IIRC, the problem happened where the wire was under the screw on the socket and thought it was from oxidization. If there was stuff to stop the oxidization, it wasn't well advertised back then.
Yes, turbines kill some birds, so do windows in buildings, which kill more and those same buildings disrupt the wind. Then there are cats, which kill many more birds, but at least don't disrupt the wind unless you plant trees for the cats to climb.
When I was a kid, my Dad installed some aluminium wiring in the house. After a couple of sockets started smoking, he ripped it all out and replaced it with copper. Aluminium has its place in wiring, but so does copper.
They're one of the many filters. Many stars pass through areas of high numbers of supernovas such as star forming regions. These regions also have large numbers of blue giants that put out a lot of radiation. There's also areas of dense stars where close enough encounters with other stars are likely to perturb any planets orbit as well as send in more material from comet clouds and such. Just in a stars travels around the galaxy over billions years, there's a lot of stuff that will screw life developing.
but how did all that carbon arrive on the surface in the first place?
Volcanoes, they put out CO2 and there used to be a lot more. To give an idea of how much can be out gassed over billions of years on an Earth sized planet, look at Venus. The difference is that the Earth has multiple ways of sequestering carbon, plants, silicate weathering are the main two, along with tectonic plates getting sucked back into the mantle along with all the coal, oil, limestone etc.
Look up the usual punishment for breaking sanctions against Iran. Fines, lots of fines aimed at the company, not arresting the CFO and threatening 10 or 20 years . This is pretty well unprecedented
Actually it is a Minister that can decide not to extradite due to the political shit. Forget whether it is the Minister of Justice or international Affairs. Though that step happens after the extradition hearing.
200 years or recorded temps relative to age of Earth. It's like having a 6.5 foot stick and measuring the curvature of the earth. Nobody looks at a stock curve for a few seconds then extrapolates out 10 years to determine potential ROI...why do we do this with the climate? Because...there's great money to be made and foolishness afoot.
The first person to measure the curvature of the Earth used a small stick, perhaps 6.5 ft and was pretty accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well here in Canada, we have much tighter campaign contribution laws, only individuals, limit of about $1200 now I believe (it's tied to inflation) and various other laws such as limits on advertising and there's still favouritism, often based on ideology, and not enough constituent ideology. There's limits to how much you can restrict people and businesses from lobbying, you still end up with ex-industry people regulating such as the CRTC (=FCC) having a bunch of ex-telecommunications people, due to them having the knowledge. Lobbyists promising jobs or predicting the end of the world depending on the governments actions and so on. Free speech issues and the need to allow access to politicians by their constituents limit things as well. As I said, after about 10 years, they seem to just get complacent, think they can do anything and get voted in again, more corruption and such. The change doesn't have to be a different party, just changing the leadership sometimes is enough.
You discovered a problem with democracy or maybe all types of government, after about the 3rd term, they become complacent, which leads to corruption. As they say, "government is like diapers, need to be changed for the same reason". Feel for you living in a system with only 2 parties who are active on every level of government. Here the Greens actually hold the balance of power Provincially and we don't even have parties at the local level.
But the hearing is pretty one sided. She doesn't get to make her case and all the Americans have to show is that there is a good chance of conviction. After that it is up to the Minister and this is already political, weird warrant that someone, whether an employee or Minister had to sign off on in the time between the CIA spotting her getting on a plane with a stopover in Vancouver and the plane arriving.
One cannot be arrested "on suspicion" in Canada, arrest "on suspicion" being reserved for Fascist/Nazi countries. In Canada one may only be arrested "for" something and trial on the thing "for" which one was arrested must follow the arrest.
Sure you can be arrested for suspicion in Canada, its just that they have to let you go or show cause to a Judge to keep you locked up, usually within 24 hours, sometimes, like weekends, they can lock you up Friday night and let you go Monday morning. If they do it too many times (three?), you can sue (and win) for harassment.
You haven't been keeping track of how the average Canadian feels about America since Trump and us being a national security threat. Though we do feel sympathy for the average American. For example, https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/...
You left out Ireland for per capita GDP. Anyways a better measure is happiness, something that lots of money does not produce, but rather enough to not worry and have some spare. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... the US ranks 18th with many of the higher scoring countries being ones that Americans call socialist. Personally, I'd rather live with slightly less per capita GDP, but not worrying about healthcare, having a longer life expectancy, easier social mobility, some rights in the workplace including being able to take a vacation.
Venezuela is an example of corrupt populism (pitting the people against each other), especially the corruption part. For this thread, a good example of socialism would be co-ops running the local infrastructure. Can't get much more socialist then a co-op..
Nope. Military Intelligence, which requested Trump to run for president, otherwise they were going to do a coup against the deep state. I'm completely serious, check https://qanon.pub/ for more details.
So they wanted more deep state? How anyone can think that a billionaire, who has historically been so close to other politicians such as the Clintons, is not part of the deep state baffles me.
Not like the sea is going to raise that much. Earthquakes lowering the land would be more notable and stick to the psyche compared to a slow raising of sea level.
Was there ever a time when Homo Sapiens traveled that little? The natives here regularly traveled to the interior (300+ miles) by foot to trade as well as paddling to Hawaii to get laid, not to mention the 10,000+ miles they traveled from Africa and then there's their cousins who went on to the southern tip of S. America. The America's were covered with trails used by the natives and I'd assume likewise everywhere else. There were some huge floods at the end of the ice age as well which may have been remembered.
Mostly correct. CO2 does not stay around forever, there's natural feedbacks, plants are obvious, there's also the cycle where more CO2 causes warming which causes more evaporation and more rain, which leads to more weathering of silicates which bind CO2 into rock. In just a few thousand years, if we stopped adding CO2, it would drop back down to about 300ppm. This cycle is also a climate driver on geological time scales. Lots of new mountains capture more rain and have lots of silicates to get weathered, CO2 drops. Large continents with no rain in the interiour, less weathering and CO2 goes up. Water vapor is also important as a green house gas, without it, the Earth would be something like -25C average and an iceball. I also wonder what will happen if we really start launching rockets, with water vapor exhaust in the high altitudes where currently there is no water vapor.
Kinda like stealing Hawaii and populating it with Americans or stealing chunks of Mexico and populating it with English speakers. Or perhaps like stealing a good chunk of N. America from the occupants and doing all kinds of nasty stuff to the original inhabitants.
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IIRC, the problem happened where the wire was under the screw on the socket and thought it was from oxidization. If there was stuff to stop the oxidization, it wasn't well advertised back then.
Yes, turbines kill some birds, so do windows in buildings, which kill more and those same buildings disrupt the wind. Then there are cats, which kill many more birds, but at least don't disrupt the wind unless you plant trees for the cats to climb.
When I was a kid, my Dad installed some aluminium wiring in the house. After a couple of sockets started smoking, he ripped it all out and replaced it with copper.
Aluminium has its place in wiring, but so does copper.
They're one of the many filters. Many stars pass through areas of high numbers of supernovas such as star forming regions. These regions also have large numbers of blue giants that put out a lot of radiation. There's also areas of dense stars where close enough encounters with other stars are likely to perturb any planets orbit as well as send in more material from comet clouds and such.
Just in a stars travels around the galaxy over billions years, there's a lot of stuff that will screw life developing.
Which does raise the question of how big the tsunami will be when it reaches the west coast of N. America.
Lucky your car and id were still there.
but how did all that carbon arrive on the surface in the first place?
Volcanoes, they put out CO2 and there used to be a lot more. To give an idea of how much can be out gassed over billions of years on an Earth sized planet, look at Venus.
The difference is that the Earth has multiple ways of sequestering carbon, plants, silicate weathering are the main two, along with tectonic plates getting sucked back into the mantle along with all the coal, oil, limestone etc.
Look up the usual punishment for breaking sanctions against Iran. Fines, lots of fines aimed at the company, not arresting the CFO and threatening 10 or 20 years . This is pretty well unprecedented
Actually the Canadian government gets the last word in when it comes to extraditions, it's usually yes but politics is one reason they can say no.
Actually it is a Minister that can decide not to extradite due to the political shit. Forget whether it is the Minister of Justice or international Affairs. Though that step happens after the extradition hearing.
200 years or recorded temps relative to age of Earth. It's like having a 6.5 foot stick and measuring the curvature of the earth. Nobody looks at a stock curve for a few seconds then extrapolates out 10 years to determine potential ROI...why do we do this with the climate? Because...there's great money to be made and foolishness afoot.
The first person to measure the curvature of the Earth used a small stick, perhaps 6.5 ft and was pretty accurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well here in Canada, we have much tighter campaign contribution laws, only individuals, limit of about $1200 now I believe (it's tied to inflation) and various other laws such as limits on advertising and there's still favouritism, often based on ideology, and not enough constituent ideology.
There's limits to how much you can restrict people and businesses from lobbying, you still end up with ex-industry people regulating such as the CRTC (=FCC) having a bunch of ex-telecommunications people, due to them having the knowledge. Lobbyists promising jobs or predicting the end of the world depending on the governments actions and so on. Free speech issues and the need to allow access to politicians by their constituents limit things as well.
As I said, after about 10 years, they seem to just get complacent, think they can do anything and get voted in again, more corruption and such. The change doesn't have to be a different party, just changing the leadership sometimes is enough.
You discovered a problem with democracy or maybe all types of government, after about the 3rd term, they become complacent, which leads to corruption. As they say, "government is like diapers, need to be changed for the same reason".
Feel for you living in a system with only 2 parties who are active on every level of government. Here the Greens actually hold the balance of power Provincially and we don't even have parties at the local level.
But the hearing is pretty one sided. She doesn't get to make her case and all the Americans have to show is that there is a good chance of conviction. After that it is up to the Minister and this is already political, weird warrant that someone, whether an employee or Minister had to sign off on in the time between the CIA spotting her getting on a plane with a stopover in Vancouver and the plane arriving.
One cannot be arrested "on suspicion" in Canada, arrest "on suspicion" being reserved for Fascist/Nazi countries. In Canada one may only be arrested "for" something and trial on the thing "for" which one was arrested must follow the arrest.
Sure you can be arrested for suspicion in Canada, its just that they have to let you go or show cause to a Judge to keep you locked up, usually within 24 hours, sometimes, like weekends, they can lock you up Friday night and let you go Monday morning. If they do it too many times (three?), you can sue (and win) for harassment.
You haven't been keeping track of how the average Canadian feels about America since Trump and us being a national security threat. Though we do feel sympathy for the average American. For example, https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/...
Do they dig up the roads or is it like around here where the majority is hung on poles?
You left out Ireland for per capita GDP. Anyways a better measure is happiness, something that lots of money does not produce, but rather enough to not worry and have some spare. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... the US ranks 18th with many of the higher scoring countries being ones that Americans call socialist.
Personally, I'd rather live with slightly less per capita GDP, but not worrying about healthcare, having a longer life expectancy, easier social mobility, some rights in the workplace including being able to take a vacation.
Venezuela is an example of corrupt populism (pitting the people against each other), especially the corruption part.
For this thread, a good example of socialism would be co-ops running the local infrastructure. Can't get much more socialist then a co-op..
Nope. Military Intelligence, which requested Trump to run for president, otherwise they were going to do a coup against the deep state. I'm completely serious, check https://qanon.pub/ for more details.
So they wanted more deep state?
How anyone can think that a billionaire, who has historically been so close to other politicians such as the Clintons, is not part of the deep state baffles me.
Still like to know how they're planning on communicating with Earth
Not like the sea is going to raise that much. Earthquakes lowering the land would be more notable and stick to the psyche compared to a slow raising of sea level.
Was there ever a time when Homo Sapiens traveled that little? The natives here regularly traveled to the interior (300+ miles) by foot to trade as well as paddling to Hawaii to get laid, not to mention the 10,000+ miles they traveled from Africa and then there's their cousins who went on to the southern tip of S. America.
The America's were covered with trails used by the natives and I'd assume likewise everywhere else.
There were some huge floods at the end of the ice age as well which may have been remembered.
Mostly correct. CO2 does not stay around forever, there's natural feedbacks, plants are obvious, there's also the cycle where more CO2 causes warming which causes more evaporation and more rain, which leads to more weathering of silicates which bind CO2 into rock. In just a few thousand years, if we stopped adding CO2, it would drop back down to about 300ppm.
This cycle is also a climate driver on geological time scales. Lots of new mountains capture more rain and have lots of silicates to get weathered, CO2 drops. Large continents with no rain in the interiour, less weathering and CO2 goes up.
Water vapor is also important as a green house gas, without it, the Earth would be something like -25C average and an iceball.
I also wonder what will happen if we really start launching rockets, with water vapor exhaust in the high altitudes where currently there is no water vapor.
Kinda like stealing Hawaii and populating it with Americans or stealing chunks of Mexico and populating it with English speakers. Or perhaps like stealing a good chunk of N. America from the occupants and doing all kinds of nasty stuff to the original inhabitants.