Maybe computer controlled cars should be required to be triply redundant like aircraft. At least two or the 3 computers have to agree for some action to occur. That doesn't protect you from bad software but it does from a computer failure.
Given that the car was modified for a handicapped driver I expect that it has an automatic transmission. That way the driver doesn't have to worry about activating the clutch, shifting the transmission, steering the car and operating the throttle* all at the same time.
* For those of you who've never driven a manual transmission you have to coordinate the engine speed controlled by the throttle with the gear you're shifting to to get a smooth shift.
I've been able to do that in reverse but never moving forward in cars with rear drum brakes if the emergency brake was properly adjusted. It has to do with the geometry of the mechanics which grab harder in the forward direction than in reverse.
It is an emergency brake in the sense that all of them that I've ever seen have a separate mechanical linkage (usually by cable) to the rear brakes that will work even if the normal hydraulic braking system is non-functional.
The oceans contain about 1.3 × 10^21 liters so a few hundred billion liters here or there isn't much of a difference. (100 billion liters = 1 X 10^11, ten orders of magnitude below the oceans volume.)
Meanwhile, all ice core data to date says C02 LAGS temperature rise. You have figured that out too?
That line is really getting old. There is nothing in it that proves CO2 can't drive temperature changes as well. In fact temperatures during interglacials couldn't have reached as high as they did without the added bump of increased CO2.
An analysis of papers published from 1965 to 1979 found 44 papers on global warming and only 7 on global cooling. Now you tell me what scientists were concerned about back then.
Why should we bother to listen to the rest of what you say when you don't even bother to get a few simple facts right?
Current CO2 levels are about 400 parts per million in the atmosphere, that's 0.04%. Of the CO2 human activities emit to the atmosphere a bit less than half of it remains in the atmosphere, the rest being absorbed in the ocean and land. That leads to the inexorable increase in CO2 levels. If you think 0.04% is ridiculously small consider that the concentration of ozone in the ozone layer is less than 10 ppm or 0.001% and yet it blocks 97-99% of the Sun's UVB radiation.
Termites and cow farts (belches actually) produce methane, not CO2. Volcanoes in a typical year emit around 1% of CO2 that humans do. Even the largest volcano in the past 100 years, Pinatubo in 1991, only upped that to about 3%.
1600 was within the Little Ice Age, you probably meant to say the Medieval Warm Period around 1000.
1934 was warm in North America but not so much around the world. Most if not all of the remaining 1934 records in the US were broken last year.
You are right about one thing, the Sun is the single most important thing in climate but that doesn't mean that others things can't moderate its effects, such as CO2.
I have seen that the climate scientists keep making modifications to the temperature records. "Normalization" efforts that push down older temperatures while increasing more recent temps. Seems sketchy to me, but I am not a climate scientist.
Normalization is a common and necessary technique in statistics. For instance if you replace the thermometer at a weather station with a new one it might give slightly different readings than the old one. If they overlap you cane determine the correlation between the two directly or if they don't overlap you can correlate the readings of nearby stations with the old and new instrument and calculate the correlation between the two. Then if you adjust the older temperature readings to the temperatures the new instrument would have read if it had been there all along you have a continuous record that's directly comparable. That's what normalization is about.
You should know that the program that Solyndra got the money from is budgeted for a default rate over 10% as approved by Congress. So far with Solyndra and the one other one I know about the default rate is still under 5%. Much of the investment was in wind and solar power plants that are paying off their loans on schedule.
Some water in the atmosphere gets decomposed by cosmic rays all the time and the hydrogen thus freed can escape the atmosphere and no longer be available to make water. But we probably get enough water coming back in from meteors, etc. to make up for it.
A good scientist often has a good idea of where the results are leading long before they have publishable science. That doesn't mean they have an unwarranted bias, just intuitional knowledge of the field.
You have to factor in the fact that collections for Social Security in excess of need are required by law to be invested in federal bonds and so would increase the debt just by the fact that the SS trust fund increased. So how much of the increase in debt was due to that?
I think he just assumed a generator on the exercise bike. But if you just had a regular bicycle you could probably ride it to your destination faster than you could put on enough charge to get to your destination.
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Maybe computer controlled cars should be required to be triply redundant like aircraft. At least two or the 3 computers have to agree for some action to occur. That doesn't protect you from bad software but it does from a computer failure.
Two stars for using the word "breaks" properly! ;)
Given that the car was modified for a handicapped driver I expect that it has an automatic transmission. That way the driver doesn't have to worry about activating the clutch, shifting the transmission, steering the car and operating the throttle* all at the same time.
* For those of you who've never driven a manual transmission you have to coordinate the engine speed controlled by the throttle with the gear you're shifting to to get a smooth shift.
I've been able to do that in reverse but never moving forward in cars with rear drum brakes if the emergency brake was properly adjusted. It has to do with the geometry of the mechanics which grab harder in the forward direction than in reverse.
Or just pop the battery out of the electronic key fob.
It is an emergency brake in the sense that all of them that I've ever seen have a separate mechanical linkage (usually by cable) to the rear brakes that will work even if the normal hydraulic braking system is non-functional.
The oceans contain about 1.3 × 10^21 liters so a few hundred billion liters here or there isn't much of a difference. (100 billion liters = 1 X 10^11, ten orders of magnitude below the oceans volume.)
Maybe they're not so much hypocrites as it is you projecting the statements of a few extremists onto anyone who has concerns about the environment.
The core philosophy behind them is that preserving "the earth" is more important than preserving man.
You can't preserve man without preserving the Earth since we are completely and utterly dependent on the services the Earth system provides.
That doesn't seem possible in the US unless maybe you own property that's totally out of whack with your income level.
Actually they would say the strength of hurricanes does appear to be increasing slightly.
It's protectionism for the US sugar producers (cane and beet) and the corn lobby and their high fructose corn syrup.
Meanwhile, all ice core data to date says C02 LAGS temperature rise. You have figured that out too?
That line is really getting old. There is nothing in it that proves CO2 can't drive temperature changes as well. In fact temperatures during interglacials couldn't have reached as high as they did without the added bump of increased CO2.
An analysis of papers published from 1965 to 1979 found 44 papers on global warming and only 7 on global cooling. Now you tell me what scientists were concerned about back then.
Why should we bother to listen to the rest of what you say when you don't even bother to get a few simple facts right?
Current CO2 levels are about 400 parts per million in the atmosphere, that's 0.04%. Of the CO2 human activities emit to the atmosphere a bit less than half of it remains in the atmosphere, the rest being absorbed in the ocean and land. That leads to the inexorable increase in CO2 levels. If you think 0.04% is ridiculously small consider that the concentration of ozone in the ozone layer is less than 10 ppm or 0.001% and yet it blocks 97-99% of the Sun's UVB radiation.
Termites and cow farts (belches actually) produce methane, not CO2. Volcanoes in a typical year emit around 1% of CO2 that humans do. Even the largest volcano in the past 100 years, Pinatubo in 1991, only upped that to about 3%.
1600 was within the Little Ice Age, you probably meant to say the Medieval Warm Period around 1000.
1934 was warm in North America but not so much around the world. Most if not all of the remaining 1934 records in the US were broken last year.
You are right about one thing, the Sun is the single most important thing in climate but that doesn't mean that others things can't moderate its effects, such as CO2.
I have seen that the climate scientists keep making modifications to the temperature records. "Normalization" efforts that push down older temperatures while increasing more recent temps. Seems sketchy to me, but I am not a climate scientist.
Normalization is a common and necessary technique in statistics. For instance if you replace the thermometer at a weather station with a new one it might give slightly different readings than the old one. If they overlap you cane determine the correlation between the two directly or if they don't overlap you can correlate the readings of nearby stations with the old and new instrument and calculate the correlation between the two. Then if you adjust the older temperature readings to the temperatures the new instrument would have read if it had been there all along you have a continuous record that's directly comparable. That's what normalization is about.
You should know that the program that Solyndra got the money from is budgeted for a default rate over 10% as approved by Congress. So far with Solyndra and the one other one I know about the default rate is still under 5%. Much of the investment was in wind and solar power plants that are paying off their loans on schedule.
Ah... now that meme has been taken to the ultimate, "every planet". [citation needed]
Um... Social Security was created by FDR back in the 1930's. It was Medicare started by LBJ in the mid 1960's.
Some water in the atmosphere gets decomposed by cosmic rays all the time and the hydrogen thus freed can escape the atmosphere and no longer be available to make water. But we probably get enough water coming back in from meteors, etc. to make up for it.
Was she biased or just more knowledgeable and ahead of everyone else on the subject? Subsequent research has borne out her statements.
One more thing to blame on G W Bush?
A good scientist often has a good idea of where the results are leading long before they have publishable science. That doesn't mean they have an unwarranted bias, just intuitional knowledge of the field.
You have to factor in the fact that collections for Social Security in excess of need are required by law to be invested in federal bonds and so would increase the debt just by the fact that the SS trust fund increased. So how much of the increase in debt was due to that?
I think he just assumed a generator on the exercise bike. But if you just had a regular bicycle you could probably ride it to your destination faster than you could put on enough charge to get to your destination.