I think it's great that states aren't waiting for the US Congress to get moving -- hell, they could end up waiting a long time.

The Northeast has been pushing hard for a while, and they represent about 20-25% of the population. The West Coast has been doing the same, and they represent a bit less, about 17%. While they represent 40% of the population combined, we're only talking about 30% of the US Senate -- and therein lies the problem.

The climate change movement has got to get the Midwest and the Southwest on board. The Midwest has a big chunk of population, and is blueish. The Southwest has less, but NV and NM and CO have two senators too, and are also blue.

By not waiting around, the Northeast and West Coast are experimenting, finding out what works so that the Feds have a blueprint. Furthermore, they're generating support for those policies by demonstrating not only their effectiveness, but also that they don't "kill jobs" as the GOP is fond of claiming.

Fuel chemical energy is converted into heat energy to increase the internal energy of cylinder gas by a combustion process. Only a small portion (about 25%) is transferred into brake power. A major portion of converted heat energy is transferred into coolant load. For a GDI engine operating at one-third load, the thermal efficiency is same as at full load. Because of much lower combustion pressure and temperature, the coolant load per unit power output is much smaller. Operating at one-third load, a GDI engine can save 50% fuel as compared with that at full load. An automotive engine should be designed at one-third load to have enough power to propel a middle size car at 70 mph speed on highway and to provide full power momentarily when needed. A technical document full describing this matter can be obtained by request.

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The 2 Senator per State may not be very democratic.

And thank God for that!!! We are a representative republic, and for good reason. If we were a true mob-rule democracy we'd have all kinds of idiotic, and, yes, racist (see the democrats of the 1960's blocking racial equality while the republicans voted to pass equal rights), laws.

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Wow, the number of people who would fail a civics class is astounding.

"The 2 Senator per State may not be very democratic."

Yes it is, it makes sure that small states have an equal say, (Delaware = Texas).

Your representative resides in the House.

Having 25 small states block legislation from time to time is Infinitely Better than having a few populous states run the entire country.

"The Northeast has been pushing hard for a while, and they represent about 20-25% of the population. The West Coast has been doing the same, and they represent a bit less, about 17%. While they represent 40% of the population combined, we're only talking about 30% of the US Senate -- and therein lies the problem."

You do realize that 40% is not a majority.

" .. .. also that they don't "kill jobs" as the GOP is fond of claiming."

Claiming that reducing greenhouse gas emissions creates jobs is typical of the new "It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." morality.

It is not totally wrong - it does create 1 job while it elimiantes many (as our exports become even less competative) - and it DOES create jobs in China.

Meanwhile there is no scientific evidence of man-made greenhouse gas affecting climate. NONE. And France confirms this with the recent Supreme Court decision to strike down their cap n trade regulations.

Australia - voted down cap n trade.
France - killed cap n trade
USA - cap n trade dead in water
India - cap n trade IPCC corruption disaster
China - no caps on emissions
COP15 - total collapse of carbon market

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/pachauri-accusedmaking-%5Cfortune%5Ccarbon-trading-firms/380212/

Where will subversive markets get their money without carbon taxes??? They have to WORK for it???? The wheels on this wagon have fallen off.

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sulleny,

Just because H2O causes plant life to grow as much as an infinite percentage more than without it, and is an integral part of biological system - doesn't mean the EPA shouldn't declare H2O a "pollutant."

Socrates, Copernicus, Galileo, Martin Luther, Gandhi were also considered an endangerment to orthodoxy. Guess who turned out to be right??

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Goracle,
I followed your link and the second paragraph of your article states:
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"However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is therefore beginning to increase."

Perhaps you only read the headline.

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danm,

An excerpt from what you just posted: "...some studies have suggested..."

Reading comprehension is not a strong point of your, is it? Suggested. Please think while you copy and paste. Thinking IS allowed you know! Well, I take that back. Globalwarmists are NOT allowed to think while the vast majority of the population does think and looks at all sides of the yet-to-be-resolved debate. See the majority not believing human caused temperature changes of the Earth for proof.

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Goracle and collegues,

"No Rise of Airborne Fraction of Carbon Dioxide in Past 150 Years, New Research Finds"

Please, if you quote a title, interpret it accurately !

The study says that of every human gigaton of CO2 added to the ecosystem, the FRACTION that remains airborn remained approximately the same in the last 150 years. That means that for the last 150 years, about 45% of every gigaton remains in the atmosphere, and about 55% end up into the ocean and ecosystem. That means that still, for the last 150 years, every year the CO2-concentration increases in the atmosphere, and the increase increases ! At the same time the CO2-concentration continuously increases in the ocean (--> acidification)and other ecosystems. The percentage remains constant, but the increase increases even faster. That means that utnil now, the increase in atmospheric CO2 is attenuated because a constant FRACTION of the emissions is 'sequestered' in the oceans. BUT, the capacity of the oceans and ecosystems to absorb a constant FRACTION of the gigatons of human emissions seems to weeken. That means that in the (near ?) future, the FRACTION of CO2 emissions that stay airborn may even increase. That means that even when the total emissions don't increase, the atmospheric CO2-concentration will increase even faster than they do today !

A misinterpreted titel can be very convenient for people who like to dismiss even the most obvious scientific facts, it seems.

alain,

If you criticize someone else for not understanding what a scientific paper purports to say, as you correctly do, please make the interpretation correct.

What you say is NOT what the research indicates at all.

It merely says that the proportion sequestered by each natural sink remains the same. It therefore disputes a fall back proposal that warmist-hysterics have advanced, that natural sequestration avenues are saturating, thereby imputing more sky-is-falling, doom to follow.

The research merely says that there is no indication of saturation by any natural sinks. The proportions sequestered in various sinks remains the same.

An open issue is the residence time of CO2 in the atmosphere. Long held Science says its is but 5.7 years for the mixture of carbon isotopes present in CO2. (99+% C12) This has been checked numerous times.

The warmist-hysterics have advanced a much longer resident time proposal, with times varying from 25 to 300 years. Obviously longer resident times allow more CO2 to accumulate, and longer time to act, hence more power to warm the climate. But they have never proven their thesis.

It easy to show that there must be a 'missing sink or reservoir' for such to be possibly true.

They have NEVER been able to show a single experiment confirming such a thesis, nor have they ever found their mysterious 'missing sink-reservoir'. But the hysteric-warmists constantly promise the next experiment will find it.

The IPCC declared in AR4, that they will return to Henry's Law of 5.7 years residence time, if the warmist-hysterics don't find their mysterious 'missing sink'. Meanwhile new research results, constantly affirm the old Henry's Law residence time of 5.7 years.