Hansen ventures into Al Gore hyperbole levels when he's talking to the media. However, his science is sound as far as I can tell. I have yet to come across any serious critic of Hansen's scientific papers from a distinguished scientist in the same field.
Here's the important bit though. As the IPCC's most recent AR has observed, the satellite measurements show that for the duration of the CERES project, there has been NO TREND in the energy imbalance. The earlier ERBS data showed the same as well. Our satellite measurements have shown significant and very steady trends in energy balance cycling monthly, but the average over the years and decades we've measured is just a steady and consistent average neither shifting noticeably up or down. Meanwhile, CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere over that same time have climbed like nobody's business. All our models and expectation for X degrees of warming for so much CO2 kinda hinges pretty heavy on CO2 pushing up the energy imbalance. If it's not, and observations suggest that. We may not need to be so worried as some of the panic ridden crowd wants.
Is that your interpretation of those results, or the scientists?
Every time I look one of these "I read the study and it is clear to me that the majority of climate scientists are wrong" slashdot posts, I find that there is a good scientific explanation for how the data still fits into the prevailing AGW theories.
AGW concerns are not about the change, but the rate of change.
For instance, if the sea level rise predications are accurate, then re-locating 40% of the planets people in 100 years is going to be extremely expensive. Way WAY more expensive than using the next 25 years moving to renewable energy.
If what you say is true, then it seems like the solution would be better maintenance of voter registration databases. Why do most conservatives still think voter ID is the solution when...
"We also find that one of the favorite policies advocated by conservatives to prevent voter fraud appears strikingly ineffective. Nearly three quarters of the non-citizens who indicated they were asked to provide photo identification at the polls claimed to have subsequently voted."...while countries like Australia, who require all citizens to vote or they get fined, do not require voter ID.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" "640K ought to be enough for anybody." "...we do not have the technology to do it to the extent that the manufacture will be willing to except the liability in the event of an accident. "
Famous words and maybe some soon to be (20 years) famous words.
The REAL problem is twofile: (1) that we are no longer creating new, higher-paying jobs to replace those that were automated away, and (2) that the benefits of increased productivity per worker haven't been shared by the workers for 40 years.
The REAL problem is that you can't imagine what you could possibly ever do without a 'job'.
"no longer creating new, higher-paying jobs to replace those that were automated away" Well we aren't replacing high paying manufacturing jobs with high paying manufacturing jobs, but we sure are creating new high paying 'knowledge worker' type jobs all the time. However, I have no idea if the rate of knowledge worker job creation is keeping pace with the decline in manufacturing jobs. I wish it were easier for the layperson to search for things of that nature without having to wade through dozens of biased/politically motivated 'articles'.
So electric companies should require a monthly 'hook up fee' separate from the 'use fee'. Times change.
And I am not sure why this (increased solar use) is so technically/economically troubling for slashdotters to figure out. There are numerous examples of countries with much higher solar/renewable use.
I wonder if younger Republican doctors, if polled about Obamacare, would have similar positive numbers like younger tech savy Republicans have concerning net neutrality?
We should move past the burger flipper analogy, because this flipper makes 250,000+ a year:) https://fb101.com/2014/03/gordon-ramsay-burgr-welcomes-new-executive-chef/
Besides that, I don't think many places actually flip burgers. I know from a summer's worth of experience at age 15 that McDonalds cooks burgers in basically a big press. Cooking on both sides for speed.
"it's why we are being paid more than burger flippers." So that would translate to: "it's why we are being paid more than burger pressers." But that doesn't have the same ring to it.
Maybe something like "it's why we are being paid more than Walmart greeters" is more accurate;)
Or another Scifi outcome - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Peace
Marty Larrin, one of the inventors of jacking technology, recruits Julian and Blaze in an attempt to using this technology to end war for all time; a little-known secret is that jacking with someone else for a long enough period (about two weeks) will psychologically eliminate the ability to kill another human being. By "humanizing" the entire world, dangerous technology would not be a problem for human survival. They do so, stop the particle accelerator's construction, and war is eventually stopped.
And the node world isn't? Gulp/Grunt/Gulp/express/etc... There is a whole big ecosystem of node stuff. It can get just as messy as Java. Its ease of use comes down to how well you understand it, mainly experience, just like any big platform with tons of options and plugins/libraries.
I think one of the problems is that node works very well for certain types of apps, but it isn't as useful (or sensible) for other types of apps. For instance, I attended a conference where a University developer described how they created an event, messaging, and api system layer over their services using node. It seemed really well suited to that task. Lost of concurrency, etc..
So maybe the developers you associate with are doing work that doesn't benefit from the features that node offers. It is really hard to talk about how useful a new platform is without keeping the task comparison equal.
Not sure why this is insightful. Has Google ever shutdown a service that is in widespread use by businesses and education? You have to remember that for the major power users of Google services, they are not getting them for free (well, edu is free, but business is not). https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/pricing.html .
And as a developer, I haven't had any trouble using even deprecated API's in over 5 years.
You need to make a link between government debt and your ability to retire earlier due to productivity gains. I don't think it exists. Government debt is not like household debt.
"That's ignoring U6.....before all the definitional changes"
If you are getting your info from Fox news / conservative radio shows, I won't bother trying to change your mind by running through the de-bunking info.
If you are not getting your news from biased sources and are open to learning, please look into this further. Because you are wrong. This "ignoring the U6" and the "definitions have changed" is just flat out wrong. The job numbers are being measured exactly like they have been since Reagan. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is consistent.
"I don't recall seeing any developer using anything BUT Mac OS X over the last couple of years."
Not sure what type of developers you work with (web?) but I read an article about Google Devs. Most of them get macs for the nice hardware/sleek design and then load Linux on it.
Unfortunately, when you get past a certain price point, the monthly payment is just not possible for most people. Model S is 972 dollars per month for a 5 year loan at 3%.
If more people saved money and could buy it outright, it would make more sense. But that will always be the minority of people. Electric won't go mainstream until you see leases/loans on the order of a Camry (200-300 a month).
"There's a difference between disagreeing and actually having an invalid, inaccurate or flaming comment."
Sometimes even if a post is worded nicely, the disagreement can be so absurd that you might as well mod it down, because the person is either trolling or so ignorant as to provide no value to the conversation.
For example, sometimes I see posts in global climate change threads that are the equivalent to saying "The sun revolves around the earth", and they are modded +5 insightful because of ideology, not scientific accuracy. I have no problems modding those types of posts down, even if they seem like a mere disagreement to the lay person.
SCOTUS also said owning slaves was ok. just because SCOTUS says something does not make it constitutional
You need to pick a word other than "constitutional". Because by legal definition, when SCOTUS says something is constitutional, it really is legally constitutional.
" just because SCOTUS says something does not make it moral" " just because SCOTUS says something does not make it right" " just because SCOTUS says something does not make it correct" etc..
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Hansen ventures into Al Gore hyperbole levels when he's talking to the media. However, his science is sound as far as I can tell. I have yet to come across any serious critic of Hansen's scientific papers from a distinguished scientist in the same field.
Here's the important bit though. As the IPCC's most recent AR has observed, the satellite measurements show that for the duration of the CERES project, there has been NO TREND in the energy imbalance. The earlier ERBS data showed the same as well. Our satellite measurements have shown significant and very steady trends in energy balance cycling monthly, but the average over the years and decades we've measured is just a steady and consistent average neither shifting noticeably up or down. Meanwhile, CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere over that same time have climbed like nobody's business. All our models and expectation for X degrees of warming for so much CO2 kinda hinges pretty heavy on CO2 pushing up the energy imbalance. If it's not, and observations suggest that. We may not need to be so worried as some of the panic ridden crowd wants.
Is that your interpretation of those results, or the scientists?
Every time I look one of these "I read the study and it is clear to me that the majority of climate scientists are wrong" slashdot posts, I find that there is a good scientific explanation for how the data still fits into the prevailing AGW theories.
AGW concerns are not about the change, but the rate of change.
For instance, if the sea level rise predications are accurate, then re-locating 40% of the planets people in 100 years is going to be extremely expensive. Way WAY more expensive than using the next 25 years moving to renewable energy.
If what you say is true, then it seems like the solution would be better maintenance of voter registration databases. Why do most conservatives still think voter ID is the solution when...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/24/could-non-citizens-decide-the-november-election/
"We also find that one of the favorite policies advocated by conservatives to prevent voter fraud appears strikingly ineffective. Nearly three quarters of the non-citizens who indicated they were asked to provide photo identification at the polls claimed to have subsequently voted." ...while countries like Australia, who require all citizens to vote or they get fined, do not require voter ID.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
"...we do not have the technology to do it to the extent that the manufacture will be willing to except the liability in the event of an accident. "
Famous words and maybe some soon to be (20 years) famous words.
The REAL problem is twofile: (1) that we are no longer creating new, higher-paying jobs to replace those that were automated away, and (2) that the benefits of increased productivity per worker haven't been shared by the workers for 40 years.
The REAL problem is that you can't imagine what you could possibly ever do without a 'job'.
"no longer creating new, higher-paying jobs to replace those that were automated away" Well we aren't replacing high paying manufacturing jobs with high paying manufacturing jobs, but we sure are creating new high paying 'knowledge worker' type jobs all the time. However, I have no idea if the rate of knowledge worker job creation is keeping pace with the decline in manufacturing jobs. I wish it were easier for the layperson to search for things of that nature without having to wade through dozens of biased/politically motivated 'articles'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY
The public knew in a generic sort of way that they were bad for your health. But they didn't know specifics. Or how bad.
For instance, doctors did not begin telling pregnant women that smoking was bad for the baby until much later. 70's? I forget the exact timing.
So electric companies should require a monthly 'hook up fee' separate from the 'use fee'. Times change.
And I am not sure why this (increased solar use) is so technically/economically troubling for slashdotters to figure out. There are numerous examples of countries with much higher solar/renewable use.
I wonder if younger Republican doctors, if polled about Obamacare, would have similar positive numbers like younger tech savy Republicans have concerning net neutrality?
We should move past the burger flipper analogy, because this flipper makes 250,000+ a year:) https://fb101.com/2014/03/gordon-ramsay-burgr-welcomes-new-executive-chef/
Besides that, I don't think many places actually flip burgers. I know from a summer's worth of experience at age 15 that McDonalds cooks burgers in basically a big press. Cooking on both sides for speed.
"it's why we are being paid more than burger flippers." So that would translate to: "it's why we are being paid more than burger pressers." But that doesn't have the same ring to it.
Maybe something like "it's why we are being paid more than Walmart greeters" is more accurate ;)
Or another Scifi outcome - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Peace
Marty Larrin, one of the inventors of jacking technology, recruits Julian and Blaze in an attempt to using this technology to end war for all time; a little-known secret is that jacking with someone else for a long enough period (about two weeks) will psychologically eliminate the ability to kill another human being. By "humanizing" the entire world, dangerous technology would not be a problem for human survival. They do so, stop the particle accelerator's construction, and war is eventually stopped.
And the node world isn't? Gulp/Grunt/Gulp/express/etc... There is a whole big ecosystem of node stuff. It can get just as messy as Java. Its ease of use comes down to how well you understand it, mainly experience, just like any big platform with tons of options and plugins/libraries.
One of the tasks that node handles well is something like an API system, or event/messaging/texting system.
I think one of the problems is that node works very well for certain types of apps, but it isn't as useful (or sensible) for other types of apps. For instance, I attended a conference where a University developer described how they created an event, messaging, and api system layer over their services using node. It seemed really well suited to that task. Lost of concurrency, etc..
So maybe the developers you associate with are doing work that doesn't benefit from the features that node offers. It is really hard to talk about how useful a new platform is without keeping the task comparison equal.
Do you have a reason for using flashcontrol over flashblock? Just curious.
Not sure why this is insightful. Has Google ever shutdown a service that is in widespread use by businesses and education? You have to remember that for the major power users of Google services, they are not getting them for free (well, edu is free, but business is not). https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/pricing.html .
And as a developer, I haven't had any trouble using even deprecated API's in over 5 years.
You need to make a link between government debt and your ability to retire earlier due to productivity gains. I don't think it exists. Government debt is not like household debt.
"That's ignoring U6.....before all the definitional changes"
If you are getting your info from Fox news / conservative radio shows, I won't bother trying to change your mind by running through the de-bunking info.
If you are not getting your news from biased sources and are open to learning, please look into this further. Because you are wrong. This "ignoring the U6" and the "definitions have changed" is just flat out wrong. The job numbers are being measured exactly like they have been since Reagan. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is consistent.
"I don't recall seeing any developer using anything BUT Mac OS X over the last couple of years."
Not sure what type of developers you work with (web?) but I read an article about Google Devs. Most of them get macs for the nice hardware/sleek design and then load Linux on it.
http://my.teslamotors.com/models/design
Unfortunately, when you get past a certain price point, the monthly payment is just not possible for most people. Model S is 972 dollars per month for a 5 year loan at 3%.
If more people saved money and could buy it outright, it would make more sense. But that will always be the minority of people. Electric won't go mainstream until you see leases/loans on the order of a Camry (200-300 a month).
"There's a difference between disagreeing and actually having an invalid, inaccurate or flaming comment."
Sometimes even if a post is worded nicely, the disagreement can be so absurd that you might as well mod it down, because the person is either trolling or so ignorant as to provide no value to the conversation.
For example, sometimes I see posts in global climate change threads that are the equivalent to saying "The sun revolves around the earth", and they are modded +5 insightful because of ideology, not scientific accuracy. I have no problems modding those types of posts down, even if they seem like a mere disagreement to the lay person.
Probably Utah - http://www.utopianet.org/about-utopia/
SCOTUS also said owning slaves was ok. just because SCOTUS says something does not make it constitutional
You need to pick a word other than "constitutional". Because by legal definition, when SCOTUS says something is constitutional, it really is legally constitutional.
" just because SCOTUS says something does not make it moral"
" just because SCOTUS says something does not make it right"
" just because SCOTUS says something does not make it correct"
etc..
My brain refused to computer "the-nsa-is-viewed-favorably". Until I got to your post I was thinking this was about NASA.....