Most disputed? Scientists dispute the degree of the relationship for sure, if you read the article there's plenty about that. They don't dispute there's a causal link though.
Even if you ignore or disagree with entirely, there's still the issue of ocan acidification as well.
Let's trim that list to people who're vaguely involved in a relevant field...
# Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor, isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa. # Dr. Tad Murty, former senior research scientist, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, former director of Australia's National Tidal Facility, and professor of earth sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide; currently adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa. # Dr. R. Timothy Patterson, professor, Department of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Ottawa. # Dr. Fred Michel, director, Institute of Environmental Science and associate professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa. # Dr. Madhav Khandekar, former research scientist, Environment Canada. Member of editorial board of Climate Research and Natural Hazards. # Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology, University of Winnipeg; environmental consultant. # Mr. David Nowell, M.Sc. (Meteorology), fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Canadian member, and past chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa. of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. # Dr. L. Graham Smith, associate professor, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. # Dr. G. Cornelis van Kooten, professor and Canada Research Chair in environmental studies and climate change, Department of Economics, University of Victoria. # Dr. Peter Chylek, adjunct professor, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax.
That's being kind, assuming ex-scientists have kept up with all the latest advances and that non-climatologists actually know anything about climatology.
Oh, and what you're missing is that Mars and Pluto are supposedly heating up, the other planets aren't.
Maybe if you bothered to read the article you'd see that it said that polar bear numbers are totally useless as evidence either way due to a lack of decent figures.
Because not all of the ice caps float? They do in the Arctic, but both the Greenland ice cap or the West or East Antarctic ice caps rest on solid ground. Between them if they melted entirely sea levels would rise 68m, obviously this isn't going to happen no matter what, but the issue is dealt with in the article here.
The graviational potential energy is expressed as a negative value, which exactly balances the positive value of all of the mass and energy in the Universe. Hence overall, the total energy sums to zero.
Maybe that's the case in the US, but in the rest of the world dance music is still as popular as ever and evolving nicely. And "happy-psy-core"? WTF, do you mean psy trance?
Great comment, I was engaged to a woman like that, she acted in often crazy ways but had the intelligence to rationalise and get away with it. Made my life hell for years though.
Asset forfeiture, no-knock warrents, mandatory life sentances for the wife who didn't know her husband was a drug dealer but once answered the phone to one of his contacts (while he turned evidence and got off with a few years), etc etc.
Karma whoring comes from when karma was a number displayed in your profile and before they capped it at 50. It comes from the actions of a user called Signal 11 who basically posted the most obvious pro-groupthink comments to every article in an attempt to get 5 rated posts... I think he got up to a karma of about 1300 before he started boasting about gaming the system and Taco implemented the cap - although pre-existing karma wasn't reset, so for users from before the cap they can have quite a lot more karma to burn through before dropping down to the maximum for newer users.
I did this in C# and it wasn't too tricky - trying to write one for Killer sudokus though was a lot harder and I got distracted by something shiny partway through dealing with endless sets:)
As I replied to the other poster, it's hard-wired instincts and drives, not hard-wired actions. You're correct in that we can choose not to follow our instincts - we can also follow our instincts while cheating the cause of those instincts, as we do whenever we have sex using contraception.
But I think you underestimate the influence these play upon your actions. You only have a sex drive and the urge to have children because it serves the purpose of getting your genes passed on - but does that mean that people find it easy to choose to ignore those instincts? Even if you don't want kids, I'm sure you still want sex:)
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Most disputed? Scientists dispute the degree of the relationship for sure, if you read the article there's plenty about that. They don't dispute there's a causal link though.
Even if you ignore or disagree with entirely, there's still the issue of ocan acidification as well.
Let's trim that list to people who're vaguely involved in a relevant field...
# Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor, isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa.
# Dr. Tad Murty, former senior research scientist, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, former director of Australia's National Tidal Facility, and professor of earth sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide; currently adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa.
# Dr. R. Timothy Patterson, professor, Department of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Ottawa.
# Dr. Fred Michel, director, Institute of Environmental Science and associate professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa.
# Dr. Madhav Khandekar, former research scientist, Environment Canada. Member of editorial board of Climate Research and Natural Hazards.
# Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology, University of Winnipeg; environmental consultant.
# Mr. David Nowell, M.Sc. (Meteorology), fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Canadian member, and past chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa.
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
# Dr. L. Graham Smith, associate professor, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
# Dr. G. Cornelis van Kooten, professor and Canada Research Chair in environmental studies and climate change, Department of Economics, University of Victoria.
# Dr. Peter Chylek, adjunct professor, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax.
That's being kind, assuming ex-scientists have kept up with all the latest advances and that non-climatologists actually know anything about climatology.
Oh, and what you're missing is that Mars and Pluto are supposedly heating up, the other planets aren't.
Maybe if you bothered to read the article you'd see that it said that polar bear numbers are totally useless as evidence either way due to a lack of decent figures.
If you'd read the article this was covered.
Because not all of the ice caps float? They do in the Arctic, but both the Greenland ice cap or the West or East Antarctic ice caps rest on solid ground. Between them if they melted entirely sea levels would rise 68m, obviously this isn't going to happen no matter what, but the issue is dealt with in the article here.
That's answered by points 11 and 25.
It's there, number 4 in the list. How many people actually read the whole thing? Practically nobody it seems, as per usual on /.
The graviational potential energy is expressed as a negative value, which exactly balances the positive value of all of the mass and energy in the Universe. Hence overall, the total energy sums to zero.
Good post :)
Huh, trancecore was bad enough, but psytrancecore? Surely at least psycore would sound slightly less geigh ;)
Maybe that's the case in the US, but in the rest of the world dance music is still as popular as ever and evolving nicely. And "happy-psy-core"? WTF, do you mean psy trance?
The Scriptural proof of extraterrestrial life :)
This story was the first thing that sprung to mind as soon as I started reading this page - jsm's classic really does cover any such event.
I first came to the site just before the advent of threaded comments, and signed up around then.
Are you sure you joined then? My first account is around 90,000 and that was joining in 2000.
As one anecdote to another, my experience is the opposite. I have more friends who have moved to the UK than are even considering leaving.
Ok, having gone back and found the article it wasn't life, but there's more info on various cases here.
The south pole is also 4 degrees warmer, which could have some effect.
Great comment, I was engaged to a woman like that, she acted in often crazy ways but had the intelligence to rationalise and get away with it. Made my life hell for years though.
Asset forfeiture, no-knock warrents, mandatory life sentances for the wife who didn't know her husband was a drug dealer but once answered the phone to one of his contacts (while he turned evidence and got off with a few years), etc etc.
A quick perusal of the Slashcode CVS tree shows it still is a numeric value. Ah, the old bitchslap script, now that brings back memories!
Are you talking about Dead Man's Boots? My girlfriend DJed at that a while back.
Karma whoring comes from when karma was a number displayed in your profile and before they capped it at 50. It comes from the actions of a user called Signal 11 who basically posted the most obvious pro-groupthink comments to every article in an attempt to get 5 rated posts... I think he got up to a karma of about 1300 before he started boasting about gaming the system and Taco implemented the cap - although pre-existing karma wasn't reset, so for users from before the cap they can have quite a lot more karma to burn through before dropping down to the maximum for newer users.
I did this in C# and it wasn't too tricky - trying to write one for Killer sudokus though was a lot harder and I got distracted by something shiny partway through dealing with endless sets :)
As I replied to the other poster, it's hard-wired instincts and drives, not hard-wired actions. You're correct in that we can choose not to follow our instincts - we can also follow our instincts while cheating the cause of those instincts, as we do whenever we have sex using contraception.
But I think you underestimate the influence these play upon your actions. You only have a sex drive and the urge to have children because it serves the purpose of getting your genes passed on - but does that mean that people find it easy to choose to ignore those instincts? Even if you don't want kids, I'm sure you still want sex :)