Re: OT: How to profit from AGW?

On a sunny day (Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:37:42 -0800 (PST)) it happened Bill Sloman
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On Dec 26, 1:15 pm, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:47:17 -0800 (PST)) it happenedBill Sl=
oman
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 The oil companies are against global warming because that would =
mea=
n
 less oil exports because less would be needed for heating!!!!

But there would be more need for air-conditioning. My car does fewer
kilometres to the litre if I turn the air-condtioning on ...

That argument does not hold, airco is a luxury, while heating is a bas=
ic =
need.
Large parts of the world where it is hot, have no airco.
In parts of the world where it is cold _everybody_ uses heating of som=
e s=
ort.

The oil companies don't care whether it is a necessity or a luxury, as
long as it sells them more oil.

And mortality inceases as temperatures move away from the local
average, either up or down, so air-conditioning is no less a necessity
than heating; cold kills poor people everywhere, but the rich can
afford to heat their houses, and - nowadays - to cool them.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11772788

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

LOL,
well, I hope by now you have noticed that I do not take all that climate
modelling serious, and neither the blaming of oil companies for, or again=
st,
warming or cooling...
So I provided a counter argument, that may actually well be true.
How many in Africa have aircos?
How many (percentage of population) in South America have aircos?
India? Arab countries?
The whole third world?
Here is some more food for thought on 'warming' (apart from the freezing =
in Montana):
 Science has so many opinions on climate, this one is also fun:
  FIVE DECADES OF COOLING AHEAD:
 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj/browse_thread/thre.=
..

I went and found what seems to be the original paper as published in
Physical Review Letters on March 19, 2009

http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~qblu/Lu-2009PRL.pdf

It concentrates on the ozone hole formation within the Arctic and
Antarctic circles, and to this extent supports the ideas of H.
Svensmark and E. Friis-Christensen, but says absolutely nothing about
Svensmark et al's daft ideas about the effect of cosmic rays on cloud
formation, and certainly says nothing that could be interpreted as
predicting five decades of cooling to come.

Are you trying to compete with Ravinghorde for the honour of offering
the usegroup the least convincing evidence ever?

I think that 'honour' is still yours on the subject of A in AGW.
.

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