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- Fri May 23, 2008 8:25 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Article: 60% of oil price is speculation
- Replies: 150
- Views: 85610
Shrub's greatest enduring achievement will be moving the country effectively to the Left. Best since Hoover for doing that, and the GOP's current insistence on "market solutions" to the various market meltdowns is only doing it all the more. Therein is the disconnect. The right confuses Adam Smith ...
- Tue May 20, 2008 3:23 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Article: 60% of oil price is speculation
- Replies: 150
- Views: 85610
Re: Speculation
We're gonna reach about $175 - $200 /bbl in a year or two by best estimates, At what point does a world depression impinge on those estimates ? Or are you refering to the falling dollar, and not the world price for oil ? World price. Goldman Sachs got it right, and they're telling us again. " Earli...
- Tue May 20, 2008 2:57 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Article: 60% of oil price is speculation
- Replies: 150
- Views: 85610
How ever many layers of complication you like to consider regarding futures and derivatives etc., etc., Oil get mined oil gets burned and made into plastics and the difference goes towards increasing inventories or decreasing them. Whether that oil is waiting to be bought or booked for the future. ...
- Mon May 19, 2008 4:23 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Article: 60% of oil price is speculation
- Replies: 150
- Views: 85610
Speculation
I think the whole question of speculation is not bidding up the price of oil in hand but of bidding up the price of oil futures, through futures contracts and in the murky world of futures derivatives. I don't think for a minute this is primarily to blame, however, but just adds to the problem we ha...
- Sat May 17, 2008 1:40 am
- Forum: Fund-Raising
- Topic: Other methods to raise money
- Replies: 32
- Views: 36695
In 1908 the consensus was our Galaxy comprised the entire universe. And they thought they had nearly nailed down all the laws of physics. So? Did they have access to data and inforamation at the time that said otherwise? Instead of looking at an example about when they were wrong, look at WHY they ...
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:41 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Economic turmoil
- Replies: 71
- Views: 55789
Positive feedback after a man made increase of C02
Any model or view based on the premise that CO2 levels follow temperature has a huge burden of proof to overcome that always is ignored, and probably impossible to show. OK. Here is a possibility: 1. The oceans hold as dissolved CO2 50X the CO2 in the atmosphere 2. If you heat the oceans they hold ...
- Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:20 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Economic turmoil
- Replies: 71
- Views: 55789
Yes I do. It's not your classical thermometer, but... anyway - here are my readings. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/vostok_isotope.html You have what everyone else has -- a proxy. Regardless of the "thermometer" used, asserting that there is a relationship between CO2 and ...
- Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:24 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Atmospheric Models
- Replies: 72
- Views: 29195
Prediction throuth Chaos.
Chaos dictates that we should put very little faith in climate models. We don't know what all the variables are, much less any details of projecting states in the future through the interrelationship of the variables. We can count on the individual variables, however. We know this: An increase in th...
- Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:45 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: A Green Wants to Reduce the Numbr of Humans on Earth
- Replies: 143
- Views: 58526
The difficulty I see in raising the standard of living for all is it only gets raised for those with jobs, and that modernisation is all about reducing the number of jobs to reduce costs. Perhaps if you had a way to share things out a little better, you wouldn't end up with so much povety. I think ...
- Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:58 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Atmospheric Models
- Replies: 72
- Views: 29195
- Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:05 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Atmospheric Models
- Replies: 72
- Views: 29195
Thanks for the reading material; intresting stuff. I'll have to get back to it along with the material Simon posted. I see two indicators from Jared Diamond's books that climate warming was more extensive than Europe alone. One is the westward movement across the Canadian Arctic of the Eskimos. The ...
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:52 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Atmospheric Models
- Replies: 72
- Views: 29195
Pretty powerful for a trace gas.
The Mann analsysis was a real eye-opener for me. Much of it turns out to be based on tree growth analysis -- which for some species is actually more sensitive to CO2 than temperature. So they were actually measuing CO2 levels, not the effect of CO2 levels on temp. Also, Mann's "hockey stick" says t...
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:48 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: A little bit of news from Alan Boyle @ NBC.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18771
That's interesting, I had thought they were already testing. Maybe this interview was done prior to the blog entry, or perhaps Nebel means "testing" in a more formal "official results" sense. Or is it possible they're setting up to do some POPS experimenting in addition to validating the WB-6 data?...
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:01 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: A little bit of news from Alan Boyle @ NBC.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18771
A little bit of news from Alan Boyle @ NBC.
There is a paragraph about Dr. Nebel's efforts. Good, but I thought experiments were underway. As all of us, I get a little steamed about the "pittance" thing....
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/ ... 51992.aspx
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/ ... 51992.aspx
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:10 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Atmospheric Models
- Replies: 72
- Views: 29195
I can't believe the value of an atmospheric model can be in the result; A terrible model is a terrible model even if it agrees accurately with a good one. Similiarly, two good atmospheric models can disagree in the predicted result. Moral: Don't try to predict the weather more than 5 days out. Maxwe...