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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11550 on: February 02, 2025, 09:45:57 AM »
A pond COULD smell if it goes stagnant, due to factors unrelated to coal burning.


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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11551 on: February 02, 2025, 09:49:28 AM »
A pond COULD smell if it goes stagnant, due to factors unrelated to coal burning.


So could a swimming pool.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11552 on: February 02, 2025, 09:51:13 AM »
A pond COULD smell if it goes stagnant, due to factors unrelated to coal burning.


her father's upper respiratory issues and abdominal pain are probably due to factors unrelated to coal burning
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11553 on: February 02, 2025, 09:56:47 AM »
A modern coal plant is unlikely to be a factor in either of those maladies.

But they sound good.

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11554 on: February 02, 2025, 10:19:32 AM »
fake news and as big a lie as Donald is gonna make tomorrow
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11555 on: February 02, 2025, 10:28:41 AM »
fake news and as big a lie as Donald is gonna make tomorrow
but not near as big as Joe would have spewed
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11556 on: February 02, 2025, 10:34:15 AM »
What percentage of the warmth from the Sun do you think is retained by the Earth? 

This is a trick question really.

We get radiation from the Sun that turns into heat, often as not, and some is radiated back into space.  So, how much of that heat is retained here?  Ten percent?  Fifty?  One?
Any guesses?

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11557 on: February 02, 2025, 10:38:38 AM »
Any guesses?
It has to be zero, because the sun always shines, and if we retained heat we’d be a lot hotter. 

Or, it could be 3%. 

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11558 on: February 02, 2025, 10:44:39 AM »
You are correct, it's very near to zero.  It's a "magical balance" that something very small could shift meaningfully.  Those shifts have occured in the past, ice ages, etc. for other reasons (we think).  Today, we're altering our atmosphere by producing a lot of CO2 (and other stuff like methane) that COULD be enough to affect this balance in a bad way.  I think it's very complex and difficult to model and also think the models COULD be underestimating the impact of CO2.

If they are, we're cooked.

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11559 on: February 02, 2025, 01:28:17 PM »
Beautiful sunny day here, gorgeous blue sky, something I really missed up north.


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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11560 on: February 02, 2025, 02:12:41 PM »
beautiful day here
gonna take the dog for a walk to the post office
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11561 on: February 03, 2025, 02:13:20 PM »
Going to Boston to get out of this heat.


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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #11562 on: February 03, 2025, 07:21:53 PM »
Beautiful sunny day here, gorgeous blue sky, something I really missed up north.
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