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Dusty Albedo is going to be my restaurant reservation name from now on. “Uh, Mr. Albedo? Mr. Dusty Albedo? Your table is ready.”

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I have been using 'Mr. Rusty Libido' for the last twenty years.

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Jan 26Liked by William M Briggs

I keep thinking that maybe "dusty" ice may be analogous to dusty/dirty solar panels. One cannot reflect enough heat to keep us from boiling like frogs, and the other won't produce power enough to keep us from freezing to death. Dust good and at the same time dust bad. More Bourbon is needed. 🥃🥃🥃

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Jan 27Liked by William M Briggs

And More Beer too!!!

Think of the world as a giant keg at constant pressure, lower the temperature and CO2 is absorbed in the Oceans; raise the temperature and CO2 is released.

These climate "experts" often boast that the glacial ages are proof that lower CO2 in the atmosphere found in ice cores caused cooling, therefore higher CO2 will cause heating..

when it's opposite.

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That's been my understanding too. Correlation between A and B can mean any of three things: A causes B; B causes A; or a third factor, C, causes both A and B.

If high atmospheric CO2 corresponds historically with higher temperatures, it may only mean that low temperatures cause CO2 to be locked in the oceans, while warmer weather releases it.

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I home-brew beer, carbonating with kegs and food grade CO2, it's definitely the case and it aggravates me that no one speaks of it. Thanks.

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Jan 26Liked by William M Briggs

I had to check the calendar. Thought it was Saturday for a moment.

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Jan 26Liked by William M Briggs

I;d call myself a Barometerist

More atmosphere (specifically water vapor) => Higher Pressure => Warmer

Less atmosphere (specifically water vapor) => Lower Pressure => Colder

Now that water vapor if it covers the sea as cloud stops more water vapor

It's the same as going up a mountain, it gets colder the higher you go, for exactly the same reason,

CO2 should block the sun during the day, and insulate during the night slightly less. Averaged out a slight cooling effect, and a lower daily high to low variance.

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Jan 26Liked by William M Briggs

We checked our junk mail and trash and then started to worry that something bad happened to you! You are so reliable sending your post early in the morning. We’re glad it was just a minor mistake. Have a nice weekend.

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http://www.glaciallakemissoula.org/

I live on Whidbey Island in the north Puget Sound area of Washington state. My home sits where 13,000 or so years ago was under a 1.5 mile thick sheet of ice. I love pointing this out to the vast majority of the people on this island who are rabid liberals who are all "Carbon" and "Climate Change". I tell them, "Thank God for Climate Change!" and "Support all life on Earth! Increase your Carbon output!". None of them are amused, much less able to see the disconnect I'm pointing to between hard facts and their fantasies.

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"effectively allowing scientists to “reconstruct past worlds.”"

Sigh...

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