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Cook Your Lunch on The Asphalt: An Interesting, yet Disturbing Reality (Global Warming Menu)
BizEpic ^ | 6/12/14 | Ivan Widjaya

Posted on 06/15/2014 11:28:49 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

The central premise of global warming is that global temperature will increase as the concentration of CO2(ppm) in the atmosphere increases (increasing at an increasing rate as CO2 increases at an increasing rate.) The temperature measurements over the last 18 years do not support this hypothesis. How does cooking on asphalt?


21 posted on 06/15/2014 12:14:47 PM PDT by Old North State
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To: R_Kangel

>>we used to fry eggs on the pavement in the summertime..... probably for the last time we feared ... because there would be no more summers left for us to do it.

LOL. My “science” teacher in 2nd grade (1970) fried an egg on the asphalt and actually did remark that by the time we were 30, this would be impossible outside of the tropics. She was good hippie with her tie-dyed clothing and macramé vests and she felt so sorry for us kids as she told us about how we’d be in an ice age by 2000 and all the oil would be gone and even the coal would be gone by 2100.

She basically taught us to pray (to Gaia, of course) for a quick death in a nuclear attack because all the other futures were going to be worse.


22 posted on 06/15/2014 12:16:36 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: BwanaNdege

I lived a few miles from Hawley Lake the winter of ‘75 - ‘76. It was COLD up there in Pinetop. Hawley Lake routinely would pop up as the coldest place in the lower 48 during that time. It always was weird to think we beat Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota.


23 posted on 06/15/2014 12:17:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: nickcarraway

The troops cooked eggs on their tanks in WWII.


24 posted on 06/15/2014 12:18:03 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Asphalt was used for other purposes 1,000 years ago...mainly to trap unsuspecting critters.


25 posted on 06/15/2014 12:19:04 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: nickcarraway
All you skeptics are right, but why don't you post your comments at the source as well as here? That way some people will see them who really need to see them.
26 posted on 06/15/2014 12:19:09 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Bryanw92

Wow...how did you possibly turn out normal after that indoctrination at such a young, impressionable age? Are you normal?


27 posted on 06/15/2014 12:20:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

>>Wow...how did you possibly turn out normal after that indoctrination at such a young, impressionable age? Are you normal?

I’m sure I turned out very abnormal, by her standards. I’m an SSBN veteran, gun owner, V8 driver, Conservative, Christian, heterosexual who works for a utility company.

Actually, all those hippie teachers in elementary school taught me to look at hippies (and what they became later) with complete disgust. They have never been right in my whole life.


28 posted on 06/15/2014 12:27:10 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: nickcarraway

That has more to do with the sun heating a dark surface than anything.

Call me when they can cook crispy bacon on a clothesline on a cloudy day.


29 posted on 06/15/2014 12:28:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’ve lived in both NM and CO. Both states have towns that are regularly the coldest in the nation.


30 posted on 06/15/2014 12:29:05 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: entropy12
We did that 60 years ago growing up in India. Temps in my town reached 115 F in summer regularly. Nothing new here.

The newscasters were doing it in Houston Texas 60 years ago, it is an old visual for TV, going back for generations.

31 posted on 06/15/2014 12:31:34 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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My dad told me he cooked eggs on the tailgates of the trucks when he fought in North Africa during WW2.


32 posted on 06/15/2014 12:34:49 PM PDT by mware
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To: nickcarraway

Hmm...I’m wondering if those pans weren’t pre-heated by some other method before placing on the asphalt. I was watching that egg fry, and it appears there was enough heat to bring oil up to frying temp (see how it bubbles?) and fry the egg to perfection. I seriously doubt there was enough heat in that asphalt to heat up a metal pan and the oil (much less fry an egg to perfection) so quickly.


33 posted on 06/15/2014 12:38:23 PM PDT by DemforBush (A repo man is always intense.)
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To: nickcarraway

The sun is hot. Got it.


34 posted on 06/15/2014 12:45:48 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
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To: nickcarraway

Big deal! You could cook on the asphalt in Moab Utah, back in 1955.


35 posted on 06/15/2014 1:07:30 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: nickcarraway

Too bad they didn’t come to my house this past winter. They could have stored meat and ice cream on my driveway from December to March and it never would have spoiled.


36 posted on 06/15/2014 1:13:17 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

During the winter I throw some black rubber mats down on the concrete pad outside my back door to melt the ice.

-20 and it still melts the ice on sunny days.

Cold heat.


37 posted on 06/15/2014 1:13:31 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s hot in southern places. There’s nothing new about that. The advantage in places that far south, is that no one near sea level will freeze to death. In the near future, in northern places like the area that I live in, energy prices and shortages due to global demand might prevent heating houses at all.

In hot places, there are many remedies to survive heat without air conditioning (moist towels, plenty of hydration, etc.). In cold places, keeping warm enough to stay alive without conventional energy for heating may be much more of a challenge. And the new EPA rules against wood stoves, pellet stoves and hydronic boilers are on the way with the first phase in 2015 and the big phaseout of currently certified wood and pellet heaters (second phase) only five years later.

So in five years, most people in the north might be faced with the decision between moving south or spending tens of thousands of dollars for reburning, catalytic wood heating units that will continue to gobble gigantic amounts of wood (because they only burn hotter without adding huge amounts of thermal mass).

So if you think we’re heading for an economic TEOTWAWKI, it would be very advisable to stay in the south or move south.


38 posted on 06/15/2014 1:15:50 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: nickcarraway

There are also the extended solar minimum that we’re in now (fluctuations, mostly toward colder) and the magnetic pole deviation (weather pattern anomolies). There was a little relief because of the lower than usual regular solar maximum period including the last two winters. But fluctuations toward cold in the north may be extreme and becoming much more extreme each year for the next six years or so (weather anomolies lagging about a year behind solar trends).


39 posted on 06/15/2014 1:21:42 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop
The Michigan legislature aren't complete idiots.

Senate Bill 910: Ban enforcement of new woodstove emissions limits Passed 25 to 12 in the Senate on June 11, 2014, to prohibit Department of Environmental Quality from imposing new state regulations limiting emissions from woodstoves and heaters, or enforcing federal regulations that do this. The bill was introduced as news reports indicate that proposed federal Environmental Protection Agency rules would impose restrictive new limits on wood burning heaters.
40 posted on 06/15/2014 1:23:13 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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