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Keeping an eye of the LA Station Fire, by way of the Internet
Update II (Saturday morning)
www.Inciweb.org is reporting continued fire activity in the area of Cogswell Reservoir, with a warning for more:
Quote:
The fire gained ground in the San Gabriel Wilderness and made a run up Chileno Canyon above Cogswell Resevoir. Large plumes were visible around 3PM. Fire behavior analyst expect that there will likely be more of the same in that area and cautioned crews to be vigilant. Crews will continue line construction, holding fire spread, and conducting burn operations if possible and as needed. The public may continue to observe smoke and occasional flame pockets during operation.
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Thoughts about Time, Watts, Power, BTUs and the GM Volt
Alternative title: How much energy does it really take to make the Volt go down the road ?
As I was listening to the Tim Barron morning show the other morning on the way to work...
(which is hard since I work at an odd commuter hour, and the radio signal doesn't reach Jackson so well)
and since I only get to listen to the show for a few minutes each day, I miss most of the fun and games...
Anyway, however, I was as happenstance provided, listening the other day when The Barron made note on his show of the issue that the ...<< MORE >>
Chop Wood Carry Water. A Brief Ramble about wood and water.
A brief discussion RE Ozone, Refrigerants, the IPCC, and the Electric Grid
From Friday January 27, 2006...
We started with selected passages from, "IPCC/TEAP Special Report on Safeguarding The Ozone Layer"
IPCC/TEAP Special Report on Safeguarding The Ozone Layer and The Global Climate System: Issues Related to Hydro fluorocarbons and Per fluorocarbons
Summary for Policymakers, A Report of Working Groups I and III of the IPCC
Technical Summary
A Report accepted by Working Groups I and III of the IPCC but not approved in detail. This report was produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) on the invitation of the ...<< MORE >>
"You should have a talk with your friend today"
Is what my fortune cookie said last night at Dinner. At the Presidents Luncheon of the January 2001 American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, the guest speaker was a leading scientist from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, speaking to a room full of indoor environmental engineers about the prospect of global warming (which some of us prefer to call Global Climate Change). The gentlemen tried to enlighten the Engineers that the Southern Regions of the US were facing increases in not just minor average temperature readings, but marked increases ...<< MORE >>
RE Global Climate Change - Let’s not scare the straights.
That's right - let’s not scare the straights?
(Yes, blog title borrowed from Ghost Busters)
OK folks. I scare myself now and then, but I suppose out of kindness compassion or general responsibility, I'll try to be nice.
What's that you say, I haven’t been? Have I been insensitive? I don’t know but every now and then I try and do a reality check – just to see if I’m still walking with a left and a right shoe on the proper feet. My mind does wander, sometimes around in circles long enough that I forget where I was heading in ...<< MORE >>
A Geek's Approach to HVAC Design, (revisting 1999)
Long before "Sustainability" was a political capital hot topic......
Ferris State University was far and away ahead of the pack. Still is.
From a former FSU Student / HVAC and IAQ Geek:
Introduction – Environmental Engineering. Industrial Hygiene. Indoor Air Quality. These labels and topics in the past have been part of the industrial materials exposure monitoring conversation. Quality breathing air has become the commonplace expectation in educational, commercial office and other institutional facilities. Quality breathing air in the home is also becoming a hot topic of conversation. In the systems of today, closer attention ...<< MORE >>
Repost of - The Death Blow to Anthropogenic Global Warming
Jun 07, 2008The Death Blow to Anthropogenic Global Warming
By Stephen Wilde, Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
The influence of the sun has been discounted in the climate models as a contributor to the warming observed between 1975 and 1998. Those who support the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), now known as anthropogenic climate change so that recent cooling can be included in their scenario, always deny that the sun has anything to do with recent global temperature movements. The reason given is that Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) ...<< MORE >>
The Government (EPA) is coming at you like a freight train over CO2
Head of NASA tells the truth about Global Warming, Hansen makes a fool of himself again.
What the head of NASA really said, and Hansen should be fired? The Head of NASA (Michael Griffin) apparently didn't say: "there is no scientific consensus on man-made, catastrophic global warming" That was by a fellow named: Robert Ferguson. The full quote is: "NASA's top administrator, Michael ...<< MORE >>