So far the predictions are well in excess of observations, but a decade is seen as too small to be significant. We won't really know how wrong the modelling is until 2030 or so.
As I said, I live in Australia where our nanny state overlords have implemented a blanket ban last year. That's a complete ban on incandescents in my country. I'm pissed off. The one I have inhabits my bedroom, and I need to spend a fortune on immature LED tech now to avoid the mercury bulbs. I have no option left, and it's insulting that I cannot choose for myself. I could legally install a floodlight in my yard tomorrow, but sales of incandescent bulbs are illegal. It makes no sense at all to ban a product that is not harmful in any way, just ineficient, and reflace it with a product that harms the environment through heavy metal pollution. The arguments that coal fired energy makes more mercury are bunk, they don't make that mercury in my fucking kitchen. If we invested in wind, solar, hydro, nuclear etc. there is no fucking mercury anyway. Well, enugh rant, just saying our government has banned these and it's not for the better. They should tax them and use the money to subsidise LED and CFL manufacturing locally, but instead they blindly ban with no afterthought.
So, you're saying the free market is working and adoption is increasing. Yet the ban will screw this guy, and many like him over. I live in Australia where our nanny state overlords have implemented this. I have one incandescent left, and will be mourning its passing. I have CFLs, and one has exploded in my kitchen, raining fine shards of glass and heavy metal toxins all over the room. I'm switching to LEDs, but tell me why in a supposedly free country I can't burn the power I pay for using the light source I find safer and better?
So in your scenario they plan for an attack. What's the worst an attack could do - I'd venture it's to shut the entire internet down. So at the first sign of attack they will skip straight to the worst-case scenario? Under what conditions would a full scale takedown be less destructive than an attack?
Hell yeah! Now science will be the latest fad with the stamp collecting crowd, bringing us cybergeeks into the spotlight! Finally we get recognition from those cool, trendy, hip & streetwise philatelists!
Of course this is actual science, experiments don't appear out of thin air, you first ask 'what if?' before you ask 'how?'. He theorises an experiment to test the existence of 'branes in that very interview (something about precise amounts of energy lost in particle accelerator experiments) . Science is more than confirming experiments though, it's coming up with them in the first place. Saying this isn't science is just flat out wrong, what it is not is proof.
You can look at any field of science and find hundreds of dead-ends, some which have lasted thousands of years. Aether and phlogiston are the two prime examples of turfed theories, eugenics, Lysenkoism, plenty of medicine i.e. humours and bloodletting are also well-known, hell even the classical physics you refer to as involate has been shown far from complete by quantum theory, we just haven't worked out how to replace it yet.
You have a point though, new theories must explain what we already know, ie. with Newton being a special case of Einstein we should see Einstein be a case of a unified theory, but it could be that Newton and Einsteins approach is fundamentally wrong and classical physics will be shown the door, just like aether. It's almost inconcievable, but that's how it goes.
This is completley different to the rap/news thing. This movie and book is not the one Assange is going to write but an unauthorised biography from some bloke in Australia. Your regrets are misplaced.
This is not his book. Notice the lack of 'auto' in front of biography? This is by some Aussie hack, Assange has nothing to do with either the book or movie apart from being the subject.
Yeah, that butchered video they released at the exact same time as they released the full, unedited, uncut video really ruined their reputation by making them suddenly world famous instead of an obscure site that only nerds like us knew anything about. Get a grip.
CO2 changes lag temperature changes by around 800 years. The logical conclusion is that temperature is the cause of changes in CO2, not that CO2 drives temperature.
And all of those issues have nothing to do with global warming. We should be spending billions on real environmental catastrophies instead of trying to mitigate an imagined catastrophe centuries away.
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded Lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens,
Is running in your veins;
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies -
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me.
The tragic ring-barked forests
Stark white beneath the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
An orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the crimson soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart around us
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold;
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown Country
My homing thoughts will fly.
You've got it backwards, one is the only thing that exists and everything else is illusion. We are all a single entity, a cosmic unity divided by holographic illusions. Any bong smoker will be able to tell you that.
Seeing 30/pi=9.549 that is a perfectly accurate measurement if we round to the nearest integer. There are plenty of places you can see the bible isn't correct (who did Cain marry?) but this isn't one of them.
I've got a smaller one again! Though not as legible: threepwood, and an italic one: thorpwood italic. Both are CC attribution only, so feel free to use them as you please.
To which party do you refer? the Democrats have had 60 odd successful filibusters and the Republicans 80-90 or so. Am I mistaken and this attack was against both parties or is your bias showing?
Slashdot Mirror
There is someone checking the models, Lucia at the Blackboard. http://rankexploits.com/musings/2011/rss-april-anomaly-up-2/
IPCC AR4 prediction: 0.2 C/decade
Multi-model mean prediction: 0.211 C/decade
Sat. observations: 0.146 C/decade
Ground observations: 0.131 C/decade
So far the predictions are well in excess of observations, but a decade is seen as too small to be significant. We won't really know how wrong the modelling is until 2030 or so.
I'd suggest every minute and 30 seconds respectively so human beings can also participate.
As I said, I live in Australia where our nanny state overlords have implemented a blanket ban last year. That's a complete ban on incandescents in my country. I'm pissed off. The one I have inhabits my bedroom, and I need to spend a fortune on immature LED tech now to avoid the mercury bulbs. I have no option left, and it's insulting that I cannot choose for myself. I could legally install a floodlight in my yard tomorrow, but sales of incandescent bulbs are illegal. It makes no sense at all to ban a product that is not harmful in any way, just ineficient, and reflace it with a product that harms the environment through heavy metal pollution. The arguments that coal fired energy makes more mercury are bunk, they don't make that mercury in my fucking kitchen. If we invested in wind, solar, hydro, nuclear etc. there is no fucking mercury anyway. Well, enugh rant, just saying our government has banned these and it's not for the better. They should tax them and use the money to subsidise LED and CFL manufacturing locally, but instead they blindly ban with no afterthought.
So, you're saying the free market is working and adoption is increasing. Yet the ban will screw this guy, and many like him over. I live in Australia where our nanny state overlords have implemented this. I have one incandescent left, and will be mourning its passing. I have CFLs, and one has exploded in my kitchen, raining fine shards of glass and heavy metal toxins all over the room. I'm switching to LEDs, but tell me why in a supposedly free country I can't burn the power I pay for using the light source I find safer and better?
I dunno, personnaly I'd ROT13 it twice to be sure.
So in your scenario they plan for an attack. What's the worst an attack could do - I'd venture it's to shut the entire internet down. So at the first sign of attack they will skip straight to the worst-case scenario? Under what conditions would a full scale takedown be less destructive than an attack?
Hell yeah! Now science will be the latest fad with the stamp collecting crowd, bringing us cybergeeks into the spotlight! Finally we get recognition from those cool, trendy, hip & streetwise philatelists!
I know! We'll infest the moat with sharks and crocodiles and poisinous jellyfish and deadly stingrays... oh wait.
Of course this is actual science, experiments don't appear out of thin air, you first ask 'what if?' before you ask 'how?'. He theorises an experiment to test the existence of 'branes in that very interview (something about precise amounts of energy lost in particle accelerator experiments) . Science is more than confirming experiments though, it's coming up with them in the first place. Saying this isn't science is just flat out wrong, what it is not is proof.
You can look at any field of science and find hundreds of dead-ends, some which have lasted thousands of years. Aether and phlogiston are the two prime examples of turfed theories, eugenics, Lysenkoism, plenty of medicine i.e. humours and bloodletting are also well-known, hell even the classical physics you refer to as involate has been shown far from complete by quantum theory, we just haven't worked out how to replace it yet.
You have a point though, new theories must explain what we already know, ie. with Newton being a special case of Einstein we should see Einstein be a case of a unified theory, but it could be that Newton and Einsteins approach is fundamentally wrong and classical physics will be shown the door, just like aether. It's almost inconcievable, but that's how it goes.
This is completley different to the rap/news thing. This movie and book is not the one Assange is going to write but an unauthorised biography from some bloke in Australia. Your regrets are misplaced.
This is not his book. Notice the lack of 'auto' in front of biography? This is by some Aussie hack, Assange has nothing to do with either the book or movie apart from being the subject.
Yeah, that butchered video they released at the exact same time as they released the full, unedited, uncut video really ruined their reputation by making them suddenly world famous instead of an obscure site that only nerds like us knew anything about. Get a grip.
Nah, if WMC were here every post you ever made would be modded Troll.
CO2 changes lag temperature changes by around 800 years. The logical conclusion is that temperature is the cause of changes in CO2, not that CO2 drives temperature.
And all of those issues have nothing to do with global warming. We should be spending billions on real environmental catastrophies instead of trying to mitigate an imagined catastrophe centuries away.
Well, to be fair, us westerners also have our suspicions about the number four.
Bah! You wouldn't get 2.81794 femtometres.
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded Lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens,
Is running in your veins;
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies -
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me.
The tragic ring-barked forests
Stark white beneath the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
An orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the crimson soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart around us
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold;
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown Country
My homing thoughts will fly.
Dorothea MacKellar (1906)
Have a listen to alchemist, you might like them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3z9oeLreOc
You've got it backwards, one is the only thing that exists and everything else is illusion. We are all a single entity, a cosmic unity divided by holographic illusions. Any bong smoker will be able to tell you that.
Perhaps Lofti Zadeh has mod points?
Seeing 30/pi=9.549 that is a perfectly accurate measurement if we round to the nearest integer. There are plenty of places you can see the bible isn't correct (who did Cain marry?) but this isn't one of them.
I've got a smaller one again! Though not as legible: threepwood, and an italic one: thorpwood italic. Both are CC attribution only, so feel free to use them as you please.
To which party do you refer? the Democrats have had 60 odd successful filibusters and the Republicans 80-90 or so. Am I mistaken and this attack was against both parties or is your bias showing?