After first mission failed in 2009
NASA will launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) on Tuesday to further scientific understanding of carbon dioxide emissions, the agency’s first mission to study greenhouse gases.
The $468 million mission will allow scientists to record detailed carbon dioxide measurements, contributing crucial information to the incomplete understanding of “where all of the carbon dioxide comes from and where it is being stored when it leaves the air,” according to a statement.
President Obama has already determined that evil CO2 comes from US coal burning power plants, but NASA still needs another $500 million satellite to confirm this settled science.
I would expect this new NASA CO2 tracking Satellite to beam in on all the Gas and Coal burned in China … but alas… I’m willing to bet they will only focus on the USA and Europe.. cause we’re eViL
” … to beam in on all the Gas and Coal burned in China … ”
The “Great Thin Veil of China” will be erected to prevent this …
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““where all of the carbon dioxide comes from and where it is being stored when it leaves the air,” ”
mmmmmmm…..technical.
This is interesting in that I have always questioned why no has really queried the CO2 figures that get used. I believe they only come from a few places –main one being Hawaii. Everyone says it doesn’t matter as it mixes in the atmosphere quite quickly. Well if they are fiddling the temps why shouldn’t we suspect the CO2 data??
Basically there is only one ‘official’ source for CO2 measurements, so how would anyone know if they were ‘fixing’ things?
Look at the eruption reports for the couple of days right before it first broke 400…not saying that there’s any ‘fixing’ going on…but it is a bit suspicious, to me, that much less than 20 miles from the monitoring station is a fairly active volcano.
Same here, since that is the basis of everything that follows.
RossP says: “This is interesting in that I have always questioned why no has really queried the CO2 figures that get used….”
The CO2 figure are more fraudulent than the temperature record. See the following:
A roundup in layman’s terms by Dr Tim Ball:
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/exposing-the-global-warming-myth-co2-levels/
“180 YEARS OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 GAS ANALYSIS BY CHEMICAL METHODS” by Professor Beck:
http://antigreen.blogspot.com/2007/03/real-history-of-carbon-dioxide-levels.html
The REAL CO2 measurements for the last 180 years – GRAPH: http://www.biomind.de/realCO2/bilder/CO2back1826-1960eorevk.jpg
CO2: The Greatest Scientific Scandal of Our Time by Dr Zbigniew Jaworowski, includes
Testimony before Congress (click on pdfs)
http://www.warwickhughes.com/icecore/
Questioning the CO2 Ice Hockey Stick (Another good layman’s explanation)
Introduction to paper below: Do glaciers tell a true atmospheric CO2 story? by Prof Z Jaworowski, Prof T V Segalstad and N Ono
http://www.greenworldtrust.org.uk/Science/Scientific/CO2-ice-HS.htm
Carbon cycle modelling and the residence time of natural and anthropogenic atmospheric CO2: on the construction of the “Greenhouse Effect Global Warming” dogma. by Dr.Tom V. Segalstad
http://www.co2web.info/ESEF3VO2.htm
THE ACQUITTAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE
by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD
http://www.rocketscientistsjournal.com/2006/10/co2_acquittal.html
ON WHY CO2 IS KNOWN
NOT TO HAVE ACCUMULATED IN THE ATMOSPHERE &
WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH CO2 IN THE MODERN ERA
by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD
http://www.rocketscientistsjournal.com/2007/06/on_why_co2_is_known_not_to_hav.html#more
THE FINGERPRINT OF THE SUN IS ON EARTH’S 160 YEAR TEMPERATURE RECORD, CONTRADICTING IPCC CONCLUSIONS, FINGERPRINTING, & AGW SOLAR GLOBAL WARMING by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD
http://www.rocketscientistsjournal.com/2010/03/sgw.html
So yes CO2 measurements have been questioned.
We know where most of it comes from, the ocean. And where much of it goes, the ocean. Send me the money so I can quit living in this hell hole called Obamaland.
It suspect that had this been the first five hundred million spent studying CO2 contributions by anthropogenic sources, it probably would have saved trillions.
The reason the other two, this is the third version being sent up, died is that the only area that was showing marked warming was a small section of the Maryland-Virginia border, along the Potomic River. The other two couldn’t cope with it, so they, in the way all good robots should do, committed suicide.
Or the Gore-effect even takes place in space…
“The OCO-2 has a planned operational life of 2 years.”
You’ve got to me kidding me! Half a billion big ones, for 2 years?????
This scientific establishment is getting psychotic. This latest ‘Co2 satellite’ kinda reminds me of the ‘pixel-counting Arctic sea ice’ issue. It’s like, ‘let me count all the pieces of dirt in my house’.
My understanding is that OCO-2 will study sources and sinks of CO2. I’m all for it, as the science is not settled. Basic science research is a good thing. But I really hope it’s actual lifetime is longer than 2 years, and that 2 years is just the length of the primary mission.
The money would be better spent as a “thanks” to everyone involved in the Apollo program by giving each one a grand.
BBC headline Nasa satellite to seek ‘missing carbon’ who knew it was?
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28089165
It’s models all the way down.
However, to locate the sources and sinks, scientists will need to combine this information with models that estimate how CO2 is being moved and mixed through the air.
Evermore cr4p for your buck.
Indian Mangalyaan satellite mission to Mars is 9 times lower cost than NASA Maven Mars mission
India’s recently launch of a spacecraft to Mars with a mission cost of $75 million. Just days after the launch of India’s Mangalyaan satellite, NASA sent off its own Mars mission, five years in the making, named Maven. Its cost: $671 million. The budget of India’s Mars mission, by contrast, was just three-quarters of the $100 million that Hollywood spent on last year’s space-based hit, “Gravity.”
http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/07/indian-mangalyaan-satellite-mission-to.html
They spend $500M on a satellite to track a trace gas that is vital to plant life and therefore practically all surface life for all the wrong reasons.
That money would have been better spent on tracking and eradicating the EBOLA outbreak in Africa, if they think Climate is dangerous by comparison they really are completely deluded.
If that spreads beyond Africa they will get their 70% reduction in world population.
Oh great, just what we need. That is one heck of a nasty disease. But at least it will be a TSA agent that comes down with it first….
Remember the first 2 blew up!!! http://johnosullivan.livejournal.com/31536.html
Nah Eboli wont leave africa we dont eat bush meat like the Saudi SARS we don’t drink camel urine
Ebola is passed human to human by any bodily fluid, it has already spread out of the initial area, there have been 690 cases and 390 Deaths.
It has already spread to 60 locations in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
With Air travel it could be in the UK & USA in 24 hours, so be afraid, it is no joke.
See
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/26/health/ebola-outbreak-west-africa/index.html
or Google it.
Whoops! Looks like Al Gore has visited the Vandenberg Air Force Base. NASA Boondoggle satellite postponed:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/25912658/nasa-scrubs-launch-of-global-warming-satellite
Settled Science Requires A New $500 Million satellite
This might be one of your best headlines ever, Steve.
Murray Salby already collected and analyzed satellite data on CO2 emission and absorption. That’s why he got fired from his position as chair of climate science because the data didn’t tell them what they wanted to hear.
The first one already found the primary source of CO2 when it zeroed in right in the ocean about 4 minutes ofter takeoff.
Actually, the CO2 sources have to be modeled from the satellite data, and this is not a joke. Meaning that the satellite data can literally be adjusted ad libitum
[Are we going to attract some trolls to argue this point???]
I still don’t understand why we don’t sound carbon dioxide like we do temperature, dew point, air pressure, and winds using our weather balloons. After all, if carbon dioxide was so important to the climate, it’d have to be important to current weather, wouldn’t it? Really. We know that forests affect the local weather. We know cities affect the local weather. We know that bacteria affect cloud seeding (and Saharan dust) and thus the local weather of the affected sections of the planet. We know that climate is a summary statement of previously realized weather, so knowing more about every factor that could improve weather forecasting should propagate to climate forecasting, shouldn’t it? 😛
Are there any measured physical properties of CO2 that could influence weather?