More likely it'll MOVE, not EXTEND. As far as the cure being worse than the disease, it's really hard to say. One of the most devastating famines of the last 30 years, in Ethiopia was most likely caused by global DIMMING, not warming.
But, dimming may really have been mitigating the effects of warming so reducing our particulate output may actually make some things worse.
Bottom line is that we are getting to the point where we need to solve all our major climate issues at once - and we lack both the knowledge and the will
Sorry to say but they're way ahead of you. The deniers have been claiming for years that Earth is a carbon-starved planet and "enriching" it with more "plant food" as quickly as possible will help to erase hunger, open up vast new croplands and bring beneficial, temperate climate to currently inhospitable zones.
Oh, and the same denialists will state, in other message threads that "such insignificant trace gases cannot possibly have any impact" on the overall climate and that "it's the Sun, stupid"
Unfortunately it's not just the corporations; by now, their trolls have firmly converted far too many people who don't understand science or for whom the idea that man can influence climate is contrary to their worldview, religion, gut-instinct etc.
So we're pretty much stuck with having to adapt as I doubt any significant action will be taken until the negative changes are so blatantly obvious that we are so far past the tipping point that only scrubbing GHGs out of the air to the barest minimum required to sustain the greenhouse effect will have any effect.
The only Republican candidate for nomination who still believes in climate change or has the balls to admit it is Jon Huntsman, a governor and ambassador, and where is he in the race?
Way, way behind a field that consists of : a pizza maker with a mathematics degree who can't add or multiply, a professional welfare queen who thinks welfare for others is evil, a medical doctor who doesn't believe in healthcare, the only Texan who is stupider than George W. Bush and not on Death Row, an adulterer who tried to impeach a President for getting blowjobs while holding the 3rd highest office in the land and cheating on his wife ( superior multitasking skills, obviously) , and a lawyer-senator whose name is a synonym for a disgusting mess.
Yeah, I'm pretty old, and I do remember Conner, the Compaq spinoff. Y'know, I might even have a box of Dysan double-sided, double-density 5.25" floppies kicking around. Wonder if the (worthless) data is still readable
And that's exactly how I know he's full of shit. I was astonished when he answered a question ( posed by Wolf Blitzer?) about who should provide healthcare by saying he'd like to see a return to the days when we used to take care of each other - this from a fucking MEDICAL DOCTOR.
Hey, if I'm dying of cancer, I'm sure the foot baths I get from cousin Mary will save my life.
Ron Paul - just another idiot Texan politician ( yes, I know there are several redundancies in that statement)
It also strikes me as being contradictory, in its typical usage - bunk or bunkum means nonsense or bullshit and "de" typically means removal or separation. So its not the false argument that's debunked but the true one, or rather the true one is what is left.
True enough but there's more to it than that. China has been playing fast and loose with their currency for a very long time and it's only now I see there's an attempt by the US to take sanctions against them. Too bad they didn't think of this 10-15 years ago.
Also, what's wrong with not buying from them until they clean up their act, and their mining practices. I have trouble seeing how this is any different from buying products knowingly made from slave labor, something which most of us would find reprehensible.
Do you mean the Mountain Pass mine ? Looks like it'll be up and running again by 2013, somewhat behind schedule. And yes, they've had quite a few enviro screwups over the years; let's hope they're smarter this time around. But in the short term, China isn't worried as, thanks to the shortsightedness of the US caving in to their cheaper REEs, there's not a lot of refining expertise left in America. So, many of the reactivated REE mines has been sending their product for final refinement to - yup, you guessed it - CHINA!
Of course this state of affairs won't last forever but I don't think the Chinese are worried as they'll probably always be able to undercut the US market and it's not likely that rare earths are going to become useless anytime soon, especially since thorium is usually present, which they've been stockpiling for their nuclear research.
It's was just a joke. Having been in the IT industry for a long time and having many friends and colleagues from Eastern Europe, I know how things used to be.
Which is why Mike Markkula, who provided guidance, oversight and funding to Apple in its early day, and supported Jef Raskin's Macintosh over Jobs' own Lisa, deserves considerable praise for Apple's early success. But, Jobs definitely was one of a kind - to be booted from his own company but someone he brought on board and then to found 2 more remarkable companies and then return in triumph to lead Apple and to once again change the face of consumer computing and entertainment - truly remarkable.
I doubt I could have worked within a mile of the man, from what I know of the man, but there's no denying his vision and influence.
Until the Model T, electrics outnumbered petrol cars and while Henry Ford's cars were cheaper, there were EVs that weren't too expensive. The point is that the EV just might, 100 years later, turn the tables on petrol vehicles. It isnt' a straightforward comparison but the tech is improving and the grid reaches almost everywhere. And EVs won't totally displace petrol passenger cars for decades but I can foresee the sales of new vehicles reaching parity between the two in 25 years.
And the focus must go beyond just EV and onto efficiency - all those diesel tractor-trailers on the road need a serious improvement in mileage. That should have started during the oil embargo and it's a shame how little progress have been made in this area.
There are more than a few. Besides preferences change with time - when you're 80, you must might be shocked at how may chicks will fit your definition of fuckably hot.
Dude, check back with us when you're 80 to let us know that you refused some young hottie's offer to wax your wick and dance on your pole because you couldn't be bothered to "put the ears on"
I recall a story I read about Shirley Temple, who didn't have the warmest relationship with her mother when she was little, where the two of them were at a studio to meet separately with some executives. Shirley claimed that a producer nearly molested her and only stopped because she laughed when he took out his penis. When she rejoined her mother, who was looking quite uncomfortable, Shirley guessed that mom has also been the recipient of unwelcome advances and it was the 1st time she felt close to her or that they had something in common.
What about the much, much, much, much larger US bailouts - and there may be more coming. A recent report showed that some of the big boys weasled ( apologies to any actual weasels, who have much better character ) their way out of TARP much too early so the top execs could pocket bigger bonuses. Since they're now even "too bigger to fail", the taxpayers may be back on the hook for them by next year.
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Please ask the same question of the various WUWT contrarians who have already been wrong, Pielke Sr, Michaels, Christy, etc.
More likely it'll MOVE, not EXTEND. As far as the cure being worse than the disease, it's really hard to say. One of the most devastating famines of the last 30 years, in Ethiopia was most likely caused by global DIMMING, not warming. But, dimming may really have been mitigating the effects of warming so reducing our particulate output may actually make some things worse. Bottom line is that we are getting to the point where we need to solve all our major climate issues at once - and we lack both the knowledge and the will
A study of that magnitudes would takes a couple decades of research - if you could get your hands on all the files. But here's a listing of major lobbying dollars for the last 12 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States#Lobbying_expenditure_by_sector Notice that it says that these amounts do NOT include campaign contributions.
Sorry to say but they're way ahead of you. The deniers have been claiming for years that Earth is a carbon-starved planet and "enriching" it with more "plant food" as quickly as possible will help to erase hunger, open up vast new croplands and bring beneficial, temperate climate to currently inhospitable zones. Oh, and the same denialists will state, in other message threads that "such insignificant trace gases cannot possibly have any impact" on the overall climate and that "it's the Sun, stupid"
Unfortunately it's not just the corporations; by now, their trolls have firmly converted far too many people who don't understand science or for whom the idea that man can influence climate is contrary to their worldview, religion, gut-instinct etc. So we're pretty much stuck with having to adapt as I doubt any significant action will be taken until the negative changes are so blatantly obvious that we are so far past the tipping point that only scrubbing GHGs out of the air to the barest minimum required to sustain the greenhouse effect will have any effect. The only Republican candidate for nomination who still believes in climate change or has the balls to admit it is Jon Huntsman, a governor and ambassador, and where is he in the race? Way, way behind a field that consists of : a pizza maker with a mathematics degree who can't add or multiply, a professional welfare queen who thinks welfare for others is evil, a medical doctor who doesn't believe in healthcare, the only Texan who is stupider than George W. Bush and not on Death Row, an adulterer who tried to impeach a President for getting blowjobs while holding the 3rd highest office in the land and cheating on his wife ( superior multitasking skills, obviously) , and a lawyer-senator whose name is a synonym for a disgusting mess.
Yeah, I'm pretty old, and I do remember Conner, the Compaq spinoff. Y'know, I might even have a box of Dysan double-sided, double-density 5.25" floppies kicking around. Wonder if the (worthless) data is still readable
Ok, got me there. Never heard of them before.
Micropolis!! Haven't heard that name in 15 years! I sure hope OCZ doesn't suffer the same fate.
Hmm, well Jobs once got booted from Apple; I suppose one could wish the same for Larry E.
And that's exactly how I know he's full of shit. I was astonished when he answered a question ( posed by Wolf Blitzer?) about who should provide healthcare by saying he'd like to see a return to the days when we used to take care of each other - this from a fucking MEDICAL DOCTOR. Hey, if I'm dying of cancer, I'm sure the foot baths I get from cousin Mary will save my life. Ron Paul - just another idiot Texan politician ( yes, I know there are several redundancies in that statement)
Any reason why it can't be re-licensed with something more amicable?
It also strikes me as being contradictory, in its typical usage - bunk or bunkum means nonsense or bullshit and "de" typically means removal or separation. So its not the false argument that's debunked but the true one, or rather the true one is what is left.
What's the correlation with fathers? Namely ,when both mothers and fathers are over 40 or when only the fathers getting up there.
True enough but there's more to it than that. China has been playing fast and loose with their currency for a very long time and it's only now I see there's an attempt by the US to take sanctions against them. Too bad they didn't think of this 10-15 years ago. Also, what's wrong with not buying from them until they clean up their act, and their mining practices. I have trouble seeing how this is any different from buying products knowingly made from slave labor, something which most of us would find reprehensible.
Do you mean the Mountain Pass mine ? Looks like it'll be up and running again by 2013, somewhat behind schedule. And yes, they've had quite a few enviro screwups over the years; let's hope they're smarter this time around. But in the short term, China isn't worried as, thanks to the shortsightedness of the US caving in to their cheaper REEs, there's not a lot of refining expertise left in America. So, many of the reactivated REE mines has been sending their product for final refinement to - yup, you guessed it - CHINA! Of course this state of affairs won't last forever but I don't think the Chinese are worried as they'll probably always be able to undercut the US market and it's not likely that rare earths are going to become useless anytime soon, especially since thorium is usually present, which they've been stockpiling for their nuclear research.
It's was just a joke. Having been in the IT industry for a long time and having many friends and colleagues from Eastern Europe, I know how things used to be.
"legally obtained boxed product (smuggled) from abroad"??!!!
Perhaps it's not only the Indians who have trouble with English.
Which is why Mike Markkula, who provided guidance, oversight and funding to Apple in its early day, and supported Jef Raskin's Macintosh over Jobs' own Lisa, deserves considerable praise for Apple's early success.
But, Jobs definitely was one of a kind - to be booted from his own company but someone he brought on board and then to found 2 more remarkable companies and then return in triumph to lead Apple and to once again change the face of consumer computing and entertainment - truly remarkable.
I doubt I could have worked within a mile of the man, from what I know of the man, but there's no denying his vision and influence.
If you think the world is "back to normal" you've been living in a very weird world for the last 30 years.
Until the Model T, electrics outnumbered petrol cars and while Henry Ford's cars were cheaper, there were EVs that weren't too expensive. The point is that the EV just might, 100 years later, turn the tables on petrol vehicles. It isnt' a straightforward comparison but the tech is improving and the grid reaches almost everywhere.
And EVs won't totally displace petrol passenger cars for decades but I can foresee the sales of new vehicles reaching parity between the two in 25 years.
And the focus must go beyond just EV and onto efficiency - all those diesel tractor-trailers on the road need a serious improvement in mileage. That should have started during the oil embargo and it's a shame how little progress have been made in this area.
There are more than a few. Besides preferences change with time - when you're 80, you must might be shocked at how may chicks will fit your definition of fuckably hot.
Dude, check back with us when you're 80 to let us know that you refused some young hottie's offer to wax your wick and dance on your pole because you couldn't be bothered to "put the ears on"
I recall a story I read about Shirley Temple, who didn't have the warmest relationship with her mother when she was little, where the two of them were at a studio to meet separately with some executives.
Shirley claimed that a producer nearly molested her and only stopped because she laughed when he took out his penis. When she rejoined her mother, who was looking quite uncomfortable, Shirley guessed that mom has also been the recipient of unwelcome advances and it was the 1st time she felt close to her or that they had something in common.
The lack of back-talk may have been partly due to the fact that some employees got cocks forced down their throats.
What about the much, much, much, much larger US bailouts - and there may be more coming. A recent report showed that some of the big boys weasled ( apologies to any actual weasels, who have much better character ) their way out of TARP much too early so the top execs could pocket bigger bonuses.
Since they're now even "too bigger to fail", the taxpayers may be back on the hook for them by next year.