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 This global warming fantasy continues to be dangerous to liberty :
CompuServe  Top News:    Clinton Warned of Global Warming
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With President Clinton addressing a United Nations
conference on global warming next week, more than 2,400 scientists are urging
him to call for stepped-up efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions. A
statement by the scientists urges the administration to endorse "early
domestic action to reduce U.S. emissions via the most cost-effective means"
as it works with other nations to craft binding controls on manmade pollution
linked to global warming. Senior administration officials were expected to
face sharp questioning today before a Senate subcommittee that wants to know
what binding commitments the president is ready to accept at an international
climate conference in Japan later this year. So far, the White House has said
it would commit to some mandatory reductions of carbon dioxide, but it has
not given any specific numbers on how much of a cut or a timetable. The
Europeans, meanwhile, have called for a 15 percent cut in carbon emissions by
industrial nations by 2010, compared with 1990 levels. Releases of manmade
pollution, mainly carbon dioxide from burning coal, oil and gas, are believed
by many scientists to be trapping the Earth's heat like a greenhouse, and
could lead to a warming of the Earth by as much as 6 degrees Fahrenheit over
the next century. Such warming would cause sea levels to rise and cause
widespread coastal flooding and other economic, social and ecological
changes, these scientists say. To access the CSi NewsRoom for additional news
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 AP if they don`t agree that miscellaneous samples of their product does more
 to advertize there offering than to dilute their revenue | BobA )

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Some data which needs explanation :
  Planetary surface temperatures .  From 1980  Time / Hammond  Almanac |
                %93E6 mi       incid rad     albedo    Obsvd srfc temp(F)
  'Mercury'        .387          6.7            .06          660
  'Venus'          .723          1.9            .76          890
  'Earth'         1              1              .36           70
  'Mars'          1.524           .43           .16          -45

 | Albedo == Reflectivity |

 I have long wondered why those concerned about human efects on global
 temperature never seem to consider the effects of human activity , e.g ,
 agriculture , on global albedo .

 

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Below are comments on a push for $135M for DoE Solar Energy support my
 ( SSA employed ) cousin sent me .
 It includes an example of the sort of off the cuff computations at which the
  CoSy/NoteComputer  continues to have no
 peer that I know of .

p.baer fulmer wrote:
 : "ASES" Wrote
> Mr. Udall's amendment would restore approximately $138M to the Department
> of Energy authorization.
> web site: www.ases.org
 If , as  http://www.ases.org/solarguide/fbhdt.html  asserts :
        Americans have consistently shown that they support the development
        of renewable energy sources.
  , Why does  Taken Money  have to go to as corrupt an organization as the
  DoE to -  do what ? supplement the free market ?

 Have you personally taken all opportunities to use solar power where you can
 . You have more of it in FL than we in NYC .

 I`m adding the bit below to  http://cosy.com/views/warm.htm .

A little bit of  CoSy  calculation :
 1.52 x 10 to the 18th power kWh/year to earth.
   From  American Solar Energy Society Factbase 
 D 1.52E18 %  365.25 x 12 |>| 3.46794433E14 | kW over daytime disk of earth .
 Earth Radius | 6.378E8 % 100 |>| 6378000  | meters .
   From  Physical Constants and Astronomical Data  by Chris Dolan
 Area of disk | circle r * 2 |>| 1.277964831E14
 P % r |>| 2.71  | watt % square meter .     |#|
 This would be the maximum energy density where the Sun is at the Zenith .
 I kind of remember hearing an number of around 4 W%M*2 . Emendations
 welcome .

 How many square meters is your roof .  How many kilowatts is your  AC ?
 Do you get by on ASES stated " average household uses 700 kWh each month or
 about 8500 kWh each year. "

 It is inconceivable to me that the  State  can add anything to the
 motivation of entrepreneurs to solve these problems .