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i'm always hopeful, and always doubtful

 

'and if california slides into the ocean,
like the mystics and statistics say it will,
i predict this motel will be standing, until i pay my bill'

 

US1 at Big Sur is a very spectacular site off to the west and over the edge.
The old song about James Dean and Dead Mans Curve was the first thing I thought about.

 

I remember driving up Highway 1 in August of 1983 after the '82-'83 El Nino. Could only go as far as the Hearst Castle
because of the washed out roadway. Had to detour to I-5 to get to Carmel and Monterey. Lots of washouts caused by that storm.

 

A young Marine, I drove along that stretch in 1972 prior to going to Okinawa. The poison oak was impressive especially three months later on Okinawa when I wore my civilian boots without socks. In Big Sur, wash daily with a good detergent soap and you'll be OK. But apparently some had gotten in my boots while I was wearing socks ... leaving a surprise three months later.

Source: Republican lawmaker: Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise | Science | AAAS

The Earth is not warming. The White Cliffs of Dover are tumbling into the sea and causing sea levels to rise. Global warming is helping grow the Antarctic ice sheet.

Those are some of the skeptical assertions echoed by Republicans on the U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space and Technology Committee yesterday. ...

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) questioned Duffy on the factors that contribute to sea-level rise, pointing out that land subsidence plays a role, as well as human activity.

Brooks then said that erosion plays a significant role in sea-level rise, which is not an idea embraced by mainstream climate researchers. He said the California coastline and the White Cliffs of Dover tumble into the sea every year, and that contributes to sea-level rise. He also said that silt washing into the ocean from the world's major rivers, including the Mississippi, the Amazon and the Nile, is contributing to sea-level rise.

"Every time you have that soil or rock or whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise, because now you have less space in those oceans, because the bottom is moving up," Brooks said.​

Dumb as the rocks Mo Brooks describes.

Bob Wilson

 

Now that right there is exactly why I keep trying to get people around here (like over in the EGR-and-head-gasket threads) to just take the next step and ask basic quantitative questions. Like, how much rock? How much volume is that? How much volume is how much level rise? (Or, "how much hotter? how hot is too hot for a gasket?" over in our own threads.)

You can make pretty much anything sound truthy if you just completely avoid asking if it's even in the ballpark an explanation would need to be in.

 

Human causes of climate change. Are there any other relevant kinds? The hot air from he said she said?
WHO said that?

 

The problem is the lack of ‘feedstock’ of failed batteries. So the old trope that we are Bambi loving, leaf looking, rabid recyclers has prompted the false narrative we can be persuaded by ‘no recycling’ to buy an ICE vehicle is a fraud.

When we get a trade-in credit for consumer batteries like the old soda bottles, I’ll change my mind. But in reality, we just toss the AAA and AA batteries in the trash bin. There is no credible battery recycling of consumer batteries so why should ‘eye candy’ announcements matter.

Toyota used to pay a $200 trade in credit for a -$3,000+ Prius battery replacement at a dealer. Then Prius owners figured out how to survey and salvage working battery modules and resell for ~$1,750. Screw Toyota and their overpriced batteries.

In about two decades, there will be enough feedstock with today’s cobalt batteries to make a small recycling effort profitable. But announcing one today is eye candy ... green wash for the foolish.

Bob Wilson

 

disappointing, try 'popular science'?

 

With the decline of paper media and the increase in entertainment value it has made it so well researched
scholarly articles
are not a method of being gainfully employed

The low value assigned to research quality media drives low paid individuals to do the writing and it has to be exciting writing to boot.

 

So Sad, always inside a box with $ signs either at the top or the bottom side.

With so much (too much) data available for free at the flick of one finger
there's not much time to wonder about how much data there might be that's not available
and what that info might be.

Is the earths core one molten blob or does it actually have two or more layers that may or may not spin in opposite or other directions from each other layer.

Is that earth shattering new?

 

I know of an science author that writes sometimes for Pop Mechanics.
Has fantastic science aptitude and can be good, but sometimes has a personal agenda/tendency to transcend reality on the topic and in those cases, will slant the article. Not talking about climate change issue. I believe the person knows truth vs. fantasy and can represent facts well if they want to. At some point credibility is lost if the fantasy/political spin side is harped too much (books etc)..