Even a brand new IT graduates knows computers should be plugged into UPS devices that protect against this.
Handling power outages is about as basic of an IT task as they come. Basic Lock Out practices that prevent power from accidentally being turned off is also Server Maintenance 101.
For this to actually have been the cause means their IT organization was run by rank amateurs.
You say "most countries don't act purely based on what science tells them. They have political concerns as well, hence the need for political solutions to the problem."
Yet at the same time, you also say that there should be no debate or dissent because...Science!
If the issue is in the political arena, then it is subject to debate and even defeat, regardless of the Science.
Do you think Algore is running around telling people what he does because he thinks he knows it all? No, he does it saying "scientists say". Every time he cites the IPCC, he is appealing to authority.
Don't fall for the "hidden cost" or as some here like to harp on, "externalized cost" arguments.
If you go down that path, EVERYTHING is subject to stupid nit picking.
Example. Lithium batteries are dangerous. They blow up, cause fires, they use heavy metals that need to be mined and processed (producing carbon). The used batteries are toxic waste, etc.
A poster above goes to great length to indict the US Defense apparatus while at the same time ignoring the fact that it provides protection to vast areas of the world.
During WWII, the US probably produced gigatons of Carbon, adding to our supposed Carbon Liability, yet I doubt anyone would suggest that if they could back in time that we curbed the activities that created that carbon.
Lastly, you link references only Recent History. Seriously? There were carbon emissions from before the time you were born, you know.
What we have is a call for political action based on appeal to authority and any dissent is automatically quashed based on that authority.
You cannot justify politicized Science while at the same time suppressing political debate because of that Science.
The point of mentioning Private vs Public is that the US has already reduced carbon emissions, not by government fiat, but rather by market forces that some people have fought hard to suppress.
To clear that up...cheaper Gas, enabled by Fracking, has been replacing coal.
To make it even more clear, Fracking has happened mostly on Private Land despite widespread opposition from the Greenies and attempts by the last Administration to regulate and limit its use.
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So...the study says, "...global warming would slow by between 0.6 degree and 1.1 degrees Celsius by 2100..."
But now he says, "If we don't do anything, we might shoot over 5 degrees or more..."
So is he saying that if agreement were fully implemented and everyone reached their goals, then we would shoot to only 3.9?
Switches such as that should be locked out, requiring multiple people to allow access.
If you have a switch like that accessible so that just anyone can flick it off, you are an idiot.
He should resign because he apparently relied in a single UPS.
Bullshit.
Even a brand new IT graduates knows computers should be plugged into UPS devices that protect against this.
Handling power outages is about as basic of an IT task as they come. Basic Lock Out practices that prevent power from accidentally being turned off is also Server Maintenance 101.
For this to actually have been the cause means their IT organization was run by rank amateurs.
Not sure, but you will find it on the Organic Aisle and it will cost twice as much as regular energy.
Fuck this self driving bullshit and Fuck downtown.
You are an example of someone who is never happy with any solution.
So let me get this straight.
You say "most countries don't act purely based on what science tells them. They have political concerns as well, hence the need for political solutions to the problem."
Yet at the same time, you also say that there should be no debate or dissent because...Science!
If the issue is in the political arena, then it is subject to debate and even defeat, regardless of the Science.
That's Reality.
Do you think Algore is running around telling people what he does because he thinks he knows it all? No, he does it saying "scientists say". Every time he cites the IPCC, he is appealing to authority.
Don't fall for the "hidden cost" or as some here like to harp on, "externalized cost" arguments.
If you go down that path, EVERYTHING is subject to stupid nit picking.
Example. Lithium batteries are dangerous. They blow up, cause fires, they use heavy metals that need to be mined and processed (producing carbon). The used batteries are toxic waste, etc.
A poster above goes to great length to indict the US Defense apparatus while at the same time ignoring the fact that it provides protection to vast areas of the world.
During WWII, the US probably produced gigatons of Carbon, adding to our supposed Carbon Liability, yet I doubt anyone would suggest that if they could back in time that we curbed the activities that created that carbon.
Lastly, you link references only Recent History. Seriously? There were carbon emissions from before the time you were born, you know.
What we have is a call for political action based on appeal to authority and any dissent is automatically quashed based on that authority.
You cannot justify politicized Science while at the same time suppressing political debate because of that Science.
The point of mentioning Private vs Public is that the US has already reduced carbon emissions, not by government fiat, but rather by market forces that some people have fought hard to suppress.
"...longtime scholar of climate politics..."
And there's yer problem right there.
Climate Science is subsumed by politics.
The "science" is tainted by politics.
The "solutions" are tainted by politics.
Oh, and BTW, Thanks mostly to less coal use at power plants, emissions in the first half of 2016 were lowest since 1991
To clear that up...cheaper Gas, enabled by Fracking, has been replacing coal.
To make it even more clear, Fracking has happened mostly on Private Land despite widespread opposition from the Greenies and attempts by the last Administration to regulate and limit its use.
This is true.
Because you can rent these movies by just waiting a few months.
i can personally attest to how much easier life is when you learn to discard these emotions of, "I have to..."
I have to see it now ...
I have to have it now
I have to go there now
I have to
The emoluments issue is stupid. The most you can gin up is that somehow foreign leaders will feel obligated to stay at his hotels.
And you apparently can't Google for shit.
"The seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in President Trump's executive order on immigration were initially identified as "countries of concern" under the Obama administration."
No obstruction then.
Sorry, AC, we can't trust you, you are probably not even real, and you are wrong.
" that we already know of and are documented."
But that you evidently can't innumerate here.
They can't even articulate a crime they suspect him of.
Can you? Cite the federal code.
So...is the FBI still investigating him, or not?
Psst...guess who made up the list of countries for the Travel ban?
Ya...Obama... So was S.A. paying off Obama?
This is what happens when you treat your IT staff like your Janitorial staff.
Well, India has a notoriously unreliable electrical grid.
Fuck'n A