead of the initial concern raised against fast increasing population, possible increase of temperature etc? - by using global mean or everage, many info obscured. Allow me to make suggestions to the criteria of graph used... a) temperature should be recorded exactly per highest temperature and lowest temperature measured per day. Then there is a middle line represent mean. Three lines should be drawn in a graph with data measured. Not extrapolated. Not assumed weather report where 7 days a week or per month where the temperature would remain unchanged... b) from this, one gets mean highest, lowest per month. Accummulated data measured per 12 months gives highest, lowest and mean per year. c) seperate zones should be allocated to represent data more accurately i.e. i) tropical region ( one country or average of a few) ii) temperate region iii) polar region - from here, you can see anomaly per region, per year or per month... If there is any. We should not assume until data shows per record. Otherwise, we will interprete data according to our preset mind and assumption, skew data to fit our assumption but turn very blind to the fact shown. 1. Was on an online course about backyard weather last year. Recorded temperature for ~ two weeks. Share here as reference: Date: roughly end of august to mid september 2022. Average temperature: Highest: 18'C to 20'C Lowest: 14'C to 16'C. This is more than 10'C lower than usual 38'C - 26'C. Or, 32'C - 23'C more than 30 years ago. Mean temperature half of 2023 might have been lower than average also. It should have been burning hot but the everage has been 18'C to 26'C on most days and months. 2. Thousands estimated extinct per year... There used to be biological indexes at the back of EIA report to show original flora-fauna and possible impact. Have a quick look on a public reading version. Whatever no longer there when you take a walk in the same area could possibly be assumed extincted. 3. Hydrogen might not be accurate, too many variant. Was it carbon dating that they used?

All you can do is talk like a ten year old.

President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal is meant to collectivize the nation, political strategist Dick Morris said Sunday in a harsh criticism of the bill. Speaking on “The Cats Roundtable” radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM, Morris, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, said Biden’s infrastructure package is "designed to collectivize the United States, to regiment us, to unionize us, and to make us controllable and tractable as an economy.” Stressing that “the metaphor that comes to mind is when Stalin insisted that all the farmers go to collective farms,” Morris cautioned that the main feature of the infrastructure legislation is that “you cannot get those funds unless you unionize. Davis-Bacon will control all of that spending. You have to have a union for your company to qualify. That’s going to force the entire construction industry and huge numbers of other industries into unionization.” He also emphasized that Biden intends to make the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act part of the legislation bill, which he said would “be the greatest disaster we’ve ever had.” Morris warned that the general public does not yet know about the PRO Act, but said that the end result would be that “nobody can work for themselves. Everybody has to be on a corporate payroll. If you are a consultant or a contractor or a freelancer, you have to close up shop and become an employee of your client or the people you contract with.” He said that this means that some “30 to 40 million people who make their living that way are going to have to be now on payroll,” stressing that such a law is already in effect in California and has “totally deformed the economy” of that state. Morris said that the overall goal of Biden’s strategy on this legislative package is “to organize our economy for more efficient government control. It sounds like in Germany where everybody basically works for a few large companies and there are only one or two large unions that represent everybody.”

LOL, you are too much. Now, it depends on "What does infrastructure mean . . . " Good Lord, what has happened to our country. This is right up there with : "it depends on what the meaning of is . . . is" or " . . . but I didn't inhale "

ONLY FIVE PERCENT OF $1.9 TRILLION GOES TO INFRASTRUCTURE : ROADS BRIDGES RAILWAYS AIRPORTS THAT'S < 5% OF $1.9 TRILLION What a joke. NINETY-FIVE PERCENT TO DEMOCRAT WISHLIST.

<<< Very nice post, Gerry. Top notch stuff.

Very true! While this industry has always been subject to political winds, politics are currently making oil and gas production a giant casino. To create true, lasting policy a president has to get something enshrined by Congress; presidential authority can be wiped out by the stroke of a pen flourished by the new president . . . as we're currently seeing. We have had no helpful congressional signings in a very long time. To the contrary, Mr. Trump (who had zero understanding of the oil and gas business and was not helped by Sec. of Energy Rick Perry, who had zero understanding of the oil and gas business) basically shut off LNG exports to China for a full year via trade wars. He did his best with the Keystone Pipeline but didn't know how to push it through. Like Geo W. and Clinton, he thought that the cheaper the price of gasoline at the pump the more popular he would be. To show macho he opened up drilling in the Arctic Nat'l Wildlife Refuge, only to discover that no one really wanted to drill up there. Then he declared a ban on offshore drilling off the coast of Florida, where people actually did wish to drill. My point? It's tough to survive in the oil and gas business without having to face a headwind from politics. Add in the whipsaw that is currently taking place and it's damn near impossible. Trump's order to the EPA to stand down, allowing thousands of shale wells to vent and flare indiscriminately, flooded the market with oil and gas, kept the price low and marginal drillers in the game, with their CEO's paying themselves a couple of million to run the company into the ground. Still, 40+ oil & gas companies declared bankruptcy in the U.S. last year. Whiting, a great driller with expert geologists, was one of them. Whiting was sure that the Keystone Pipeline would eventually go in. They drilled great wells on great acreage. Unfortunately, they also bought Kodiac at exactly the peak of the market. There are some likely survivors: Pioneer, EOG, Devon in the mid-size; CVX, XOM in the super-majors; Occidental in the majors. They will survive for one reason only: they have either cash or great drilling targets, or both.