Prof. Roger Pielke Jr: ‘There have only been 20 EF1+ tornadoes observed so far this year (lowest since 1953). The average by Apr 21 is 157’
There have only been 20 EF1+ tornadoes observed so far this year (lowest since 1953). The average by Apr 21 is 157–http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/
https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/458364512517644288…
Pot Growers Now Using Energy-Saving, Climate-Friendly Lighting For Indoor Growing, German Daily Reports
Pot Growers Now Using Energy-Saving, Climate-Friendly Lighting For Indoor Growing, German Daily Reports
Berlin’s leftist, climate-cultie TAZ here reports on how indoor pot growers are switching over to LED lighting to grow their clandestine cannabis. Like, we’re saving the planet too, dude!
Image cropped from Cheech and Chong film: Up in Smoke, Paramount Pictures.
The TAZ article features a photo of a US grower with the caption:
Indoor growing in Denver: Works better with LED lamps and supposedly more environmentally friendly.”
The problem with regular lamps is that they consume up to 600 watts per square meter and lead to really high (no pun intended) electric bills. Not only does this cut into growers’ profits, but excessive power consumption also raises suspicions at the power companies. The energy saving LED lights now do a better job at hiding suspicious electricity consumption and at the same time solve the problems of keeping the growing basement or garage cool, the TAZ writes.
There’s another security advantage: high electric bills are not the only way of detecting illegal indoor growing activity, the TAZ writes that the German government, for example, uses helicopters equipped with infrared cameras to sense the heat generated by indoor growers. The TAZ writes that this method of detection will have a much more difficult time now that growers are switching to the low-energy LED lighting.
Another savings, the TAZ writes, is that LED lighting with a rating of 50,000 hours have a far longer lifetime before they burn out.
Now comes the really good news for cannabis connoisseurs: LED light frequency can be precisely adjusted and thus help to yield crops that have premium quality, i.e. more high for the light.
Wow, now growers can feel good about growing climate-friendly pot. And potheads will soon be able to smoke weed without leaving a much of a carbon footprint. Smoke a joint – save the planet!…
Warmist claim: ‘Sea level rise is already happening, and its continuation is inevitable’ – Reality Check: ‘Sea level has been rising for 20,000 years – when it was 120 metres lower and people walked across the Bering Strait. It has nothing to do with Mann-made CO2’
Unprecedented Low Tornado Activity Continues: ‘2012 was the slowest tornado year on record until it was beaten by 2013 – and 2014 is tied with 2013 so far’
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/unprecedented-low-tornado-activity-continues/…
Greg Carbine of NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC): ‘Likely the slowest start to tornado activity in any year in modern record, and possibly nearly a century!’
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/21/tornado-season-so-far-may-be-slowest-in-a-century/…
U. S. in ‘strong tornado drought’ – ‘At 152 days on April 18, 2014, the span between EF-3 or stronger tornadoes is the 4th longest span between in the last 60 years’
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/21/tornado-season-so-far-may-be-slowest-in-a-century/…
Flashback1921: Global Warming And Drought Caused Avalanches, Glacial Melt, And Snake Bites
Flashback 1914: Royal Geographical Society: ‘Is the world drying up?’ – ‘Professor Gregory said that in recent years they had often been warned that a great climatic change was now carrying the world, slowly and irresistibly, towards world-wide drought.’
The Mercury Saturday 6 June 1914
Professor J. W. Gregory, F.R.S., has discussed a most interesting problem before the Royal Geographical Society—Is the world drying up?
“Professor Gregory said that in recent years they had often been warned that a great climatic change was now carrying the world, slowly and irresistibly, towards world-wide drought.
Bjørn Lomborg: ‘Climate policies can end up costing more than 11% of world’s GDP’ – ‘We ought never to have entertained the notion that the world’s greatest challenge could be to reduce temperature rises in our generation by a fraction of a degree’
Lomborg Excerpt:
We live in a world where one in six deaths are caused by easily curable infectious diseases; one in eight deaths stem from air pollution, mostly from cooking indoors with dung and twigs; and billions of people live in abject poverty, with no electricity and little food. We ought never to have entertained the notion that the world’s greatest challenge could be to reduce temperature rises in our generation by a fraction of a degree.
Following the release of the Stern Review, one British newspaper reportedly wrote: “Act now or the world we know will be lost forever.” Being accurate is less sexy, but much more informative.
What makes this story all the more amazing is that experts have known almost all of these facts for a long time. The Stern Review was produced by bureaucrats and never subjected to peer review. Economists knew that the damage costs had been extensively massaged, and that the estimates were outliers compared to the academic literature. The unfathomably low projections for policy costs were artifacts of ignoring most liabilities, again contradicting the academic literature.…
New Study by Dr. Indur Goklany: ‘Global Warming Policies Might Be Bad for Your Health’ – ‘Issues of poverty like malnutrition and unsafe water have a global impact of death and disease 70 times larger than that of theoretical climate change’
http://www.cfact.org/2014/04/07/global-warming-policies-are-bad-for-your-health/…