2009 Nov 27
Washington - Stop hyperventilating, all you climate change deniers. The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last week -- portraying some leading climate researchers as petty, vindictive and tremendously eager to make their data fit accepted theories -- does not prove that global warming is a fraud.
If I'm wrong, somebody ought to tell the polar ice caps that they're free to stop melting.
That said, the e-mail episode is more than a major embarrassment for the scientists involved. Most Americans are convinced that climate change is real -- a necessary prerequisite for the kinds of huge economic and behavioral adjustments we would have to make to begin seriously limiting carbon emissions. But consensus on the nature and scope of the problem will dissipate, and fast, if experts try to obscure the fact that there's much about the climate they still don't know.
Here's what happened: Someone hacked into the servers at one of the leading academic centers in the field -- the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England -- and filched a trove of e-mails and documents, which have been posted on numerous Web sites maintained by climate skeptics.
Phil Jones, the head of the Climatic Research Unit, released a statement Wednesday saying, "My colleagues and I accept that some of the published e-mails do not read well." That would be an example of British understatement.
In one message sent to a long list of colleagues, Jones speaks of having completed a "trick" with recent temperature data to "hide the decline." The word "trick" is hardly a smoking gun -- scientists use it to refer to clever but perfectly legitimate ways of handling data. But the "hide the decline" part refers to a real issue among climate researchers called the "divergence problem."
Read more: http://www.truthout.org/1127093
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Nov 27, 2009
Nov 7, 2009
Lockheed Martin Installs Solar Power Streetlights in Florida
2009-11-05
Lockheed Martin, an advanced technology company that got its start working in the aerospace industry, has installed 35 solar LED (light emitting diode) streetlights at its Orange County, Florida site, where the company recently won a contract to develop the Joint Strike Fighter and peripheral training, support and targeting systems.
The streetlights aren’t the first solar-powered outdoor lights in Florida, but they do represent the state’s largest installation, and their cost - $342,000 over 20 years, including purchase price and maintenance – still comes in considerably lower than the equivalent cost for conventional street lighting ($563,000, including new wiring and the cost of electricity).
In addition, the solar-powered LEDs reduce carbon emissions generated by fossil-fuel burning power plants by an estimated 17,000 tons over their lifetime, which is the equivalent of taking 3,000 cars off the road.
Using a fraction of the electricity of ordinary street lighting, the solar-powered lights are easily recognizable by the bluish tint of the light they emit. They also focus that lighting, unlike conventional street lights which shine in all directions. This means that many brands of solar LEDs qualify under the “Dark Sky” requirements of an increasing number of municipalities.
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Lockheed Martin, an advanced technology company that got its start working in the aerospace industry, has installed 35 solar LED (light emitting diode) streetlights at its Orange County, Florida site, where the company recently won a contract to develop the Joint Strike Fighter and peripheral training, support and targeting systems.
The streetlights aren’t the first solar-powered outdoor lights in Florida, but they do represent the state’s largest installation, and their cost - $342,000 over 20 years, including purchase price and maintenance – still comes in considerably lower than the equivalent cost for conventional street lighting ($563,000, including new wiring and the cost of electricity).
In addition, the solar-powered LEDs reduce carbon emissions generated by fossil-fuel burning power plants by an estimated 17,000 tons over their lifetime, which is the equivalent of taking 3,000 cars off the road.
Using a fraction of the electricity of ordinary street lighting, the solar-powered lights are easily recognizable by the bluish tint of the light they emit. They also focus that lighting, unlike conventional street lights which shine in all directions. This means that many brands of solar LEDs qualify under the “Dark Sky” requirements of an increasing number of municipalities.
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/y8kkjxg
Want to help with Global-Warming? Please visit http://www.whiteearth.org
Become a fan of the Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/whiteearthorg or http://www.facebook.com/whiteearth
Become a friend on Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/christopherbeau
Follow me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/christopherbeau
Help with supporting WhiteEarth.org by buying art on http://www.artsymphony.com 100% of proceeds go to WhiteEarth
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