You Lonny have shown us that you are not objective either. In fact you lick the boots of Anthony Watts.

Tim, you say you’re in favor of R&D and innovation, yet you discount any possibility of solar cells coming down enough in cost to compete — when in fact they have been coming down in cost, and getting more efficient.

I guess Paul Krugman cheated on his doctoral thesis, and bribed the Nobel committee. And Lord Stern, now there’s an economic nincompoop.

Regarding your continued assertion that there is no economic solution to CO2 in alternative energy, you need to explain why wind energy is a growth industry, why solar PV and solar thermal plants are being built, why Home Depot is beginning to sell do-it-yourself solar kits, and why geothermal and ocean energy are starting to get some investments. Sure, subsidies and tax credits are involved, but when has that not been true for fossil fuels and nuclear fission?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/02/24/nasa-talks-global-warming/comment-page-4/#comment-249552

Unfortunately all these books actually refer to Oxygen as “The Gas of Life”.
“Animal Chauvinist!”
The Blue Chick from Farscape…

LOL.

If I recall right her name was Zhaan, yes?

[Checks & returns] Yes indeed :

* Pa’u Zotoh Zhaan (Virginia Hey), a bald, blue-skinned female who belongs to a plant-like species, named Delvians. Once a Priestess of her religious order, Zhaan murdered her lover after discovering he was a Peacekeeper collaborator. Regarded as an anarchist by her captors, she was jailed along with D’Argo and Rygel. Like other members of her species, Zhaan is a telepath; she can share “unity” with other beings (two minds in one body, they can share thoughts, sensations…) and also, as a Pa’u, she is able to share pain with another being.

Good ole Wikipedia to the rescue as ever :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farscape#Main_characters

Hmm .. Very um “Pandoran Na’vi” like isn’t she? Wonder if there’ll be a plagiarism case on that?

PS. Yegods! 365 comments here now – one of everyday of the year? Clearly this is the topic de jour indeed.

There’s a PBS NOVA program you can watch online called ‘Extreme Cave Diving’ (see link below). In the last 50 years it’s estimated there’s been a ten fold increase in the amount of dust storms in the African Sahara Desert because of severe drought. It is theorized that thousands of years in the past, much of this generated dust from dust storms reached the upper atmosphere where it traveled thousands of miles settling near the blue hole rich Bahamas. Blue hole (underwater caves formed during the last ice) diver scientists have discovered climate change evidence on the cave walls, which have a thick layer of iron laden dust in them. The caves also contain ancient stalagmites. Cross-section samples of these formations show a distinct band of this iron laden dust in conjunction with periods of major climate changes during the last 80,000 years. IOW, what we’re experiencing with the increase of dust storms is fitting the historical pattern of accelerated and major climate change as recorded in stalagmites, and preserved in the (currently) pristine blue holes.

http://video.pbs.org/video/1405567128/ (41 minutes in for stalagmite discussion)

Of course, all of the climate change evidence that neatly corroborates with ice core sample findings (and other areas of climate research), will probably mean absolutely nothing to the scientific evidence rejectors and reality deniers. It’s just “natural changes” to them. I hope they’re right but I wouldn’t bet a penny on it. Some of these dramatic changes could happen in their lifetime or at the latest their children’s lifetime.