Bill the climate models missed the predicted warming in the last decade significantly. They predicted much more than we actually had.

There are several numbers that are necessarily plugged into those models to calibrate them to past CO2 levels and global temperatures.

If the study in the BBC article I linked to above is to be believed that covers one of the major mysteries in why the CO2 warming models were off so much in the last decade. There are other "assumed" numbers in the models too.

Last I heard China was putting one coal fired plant a week online. China is the land of solar panel manufacturing. That indicates how worried they are about global warming and how much they are willing to sacrifice to stop it. And they have to import our coal. But it comes out even because they swap us solar panels for it.

Bobwhite have been on a decline for several decades. But fracking has only been around for ten years. Perhaps the sage grouse decline and fracking are not connected.

Last edited by AmarilloMike; 04/27/14 09:59 PM.

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