Some older games are better at not creating as much video distraction and tension in the player and can be a good way to ease stress for some people. I remember my father at 76 years old getting a kick out of playing Pac Man on an old console for the first time in the late 1990s. He had late stage prostate cancer and was on heavy morphine for the pain. He was not capable of playing bridge or chess with us any longer. But sitting there with him with an old console I found in a second hand store he had a blast!
The current popularity of simple games on cell phones and tablets like angry birds and the like are just one exception that proves my point. High resolution complicated games that require huge computing resources are for kids and game geeks not the general public who do not take today's expensive video games seriously.
Well said and extrapolated! Particularly your quip "Education is a terrible thing when you have an agenda to push" If you do not mind I will use it elsewhere. It cuts to the core of why we need to continue the fight against all political entities that are based upon male domination like the Talaban that exist only by violent brutal intolerance for the benefit of the so called "leaders". The same is true with the petrochemical industrial complex which is controlling far to great a portion of the world's economy. They need to be exposed for what they, are a conglomerate group who really could care less about human life as long as they control the planet.
Who are the they? I can look in the mirror and at times see one myself as I drive my car willy-nilly everywhere. I keenly remember seeing a hippy Volkswagen van once in about 96' with a tattered bumper sticker long after the defeat of Bush after the first and the pseudo religious oil conflict with Sadam over Kuwait (first gulf war). The bumper sticker boldly stated: (NO BLOOD FOR OIL!). The funny part was that it was sitting there running and dripping oil from the engine all over the pavement where it was parked. The oil was going directly down into a storm sewer catchment that lead directly to a fish bearing creek. At the time I was doing environmental stream survey work for logging cut blocks. To cut a long story short I went home and looked in the mirror and realized that poor ol' Al Gore who was recently berated in the press for his anti pollution stance was on to something and there was no chance in hell of him every gaining power. We are all subject to the whim of our ignorance and education can help heal this inner wound. But the greatest failing of the student is always an inability to listen, thus we ignore Rachel Carson and other luminaries like Al Gore at our own intellectual peril!
While you're at it, Canada, let her resume her research in Baffin Island.
She was fired because of the complaints of some thin-skinned lowlings who don't have what it takes to work with someone like her.
If you have to scold her, if you have to tell her to chill out, do so. But don't shut down scientific research just because of stupid personal problems.
Sending anyone back to Baffin Island will definitely make them chill out.
I have to wonder if the muzzling will begin again, once the scientists start disagreeing with a liberal party policy? If, for example, it turns out that gun control doesn't actually do anything to stop crime - and that enforcement of it, much like with drugs, is basically wasted money - will the liberal party go, "Oh... I guess we were wrong about that"?
It's all sunshine and roses right now, but the scientists aren't actually saying anything that goes against the liberal party ideology at the moment. The real test of them putting their money where their mouth is, would be when they continue to support open discourse and dialogue even when it disagrees with what the party believes.
Whoa up there Tex! Put your gun back in your holster you are talkin' to the sheriff 'a Rock Ridge.
Firstly gun control has nothing to do with crime prevention. What you are suggesting is in essence removing the all license plates from cars when you really think about what you are saying here. In Canada we simply require that a license to purchase firearms is required the same way a drivers license is required to drive cars. You commit a crime with a gun and you lose your license to carry them plain and simple. A common sense policy, something which the religious right wing dolts who are scared by the politically motivated NRA firearms industry lobby in the good 'ol US of A just don't seem to be able comprehend.
The only reason devices that can display printed sheet music like tablets and e-ink readers are not popular is that they are essentially useless for sight reading. A foot pedal for page turns could easily create a reader for musicians. It would catch on like wild fire and the music publishers could finally start to distribute good editions again. I have been saying this for years and no one listens, it is the usual routine with industry not seeing the forest for the trees that are still being cut to print music.
Forget everything you assume about whether or not there is a market for large format e-readers. Categorically there is and all it would take is a foot pedal. So simple but currently the great music publishing houses are in crisis because of digital equipment and unless they get on the program and start to distribute standard editions in digital form they will all die and be bought out by the large corporate bastards who have essentially ham strung the music publishing industry with senseless worries about DRM. All they have succeeded in doing is to force musicians to cheat and file share scans of music and in doing so have also greatly degraded the once esteemed high art of printed music notation and distribution. Precious few are only now realizing the mistake they made with their fears about their copyrights being broken.
I will gladly pay reasonable amounts for well edited digital sheet music, in fact I still buy from the best publishers that are still around. If I can also not have to waste money on the ink and printing racket so I can play music that is out of print I would be in heaven. I know most real musicians who read and understand the importance of well done sheet music will also do the same and pay for decent music editions in digital format.
There is much more than just books and the literary arts at a cross roads because of today's technology! Lets get together and put the ink and paper out of business once and for all, I say it has become archaic and far to costly environmentally and socially.
The question always ends up being: in whose interest do those with effective governorship act?
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it really is possible for people to cooperate with each other to achieve this.
Do you mean "cooperate" or "compete"? Democratic government is a form of cooperation, you realise? one citizen, one share.
This isn't an anti-enterprise post, just an anti-anti-government one. Pure ideology (e.g. "free market!" and "command economy!") is for modellers, storytellers and fanatics. The modeller knows they're simplifying the problem. The storyteller knows they're making things up completely. The fanatic, unfortunately, realises neither.
From someone who was 10 years old and was inspired by this speech that is oft forgotten and belittled in the bejeweled halls of anti-government fanatics like some of todays right wing sudo nazis and especially assholes that spout anti-government nonsense. They really need to have their motives and agendas closely scrutinized by the electorate again. What we need is someone like a Kennedy again to step forward and roast these assholes over the coals in public debate the way Nixon was exposed in 1960.
Great leaders inspire great things for mankind, the current group of anti-government leaders are an oxymoron! To quote Mr. Trump's most used bit of bullshit leadership technique, we all need to say in one voice "YOUR ALL FUCKING FIRED!" The way we did with Nixon if we ever catch on to what these so called business people are really up to with a blatant attempt to buy another Presidency the way they did with Reagan. Do they really think people are that stupid all of the time? Not that the rest of the Republican ticket is any better this time around either, yes they had once had a real leader in Lincoln, but how the once great in spirit have all fallen to the allure of the coin!
It is not the time to hold back on the future and live in an oil and blood soaked past. I can only pray that soon a time will come when someone again inspires the cooperation ventures like space exploration, a change to a real environmental economy, with the technology to eliminate waste and most of all great science ventures in all the fields that made landing on the moon possible!
Politics is being abused by those who have lead by deliberately inciting economic terror and other tactics like the ones used by Dick Chaney and Co. Even George Bush senior is finally starting to realize the real problems that these money driven assholes are creating for the economy and the world in the long term. At least the not so great actor Ronald Reagan, who became a president and asked Mr Gorbachev to "tear down that wall" admitted that it was economically important to do science right and it was this that made us great, even as his supporters ripped and tore up Nasa!
Unfortunately what I envision happening instead is a secret state visit to the international space station by both Putin and someone like Jeb or Trump to carve up the world economy in secret as they nuke the Chinese and a few other states that get in the way of their friend's enterprises. Dick Chaney can tag along, I am sure him and a few others will all be doing something in the background to oversee the talks!
While it's true that these areas have a higher concentration of plastic than other parts of the ocean, much of the debris found in these areas are small bits of plastic (microplastics) that are suspended throughout the water column. A comparison I like to use is that the debris is more like flecks of pepper floating throughout a bowl of soup, rather than a skim of fat that accumulates (or sits) on the surface.
That is precisely the problem, because the plastic breaks down into tidbits and some of the really nasty toxic ones become indistinguishable from the food that fish eat. Further to that sockeye salmon and other Oncorhynchus and fish everywhere are starting to show up with bellies full of plastics http://www.npafc.org/new/publi...
Naturally the ocean gyres are slowly churning the plastics into smaller and smaller pieces and they are also breaking into bits on shorelines of islands and the continents. So it is not as if there is a great garbage dump out there but the truth is that there is a level of ongoing human caused pollution that is will eventually do permanent damage to much more than the ocean's key ecosystems.
The alarmist videos and Fox News style environmental news shows do not show the real extent of the problem. They are not scientifically sound and are not really informing the public about the real problem with the world dominating petro industrial complex. Unfortunately the real problems are much more insidious and hidden as the quote I appended coming from your link clearly indicates.
Perhaps it is far better instead to scare the shit out of people with videos like this one. Hopefully the extent of the real damage going on will finally be recognized by J. Q. Public, before another Bush league petro president takes over the reigns of power.
Even Obama has stated that a lack action to change our attitudes towards the abuse of our shared environment by not being able to halt the dismissal of science, largely by the rich industry lobbies in Washington, is one of the greatest regrets he will have when he surrenders the reigns of power. Truth is it does not matter who becomes the President anymore the government is now run by the industry lobbies not the people and certainly not by truth!
OK, don't print little pirate treasure chests for zebra-fish aquaria, got it.
Who cares? The problems with chemical stupidity are not just about one species of fish. Unfortunately a large portion of our population relies upon the riches of the sea. If we keep screwing up the oceans with out industrial waste, especially discarded by products and plastic garbage we will see a rapid collapse of the entire ocean biosphere. It will mean starvation on a huge scale. Your statement bespeaks volumes about the utter public ignorance of key biological systems that have given us life. You can claim ignorance because most people do not even care about what is happening because of unrestrained garbage in our oceans, those who know the truth about the unregulated dumping of toxic plastic garbage that is causing the garbage patches do not have the luxury of ignorance that you enjoy.
As you bury your head in the beach sand it is almost certain that you will also be covered in little pieces of plastic that are starting to kill fish on a global scale. large plasticsthe big pictureabout how and why plastics are killing more and more marine life as they break down into smaller and smaller pieces and are eaten by smaller and smaller organisms.
With the oil and plastic industry now dictating our future it is entirely possible that our chemical stupidity will cause global starvation in the next century. Either we pay attention to the environment on a global scale or we will suffer the consequences of shitting in our own nest to the extent that our environment will simply kill us off. Here is hoping that eventually we can create closed systems with the plastic industry but right now the recycling of plastics and the science to stop the toxic destruction of our world is not a priority, within the next 40 years we either stop putting toxins in the ocean or we will not survive as a species. End of story.
Really, the driveway, my 6.7L turbocharged Scoprion diesel engine just got 22mph heading to and from Duluth and the twin cities. And all with with no black soot what so ever in the tail pipe, looks just like the day I bought it, shiny new metal inside the exhaust.
As compared to 50-60 miles per gallon on a euroweeny? Yes the euroweeny diesel made a tiny amount more smoke and oxides of N. BUT THE FUCKING GAS HOG MONSTER TRUCK ENGINE JUST PUT a butt tonne more carbon dioxide per mile driven into the atmosphere so fuck off with the gas guzzling bullshit. Move to California and watch it burn, send your dollars to the oil industry and then complain when Bush the Third gets into power and the price of oil goes through the roof again. Short sighted bunch of fucking morons that can't see the forest for the trees. In fact they couldn't care less about the decline of Western Red Cedar happening all alone the west coast of North America. And the steady decline in the West Coast fisheries the severe drought that will eventually hurt the entire rain cycle of the entire Rockie Mountain and Coast Ranges.
Total and complete environmentally stupid morons piled on with more completely ignorant blind and stupid morons and that is the total sum of the issue.
Volkswagen cheating just so it could create an engine that would get better fuel economy is a symptom of the problem. We have our fucking heads screwed on so wrong that we waste resources and think that spewing more carbon dioxide in the air is the answer. I want to know how badly the Euroweeny diesels and Jap turbos that get the same kind of performance and fuel economy actually create NO2 and soot. I am almost willing to bet that on a per gallon basis it is almost the same as the big cummins that everybody thinks is eco friendly. I am almost certain that the amount of soot and NO2 per mile is less in the Euroweeny. So I call bullshit and hefferdust on the who eco diesel scam that we are being sold by Chrysler and the American auto industry.
We go ice fishing up my way. Well, the locals/natives do. I used to go ice drinking but I don't drink any more. I've never once tried to fish through the ice unless you count jigging for smelts which, I guess, sort of qualifies as fishing and I did not even do that for long. I was mostly hell bent on getting drunk - which is all I've ever done out in the ice shacks. Some of them are pretty nice, too. In fact, I've gotten drunk in lots of ice shacks and not once really fished to the best of my recollection. No alien abductions though.
We go ice fishing up my way. Well, the locals/natives do. I used to go ice drinking but I don't drink any more. I've never once tried to fish through the ice unless you count jigging for smelts which, I guess, sort of qualifies as fishing and I did not even do that for long. I was mostly hell bent on getting drunk - which is all I've ever done out in the ice shacks. Some of them are pretty nice, too. In fact, I've gotten drunk in lots of ice shacks and not once really fished to the best of my recollection. No alien abductions though.
I highly encourage those who ice fish to get drunk, drive their gear out on the lake, drill as many holes as possible all around their shack! Sorry if my humor went way over your head, next time duck.
111 or III who gives a shit, funny how the mind works and you can easily do slips on the keyboard that reflect your anger at the rich assholes that run the world from their jets. Why not just elect John Batiste Emanuel Zorg and be done with it. Milo Minderbinder and a myriad of others would all love the title of supreme leader.
What would make more sense is to elect a Gay republican who is married and have two men in the Whitehouse at the same time. Now that would make a good TV show, call it the First Man instead of First Lady.
Yah Just maybe 111 is all the Lear Jets still flying privately. But you know what I meant, I know most of them are flying the more expensive Nazi specials these days definitely not Bombardiers. And I guess Hillary doesn't exactly get around on a broomstick. LOL
I am sure all the stuff in the e-mails didn't help Bin Laden did it? Sure bring on Jeb Bush and lets start WW111 who gives a shit. Just maybe the Chinese and the Russians saw that Obama was going after Bin Laden. Point is that if someone in Pakistan did then they did not believe it that is for freaking sure.
Either that or Hillary was smart enough to not let the real secrets out and only let out stuff that no one could verify or better still confused the hell out of them. By all means bring on another Bush or Trump war monger session we need more brainz in Washington, hell a good war will help the economy and help drive up the price of oil again. Whoaaaa what I great environmental thought elect a war monger so that oil is only used for war and domestically it has to be rationed. Heck even coal could become a strategic commodity during a bloody enough conflict. Who know a good war could really get the economy on the right track and make the 1% Lear jet set crowd really happy!
I was abducted while fishing when I was 12 years old so I know something about it. Put it this way it takes more than a tin foil hat to block their signals. So in my free time I fish like a mad man and communicate. But I prefer chironomid fishing just after ice off. In winter it is too hard to cut a hole in the ice long enough to get in a good cast!
I suggest that faceplant institutes a third button for commenting on posts and call it MEH. A more considerate naming choice than a WGAS button. (who gives a shit) which is what most posts on faceplant usually deserve. After all, who really cares if your grandmothers cat hoiked up a giant hair ball that looked like a cooked Johnsonville Brat sausage this morning, replete with pictures!
All Microsoft would have to do is open an assembly plant somewhere in Russia and BINGo. The number two search engine could overnight become the number one, well at least in the land of Putin. No need for Microsoft to worry about being anti competitive for a change, Windows phones could quickly become a much loved underdog of the east as Android suddenly becomes the wicked witch of the west. I would not at all be surprised if all of a sudden something of this magnitude happens in the cell phone industry the way the Google hate is spreading in the EU and Russia.
A move like this makes one hell of a lot more sense politically and economically than the ridiculous "scroogle" bullshit campaign launched by Steve Ballmer. I am sure that if the right amount of grease was applied to corrupt Russian politicians Microsoft could quickly make in roads into the market there. Perhaps a concerted effort like this is the only way Windows phones can finally gain real traction in the market place. They definitely are out of it in the West, I do not even see an offering of the product in the Best Buy flyers or on the Telco's lists of products. AND where the hell are Nokia/Microsoft phones in the media they seem to have completely disappeared this year. I am sure that they are not just going to be sold at the Microsoft brick and mortar stores.
A good advertising ploy would be to have a bunch of old Russian tanks run over a bunch of Androids in front of the new Microsoft stores and factory in Moscow. I am sure that the underfunded Russian military would love to do the acting and supply the gear for the commercials!
... when we have neutrino or gravitational wave telescopes capable of detecting such signals. Which we don't. Current neutrino observatories are very crude, and we have yet to detect gravitational waves of any kind.
Perhaps the physics we are applying are incomplete. Let us theorize instead. For one, what if there are wave lengths of extreme length, then how do you detect them? Can a wave be of such a great length that the phase change occurs faster than the speed of light and might this be the only form of energy that can bend space as we think of it? If you do the math the phase change of a long wave does happen over the distance of the wave length at speeds faster than C.
BUT HOW do you detect extremely long waves traveling in the vacuum of space? Certainly a pool of water down in a mine or in under arctic ice is not the answer. IT WILL TAKE very long space based arrays of nodes to detect long wave signals. The wave lengths of extreme long waves in space will be calculated by the speed of light multiplied by the coefficient of the frequency. So there will be resonance nodes that occur at fixed distances relative to the primary wave of long wave signals. These signals will not actually be bending space they will be using the shape of space to move faster than light.
So until we get our shit together and start to explore outer space again we do not stand a chance of discovering how to communicate over long distances. AND this is why Seti has failed, there is no point in using light speed signals to communicate long distance it is too slow and is like using the pony express to deliver the mail when what is really needed is the telegraph! We will find that the other intelligent life within the cosmos will want to chat but until we unite as a species and learn to live off the planet there is no chance of setting up communications. Perhaps this is our true destiny and we will evolve to live in space if we ever learn to control our passion for killing each other off and learn to communicate with each other as a species!
If we define a knot as being a configuration which simply joins strings together at a position is space then the problem of how things work and in what sequence becomes more clear. For instance if you can visualize a blood knot or a spider hitch or bimini twist in your mind then you can see the points at which the friction occurs and how the knot is lock stopped and how it works. For an experience fisherman this can become fairly easy but only with practice, for someone who never ties complex knots or conceives of how they might fail this is a very difficult task.
It will be really interesting to see the mathematical advances that come from the study of more complex knots. It is altogether possible that new algorithms that will apply to other disciplines will emerge from the study being undertaken. We might even discover insights into the knotting of proteins and other chains that produce strings that knot. What works at the microscopic scale down to the molecular level will work completely differently on the larger scale and that difference should be something that can be quantified. Knots are a fascinating study and even the primitive human was fascinated by them, they were one of the first essential skills that the human race developed. Without the study of knots we would not have clothing is the first thing that comes to my mind. Who knows where the study of knots on a mathematical level can lead us.
Fixed the link for ya. And well quoted point well taken but the implications of what is happening to the arctic are much further reaching than just the sudden extinction of the top predators!
And that is the whole issue in a nut shell. What is even more concerning is as the sea ice changes so does the ecosystem that supports the arctic cod that requires sea ice habitat. This in turn supports the summer populations of sea birds, seals and the food web of the arctic. So it gets much worse than that in a hurry. The entire food web of the arctic is now in chaos and we will see increased extinctions, the polar bears will be the first because they are at the top of the food web. Then the seals and finally the sea bird populations will crash.
The whales that live off krill will die off as the krill population crashes due to changes in currents. In some places there will be minor increases in local populations of specific species but by and large the large animals will all die off.
Our ocean fishery is doomed because of rapid climate change and within the next 20 years it will become obvious that what we have done to the environment of planet earth is going to starve us off as well. There is no stopping the coming extinction cycles. The only realistic solution is for us to evolve as a species and that evolution must be artificial. We need to genetically modify ourselves to survive. A body that can survive in low gravity is the answer, essentially a space cadet or grey alien like body with very light bone structure and a high resistance to extreme g forces seems the most sensible modifications. Perhaps this guy is right! I guess that is why my favourite movie of all time is a doomsday one. I consider myself lucky to be of the last generation that could have prevented the global extinctions and instead chose to go out with our collective heads in the oil sands of time believing that paving the planet would lead to a bright future! We have ignored the obvious warnings and we are doomed because of our greed and stupidity. The human race is not worth saving because it did not learn to rise above greed and the ensuing acts of war that tribalism creates. Our chance to become a single species is past and we instead are again falling into a narrow minded self serving tribal economic chaos which we call capitalism. We have lost the only chance we had to rise above greed and strife. Mother nature is about to cull the herd and it will be brutal because we are incapable of thinking beyond ourselves as individuals regardless of skull and bones and secret hand shakes and all the other bullshit that we delude ourselves with the human race is going to evolve and that evolution is not something which we have control over!
When was the last time you were in Alaska? Care to take a guess what the AK in my name stands for? Oh, and you know they have a rail now through boggy and mountainous areas, right? And apparently there are no trains in New Orleans either, surrounded by bog and all that.
The delta of the Mackenzie River will be swamped so will the deltas of many Russian rivers that flow into the low artic.
How is that relevant to building railroads, or Alaska? Sounds like you are upset with Canadians and take it out on anyone who mentions Alaska too. Tundra isn't hard to build over. In WWII, the US military built roads over tundra without issue when the US was being invaded by Japan. The Glenn Highway (Alaska Highway 1) was built in its present location during WWII, as the Japanese bombed and occupied US territory in Alaska. Roads through tundra aren't hard. Railways take more digging, though. But same basic principles apply. Been done many times before. The reason Canada doesn't do it is because they are too cheap to build usable roads. Just drive on the rivers after the freeze. Expensive doesn't mean "hard".
I got it the only place in the real world that is north of 60 is Alaska. Only morons think of the world only in terms of how climate change effects the USA. Alaska is different topographically from most of northern Canada and Siberia and certainly is not going to benefit from climate change or the opening of the north west passage. The truth is that the majority of Alaskan population is close to the sea and most people do not live in Alaska where the climate is cold and do not live on tundra or on permafrost. Lose of the pacific fishery is about to occur because of changes to ocean surface temps all the way up to the pan handle. A huge bubble of warm water is sitting off the West Coast of North America. What this will do in a very short few years along with over fishing makes the loss of the grand banks over the hundreds of years of over fishing look like a passive action. The pacific fishery is no where near as large as was the Atlantic and even though it took hundreds of years to destroy it it will only take a few more to do the same on the West Coast
The American attitude toward the environment we all share is almost as bad as the Canadian attitudes and will only change when the disasters that climate change and our shared environmental stupidity bring become too difficult to dismiss.
The El Nino cycle causing drought in the West is going to go on for another 3 years and then there will be a radical switch to La Nina but without the essential cold currents that meant major up-welling of plankton on the west coast! When this happens the hurricanes on the east coast of the US will ramp up again and this time New York and New Joisy might not be so lucky. Even New Orleans might get it again, who knows if Jeb gets elected then there might even be disaster money for Texas and Florida if it gets the hit this time around. It is a roll of the dice but for certain there will be major storm damage the likes of which we have never seen in the next 10 years.
The dismissal of climate change and the American attitudes toward the environment are as bad and ignorant as the Scopes monkey trials and reflect the unfortunate overall ignorance and stupidity of the wealthy in the US. They could care less about the future and this shows because they dismiss the science the same way the American religious nuts dismissed Darwin! Yes we are in for a rude awakening and huge economic and social changes and the rich will be in the same boat as the poor this time around because starvation is starvation, you can't eat gold or paper. The rich might survive a little longer than the poor when things get really bad but then again they will have no one to feed them so they will eventually die off as well. They will just suffer longer, which I guess is only fitting.
Yes and sections of the CPR go over muskeg in Northern Ontario. But we are taking about a completely different logistical challenge when it comes to permafrost that can become lakes over vast distances. There are vast stretches of frozen mush that run for hundreds of miles in both North America and Northern Siberia. What will happen as this thaws out is not well understood. As small sections of it melt what happens now is the dead plant material sinks and presto you have a lake. So what happens when huge areas of it thaw is that huge lakes will suddenly form where there once was vegetation living on top of mushy ice.
I have worked the oil fields up north and can tell you that come May you are shut down for the summer and the shut down times are getting longer and longer and the ice road season is getting shorter. The interior of British Columbia has lost the pine forest because of climate change and that change is moving further and further north every year. This year the wild fire season showed what we are in for. But unfortunately the vast majority of Americans are morons that ignore what is really happening to the environment until something actually happens to them.
People who do not have a freaking clue are making statements about what is going on. The climate change that is happening is undeniable and if it accelerates because of methane coming out of the tundra then the results are going to be changes that will effect the worlds food supply. Drought in the American south west and the winter food production in California and elsewhere is already causing drastic increases in food costs.
The answer that Ronald Frump and others are putting forward is more of the same bullshit that caused these problems in the first place. Unless we get our act together there is going to be food shortages and unrest in the next 10 years. We cannot afford not to act the other choice is very disturbing and will lead to social chaos that we will not be able to cope with regardless of who has the guns!
People who think that climate change is suddenly going to open up the north are absolute fools and need to be ostracized and exposed for the Charlestons they really are! Especially the ones that think that a new North West passage is going to lead to financial gain and an increase in world trade. As we lose the oceans fisheries and people begin to starve then come back and talk to me. Our greed and stupidity has caused these things, more greed and stupidity will not fix them but most definitely eventually will lead to lower population levels!
What a miss informed bunch of absolute bullshit. Have you ever seen tundra or what permafrost really is? Obviously many here have no freaking clue as to the nature of the north.
What replaces permafrost is bog and that bog is impossible to put a rail line over period. Millions of square hectares of bog is what we will see as the permafrost melts. A rise in sea levels and near the arctic ocean a decrease in land mass. The delta of the Mackenzie River will be swamped so will the deltas of many Russian rivers that flow into the low artic. The amount of slow seepage to the ocean from the melting permafrost is incredible. As the glacier cover over Greenland calves to the sea the effect will increase.
You think the last problem with flooding in New York and New Joisy was bad, just wait you ain't seen nothing yet. But that is ok you can just move up to Canada and take advantage of the new land created eh! What a bunch of freaking morons.
By documenting what is happening from space and what happens in the upper atmosphere and working in combination with data that is land based at least Nasa is helping to accurately document what is happening and the rate at which we can expect the coast lines to change in the near future! Perhaps all you idiots in the states should do is just elect another moron like Jeb or better still Ronald Frump, you can bet either one will put Nasa in its place and make America great again by teaching everyone to stick their head into the Canadian oil sands and kiss their ass goodbye. DRILL BABY DRILL, frac the shit out of the planet who cares if New York sinks.
I skipped the Discovery link to avoid hype and went directly to the Harvard link.
Disappointing. One expects a certain sobriety from scientists and yet something is terribly wrong here. The article is peppered with weasel words: an unusually vague 'theory'; and words like: could, might, if, potentially, would, and the ever dreadful 'assumes'. Let's hope that the actual paper will have a more solid foundation.
What the hell do expect when academia at places like Harvard has become little more than "publish or die" rat race. The quality of the paper does not matter for shit anymore what matters is the paper that it is written on and the fact that it was published. I doubt that pier review means anything near as much as it once did in the gilded halls of Harvard. In fact most likely if a negative pier review occurs it is quickly suppressed in the Deans office if the so called academic has rich parents or relations!
It is almost as if Dr Venkman has tenure as far as some so called research goes. It is blatantly obvious that the rich are completely calling the shots in the top universities these days. I am not at all surprised that foot ball at Harvard is not top notch because the rich parents usually do not have kids that can play football worth shit. Harvard has become is a place to put rich kids so that they can put that Harvard on their CV to impress the CEOs political movers and shakers and other upper class society peoples that their parents introduce them to after they "graduate". Skull and Bones and BULLSHIT is the real order of the day.
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Modern gamers game using apps.
Some older games are better at not creating as much video distraction and tension in the player and can be a good way to ease stress for some people. I remember my father at 76 years old getting a kick out of playing Pac Man on an old console for the first time in the late 1990s. He had late stage prostate cancer and was on heavy morphine for the pain. He was not capable of playing bridge or chess with us any longer. But sitting there with him with an old console I found in a second hand store he had a blast!
The current popularity of simple games on cell phones and tablets like angry birds and the like are just one exception that proves my point. High resolution complicated games that require huge computing resources are for kids and game geeks not the general public who do not take today's expensive video games seriously.
See article 1, section, clause 5 of the US Constitution - "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State." Thus there are zero export taxes in the US. It's not like it's hard to find the export tax rates for countries. And it's not hard to learn about foreign free trade zones in the US. But hey, I know it's just facts and reality - don't let that stop you from your little, delusional rant! Education is a terrible thing when you have an agenda to push...
Well said and extrapolated! Particularly your quip "Education is a terrible thing when you have an agenda to push" If you do not mind I will use it elsewhere. It cuts to the core of why we need to continue the fight against all political entities that are based upon male domination like the Talaban that exist only by violent brutal intolerance for the benefit of the so called "leaders". The same is true with the petrochemical industrial complex which is controlling far to great a portion of the world's economy. They need to be exposed for what they, are a conglomerate group who really could care less about human life as long as they control the planet.
Who are the they? I can look in the mirror and at times see one myself as I drive my car willy-nilly everywhere. I keenly remember seeing a hippy Volkswagen van once in about 96' with a tattered bumper sticker long after the defeat of Bush after the first and the pseudo religious oil conflict with Sadam over Kuwait (first gulf war). The bumper sticker boldly stated: (NO BLOOD FOR OIL!). The funny part was that it was sitting there running and dripping oil from the engine all over the pavement where it was parked. The oil was going directly down into a storm sewer catchment that lead directly to a fish bearing creek. At the time I was doing environmental stream survey work for logging cut blocks. To cut a long story short I went home and looked in the mirror and realized that poor ol' Al Gore who was recently berated in the press for his anti pollution stance was on to something and there was no chance in hell of him every gaining power. We are all subject to the whim of our ignorance and education can help heal this inner wound. But the greatest failing of the student is always an inability to listen, thus we ignore Rachel Carson and other luminaries like Al Gore at our own intellectual peril!
While you're at it, Canada, let her resume her research in Baffin Island.
She was fired because of the complaints of some thin-skinned lowlings who don't have what it takes to work with someone like her.
If you have to scold her, if you have to tell her to chill out, do so. But don't shut down scientific research just because of stupid personal problems.
Sending anyone back to Baffin Island will definitely make them chill out.
I have to wonder if the muzzling will begin again, once the scientists start disagreeing with a liberal party policy? If, for example, it turns out that gun control doesn't actually do anything to stop crime - and that enforcement of it, much like with drugs, is basically wasted money - will the liberal party go, "Oh... I guess we were wrong about that"?
It's all sunshine and roses right now, but the scientists aren't actually saying anything that goes against the liberal party ideology at the moment. The real test of them putting their money where their mouth is, would be when they continue to support open discourse and dialogue even when it disagrees with what the party believes.
Whoa up there Tex! Put your gun back in your holster you are talkin' to the sheriff 'a Rock Ridge.
Firstly gun control has nothing to do with crime prevention. What you are suggesting is in essence removing the all license plates from cars when you really think about what you are saying here. In Canada we simply require that a license to purchase firearms is required the same way a drivers license is required to drive cars. You commit a crime with a gun and you lose your license to carry them plain and simple. A common sense policy, something which the religious right wing dolts who are scared by the politically motivated NRA firearms industry lobby in the good 'ol US of A just don't seem to be able comprehend.
The only reason devices that can display printed sheet music like tablets and e-ink readers are not popular is that they are essentially useless for sight reading. A foot pedal for page turns could easily create a reader for musicians. It would catch on like wild fire and the music publishers could finally start to distribute good editions again. I have been saying this for years and no one listens, it is the usual routine with industry not seeing the forest for the trees that are still being cut to print music.
Forget everything you assume about whether or not there is a market for large format e-readers. Categorically there is and all it would take is a foot pedal. So simple but currently the great music publishing houses are in crisis because of digital equipment and unless they get on the program and start to distribute standard editions in digital form they will all die and be bought out by the large corporate bastards who have essentially ham strung the music publishing industry with senseless worries about DRM. All they have succeeded in doing is to force musicians to cheat and file share scans of music and in doing so have also greatly degraded the once esteemed high art of printed music notation and distribution. Precious few are only now realizing the mistake they made with their fears about their copyrights being broken.
I will gladly pay reasonable amounts for well edited digital sheet music, in fact I still buy from the best publishers that are still around. If I can also not have to waste money on the ink and printing racket so I can play music that is out of print I would be in heaven. I know most real musicians who read and understand the importance of well done sheet music will also do the same and pay for decent music editions in digital format.
There is much more than just books and the literary arts at a cross roads because of today's technology! Lets get together and put the ink and paper out of business once and for all, I say it has become archaic and far to costly environmentally and socially.
Every time a governing body gets involved, things get more complicated
Every time a governing body is lacking, things get more complicated. And then one emerges anyway.
The question always ends up being: in whose interest do those with effective governorship act?
I promise you,
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it really is possible for people to cooperate with each other to achieve this.
Do you mean "cooperate" or "compete"? Democratic government is a form of cooperation, you realise? one citizen, one share.
This isn't an anti-enterprise post, just an anti-anti-government one. Pure ideology (e.g. "free market!" and "command economy!") is for modellers, storytellers and fanatics. The modeller knows they're simplifying the problem. The storyteller knows they're making things up completely. The fanatic, unfortunately, realises neither.
From someone who was 10 years old and was inspired by this speech that is oft forgotten and belittled in the bejeweled halls of anti-government fanatics like some of todays right wing sudo nazis and especially assholes that spout anti-government nonsense. They really need to have their motives and agendas closely scrutinized by the electorate again. What we need is someone like a Kennedy again to step forward and roast these assholes over the coals in public debate the way Nixon was exposed in 1960.
Great leaders inspire great things for mankind, the current group of anti-government leaders are an oxymoron! To quote Mr. Trump's most used bit of bullshit leadership technique, we all need to say in one voice "YOUR ALL FUCKING FIRED!" The way we did with Nixon if we ever catch on to what these so called business people are really up to with a blatant attempt to buy another Presidency the way they did with Reagan. Do they really think people are that stupid all of the time? Not that the rest of the Republican ticket is any better this time around either, yes they had once had a real leader in Lincoln, but how the once great in spirit have all fallen to the allure of the coin!
It is not the time to hold back on the future and live in an oil and blood soaked past. I can only pray that soon a time will come when someone again inspires the cooperation ventures like space exploration, a change to a real environmental economy, with the technology to eliminate waste and most of all great science ventures in all the fields that made landing on the moon possible!
Politics is being abused by those who have lead by deliberately inciting economic terror and other tactics like the ones used by Dick Chaney and Co. Even George Bush senior is finally starting to realize the real problems that these money driven assholes are creating for the economy and the world in the long term. At least the not so great actor Ronald Reagan, who became a president and asked Mr Gorbachev to "tear down that wall" admitted that it was economically important to do science right and it was this that made us great, even as his supporters ripped and tore up Nasa!
Unfortunately what I envision happening instead is a secret state visit to the international space station by both Putin and someone like Jeb or Trump to carve up the world economy in secret as they nuke the Chinese and a few other states that get in the way of their friend's enterprises. Dick Chaney can tag along, I am sure him and a few others will all be doing something in the background to oversee the talks!
hmmm, interesting read
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While it's true that these areas have a higher concentration of plastic than other parts of the ocean, much of the debris found in these areas are small bits of plastic (microplastics) that are suspended throughout the water column. A comparison I like to use is that the debris is more like flecks of pepper floating throughout a bowl of soup, rather than a skim of fat that accumulates (or sits) on the surface.
That is precisely the problem, because the plastic breaks down into tidbits and some of the really nasty toxic ones become indistinguishable from the food that fish eat. Further to that sockeye salmon and other Oncorhynchus and fish everywhere are starting to show up with bellies full of plastics http://www.npafc.org/new/publi...
Naturally the ocean gyres are slowly churning the plastics into smaller and smaller pieces and they are also breaking into bits on shorelines of islands and the continents. So it is not as if there is a great garbage dump out there but the truth is that there is a level of ongoing human caused pollution that is will eventually do permanent damage to much more than the ocean's key ecosystems.
The alarmist videos and Fox News style environmental news shows do not show the real extent of the problem. They are not scientifically sound and are not really informing the public about the real problem with the world dominating petro industrial complex. Unfortunately the real problems are much more insidious and hidden as the quote I appended coming from your link clearly indicates.
Perhaps it is far better instead to scare the shit out of people with videos like this one. Hopefully the extent of the real damage going on will finally be recognized by J. Q. Public, before another Bush league petro president takes over the reigns of power.
Even Obama has stated that a lack action to change our attitudes towards the abuse of our shared environment by not being able to halt the dismissal of science, largely by the rich industry lobbies in Washington, is one of the greatest regrets he will have when he surrenders the reigns of power. Truth is it does not matter who becomes the President anymore the government is now run by the industry lobbies not the people and certainly not by truth!
OK, don't print little pirate treasure chests for zebra-fish aquaria, got it.
Who cares? The problems with chemical stupidity are not just about one species of fish. Unfortunately a large portion of our population relies upon the riches of the sea. If we keep screwing up the oceans with out industrial waste, especially discarded by products and plastic garbage we will see a rapid collapse of the entire ocean biosphere. It will mean starvation on a huge scale. Your statement bespeaks volumes about the utter public ignorance of key biological systems that have given us life. You can claim ignorance because most people do not even care about what is happening because of unrestrained garbage in our oceans, those who know the truth about the unregulated dumping of toxic plastic garbage that is causing the garbage patches do not have the luxury of ignorance that you enjoy.
As you bury your head in the beach sand it is almost certain that you will also be covered in little pieces of plastic that are starting to kill fish on a global scale. large plastics the big pictureabout how and why plastics are killing more and more marine life as they break down into smaller and smaller pieces and are eaten by smaller and smaller organisms.
With the oil and plastic industry now dictating our future it is entirely possible that our chemical stupidity will cause global starvation in the next century. Either we pay attention to the environment on a global scale or we will suffer the consequences of shitting in our own nest to the extent that our environment will simply kill us off. Here is hoping that eventually we can create closed systems with the plastic industry but right now the recycling of plastics and the science to stop the toxic destruction of our world is not a priority, within the next 40 years we either stop putting toxins in the ocean or we will not survive as a species. End of story.
Does it run Windows?
Really, the driveway, my 6.7L turbocharged Scoprion diesel engine just got 22mph heading to and from Duluth and the twin cities. And all with with no black soot what so ever in the tail pipe, looks just like the day I bought it, shiny new metal inside the exhaust.
As compared to 50-60 miles per gallon on a euroweeny? Yes the euroweeny diesel made a tiny amount more smoke and oxides of N. BUT THE FUCKING GAS HOG MONSTER TRUCK ENGINE JUST PUT a butt tonne more carbon dioxide per mile driven into the atmosphere so fuck off with the gas guzzling bullshit. Move to California and watch it burn, send your dollars to the oil industry and then complain when Bush the Third gets into power and the price of oil goes through the roof again. Short sighted bunch of fucking morons that can't see the forest for the trees. In fact they couldn't care less about the decline of Western Red Cedar happening all alone the west coast of North America. And the steady decline in the West Coast fisheries the severe drought that will eventually hurt the entire rain cycle of the entire Rockie Mountain and Coast Ranges.
Total and complete environmentally stupid morons piled on with more completely ignorant blind and stupid morons and that is the total sum of the issue.
Volkswagen cheating just so it could create an engine that would get better fuel economy is a symptom of the problem. We have our fucking heads screwed on so wrong that we waste resources and think that spewing more carbon dioxide in the air is the answer. I want to know how badly the Euroweeny diesels and Jap turbos that get the same kind of performance and fuel economy actually create NO2 and soot. I am almost willing to bet that on a per gallon basis it is almost the same as the big cummins that everybody thinks is eco friendly. I am almost certain that the amount of soot and NO2 per mile is less in the Euroweeny. So I call bullshit and hefferdust on the who eco diesel scam that we are being sold by Chrysler and the American auto industry.
We go ice fishing up my way. Well, the locals/natives do. I used to go ice drinking but I don't drink any more. I've never once tried to fish through the ice unless you count jigging for smelts which, I guess, sort of qualifies as fishing and I did not even do that for long. I was mostly hell bent on getting drunk - which is all I've ever done out in the ice shacks. Some of them are pretty nice, too. In fact, I've gotten drunk in lots of ice shacks and not once really fished to the best of my recollection. No alien abductions though.
We go ice fishing up my way. Well, the locals/natives do. I used to go ice drinking but I don't drink any more. I've never once tried to fish through the ice unless you count jigging for smelts which, I guess, sort of qualifies as fishing and I did not even do that for long. I was mostly hell bent on getting drunk - which is all I've ever done out in the ice shacks. Some of them are pretty nice, too. In fact, I've gotten drunk in lots of ice shacks and not once really fished to the best of my recollection. No alien abductions though.
I highly encourage those who ice fish to get drunk, drive their gear out on the lake, drill as many holes as possible all around their shack! Sorry if my humor went way over your head, next time duck.
Let's start World War One Hundred Eleven?
111 or III who gives a shit, funny how the mind works and you can easily do slips on the keyboard that reflect your anger at the rich assholes that run the world from their jets. Why not just elect John Batiste Emanuel Zorg and be done with it. Milo Minderbinder and a myriad of others would all love the title of supreme leader.
What would make more sense is to elect a Gay republican who is married and have two men in the Whitehouse at the same time. Now that would make a good TV show, call it the First Man instead of First Lady.
Let's start World War One Hundred Eleven?
Yah Just maybe 111 is all the Lear Jets still flying privately. But you know what I meant, I know most of them are flying the more expensive Nazi specials these days definitely not Bombardiers. And I guess Hillary doesn't exactly get around on a broomstick. LOL
Either that or Hillary was smart enough to not let the real secrets out and only let out stuff that no one could verify or better still confused the hell out of them. By all means bring on another Bush or Trump war monger session we need more brainz in Washington, hell a good war will help the economy and help drive up the price of oil again. Whoaaaa what I great environmental thought elect a war monger so that oil is only used for war and domestically it has to be rationed. Heck even coal could become a strategic commodity during a bloody enough conflict. Who know a good war could really get the economy on the right track and make the 1% Lear jet set crowd really happy!
Observation: Some people have too much free time.
I was abducted while fishing when I was 12 years old so I know something about it. Put it this way it takes more than a tin foil hat to block their signals. So in my free time I fish like a mad man and communicate. But I prefer chironomid fishing just after ice off. In winter it is too hard to cut a hole in the ice long enough to get in a good cast!
They have been preparing us for their code for thousands of years but only those who are in the know like this guy can read it correctly!
I suggest that faceplant institutes a third button for commenting on posts and call it MEH. A more considerate naming choice than a WGAS button. (who gives a shit) which is what most posts on faceplant usually deserve. After all, who really cares if your grandmothers cat hoiked up a giant hair ball that looked like a cooked Johnsonville Brat sausage this morning, replete with pictures!
A move like this makes one hell of a lot more sense politically and economically than the ridiculous "scroogle" bullshit campaign launched by Steve Ballmer. I am sure that if the right amount of grease was applied to corrupt Russian politicians Microsoft could quickly make in roads into the market there. Perhaps a concerted effort like this is the only way Windows phones can finally gain real traction in the market place. They definitely are out of it in the West, I do not even see an offering of the product in the Best Buy flyers or on the Telco's lists of products. AND where the hell are Nokia/Microsoft phones in the media they seem to have completely disappeared this year. I am sure that they are not just going to be sold at the Microsoft brick and mortar stores.
A good advertising ploy would be to have a bunch of old Russian tanks run over a bunch of Androids in front of the new Microsoft stores and factory in Moscow. I am sure that the underfunded Russian military would love to do the acting and supply the gear for the commercials!
... when we have neutrino or gravitational wave telescopes capable of detecting such signals. Which we don't. Current neutrino observatories are very crude, and we have yet to detect gravitational waves of any kind.
Perhaps the physics we are applying are incomplete. Let us theorize instead. For one, what if there are wave lengths of extreme length, then how do you detect them? Can a wave be of such a great length that the phase change occurs faster than the speed of light and might this be the only form of energy that can bend space as we think of it? If you do the math the phase change of a long wave does happen over the distance of the wave length at speeds faster than C.
BUT HOW do you detect extremely long waves traveling in the vacuum of space? Certainly a pool of water down in a mine or in under arctic ice is not the answer. IT WILL TAKE very long space based arrays of nodes to detect long wave signals. The wave lengths of extreme long waves in space will be calculated by the speed of light multiplied by the coefficient of the frequency. So there will be resonance nodes that occur at fixed distances relative to the primary wave of long wave signals. These signals will not actually be bending space they will be using the shape of space to move faster than light.
So until we get our shit together and start to explore outer space again we do not stand a chance of discovering how to communicate over long distances. AND this is why Seti has failed, there is no point in using light speed signals to communicate long distance it is too slow and is like using the pony express to deliver the mail when what is really needed is the telegraph! We will find that the other intelligent life within the cosmos will want to chat but until we unite as a species and learn to live off the planet there is no chance of setting up communications. Perhaps this is our true destiny and we will evolve to live in space if we ever learn to control our passion for killing each other off and learn to communicate with each other as a species!
It will be really interesting to see the mathematical advances that come from the study of more complex knots. It is altogether possible that new algorithms that will apply to other disciplines will emerge from the study being undertaken. We might even discover insights into the knotting of proteins and other chains that produce strings that knot. What works at the microscopic scale down to the molecular level will work completely differently on the larger scale and that difference should be something that can be quantified. Knots are a fascinating study and even the primitive human was fascinated by them, they were one of the first essential skills that the human race developed. Without the study of knots we would not have clothing is the first thing that comes to my mind. Who knows where the study of knots on a mathematical level can lead us.
Just look at this. From nat. geo. Polar bear deaths
Fucking sad.
Fixed the link for ya. And well quoted point well taken but the implications of what is happening to the arctic are much further reaching than just the sudden extinction of the top predators!
And that is the whole issue in a nut shell. What is even more concerning is as the sea ice changes so does the ecosystem that supports the arctic cod that requires sea ice habitat. This in turn supports the summer populations of sea birds, seals and the food web of the arctic. So it gets much worse than that in a hurry. The entire food web of the arctic is now in chaos and we will see increased extinctions, the polar bears will be the first because they are at the top of the food web. Then the seals and finally the sea bird populations will crash.
The whales that live off krill will die off as the krill population crashes due to changes in currents. In some places there will be minor increases in local populations of specific species but by and large the large animals will all die off.
Our ocean fishery is doomed because of rapid climate change and within the next 20 years it will become obvious that what we have done to the environment of planet earth is going to starve us off as well. There is no stopping the coming extinction cycles. The only realistic solution is for us to evolve as a species and that evolution must be artificial. We need to genetically modify ourselves to survive. A body that can survive in low gravity is the answer, essentially a space cadet or grey alien like body with very light bone structure and a high resistance to extreme g forces seems the most sensible modifications. Perhaps this guy is right! I guess that is why my favourite movie of all time is a doomsday one. I consider myself lucky to be of the last generation that could have prevented the global extinctions and instead chose to go out with our collective heads in the oil sands of time believing that paving the planet would lead to a bright future! We have ignored the obvious warnings and we are doomed because of our greed and stupidity. The human race is not worth saving because it did not learn to rise above greed and the ensuing acts of war that tribalism creates. Our chance to become a single species is past and we instead are again falling into a narrow minded self serving tribal economic chaos which we call capitalism. We have lost the only chance we had to rise above greed and strife. Mother nature is about to cull the herd and it will be brutal because we are incapable of thinking beyond ourselves as individuals regardless of skull and bones and secret hand shakes and all the other bullshit that we delude ourselves with the human race is going to evolve and that evolution is not something which we have control over!
When was the last time you were in Alaska? Care to take a guess what the AK in my name stands for? Oh, and you know they have a rail now through boggy and mountainous areas, right? And apparently there are no trains in New Orleans either, surrounded by bog and all that.
The delta of the Mackenzie River will be swamped so will the deltas of many Russian rivers that flow into the low artic.
How is that relevant to building railroads, or Alaska? Sounds like you are upset with Canadians and take it out on anyone who mentions Alaska too. Tundra isn't hard to build over. In WWII, the US military built roads over tundra without issue when the US was being invaded by Japan. The Glenn Highway (Alaska Highway 1) was built in its present location during WWII, as the Japanese bombed and occupied US territory in Alaska. Roads through tundra aren't hard. Railways take more digging, though. But same basic principles apply. Been done many times before. The reason Canada doesn't do it is because they are too cheap to build usable roads. Just drive on the rivers after the freeze. Expensive doesn't mean "hard".
I got it the only place in the real world that is north of 60 is Alaska. Only morons think of the world only in terms of how climate change effects the USA. Alaska is different topographically from most of northern Canada and Siberia and certainly is not going to benefit from climate change or the opening of the north west passage. The truth is that the majority of Alaskan population is close to the sea and most people do not live in Alaska where the climate is cold and do not live on tundra or on permafrost. Lose of the pacific fishery is about to occur because of changes to ocean surface temps all the way up to the pan handle. A huge bubble of warm water is sitting off the West Coast of North America. What this will do in a very short few years along with over fishing makes the loss of the grand banks over the hundreds of years of over fishing look like a passive action. The pacific fishery is no where near as large as was the Atlantic and even though it took hundreds of years to destroy it it will only take a few more to do the same on the West Coast
The American attitude toward the environment we all share is almost as bad as the Canadian attitudes and will only change when the disasters that climate change and our shared environmental stupidity bring become too difficult to dismiss.
The El Nino cycle causing drought in the West is going to go on for another 3 years and then there will be a radical switch to La Nina but without the essential cold currents that meant major up-welling of plankton on the west coast! When this happens the hurricanes on the east coast of the US will ramp up again and this time New York and New Joisy might not be so lucky. Even New Orleans might get it again, who knows if Jeb gets elected then there might even be disaster money for Texas and Florida if it gets the hit this time around. It is a roll of the dice but for certain there will be major storm damage the likes of which we have never seen in the next 10 years.
The dismissal of climate change and the American attitudes toward the environment are as bad and ignorant as the Scopes monkey trials and reflect the unfortunate overall ignorance and stupidity of the wealthy in the US. They could care less about the future and this shows because they dismiss the science the same way the American religious nuts dismissed Darwin! Yes we are in for a rude awakening and huge economic and social changes and the rich will be in the same boat as the poor this time around because starvation is starvation, you can't eat gold or paper. The rich might survive a little longer than the poor when things get really bad but then again they will have no one to feed them so they will eventually die off as well. They will just suffer longer, which I guess is only fitting.
I have worked the oil fields up north and can tell you that come May you are shut down for the summer and the shut down times are getting longer and longer and the ice road season is getting shorter. The interior of British Columbia has lost the pine forest because of climate change and that change is moving further and further north every year. This year the wild fire season showed what we are in for. But unfortunately the vast majority of Americans are morons that ignore what is really happening to the environment until something actually happens to them.
People who do not have a freaking clue are making statements about what is going on. The climate change that is happening is undeniable and if it accelerates because of methane coming out of the tundra then the results are going to be changes that will effect the worlds food supply. Drought in the American south west and the winter food production in California and elsewhere is already causing drastic increases in food costs.
The answer that Ronald Frump and others are putting forward is more of the same bullshit that caused these problems in the first place. Unless we get our act together there is going to be food shortages and unrest in the next 10 years. We cannot afford not to act the other choice is very disturbing and will lead to social chaos that we will not be able to cope with regardless of who has the guns!
People who think that climate change is suddenly going to open up the north are absolute fools and need to be ostracized and exposed for the Charlestons they really are! Especially the ones that think that a new North West passage is going to lead to financial gain and an increase in world trade. As we lose the oceans fisheries and people begin to starve then come back and talk to me. Our greed and stupidity has caused these things, more greed and stupidity will not fix them but most definitely eventually will lead to lower population levels!
What replaces permafrost is bog and that bog is impossible to put a rail line over period. Millions of square hectares of bog is what we will see as the permafrost melts. A rise in sea levels and near the arctic ocean a decrease in land mass. The delta of the Mackenzie River will be swamped so will the deltas of many Russian rivers that flow into the low artic. The amount of slow seepage to the ocean from the melting permafrost is incredible. As the glacier cover over Greenland calves to the sea the effect will increase.
You think the last problem with flooding in New York and New Joisy was bad, just wait you ain't seen nothing yet. But that is ok you can just move up to Canada and take advantage of the new land created eh! What a bunch of freaking morons.
By documenting what is happening from space and what happens in the upper atmosphere and working in combination with data that is land based at least Nasa is helping to accurately document what is happening and the rate at which we can expect the coast lines to change in the near future! Perhaps all you idiots in the states should do is just elect another moron like Jeb or better still Ronald Frump, you can bet either one will put Nasa in its place and make America great again by teaching everyone to stick their head into the Canadian oil sands and kiss their ass goodbye. DRILL BABY DRILL, frac the shit out of the planet who cares if New York sinks.
I skipped the Discovery link to avoid hype and went directly to the Harvard link.
Disappointing. One expects a certain sobriety from scientists and yet something is terribly wrong here. The article is peppered with weasel words: an unusually vague 'theory'; and words like: could, might, if, potentially, would, and the ever dreadful 'assumes'. Let's hope that the actual paper will have a more solid foundation.
What the hell do expect when academia at places like Harvard has become little more than "publish or die" rat race. The quality of the paper does not matter for shit anymore what matters is the paper that it is written on and the fact that it was published. I doubt that pier review means anything near as much as it once did in the gilded halls of Harvard. In fact most likely if a negative pier review occurs it is quickly suppressed in the Deans office if the so called academic has rich parents or relations!
It is almost as if Dr Venkman has tenure as far as some so called research goes. It is blatantly obvious that the rich are completely calling the shots in the top universities these days. I am not at all surprised that foot ball at Harvard is not top notch because the rich parents usually do not have kids that can play football worth shit. Harvard has become is a place to put rich kids so that they can put that Harvard on their CV to impress the CEOs political movers and shakers and other upper class society peoples that their parents introduce them to after they "graduate". Skull and Bones and BULLSHIT is the real order of the day.