Buttle's World

24 October, 2006

An Inconvenient Truth?

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 15:34

I haven’t chased all the links down, but this could be inconvenient if your wagon is hitched to the anthropogenec global warming bandwagon. Seems the sun’s output has not been so steady – and visible radiation isn’t the thing to watch anyhow.

How big a deal is this indirect cloud effect? Huge, actually. In just 5 years it was responsible for a 2% decrease in low clouds (the kind that reflect incoming solar radiation by day) which, in turn, equates to an increase in surface warming of 1.2 Wm-2 from incident radiation — equivalent to some 85% of the IPCC’s estimate for the effect of all carbon dioxide increase since the Industrial Revolution.

California Ballot Propositions

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 8:15

Attention California Voters: Your official Buttle’s World Voting Guide is here.

1A Yes – Make it harder for the government to borrow money.

1B No – It’s a bond measure, so it’d be an automatic no even if it weren’t a whopping $19.925 billion.

1C No – A mere $2.85 billion bond issue. For the “poor and homeless”. Right.

1D No – An additional $10.416 billion in bond debt, anybody? No thanks.

1E No – A toughie. I’m going against Tom McClintock, but with Ray Haynes. What tipped the scales? It’s a $4.09 billion bond measure.

83 Yes – Strengthen Jessica’s Law, and oppose the endorsement of the CA Attorneys for Criminal Justice. What’s to decide?

84 No – You thought we were through throwing money on the fire? No! Here’s a $5.388 billion bond measure, which will really cost about $10.5 billion over 30 years. And for what? “Park Improvements” and “clean water”. If bond measures actually cleaned water, California would be flooded with distilled water by now.

85 Yes – Parental notification if a minor wants an abortion. Duh.

86 No – Tax cigarrettes to fund Emergency Room Services. What a stupid idea. Besides, I apply my own maxim: There is no such thing as a good tax hike, and there is no such thing as a bad tax cut.

87 No – The oil tax scam. If you’re even considering voting for this you’re too stupid to work a computer.

88 No – It’s a tax hike. “For the children” Pull the other one.

89 No – Public funding of campaigns. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

90 Yes – Perhaps the most important initiative on the ballot. Limits abuse of eminent domain. The lefties are howling about this one, because they want your land.

There you have it. As for other races (even in other states) just chant “Speaker Pelosi” as you enter the voting booth. You’ll do the right thing.

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