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Cool picture. Spencer adapted it from a study of the entire Western US. Such a large scale data set doesn't have the resolution to capture the Dust Bowl, which tells you something about the usefulness of evaluating a local drought Like Texas'. I'd recommend using a better source than Spencer.

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Cool picture. Spencer adapted it from a study of the entire Western US. Such a large scale data set doesn't have the resolution to capture the Dust Bowl, which tells you something about the usefulness of evaluating a local drought Like Texas'. I'd recommend using a better source than Spencer.

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Way to go EPA, just continue to strangle the American economy...

Industry on edge as EPA prepares to regulate airline emissions | Fox News

The Environmental Protection Agency will soon announce it plans to regulate airline emissions, asserting they contribute to global warming and endanger public health, according to industry and environmental groups.

Those findings will prompt a regulatory process for the EPA to determine and enforce aircraft emissions limits, following a similar effort to limit emissions by cars, trucks and power plants.

Love this part:

"The U.S. airlines have a strong record of fuel efficiency and carbon emissions reduction, having improved their fuel efficiency by 120 percent between 1978 and 2014, saving 3.8 billion metric tons CO2 -- roughly the equivalent of taking 23 million cars off the road in each of those years," Vaughn Jennings, the managing director of government and regulatory communications at Airlines for America, said in a statement.

But no, let's just regulate the airlines and airplane manufacturers even more!
 
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A national carbon tax or cap-and-trade scheme would be far more efficient. Oh well, you reap what you sow.

Fossil fuel giants step up calls for global carbon price

Oh yes, of course. Let's tax an industry that's already made great strides towards fuel conservation and let them pass that on to the consumer. And in turn, make air travel prohibitively expensive except for the wealthy environmental nuts that would use it to travel to Washington to whine about global warming.

In fact, I'd say if the EPA was serious about it, they should be prohibited by Congress from using any form of fossil fuel transport to get where they're going since they are just added to the problem. Leadership starts at the top you know.

I'd actually suggest going back to horse and buggy, but you and your ilk would whine about horse farts ruining the atmosphere and eating up the green grass.
 
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Oh yes, of course. Let's tax an industry that's already made great strides towards fuel conservation and let them pass that on to the consumer. And in turn, make air travel prohibitively expensive except for the wealthy environmental nuts that would use it to travel to Washington to whine about global warming.

In fact, I'd say if the EPA was serious about it, they should be prohibited by Congress from using any form of fossil fuel transport to get where they're going since they are just added to the problem. Leadership starts at the top you know.

I'd actually suggest going back to horse and buggy, but you and your ilk would whine about horse farts ruining the atmosphere and eating up the green grass.
Eugenics is a far more rational step toward sustainability. I say we start with clipping the sack and tying the tubes of you and your ilk.
Anti-environmental stereotyping
"Conflating all environmentalists with dirty effin' hippies, Luddites, or hard greens like Pentti Linkola."

:nono:

An economy-wide carbon tax would be smarter than having the EPA haphazardly regulating such-and-such industry, one at a time. And the tax could be returned to the consumers via a direct rebate. It could be met with equal (or greater) cuts to corporate taxes or income taxes. There are palatable solutions for conservatives, but as long as the GOP keeps dicking around we’re not gonna make much progress. Overcome your pride. Time is money…

Thankfully some brave voices are beginning to speak up-

Republican pledges $175 million to push party on climate: A North Carolina executive is pouring his own money into trying to sway people in the GOP to take global warming seriously

Bob Inglis breaks from Republican Party, advocates action to fight climate change

Lindsey Graham Calls Out Fellow Republican Candidates Over Climate Change Views

Pope Francis' Climate Change Encyclical Inspires Rabbinic Call to Action
 
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This new paper has been causing quite a stir:

Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus
Abstract

Much study has been devoted to the possible causes of an apparent decrease in the upward trend of global surface temperatures since 1998, a phenomenon that has been dubbed the global warming “hiatus.” Here we present an updated global surface temperature analysis that reveals that global trends are higher than reported by the IPCC, especially in recent decades, and that the central estimate for the rate of warming during the first 15 years of the 21st century is at least as great as the last half of the 20th century. These results do not support the notion of a “slowdown” in the increase of global surface temperature.
Science publishes new NOAA analysis: Data show no recent slowdown in global warming

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Anti-environmental stereotyping
"Conflating all environmentalists with dirty effin' hippies, Luddites, or hard greens like Pentti Linkola."

:nono:

An economy-wide carbon tax would be smarter than having the EPA haphazardly regulating such-and-such industry, one at a time. And the tax could be returned to the consumers via a direct rebate. It could be met with equal (or greater) cuts to corporate taxes or income taxes. There are palatable solutions for conservatives, but as long as the GOP keeps dicking around we’re not gonna make much progress. Overcome your pride. Time is money…

Thankfully some brave voices are beginning to speak up-

Republican pledges $175 million to push party on climate: A North Carolina executive is pouring his own money into trying to sway people in the GOP to take global warming seriously

Bob Inglis breaks from Republican Party, advocates action to fight climate change

Lindsey Graham Calls Out Fellow Republican Candidates Over Climate Change Views

Pope Francis' Climate Change Encyclical Inspires Rabbinic Call to Action

Wtf? What is the point of taxing then returning other than to add to the bloat that is regulation? This is moronic.
 
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