If that scales directly that would mean the actual brightness today vs. 50m years ago is roughly 2-3% brighter than it was, not the 20% bandied about above.
I'd like to see some better sources on the numbers though.
What I like is how Alarmists immediately dub Skeptics as "conspiracy theorists"--basically anything they can do to try to belittle people who don't believe their stuff.
I'm a scientist. I know precisely how science works, how CO2 works, how warming works, how energy is radiated/re-reradiated, etc. If you are finding the back of a cereal box has enough details for you to think you're an expert, that's more on you than me.
I'm a scientist--so prove your assertion. Don't throw Wikipedia pages and Alarmist blogs at me; I probably know them better than you do. Show me an actual ten or so studies that say something like, "here is the direct link between the CO2 that came out of my car and the temperature in Great Britain". You can't. You're more easily swayed than that.
It boils down to simply that you are more easily convinced than I, and I am less easily convinced than you. Is that a bad thing or a good thing? I dunno....the only to figure it out is more facts. But it's pretty clear that the only conspiracy is on the part of the one making the charge when they ran out of actual facts, and so decided to start name-calling.
Leaving aside your vague Holocaust insult, we're not talking about the CO2 "pollution"....the article is about particulates, smoke, etc. You know, stuff you can see and don't want to breathe.
We're not talking about a colorless, odorless gas that may or may not support an unproven theory.
Nice trolling, but the facts are a but more mixed.
There are six major religions in India: Hindu, Islam, Christian, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, and Judaism. I didn't spend a lot of time and you could arguably cherry-pick your results, but what I found was as follows:
Hindu - Abortion is disallowed per religious tenets.
Islam - Abortion is allowed for approximately the first 40 days.
Christians - Mixed; some do allow it, some don't.
Jainism - Not allowed at all to mixed, depending on your source; probably church specific.
Zoroastriansm - Not allowed at all to mixed, depending on your source; probably church specific.
Judaism - Mixed.
It would be unlikely that any American political party would in any way come to be represented in India.
I, for one, would believe in the EU as a valid social economic construction when it imposes a 24 hours work week, decreasing by 1 hour every year until full employment is achieved.
With an equivalent reduction in pay, or with the same pay?
I suspect you mean with no reduction in pay, which begs the question where does that money come from?
I know because my house is 100% off-grid and solar powered. The weakest part of the system is the batteries.
They'll get there, eventually. I think point-generation (panels on building roofs, etc.) is a fantastic supplement in most situations. Batteries, not so much.
Yes, Trump definitely struck authoritarian tones in his campaign, but Clinton offered nothing in the way of restoring the civil liberties that have been eroded under Obama & Bush. Issues like NSA spying, The Patriot Act, police militarization, etc. never came up as topics in the debates. Furthermore, Clinton wanted to consider Australia-style weapons confiscation, thus destroying the one inalienable Right that survived Bush and Obama relatively unscathed.
If the worst predictions come true, the people of the USA are armed to the teeth and will implement change by force.
....*does* read rather like a Obama/Hillary training manual. I suspect the folks buying it now are using it to read up on what kinds of fake news are likely to be tossed their way.
I'm not a huge fan of renewables for large scale use but this seems kinda petulant to me.
Better to have no subsidies or penalties, either way, on any energy production method. The market will work it out; just don't put a hand on the scale.
Libraries purge books on occasion if they aren't being used very much. I personally don't think it's a very good practice myself though those books that are "purged" aren't actually purged as in "burned", nearly always they are sold to the public. I picked some of the more obscure science fiction novels which I'd read in high school which apparently weren't as popular as others; several in fact were hard back first editions which I treasure.
I think they would be better served to warehouse them somewhere and rotate a percentage of their stock every couple of months myself, but that requires warehouses to store them and trucks to transport them and all kinds of other problems that put a kink in my otherwise fine idea. I suspect there will be less and less of this as digital editions become more and more common.
Slashdot Mirror
Having a hard time finding good numbers on this, but it looks like the sun was about 20% dimmer ~500m years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If that scales directly that would mean the actual brightness today vs. 50m years ago is roughly 2-3% brighter than it was, not the 20% bandied about above.
I'd like to see some better sources on the numbers though.
Ferret
Interesting....you're making a value on people you don't even know (who mostly haven't even been born yet) and calling them "worthless"?
Seems like you're having your own issues to deal with first.
Ferret
That's an interesting if misguided position to take....
Define "wrong".
Ferret
What I like is how Alarmists immediately dub Skeptics as "conspiracy theorists"--basically anything they can do to try to belittle people who don't believe their stuff.
I'm a scientist. I know precisely how science works, how CO2 works, how warming works, how energy is radiated/re-reradiated, etc. If you are finding the back of a cereal box has enough details for you to think you're an expert, that's more on you than me.
I'm a scientist--so prove your assertion. Don't throw Wikipedia pages and Alarmist blogs at me; I probably know them better than you do. Show me an actual ten or so studies that say something like, "here is the direct link between the CO2 that came out of my car and the temperature in Great Britain". You can't. You're more easily swayed than that.
It boils down to simply that you are more easily convinced than I, and I am less easily convinced than you. Is that a bad thing or a good thing? I dunno....the only to figure it out is more facts. But it's pretty clear that the only conspiracy is on the part of the one making the charge when they ran out of actual facts, and so decided to start name-calling.
Ferret
That's what I did:
http://buildblock.com/
Ferret
No, there's not.
Some compelling evidence, yes, but I've seen nothing that's convincing.
Of course some probably are more easily convinced than others.
Ferret
I've long thought that there was nothing wrong with parts of Florida that a few feet of global warming wouldn't fix.
Ferret
Can't imagine ever visiting 99 doctors, unless maybe I'm at a conference...
Ferret
Leaving aside your vague Holocaust insult, we're not talking about the CO2 "pollution"....the article is about particulates, smoke, etc. You know, stuff you can see and don't want to breathe.
We're not talking about a colorless, odorless gas that may or may not support an unproven theory.
Ferret
There are six major religions in India: Hindu, Islam, Christian, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, and Judaism. I didn't spend a lot of time and you could arguably cherry-pick your results, but what I found was as follows:
Hindu - Abortion is disallowed per religious tenets.
Islam - Abortion is allowed for approximately the first 40 days.
Christians - Mixed; some do allow it, some don't.
Jainism - Not allowed at all to mixed, depending on your source; probably church specific.
Zoroastriansm - Not allowed at all to mixed, depending on your source; probably church specific.
Judaism - Mixed.
It would be unlikely that any American political party would in any way come to be represented in India.
Ferret
Anything regarding coal in India/China != anything Republican caused per se.
Try your unnecessary trolling a bit more harder. Or, you know, just have the conversation.
Ferret
I, for one, would believe in the EU as a valid social economic construction when it imposes a 24 hours work week, decreasing by 1 hour every year until full employment is achieved.
With an equivalent reduction in pay, or with the same pay?
I suspect you mean with no reduction in pay, which begs the question where does that money come from?
Ferret
Nothing wrong with Florida that a few feet of global warming won't fix.
Ferret
I see both one coal fired and one nuclear power plant still in operation in California:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ferret
Nuclear fills that bill nicely at this time.
Ferret
Sorry, but batteries in their current form are a terrible solution.
They're expensive. They're heavy. They're finicky. They're delicate.
I know because my house is 100% off-grid and solar powered. The weakest part of the system is the batteries.
They'll get there, eventually. I think point-generation (panels on building roofs, etc.) is a fantastic supplement in most situations. Batteries, not so much.
Ferret
Changed their vote to whom? Gary Johnson?
Yes, Trump definitely struck authoritarian tones in his campaign, but Clinton offered nothing in the way of restoring the civil liberties that have been eroded under Obama & Bush. Issues like NSA spying, The Patriot Act, police militarization, etc. never came up as topics in the debates. Furthermore, Clinton wanted to consider Australia-style weapons confiscation, thus destroying the one inalienable Right that survived Bush and Obama relatively unscathed.
If the worst predictions come true, the people of the USA are armed to the teeth and will implement change by force.
Well said.
Ferret
....*does* read rather like a Obama/Hillary training manual. I suspect the folks buying it now are using it to read up on what kinds of fake news are likely to be tossed their way.
Ferret
I'm not a huge fan of renewables for large scale use but this seems kinda petulant to me.
Better to have no subsidies or penalties, either way, on any energy production method. The market will work it out; just don't put a hand on the scale.
Ferret
I think the next few years are gonna be pretty danged interesting.
Ferret
From a statistical standpoint we'd probably want a good 100 parallel Earths to get a proper sample.
Ferret
Libraries purge books on occasion if they aren't being used very much. I personally don't think it's a very good practice myself though those books that are "purged" aren't actually purged as in "burned", nearly always they are sold to the public. I picked some of the more obscure science fiction novels which I'd read in high school which apparently weren't as popular as others; several in fact were hard back first editions which I treasure.
I think they would be better served to warehouse them somewhere and rotate a percentage of their stock every couple of months myself, but that requires warehouses to store them and trucks to transport them and all kinds of other problems that put a kink in my otherwise fine idea. I suspect there will be less and less of this as digital editions become more and more common.
Ferret
I've got stuff to do.....
Ferret
....as I guess Trump would say, you're fired!
Ferret
It'll nice to stop this silly Alt-Left nonsense and get back to some actual issues, like jobs and such.
Ferret