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Harnessing the Bay of Fundy tidal differences is still a gleam.

Harnessing waves is still another distant gleam. [Rogue waves … every seventh wave? … is still a challenge that just blows the mechanism away. Once upon a time, I got hired to design repairs to a pier out into the ocean that not only had waves, but also got battered to bits AND suffered from salt water corrosion.]

Not to mention the damage caused by hurricanes and other major storms.
 
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Oh, look, the sea level hasn’t risen in 100 years.

"Results

Analysis of the tide gauge data of Aden, Yemen shows that without arbitrary alignment of data, Aden exhibits very stable sea level conditions like those in Mumbai, India and Karachi, Pakistan, without any significant sea level trend.

Conclusion

The reconstructed tide gauge records of Aden, Mumbai and Karachi are perfectly consistent with multiple lines of evidence from other key sites of the Indian Ocean including Qatar, Maldives, Bangladesh and Visakhapatnam. The sea levels have been stable since the start of the twentieth century in Aden similar to Karachi and Mumbai."

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Is the Sea Level Stable at Aden, Yemen? - Earth Systems and Environment

Background The sea level records since the start of the twentieth century show oscillations with many periodicities up to multi-decadal. The sea level may then change because of local factors such as subsidence or uplift, and global factors such as mass addition and thermal expansion of the...
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We may be headed into a period of more volcano eruptions over the next couple of years. Hopefully they are nothing close to Tambora in 1815. If we got another year without a summer like 1816, that would be a real disaster. The largest eruptions since Tambora are Krakatoa, Novarupta and Pinatubo. For American readers, Mount St Helens is considered to be on the next tier below when looking at the VEI (Volcanic Explosive Index). Give that a thought with your coffee…
 
If the money spent on climate change research had been redirected into fusion research we would have solved the energy problem by now. Assuming, of course, that that was the real concern.

www.sciencealert.com

The UK Just Switched on an Ambitious Fusion Reactor - And It Works

The UK's newest fusion reactor, ST40, was switched on last week, and has already managed to achieve 'first plasma' - successfully generating a scorching blob of electrically-charged gas (or plasma) within its core.
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The below example of climate alarmism is valid research, but it doesn’t add anything to the discussion on how much or when the climate will warm.
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It is warming now. From NASA:
“Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.

Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occurring: loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves.”

 
I dunno … I keep reading articles about ships getting stuck in the ice. The ice is not supposed to be there. But there it is.
 
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plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner
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Not so’s you’d notice. Not around here anyway. I live in a climatic sub-zone that’s very narrow, north and south. It’s growing season for cool-season grasses is just long enough to allow full maturity and continuous grazing from mid to late March through June and into early July. The warm season is long enough for full development of warm season grasses from late June and early July into September/October, when the cool season grasses take over again. Therefore, if one does it right, one can graze cattle year-round and feed hay only when there is either ice on the ground or snow more than 12 inches deep. Here, neither hay-feeding condition lasts more than a day or two if it happens at all.

The zone is probably not more than 60 or 70 miles north and south, and even a small climatic change would be dramatically noticeable. And it hasn’t changed at all since I was a little kid.

So, say what they will, I’m not persuaded that climate change necessarily afflicts globally. I will, however, readily stipulate that climates in many places have changed, usually due to mismanagement of the land by human beings and the severe disruption of normal water cycles resulting from it.
 
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I dunno … I keep reading articles about ships getting stuck in the ice. The ice is not supposed to be there. But there it is.
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We’re in a long term warming trend and they claim victory because the ice has receded and sea levels have risen.

Their claims of rapidly increasing melt are from cherry picked data, not yet significant.
 
I don’t think that there is anyone who views receding ice and rising sea levels as “victory.”
 
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HCTC said:
I don’t think that there is anyone who views receding ice and rising sea levels as “victory.”
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Your NASA quote is equally explained by a general warming trend as it is by MMGW.
 
Warming has been going on since the last Little Ice Age ended 6000 years ago. Sea levels have been rising since then too. Long before heavy industry came on the scene in the mid-19th century. But so far the warming peak IMO was the Medieval Warming Period. During which the Vikings were growing wheat and brewing beer in Greenland. This has long been an inconvenient factoid that the MMGW’ers wish we didn’t know about. Wake me up when they start doing that again and you’ll get my attention.

In the meantime, it’s going to get dang cold over the next four weeks both here and in Europe.
 
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