right. the bit from the article "It’s not just the Ezekiel 4:9 bread (its recipe drawn from the eponymous Bible verse), or Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps" is a bit elitist if you ask me. dr. bronner's soaps are fucking awesome. and the bread, it's just multigrain bread. so the label has a bible reference on it, who cares? the bread is pretty good. it's not like they say eating the bread will give you magic powers or anything.
every pharmacy i've ever shopped at has had at least one homeopathic bullshit product. same with most decent-sized grocery stores. i guess none of them have any real grasp of science.
of course, i don't base my grocery-shopping decisions on the scientific grasp of the store's ownership. that would be fucking stupid.
antarctica is losing an astonishing amount of land ice. this land ice melts and flows into the southern ocean, freshening the upper layer of water, which of course will freeze easier adding to the amount of sea ice.
indeed. "massive", meaning long and slow. what we see today is not long and slow.
by all natural cycles we should be slowly, inexorably cooling, headed towards a glacial period. during those cooldowns there are often small, slow bumps upwards, like a stock on it's way down. but those bumps are again small and slow ones.
the temperature is rising at about.15C/decade. that isn't supposed to be happening according to the 'natural cycle'. this isn't a bump on the slow road down, this is a massive spike upwards. there is literally no natural phenomenon we can point to that could describe this sort of quick change.
one thing we do know is how greenhouse gases work. we've understood their basic operation for over a hundred years. we know that if it weren't for GHGs the earth's surface would be too cold for complex life.
put two and two together sometime. you'll be surprised at how easy it is.
C-3PO: My God, you shoot small animals for fun? That's the first indicator of a serial killer, you freak! Luke: There's two suns and no women! What the hell am I supposed to do?!
Being able to determine the relative abundance of fish species in a body of water is the next step in possibly using modern DNA identification techniques to census fish in the open ocean
"the machine says that by far the pacific is full of a fish called...poly vinyl chloride. hm, that's a funny name."
yes and no. methane is pretty short lived in the atmosphere because in areas with sufficient sunlight and water vapor, hydroxyl radicals are created which help break down methane into CO2.
of course, in areas like the poles where there's little water vapor and less solar insolation, methane tends to last a great deal longer. this is one of the reasons the north polar region is warming faster than any other place.
special materials are expensive in the short run until they're manufactured.
The main difference is electric cars need expensive batteries.
doesn't the first statement also apply to batteries? if manufacturing will bring down the prices of more expensive and exotic materials needed in a H2 fuel cell, wouldn't it also make batteries less expensive?
not really. the original assertion that the left's answer to every problem is 'more government control' is idiotic. there are plenty of issues where the liberal/progressive response is to decrease government interference. i know of no leftists who only ever advocate more government power. that's a strawman.
if there was a loss that big, then it's a major storm. you can't point to its second largest cost in US history and call it 'minor'. storms are much more than merely the measure of their top wind speed.
besides, at one point she had a windfield of roughly 1200 miles, the largest in atlantic basin history. right before landfall the total energy in her tropical storm-force windfield was higher than in any atlantic storm in the last 40 years+. that's a big fuckin' deal.
Slashdot Mirror
"We don't understand anything anymore!" says the guy reviving a 30,000 year-old virus. sheesh.
I am STILL stymied by a question he asked once:
"Why does a mirror reverse left-and-right but not up-and-down?"
because our eyes are left and right, not up and down. i figured that out in 2nd grade.
right. the bit from the article "It’s not just the Ezekiel 4:9 bread (its recipe drawn from the eponymous Bible verse), or Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps" is a bit elitist if you ask me. dr. bronner's soaps are fucking awesome. and the bread, it's just multigrain bread. so the label has a bible reference on it, who cares? the bread is pretty good. it's not like they say eating the bread will give you magic powers or anything.
every pharmacy i've ever shopped at has had at least one homeopathic bullshit product. same with most decent-sized grocery stores. i guess none of them have any real grasp of science.
of course, i don't base my grocery-shopping decisions on the scientific grasp of the store's ownership. that would be fucking stupid.
north, north central, midwest, and eastern, and southern parts of the U.S.. How much global warming do you see?
i didn't know that the entire globe consisted merely of those portions of the US.
the year after a record year is usually not a record year. it's called 'regression to the mean'. it's an actual thing, look it up.
antarctica is losing an astonishing amount of land ice. this land ice melts and flows into the southern ocean, freshening the upper layer of water, which of course will freeze easier adding to the amount of sea ice.
getting cooler or stagnate in warming in recent years due to solar lull and dining
your ideas are intriguing and i would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
massive geological cycles
indeed. "massive", meaning long and slow. what we see today is not long and slow.
by all natural cycles we should be slowly, inexorably cooling, headed towards a glacial period. during those cooldowns there are often small, slow bumps upwards, like a stock on it's way down. but those bumps are again small and slow ones.
the temperature is rising at about .15C/decade. that isn't supposed to be happening according to the 'natural cycle'. this isn't a bump on the slow road down, this is a massive spike upwards. there is literally no natural phenomenon we can point to that could describe this sort of quick change.
one thing we do know is how greenhouse gases work. we've understood their basic operation for over a hundred years. we know that if it weren't for GHGs the earth's surface would be too cold for complex life.
put two and two together sometime. you'll be surprised at how easy it is.
Jeopardy's nipplegate
please don't ever use those two words together again. thanks in advance.
C-3PO: My God, you shoot small animals for fun? That's the first indicator of a serial killer, you freak!
Luke: There's two suns and no women! What the hell am I supposed to do?!
they're still in the crystal eye of the floating skull of the demi-lich.
jesus, i can't believe i still remember that.
this is a slightly puzzling summary.
exactly! a few billion years ago the planet was a super-hot ball of molten rock. therefore it's been way hotter in the past.
Being able to determine the relative abundance of fish species in a body of water is the next step in possibly using modern DNA identification techniques to census fish in the open ocean
"the machine says that by far the pacific is full of a fish called...poly vinyl chloride. hm, that's a funny name."
yes and no. methane is pretty short lived in the atmosphere because in areas with sufficient sunlight and water vapor, hydroxyl radicals are created which help break down methane into CO2.
of course, in areas like the poles where there's little water vapor and less solar insolation, methane tends to last a great deal longer. this is one of the reasons the north polar region is warming faster than any other place.
so they're sharing their own papers. well, why didn't the story mention that?
the authors are trying to do what now? it isn't clear at all.
and the actual fuel cell is a 'simple canister'? you think special materials are only required in the H2 tank?
special materials are expensive in the short run until they're manufactured.
The main difference is electric cars need expensive batteries.
doesn't the first statement also apply to batteries? if manufacturing will bring down the prices of more expensive and exotic materials needed in a H2 fuel cell, wouldn't it also make batteries less expensive?
pfft. wesley willis has been really whipping the llama's ass in heaven for the last decade. same with horses, tigers, ponies, you name it.
not really. the original assertion that the left's answer to every problem is 'more government control' is idiotic. there are plenty of issues where the liberal/progressive response is to decrease government interference. i know of no leftists who only ever advocate more government power. that's a strawman.
actually they bugged the US embassy. which is US territory, not brazil's.
so brazil spied on us citizens within the us. ehrmagerd!
in this new article, did he reiterate his belief that leakers should be 'shot in the balls'?
if there was a loss that big, then it's a major storm. you can't point to its second largest cost in US history and call it 'minor'. storms are much more than merely the measure of their top wind speed.
besides, at one point she had a windfield of roughly 1200 miles, the largest in atlantic basin history. right before landfall the total energy in her tropical storm-force windfield was higher than in any atlantic storm in the last 40 years+. that's a big fuckin' deal.
come on. it was clearly a major storm.