"There is evidence to suggest carbon dioxide increase is directly correlated to the increase in temperature, not vice-versa"
It's pretty easy to measure the CO2 output of human activities such as burning fossil fuels and other industrial processes. It turns out that the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere is less than what is emitted, the rest being absorbed by the seas and other natural processes. If the increase in CO2 is due to increased solar intensity then where is it coming from and where is all of the CO2 emitted by human activities going?
I work for one of the companies that was in on the initial development of ADS-B (owned by UPS at the time but now by Garmin) but I didn't work on it (just a lowly SysAdmin). ADS-B has been in use in parts of Alaska for over 6 years now in a program called Capstone . By all accounts I've seen it's been a great success.
With an ADS-B transceiver and airplane not only transmits it's location and vector information but receives the information transmitted by other ADS-B equipped planes so it's able to tell independently of Air Traffic Control where the others are and could potentially operate independently of ATC. It's kind of like a big wireless network where any node within range of your transmitter is able to collect your information.
In the full blown version of ADS-B there is a display in the cockpit that shows the current situation. It's color coded to show the other airplane's altitude in relation to you (airplanes at the same altitude are shown in bright red) with a vector arrow showing the direction of travel and the length denoting the speed. I believe the cheap versions without the display and other bells & whistles can be had for less than $5000.
It also has the potential to reduce ground incursions on the airport since it works regardless of your altitude so fuel trucks and other airport vehicles can be on the display as well. The information that can be transmitted through the datalink is only limited by your imagination.
Worse than homeless people, some of the people receiving those letters were soldiers in Iraq (especially black soldiers) whose ballots were challenged because they weren't home to receive the letters. How low can you go?
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"There is evidence to suggest carbon dioxide increase is directly correlated to the increase in temperature, not vice-versa"
It's pretty easy to measure the CO2 output of human activities such as burning fossil fuels and other industrial processes. It turns out that the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere is less than what is emitted, the rest being absorbed by the seas and other natural processes. If the increase in CO2 is due to increased solar intensity then where is it coming from and where is all of the CO2 emitted by human activities going?
With an ADS-B transceiver and airplane not only transmits it's location and vector information but receives the information transmitted by other ADS-B equipped planes so it's able to tell independently of Air Traffic Control where the others are and could potentially operate independently of ATC. It's kind of like a big wireless network where any node within range of your transmitter is able to collect your information.
In the full blown version of ADS-B there is a display in the cockpit that shows the current situation. It's color coded to show the other airplane's altitude in relation to you (airplanes at the same altitude are shown in bright red) with a vector arrow showing the direction of travel and the length denoting the speed. I believe the cheap versions without the display and other bells & whistles can be had for less than $5000. It also has the potential to reduce ground incursions on the airport since it works regardless of your altitude so fuel trucks and other airport vehicles can be on the display as well. The information that can be transmitted through the datalink is only limited by your imagination.
Worse than homeless people, some of the people receiving those letters were soldiers in Iraq (especially black soldiers) whose ballots were challenged because they weren't home to receive the letters. How low can you go?
Yeah that sounds crazy! Silly right wing nutjobs! Imagine if every passenger had a handgun on 9/11! Oh wait, that proves his point......
Next time your on a plane look around and see how many of your fellow passengers you want packin'.