If i've got it right the argument is that the warming is on a century-lenght scale, a recovery after the little ice age, whereas the CRU graphs trying to pin explosive warming on recent decades are fabricated by adjusting old temperature records to cooler values and recent temperatures to higher values. In short, they apply a hockey-stickifying algorithm to the records to give the alarming impression that temperatures since the 70s or so have been climbing agressively.
I might be a bit off target though, i only started to semi-actively following the skeptic side a few weeks after the emails found their way out of CRU.
A lot of skeptics are not denying we're seeing a long time warming, glaciers after all have been receding for some 150+ years. They are however rejecting that human activity is the primary driving factor and that things will go to shit and the sealevel will reach the moon before the end of next week if we do nothing.
To condense it, there's two main disagreements: The cause; Man vs Nature. And feedback; negative or positive.
To the latter i may add that negative feedback is more often found in nature, perhaps because it dutifully returns towards its origin and can experience feedback once again, whereas positive feedback once put in motion is not likely to stop or return anytime soon. If negative feedback, i'm buying a SUV. If positive, i'll buy an amphibic SUV, because even the most dreamy scenario of 30-50% reduction in CO2 emissions would still not be enough to stop it.
Wouldn't the hydrogen exist in ionized forms, and thus be possible to divert by electric fields? A 99.999% spaceship would probably have enough of an energy supply to power the LHC a few times over and thus be able to shield the significant part of the craft from any LHC strenght radiation?
Your post summarizes all that i hate when it comes to enviromental drama.
Suddenly every crackpot shows their professsional opinion by cooking up their "even if A and B we still should C because D" reasons that are factually so wrong that it makes the bible look good.
Lets start with the effects of CO2 on asthma: which are none, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere will remain approximately the same, and co2 isn't known to make astmha worse, which brings us to the next point. The oxygen content of the atmosphere is approximately 21%, the amospheric percentage of CO2 is 0.0387%. Even if we were to increase atmospheric CO2 ten times you'd still be exhaling out air with a further ten times higher co2 content. The current manmade increase of co2 is something along the line of 20-50%. As far as any mammalian respiratory system is concerned there have been no change whatsoever when it comes to co2 in the atmosphere. But apparently you think this is a problem so big that it's worth destroying or severely crippling the global economy to prevent it.
If you worry about asthmatics then i suggest you support reducing "ordinary" pollution, something a lot easier to do as you just need to install particle filters and get the combustion efficiency up, whereas for a co2 reduction you simply can't do the combustion at all.
I wouldn't say norway have an overabundance of financial security.
Oh sure, everyone may earn more money than say their neighbours in sweden, but this really includes everyone, the guy baking your pizza too, his wage is high, because he charges $30 for a pizza, everyone does it to everyone, except when it comes to more global wares, say electronics, which have a similar price all over europe. Giant TVs, iphones and DSLRs are thus relatively cheap, the rest; not so much, take the rent for an average 50m^2 apartment in norway and go to poland with the money and you'll be living in a giant high standard flat and be eating premium steak for breakfast. Electronics however cost the same in both places.
Many people talking at the same time can be confusing, they probably can talk at the same time but don't to keep the confusion to a minimum.
There is of course a better solution: they should give up voice altogether and start using IRC.
This is why you should use a projector on a moveable screen, mark the 54" spot on the floor, and then allow some douche to move the screen to the 150" mark so you can claim plausible deniability.
The liver is more favourable to compare with a chemical reactor than a filter, because it doesn't really filter anything, it's just a highly vascularized organ equipped with a vast array of enzymes.
The kidneys have filtration units, but seen as a whole they are more a waste separator than a filter, nothing gets stuck in the kidney filters, they just extract metabolic waste from the bloodstream and dump it as urine.
Cooked meat is just mainly denaturated proteins, the same for kidneys and livers. Then again i'm not much for livers and kidneys either, i guess western culture is rather spoiled when it comes to nutrition.
Magnetic fields in MRIs are static, you are however hit by RF pulses but of no comparable energy to the magnetic field.
If the magnetic fields in MRIs were rapidly pulsed or rotated your brain would share the probably unplesant experience of what induction coils suffer daily. That is, abnormal currents would be generated along the nerve fibers(which just happens to be conductors).
For maximum damage; child pornography.
I'm sure you are all more than capable of imagining the fallout without any further explanation; it's hard to find anything being more of the.jpeg equivalent of nuclear weapons.
So it's better that a private company claims a couple kidneys and some few limbs from your household every month to provide "super luxury deluxe rich-people-only _limited_ edition broadband" that sucks ass compared to the goverment skimming a few cents off everyone and provides "ordinary unmetered 500mbps birthright-broadband".
It's certainly was not private efforts that allowed ordinary swedes to have 100mbps broadband a decade ago; it may not have paid off in pure cash, as most other things the goverment does, but it certainly did something not only for the swedes using the net but for the rest of the internet too.
But sure, go ahead and enjoy your pixelated redtube with your metered and throttled, protocol limited glorified 56k dial up while i stream native resolution porn to my 6x30" eyefinity setup.
That makes sense, digital piracy is rampart, so steam have to pay a digital insurance premium which is why they want 59.99€ ($90) for modern warfare 2.
Meanwhile real life piracy of game shipments is not very extensive, so that's why the store bought boxed(although localized moonspeak version) of the same game is half the price.
Here i thought that frenzied idolization of unproportionate profit margins had something to do with it. Thanks for showing me that business is driven by rational forces that carefully adjust the price to a fair level.
Yes, electrical stimulation will work; all exciteable tissue is dependent on voltage gated ion channels.
However, you'll not be able to let the signal ride a nerve to the musce if the NMJ is nonexistant, meaning you have to insert electrodes to the individual muscle fibers to get the adequate fine motor control.
Probably very open, DRM on ebooks allowed on ordinary computers is entirely pointless, optic character recognition on screen captures would render any DRM system dead on arrival. Google should know this.
Because we apparently consider hyperdrives to be hyperlightdrives, we should call it a hypodrive. A simple drive would be a equal to lightspeed propulsion system.
Why not look at the Eve online economy? The Eve system is a lot more flexible, largely player driven and a LOT more players involved. This should more accurately model real economies.
Then of course, eve have already had a lot of attention for this reason, so perhaps they wanted to do a more novel study.
The method i've learned for rescuitations does not involve checking the pulse, but to check the breathing, if the patient doesn't breathe, then begin CPR.
Either way i'm a bit sceptical to doing cpr on someone with an artificial heart, there are of course variations and alternatives to chest compressions which instead of compressing the heart to achive circulation targets other large blood vessels and highly vascularized regions, these are however not taught, and remain in a 'beta' stage where applications of them are very rare.
Okay so you lost internet. How many minutes does it take you to figure out that letters full of 16gb microSD cards actually have higher bandwidth than your connection? Quite abysmal ping though, but there's public acess points for the latency critical applications.
And what about the truecrypt containers i forgot the password to? While they are named 100gbsofrandomlygenerateddata.programmingexeriment or something even more obfuscated to provide plausible deniability i couldn't conjure up the password to show them it's full of naked pictures of myself even if i wanted to. Should i be put in prison or fined the GDP of a small nation for it? If not, then why can't i pretend i suffered from shock induced amnesia when they came to get my computer and forgot all the passwords and not just the ones i really forgot? Or selective remember the passwords for the containers that actually are full of naked pictures of me but not to the ones that might house terrorist-supporting-anti-american-music formats?
As for why i have the files still: harddrives are so cheap i figure i might save them for some future day when bruteforcing or memory recovering drugs become viable so i can enjoy some nostalgia from my unintended time capsule.
If we really want to explore space we need to start with developing a propulsion system that would get the bloody colony ship to the target destination in say, less time than it takes for the colonists to evolve until they're about as related to us as bacteria.
Our probe farthest from earth(voyager 1) is a puny 14-15 lightours away from the sun. And it's been at it for 32 years. If my mathemagics are right that means those puny 4 lightyears will take roughly 75000 years to travel.
That's definitely not an acceptable timespan. Relativistic spaceflight is a must if we're too see more than our backyard.
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If i've got it right the argument is that the warming is on a century-lenght scale, a recovery after the little ice age, whereas the CRU graphs trying to pin explosive warming on recent decades are fabricated by adjusting old temperature records to cooler values and recent temperatures to higher values.
In short, they apply a hockey-stickifying algorithm to the records to give the alarming impression that temperatures since the 70s or so have been climbing agressively.
I might be a bit off target though, i only started to semi-actively following the skeptic side a few weeks after the emails found their way out of CRU.
A lot of skeptics are not denying we're seeing a long time warming, glaciers after all have been receding for some 150+ years.
They are however rejecting that human activity is the primary driving factor and that things will go to shit and the sealevel will reach the moon before the end of next week if we do nothing.
To condense it, there's two main disagreements: The cause; Man vs Nature. And feedback; negative or positive.
To the latter i may add that negative feedback is more often found in nature, perhaps because it dutifully returns towards its origin and can experience feedback once again, whereas positive feedback once put in motion is not likely to stop or return anytime soon. If negative feedback, i'm buying a SUV. If positive, i'll buy an amphibic SUV, because even the most dreamy scenario of 30-50% reduction in CO2 emissions would still not be enough to stop it.
Wouldn't the hydrogen exist in ionized forms, and thus be possible to divert by electric fields? A 99.999% spaceship would probably have enough of an energy supply to power the LHC a few times over and thus be able to shield the significant part of the craft from any LHC strenght radiation?
Your post summarizes all that i hate when it comes to enviromental drama.
Suddenly every crackpot shows their professsional opinion by cooking up their "even if A and B we still should C because D" reasons that are factually so wrong that it makes the bible look good.
Lets start with the effects of CO2 on asthma: which are none, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere will remain approximately the same, and co2 isn't known to make astmha worse, which brings us to the next point. The oxygen content of the atmosphere is approximately 21%, the amospheric percentage of CO2 is 0.0387%. Even if we were to increase atmospheric CO2 ten times you'd still be exhaling out air with a further ten times higher co2 content. The current manmade increase of co2 is something along the line of 20-50%. As far as any mammalian respiratory system is concerned there have been no change whatsoever when it comes to co2 in the atmosphere. But apparently you think this is a problem so big that it's worth destroying or severely crippling the global economy to prevent it.
If you worry about asthmatics then i suggest you support reducing "ordinary" pollution, something a lot easier to do as you just need to install particle filters and get the combustion efficiency up, whereas for a co2 reduction you simply can't do the combustion at all.
I wouldn't say norway have an overabundance of financial security.
Oh sure, everyone may earn more money than say their neighbours in sweden, but this really includes everyone, the guy baking your pizza too, his wage is high, because he charges $30 for a pizza, everyone does it to everyone, except when it comes to more global wares, say electronics, which have a similar price all over europe. Giant TVs, iphones and DSLRs are thus relatively cheap, the rest; not so much, take the rent for an average 50m^2 apartment in norway and go to poland with the money and you'll be living in a giant high standard flat and be eating premium steak for breakfast. Electronics however cost the same in both places.
Many people talking at the same time can be confusing, they probably can talk at the same time but don't to keep the confusion to a minimum.
There is of course a better solution: they should give up voice altogether and start using IRC.
This is why you should use a projector on a moveable screen, mark the 54" spot on the floor, and then allow some douche to move the screen to the 150" mark so you can claim plausible deniability.
The liver is more favourable to compare with a chemical reactor than a filter, because it doesn't really filter anything, it's just a highly vascularized organ equipped with a vast array of enzymes.
The kidneys have filtration units, but seen as a whole they are more a waste separator than a filter, nothing gets stuck in the kidney filters, they just extract metabolic waste from the bloodstream and dump it as urine.
Cooked meat is just mainly denaturated proteins, the same for kidneys and livers. Then again i'm not much for livers and kidneys either, i guess western culture is rather spoiled when it comes to nutrition.
Make it fall on the people handing out goverment cash, the irony would not go unnoticed among their replacements.
Magnetic fields in MRIs are static, you are however hit by RF pulses but of no comparable energy to the magnetic field.
If the magnetic fields in MRIs were rapidly pulsed or rotated your brain would share the probably unplesant experience of what induction coils suffer daily. That is, abnormal currents would be generated along the nerve fibers(which just happens to be conductors).
I think he was referring to this clip where our dear climate evangelist shows how good he is with temperatures:
http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/clips/al-gore-pt4-111209/1175411/
For maximum damage; child pornography. .jpeg equivalent of nuclear weapons.
I'm sure you are all more than capable of imagining the fallout without any further explanation; it's hard to find anything being more of the
Those who see octopus using jetpacks usually don't have enough face left to tell the tale.
I certainly wouldn't mind being able to google "DIY safe running water" if I had none.
So it's better that a private company claims a couple kidneys and some few limbs from your household every month to provide "super luxury deluxe rich-people-only _limited_ edition broadband" that sucks ass compared to the goverment skimming a few cents off everyone and provides "ordinary unmetered 500mbps birthright-broadband".
It's certainly was not private efforts that allowed ordinary swedes to have 100mbps broadband a decade ago; it may not have paid off in pure cash, as most other things the goverment does, but it certainly did something not only for the swedes using the net but for the rest of the internet too.
But sure, go ahead and enjoy your pixelated redtube with your metered and throttled, protocol limited glorified 56k dial up while i stream native resolution porn to my 6x30" eyefinity setup.
That makes sense, digital piracy is rampart, so steam have to pay a digital insurance premium which is why they want 59.99€ ($90) for modern warfare 2.
Meanwhile real life piracy of game shipments is not very extensive, so that's why the store bought boxed(although localized moonspeak version) of the same game is half the price.
Here i thought that frenzied idolization of unproportionate profit margins had something to do with it. Thanks for showing me that business is driven by rational forces that carefully adjust the price to a fair level.
Yes, electrical stimulation will work; all exciteable tissue is dependent on voltage gated ion channels.
However, you'll not be able to let the signal ride a nerve to the musce if the NMJ is nonexistant, meaning you have to insert electrodes to the individual muscle fibers to get the adequate fine motor control.
Probably very open, DRM on ebooks allowed on ordinary computers is entirely pointless, optic character recognition on screen captures would render any DRM system dead on arrival. Google should know this.
Because we apparently consider hyperdrives to be hyperlightdrives, we should call it a hypodrive. A simple drive would be a equal to lightspeed propulsion system.
Why not look at the Eve online economy? The Eve system is a lot more flexible, largely player driven and a LOT more players involved. This should more accurately model real economies.
Then of course, eve have already had a lot of attention for this reason, so perhaps they wanted to do a more novel study.
The method i've learned for rescuitations does not involve checking the pulse, but to check the breathing, if the patient doesn't breathe, then begin CPR. Either way i'm a bit sceptical to doing cpr on someone with an artificial heart, there are of course variations and alternatives to chest compressions which instead of compressing the heart to achive circulation targets other large blood vessels and highly vascularized regions, these are however not taught, and remain in a 'beta' stage where applications of them are very rare.
It's a selling point, we've all seen/read about supporting characters, main characters and everyone else dying.
But when did you last read something where even the author dies before the grand climax?
Okay so you lost internet. How many minutes does it take you to figure out that letters full of 16gb microSD cards actually have higher bandwidth than your connection? Quite abysmal ping though, but there's public acess points for the latency critical applications.
And what about the truecrypt containers i forgot the password to? While they are named 100gbsofrandomlygenerateddata.programmingexeriment or something even more obfuscated to provide plausible deniability i couldn't conjure up the password to show them it's full of naked pictures of myself even if i wanted to. Should i be put in prison or fined the GDP of a small nation for it? If not, then why can't i pretend i suffered from shock induced amnesia when they came to get my computer and forgot all the passwords and not just the ones i really forgot? Or selective remember the passwords for the containers that actually are full of naked pictures of me but not to the ones that might house terrorist-supporting-anti-american-music formats?
As for why i have the files still: harddrives are so cheap i figure i might save them for some future day when bruteforcing or memory recovering drugs become viable so i can enjoy some nostalgia from my unintended time capsule.
If we really want to explore space we need to start with developing a propulsion system that would get the bloody colony ship to the target destination in say, less time than it takes for the colonists to evolve until they're about as related to us as bacteria.
Our probe farthest from earth(voyager 1) is a puny 14-15 lightours away from the sun. And it's been at it for 32 years. If my mathemagics are right that means those puny 4 lightyears will take roughly 75000 years to travel.
That's definitely not an acceptable timespan. Relativistic spaceflight is a must if we're too see more than our backyard.