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Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part VII 21

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Reality stubbornly refuses to follow the models.

Note that typically they train the models up to 1990, its only after that they are running blind.



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What we should really be doing is converting coal plants to run on plastic. They have the ability to deal with the ash, they can burn pellets but I think high pressure injection of filaments into the furnace will reduce particulates. Scrubbers can be used to filter out acid gasses so we can burn those forever plastics into oblivion as well. This is an unpopular opinion but is a real path forward to reducing pollution.

Common plastics have better hydrogen to carbon ratios than coal. The CO2 emissions from burning plastic will be lower than coal and the CO2 emissions will be more beneficial than recycling plastic. It's a double win.
 
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So they train the neural network on models which are known to run hot, and then predict it'll get hotter sooner than we thought. Do you realise how utterly stupid that is?
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I'm glad someone finally commented on my linked article. That article is the epitome of stupid global warming reporting. Why would a Neural Network be better than the model built by and expert? Do the reporters really not understand that neural networks cannot think for themselves? They must be trained to think.... They will think whatever you want them to think based on the input your force them to learn.

That was truly some of the dumbest reporting I've reporting I've ever read.
 
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Are you referring to the neural networks or the reporters?
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My bet is the first will learn to before the second.
 
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Shrugs, if you are growing cotton and almonds and rice then you aren't even slightly serious about water consumption. Sure, vested interests are. Remind me again how much entitled Californian farmers pay for water? $15 per acre ft in some cases, 3 cents a ton. I bet they use that very carefully.

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We'll see how this ends... it might get ugly. I don't know what the water agreements are like of if they have a 'force majeure' type of clause, or if they need one...that, plus the composition of their supreme court could make things pretty interesting... looking forward to see how this ends...

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I found this (talking about energy storage) very interesting ...
I like Sabine's videos, and her style of explaining things.

"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.
 
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Great link... thanks rb

and the greenhouse effect really explained...


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...funny you should mention it.

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The main difference between Cyclone Gabriel and most cyclones in this region is that this one missed Australia. No wind damage to speak of, but lots and lots of rain. I am in The South Island at the moment, which needs the rain. North and East of North Island have suffered lots of damage to roads and services. Therefore, the people unaccounted for are mostly because they have no communications.
 
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You guys do understand that cyclones and hurricanes are driven by temperature differential, right? So changes in the global average temperature aren't what causes those weather phenomena.

Rod Smith, P.E., The artist formerly known as HotRod10
 
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Logically, one should think that insulating the Earth would reduce temperature differentials. Then again, there is nothing logical about climate science.
 
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Real climate science would be as logical as any other science. However, when it comes to the climate, the science has mostly been abandoned, in favor religious activism and financial opportunism.

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