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The Myth of CO2 Levels and Global Warming

admin — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:05:56 +0000

This is a graph that is readily available on the internet. The top graph (blue) is CO2; the red graph is temperature and the green graph is methane. This a plot of this data for 400,000 years. Don’t ask me how they knew the concentrations of the carbon dioxide, methane and the temperature even 200 years ago. This is the data from which all of the global warming claims have been made. There is a consistent trend in all three graphs: there is a spike about every 100 to 150 thousand years. There is another consistent trend in these three graphs: methane appears to spike before the temperature and CO2 spike. More importantly, the CO2 levels rise/spike to the highest level after the temperature spikes. The CO2 levels estimated at the current time are not much higher than the estimate for 140 thousand years ago and is below the estimate for 340 thousand years ago.

The scary graphs you are shown of the horrible rise in CO2 levels are a blow up of the graph of the last 100 years. Mankind has nothing to do with the oscillation of the temperature, CO2 and methane. This phenomenon is multi-variate and much like the proverbial question of what came first the chicken or the egg. What we can infer from this graph is that the increase in temperature occurs before CO2 increases. Some climatologists have said it is the activity on the sun that is responsible for the temperature changes. I wonder if anyone has compared the temperature of the earth’s core with the activity of the sun. Could be also be heating from within? This oscillation of temperature and CO2 has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years. In my opinion our industrial activities of the last 150 years cannot be the cause of the rise in CO2 levels. We are experiencing a global climate change but it changes all the time. What is normal? How would we really know; we have not been recording weather data for more than 115 years. Do not get dragged into this self-serving argument. We are not as significant as a volcanic eruption or a tsunami.

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Let’s Look at Rainfall Data for the Last 94 Years

admin — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:18:04 +0000

Florida’s Southwest Water Management District has the rainfall data for 16 counties in this area for the previous 94 years. I graphed three counties, two adjacent and the northern county in the district: Hillsborough, Polk and Levy. While there has been major fluctuation in all the counties, the oscillation has been between 40 inches and 80 inches in all three counties.

I recently read a paper by Naziha Azli and Norhafizah Ramli (University of Malaysia) regarding trends from climate data that oscillates. There are those who want to perform a regression analysis of the data to plot a straight line. In every case the straight line will be ascending which people translate to mean that the average temperature/rainfall, etc. is steadily rising. However, Azli and Ramli found that if you plot a random series of numbers that oscillate up and down as rainfall and temperature do, the regression analyses will always yield an ascending line. It is not appropriate to do this analysis on this type of data. When reviewing the rainfall data for this region, there is clear oscillation but no apparent change in the range. We cannot say from this data that rainfall is dropping or dramatically rising. It also depends on how you pull the data. If you look at the first 30 years of data for Hillsborough County, the average rainfall is 52 inches, which is considered the average for the area. If you pull 32 years different but consecutive years, the average is 62 inches. So what cycle are we in at any given time? Only God knows.

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Packaging Waste

admin — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:31:17 +0000

You know it costs us when the manufacturers put their medicine bottles in a small box. We must throw away that box when we get home. We then will pay for the disposal of that box. The container mostly functions to make it easy to ship those products and nothing more. It may add security for the product but there are other ways to do that. How much money could we all save if we stop this? Not only would the product be cheaper but we would reduce the waste stream and the cost of disposal.

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The ‘Simple’ Secret to Making a Positive Impact on the Environment

admin — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:01:02 +0000

Okay envirojunkies, if you really want to make a difference, start living like you are in a depression economy. Stop throwing away so many things. Stop buying new things because you want them when you do not really need them. Let’s stop talking about making biofuels and get down and do it. Think about how much vegetation is thrown away or burned or sent to landfills everyday. How much grass is grown just for your visual enjoyment? Why not use those cuttings for fuels? Just think what a difference each of us could make by living just a little bit simpler than we are now.

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Stormwater Issues 101

admin — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:00:35 +0000

The greatest source of pollution to our waters is from stormwater runoff. You are going to hear a lot about that in the weeks to come. We will have to do a better job maintaining the stormwater treatment systems like we do for our other utilities. It is time to re-think how we landscape; i.e., reduce the amount of sod used, choose sods that require little fertilization and don’t require sprinkler systems and capture stormwater for future irrigation. If we do not start building stormwater systems with this in mind, when we will get started? So much water is wasted and sent to the waste water treatment plants. Not all this water needs to leave the house or business. We need dual plumbing in the buildings; we need to be prepared to accept gray water even if it is not available now. What are you prepared to do for your part?

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David Hurley Landmark Engineering and Surveying Corporation

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:49:52 +0000

“I have worked with Rosanne for more than 30 years. During that time she worked for the Department of Environmental Regulation and, in the mid-1980s, went into private practice. I have absolute confidence in her advice and know she will work diligently to make certain everything runs as smoothly as possible.

During all my time working with Rosanne I found her to be dependable and honest. The word ‘integrity’ comes to mind when describing her.”

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