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Greenland Ice Sheet Not Covered In Soot
An anonymous reader writes with word of a a new study of the Greenland ice sheet led by Dartmouth adjunct assistant professor Chris Polashenski, which maintains that the darkening sensed there by satellites is not caused by dust and soot deposited by forest fires and industry, but rather by the slow degradation of the sensors on the satellites themselves.
[Polashenski] and his colleagues analyzed dozens of snow-pit samples from the 2012-2014 snowfalls across northern Greenland and compared them with samples from earlier years. The results showed no significant change in the quantity of black carbon deposited for the past 60 years or the quantity and mineralogical makeup of dust compared to the last 12,000 years, meaning that deposition of these light absorbing impurities is not a primary cause of reflectivity reduction or surface melting in the dry snow zone. Algae growth, which darkens ice, also was ruled out as a factor. Instead, the findings suggest the apparent decline in the dry snow zone's reflectivity is being caused by uncorrected degradation of sensors in NASA's aging MODIS satellites and that the declining trend will likely disappear when new measurements are reprocessed.
this is how they will explain away the other post from earlier stating that ice is growing. Blame the sensors!
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
One of the most important parts of performing real science is the act of critically reviewing past results when new evidence comes to light or new observations are made, and admitting that earlier conclusions may have been completely wrong.
Now that there's evidence to suggest that at least some of their claims may be wrong, will we actually see those who support the notion of "global warming" (or "climate change" or whatever it is being called today) review their work, and admit that they were wrong if it turns out that they were? Will we see retractions and apologies from them?
...observation of the truth. You're always looking through a sensor of some type.
I live near a large lake which has a number of buoys which sense temperature and water quality. NASA (JPL) uses this "ground truth" to calibrate their satellites temperature readings, etc.
Sounds like they need to do some "ground truth" for Greenland to recalibrate things.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
These surface images do seem to show lots of " Dark Ice
Morons
The sensors are climate deniers!
Conveniently Global Warming initiative somehow morphed into the Climate Change, or, more accurately, fight against Climate change. I have to believe that every educated person will agree that the only thing that is constant it is change itself, including climate. Climate is changing slowly, also changes in cycles and has many variables. And yes, human are f***king up the biosphere.
NASA has issued new study saying that Antarctica stated that since 1992, a lot of ice has been added to the continent this is the link to NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/content/g...
Most cynical opponents to those who were pushing Global Warming were citing that it was about the money and carbon tax in the particular.
I am convinced that in my lifetime I will see another initiative related to the fight against Global Cooling. As such Climate Change is much more convenient because bureaucrats can fight any change irrespective of the direction of the change.
Do you expect Retractions? There will be none. Part of the reasons is because those "99% of the scientists were non-existing from the beginning.
What you witnessed is a classical social manipulation, human tendency to conform and to be part of the group. If television tells you that "99% of the scientists" believe that Global warming is real, then you will probably accept additional carbon taxes easier.
The problem is that most of the scientists do agree that humanity is changing the earth. You no longer need to be a scientists to see that. For example, in Europe there are no more large populations of bears, tauruses, wolves and wild horses. These animals became extinct before industrial revolution. Last mammothes on Earth died when humans already knew how to write. Heck, some of the rhinoceros will probably be extinct this decade.
However most of discussions were about a) bankrupting US coal industry and closing coal factories (while China opens new coal electric plant almost every week) and b) imposing additional taxes on the taxpayers of industrialized nations.
"Does nothing!" says the low level systems administrators. They love their jobs in suburban office parks.
Who's stupid enough to believe this paid-for study?
humans are responsible for maybe .001% of fucking up the biosphere. One volcanic eruption does far more damage than decades of human activity does.
It is a certainty that we will see another initiative related to fighting Global Cooling, because our politicians always have to have a boogeyman in order to have a reason to spend more of our money. Global warming/cooling, ISIS/Al Qaida, etc. it's all fabricated bullshit to spend more money.
Acid rain is less of a problem now because we actually did something about it. Sulphur dioxide emissions in the US were cut in half resulting in less acidic rain.
Go anywhere that ice melts slowly and you will see that kink of darkness in the fall. That dark layer is covered up by snow next year.The question is whether or not the snow is darker that is was. Has that darkness been increasing? One set of photographs will not tell us that and even photographs over they years will not usually suffice as exposures, contrasts, medium will make a difference. To make a valid comparison there needs to be a common reference that is in all the pictures so that the brightness measurements can be calibrated. I seems that the satellite did not do that.
Do you know WHY the ice in one part of Antarctica is expanding? It's because fresh water from the ice melting on the land is flowing in to the ocean. It has a higher freezing point, so it forms ice more easily.
You've made the common reactionary fallacy that one (albeit wrong) argument against something discredits all the many ones that back it.
One volcanic eruption does far more damage than decades of human activity does.
Are you one of those people who thinks a volcanic eruption releases more carbon dioxide than human industry?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earthtalks-volcanoes-or-humans/
he said it does far more damage. not only focusing on a single output.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
But here is one thing *I* do know. Pollution is bad for us both economically and physically.
Then why are you not fighting pollution, instead of CO2 which plants need to live?
The whole problem I have with you WarmMongers is that you in fact have essentially ended the fight against real pollution to tilt against the CO2 windmill, all for the sake of making a few people (not you BTW) rich.
The EPA flooded a whole Colorado river system with toxins but people like you won't say boo about that because the EPA is on your "side". I'll bet you totally ignored THAT story despite countless river species outright kills and hundreds of miles of riverbank poisoned. That you dare to speak against pollution is frankly sickening.
No. The ice is thickening. Not running into the water. The edges, in fact, are retreating due to shelf collapses (which may well be the normal course of things... we don't have any kind of a baseline si that we can tell.)
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Picard: Are we sure the alien planet is gonna be poisoned by ass gas?
Data: Sensors confirm.
Riker: Run a level 5 diagnostic just to be sure.
Data: Running...oh yes. Sensors are old pieces of crap. Correcting...ah, nothing wrong with the planet.
Picard: Very good. I am beaming down for my vacation at Hedonism XVII. I heard they have androids in the form of ancient 21st century supermodels. Riker, you have the con. Cara, here I come!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Bet the media, who most likely trumpeted the alarm about man made global warming, causing "soot & dust" to melt the ice, WILL NOT BE RUNNING THIS STORY, that it was the SENSORS being the problem.
As it melts it gets darker. The water flows through the snow to the bottom while the impurities generally stay on the surface. When we get the next snow fall the snow is bright and white again and then as it melts it gets darker again.
Now if the second melt doesn't melt all of the second snow fall be for another fall and you dig into the snow you will see two bands where the previous melts extended to.
However if a melt melts all the way past the last snow fall you will notice the snow surface suddenly get darker when all the impurities of the layers meet.
So if the snow has been melting faster on greenland than it has been accumulating I would expect the snow to be getting darker and the darkness "jumping" each time the melting reaches then next melt band.
At least that is my experience watching our weird Ottawa winters.
Sulphur dioxide emissions in the US were cut in half resulting in less acidic rain.
Using a cap-and-trade system, as a matter of fact.
.: Semper Absurda
Fake argument dumb down distraction bs. Over half all bs comments are computer generated so idiots think there a more people reading or commenting than there are. On this bogus 'article' like every other propaganda bs idiots call 'media' - this 'greenland' and all 'climate' bs is jew bs to Distract from the fact of jew weather and physical assault chemtrail weapons.
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Virtually everything on the net is put out by them including the 'chemtrail' sites, 'jew truther' sites, all of it, thousands of bs sites to 'lead the opposition' so whatever 'level' of duped you still are, whatever is left you don't know they work to divert, distract, subvert. Don't expect the web to 'save' you. It's always been on you to grow up and make your own tribes in REAL LIFE. I put a few comments here but you are not going to 'fight' or stop them on the web. Use the web to spread info to those you know, tell them to do the same and get Off the web. Stop hiding behind idiot 'tech', get Off the web, give info to real people, handing out paper notes. Stop being a chicken shit afraid to meet real people in your own area. You cannot make a tribe 'online' to take real action. Here is a note to hand out -
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We are bei
- Also, jew trolls will probably jump on to distract from my post. 'anti semite' 'racist' 'tin foil hat', snivel bullshit or useless bs to distract. Get it straight 90% of all shit comments you see on the web are jews or computer generated bs posts. They do anything to distract so you Fail to get off your ass. Keep sitting and you deserve what you get. The info I post is for those who are enraged by the assaults on us and want to fight instead of die, who know freedom is nature anarchy and tribes, Not scum jew 'government' Not forced scum jew 'communist' shit, it's bashing down scum jew fraud 'government' 'states', scum jews and all parasite and immigrant parasite scum. Don't focus 'everywhere' focus where You Are. Make your own tribes. If there were enough tribes you could shut down the scum jew 'airports' THAT is where the mass of immigrants are swarming in. The fraud jews and co-frauds fake yammer 'close the borders' for two decades while idiots still buy their shit to distract from the AIRPORTS and their bullshit 'legal' immigration' attack is where the scum jew 'govt' is flooding them. The most important is to inform others using notes, now. Do it every day. For a couple of hours you could also hold up a sign by the road. For immigration hold up a sign by the road that says 'Stop ALL immigration NOW' and 'thezog.info'. But as or even more dire is our being sprayed assaulted with their scum nano chip chemtrails, hold up a sign, short simple, 'chemtrail virus' or 'nano chip chemtrails' and 'thezog.info' - isn't as much info but people will put it together, many know something's wrong but fail to see it's the massive scum JEW tribe behind it all. You reach larger numbers using a road sign, those who don't know it's the jews will at least get the core. By far using notes is better, you reach a medium number of people if you make the effort and with the note in the post above they would have the dire information so there is no dumbing down the danger, no denying the facts. Most of the masses are willful idiots, by giving out notes, those who want to fight to live have information on who is behind our destruction and can inform by passing on the information, and for those who are lazy scum idiots once you hand them info you take away their scum denial. Anyone who denies or refuses to give others info and do their part are the enemy the same as the scum jew 'govt' 'media'
'corporations', your scum jew 'neighbor who does the 'holo' snivel, anyone in the tribe and anyone who denies or refuses to do anything is the enemy. Keep going until you find others like yourself.
Go where there are crowds, two people can hand out a hundred notes in an hour, the note in post above written to self replicate, directs to pass it on, otherwise idiots decide because you hand them a note that 'someone else' is 'handling it'. That's why the massive scum jew tribe all over 'media', all 'corporations' all the fake 'opposition' groups do their fake 'argue' bs so scum dupes think because someone is bitching on the radio they don't have to do anything. Idiots to stupid to see that two hundred years of bogus 'founders' lies and jew yammer bullshit 'media' never does anything because That's what it's for, to distract and divert idiots, tell idiots 'write to cognress' 'join our group', 'donate' all bs to subvert idiots now the mass jew tribe and their scum co-frauds in 'govt' are assaulting us, spraying you, flooding in more parasites, getting ready for the big cull. Being able to line this out took years and work and experience and sacrifice including by others. There is no 'easy way' out, your scum breeders and their breeders ignored it all, now you have to get off your ass if you want to live. I've handed you the tools, use them or you will die and deserve to die. Life is only for those who fight and conquer, the scum jews have nearly conquered you, they chipped you they're going to kill you and the chips enslave the rest. Get off your ass, take back the power water companies and farms they stole, bash down scum fraud 'governme
Conveniently Global Warming initiative somehow morphed into the Climate Change, or, more accurately, fight against Climate change. I have to believe that every educated person will agree that the only thing that is constant it is change itself, including climate. Climate is changing slowly, also changes in cycles and has many variables. And yes, human are f***king up the biosphere.
Your stage of denial is 3, and you are implying a appeal to nature fallacy. Here are the relevant links:
http://grist.org/climate-energ...
http://grist.org/climate-energ...
NASA has issued new study saying that Antarctica stated that since 1992, a lot of ice has been added to the continent this is the link to NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/content/g...
See here: http://grist.org/climate-energ...
Most cynical opponents to those who were pushing Global Warming were citing that it was about the money and carbon tax in the particular.
... are you arguing that now? Do you think scientists are warning about human-made global warming for money and the carbon tax?
I am convinced that in my lifetime I will see another initiative related to the fight against Global Cooling. As such Climate Change is much more convenient because bureaucrats can fight any change irrespective of the direction of the change.
Here is some information about various cooling claims:
http://grist.org/climate-energ...
http://grist.org/climate-energ...
http://grist.org/climate-energ...
http://grist.org/climate-energ...
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
Only paid jew trolls mocks scum getting 'paid' and pretend to 'want to get paid' to post bullshit, millions of scum jews Are paid by jew fraud 'government' and their scum 'holo' fraud, all the bogus 'media', fraud 'alternative media' 'sports' 'cooking' millions of jews and israelis posting comments all distraction while the tribe finishes its takeover an world cull plans. Over half all bs comments are computer generated so idiots think there a more people reading or commenting than there are.
click show all comments button - Also slide bar over otherwise or there are still hidden posts. See - jew weather weapons - post
Capn' Trade?
Is that the cereal that abrades off the skin on the roof of your mouth?
Woosh. Pun?
.: Semper Absurda
The global warming effect ! www.lombokwandertour.com
Conveniently Global Warming initiative somehow morphed into the Climate Change
Yes the US government deliberately changed the terminology in the early 2000's, both phrases are technically correct but have different meanings, both phrases have been (properly) used by researchers since the 1950's. Frank Luntz (GWB's political advisor) suggested the change in official communications to sow doubt about the science in a now infamous memo. It backfired, so the GOP tried to pin the charge of "doublespeak" on the scientists.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Debunk this - smarter people with far more resources than you have tried and failed.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Must? Says who?
I would instead point you at all the evidence of political manipulation by industry to discredit the scientific process, and cause you to come to that conclusion... but it would be a waste of my time because you've decided you'd rather not change your behaviour.
Greenland Ice Sheet Not Covered In Soot
Somehow read that as "Not Covered in Snot".
Oh. Oh dear. Better give up on that posting on the internet idea, huh?
It's interesting how even in the face of absolute proof your hippy-scare-tactics are wrong, you debate the matter with rhetoric.
Seriously, is GL dead? This research coupled with some some stuff I read last week (not the anti-GL hack sites either), it appears that Global Warming is cooling down. I sense Al Gore is quietly backing down.
NASA or some other agency/political group made some alarmist statement that the ice on Greenland was getting darker without bothering to ask anyone on Greenland what they were seeing?
humans are responsible for maybe .001% of fucking up the biosphere.
Citation needed.
One volcanic eruption does far more damage than decades of human activity does.
Volcanoes worldwide, including undersea volcanoes, release between 145 and 260 million tons of CO2 every year. The Taichung Power Plant in Taiwan, the largest coal-fired power plant, releases 40 million tons of CO2 every year. That's 1 powerplant releasing between 15% to 27% of the total volcanic output of the planet. China releases over 10 billion tons of CO2 every year. That's at least 38 times as much as all volcanic activity.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
...to not know those sensors were degrading, and just goes to show that much of whats passed off as "science" is actually social manipulation.
Normally, when someone makes dire claims, and is incompetently wrong, there's some sort of consequences for the people making the claims.
I doubt this incident will sway many people, as people in general tend towards a childish conformity, and the internet helps maintain that with the same tired crap as always; superstition, fear, and rage.
YOU say "hosts=bad" (but they add security, speed, & reliability) & bitch on admin privelege to UPDATE vs. threats:
"So, have you figured out why privilege escalation is a bad thing yet?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:15PM (#50577809)
Hypocrite - You use admin priv admitting it
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How else can I programmatically update hosts minus it in Windows?
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"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)
You FINALLY later admit there's no other way!
FACT:
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS you use admin privelege (you saying it's "bad" too?) it can't do its job fully otherwise, like many security tools do!
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Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET says hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) does-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts hosts & recommends my APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
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* HOW MANY SECURITY PROS DO I NEED TO KNOCK THE CHOCOLATE OUTTA YOU?
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Those security pros INCLUDE me: I work w/ guys from malwarebytes' hpHosts on a regular basis!
I've professionally worked for decades as a combined domain-wide network admin & software engineer since 1994 (Even showing you HOW to migrate a hosts across an enterprise-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )
I've also been securing computers + WRITING GUIDES using CIS Tool (who took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... - bonus) http://www.bing.com/search?q=%...
You told me you learn from guides?
I write good ones that MILLIONS USE & was PAID FOR IT http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...
+ WARES TO PROTECT USERS that are endorsed & hosted by security pros -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
You did all that? No!
(& that's ONLY a SMALL part of what I could put out)
APK
P.S.=> You're all TALK -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & a "ne'er-do-well" in security... apk
A former musician, Coby Beck, writes about climate on Grist, and you want us to accept him as an expert on climate.
That is stupid.
I am a physicist, a real expert on stuff like that, and I know that the global temperature has not increased for almost 20 years.
I am a physicist, a real expert on stuff like that, and I know that the global temperature has not increased for almost 20 years.
Really? NASA Link for Average Global Temperature since 1884
Have you read this Scientific American article from 2010?
Or maybe you haven't seen this NOAA Graphic that says, "August 2015 average global land and ocean temperature was the warmest August since records began in 1880."
How come Slashdot never gets Slashdotted?
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
False positive: I've wrote 'em long ago, no response vs. 60++ REPUTABLE sources (not nobodies) below that fries you Coren22!
Is that YOUR fake site for MORE LIES Coren22?
Lying about me LIKE YOU DID HERE punk? -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ??
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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
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It's safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
More "SALT IN YOUR WOUNDS" -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
APK
P.S.=> /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
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Amicusnycl sourcecode needed from you that you wrote blowhard. Why'd you run from apk's fair challenge to you http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ? Is it since you're lame lying ass can't backup his bullshit and your lying mouth wrote checks your lying ass can't cash? Yes.
distraction scum jew. I post the facts and links so others can use the net to send them to others then get OFF the web and use the info and notes/links to meet others and make tribes to stop your scum tribe. You want dupes stuck 'living' on the web so they fail to meet real people and make tribes to stop you before your tribe finishes the coming cull. fuck off.
- others, see jew weather weapons post above. use the info. use the notes to hand out, no one will do it for you -
Trying to read the fucked up way you write's confusing: Your primitive grunts != human language! Dear slashdot: Make a translator program for dave420 trollspeak please! The moron doesn't know how to write! I read and understand everyone else here but not his hieroglyphic troll encryptions he thinks are intelligible written words!
"APK doesn't think that DNS servers are worth running and seems to believe that somehow Microsoft Active Directory can run without DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:58PM (#50811615)
Where'd I say AD will run minus DNS Coren22? I've said AD = internal network DNS dependent as far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
(Searching this in BOLD "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers!" referring to OpenDNS suggestions for those using AD stupid in the POSTS BEFORE IT in my security guides for users (geared to stand alone single machines no less), & right there on that page proves it stupid - so even if you posted as myself someplace here on /. "impersonating me", I have your ass NOW, shithead!)
I've also stated MANY TIMES I use remote DNS in OpenDNS @ home (but not @ work on AD networks + exchange/outlook: Free OpenDNS model doesn't work with AD dependent Exchange + Outlook specifically you lying little imbecile).
I also don't hardcode in "every site there is under the sun" is why, so I have to use DNS, but OpenDNS & rarely.
I also RARELY MISS A LOOKUP since I put where I spend a good 95++% of my time online in my favorite sites into hosts @ the TOP of hosts for utmost LOCAL FASTER RESOLUTION SPEEDS and more reliability vs. Open DNS (not OpenDNS) resolvers being abused, Kaminsky redirect poisoned DNS servers (of which 99.999% of ISP DNS are not proofed against to this very day even though a patch exists which OpenDNS uses), rogue DNS servers, and yes ROUTERS with bushwhacked by malware DNS settings (happening a LOT lately).
Hardcodes in hosts are faster than remote DNS, waste less resources than local dns in power, cpu cycles, RAM, & other I/O by FAR considering ALL THE PARTS of such a setup in programs, data, I/O, & power (especially if setup as a separate machine).
APK
P.S.=> You're a disgusting liar... apk